the-fazzo 2022-04-05 02:04
It was very good! Loved the menu and the minigames. Congrats!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Keep It Steaming
By jvdwijk, parasite210, EDUDD22, Traxx186, Jamjamem and Spencer Fussy
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 505 | 3.66 | 64 | |
| Fun | 524 | 3.53 | 64 | |
| Innovation | 632 | 3.37 | 64 | |
| Theme | 630 | 3.71 | 64 | |
| Graphics | 518 | 3.86 | 65 | |
| Audio | 433 | 3.55 | 62 | |
| Humor | 297 | 3.68 | 61 | |
| Mood | 743 | 3.44 | 61 |
It was very good! Loved the menu and the minigames. Congrats!
@the-fazzo Thank you!
The art of the game is awesome
Fun game that really fit the theme of delaying the inevitable I lasted 20 days on my first run. The art was nice and the animations for the background , the minigames and the train were really well done. I dont know if it was intentional but the sound effects made me laugh. Great submission.
Really smooth animations, and the art was incredible! The voice-overs really added a personalized touch to it, great job on this
I LOVE THESE SOUND EFFECTS, THEY FIT GAME MOOD IN 100%
Also, I love this endless train type of game. The graphics are great and I'm amazed by these minigames!
It's a really fun game to play, congratz! :D
Great concept, some of the minigames are more developed than others, but overall I think there's some great ideas here.
@tjuant @thementalsheep @3bt Thank you, very kind words! 💕
@benk86 Glad you were happy with the sound effects, they were very fun to make!
@slashdevslashzero Thank you! We are thinking about expanding on the minigames at a later stage ^^
Really fun game, I bet you all had a blast making this haha
@popesp This was my second Game Jam and I must say I definitely had a blast making this one!
This is amazing! The sound effects, the art, the minigames. It's just brilliant! I just wish you had a leaderboard :D I got to day 49 and thought that was pretty good Unbenannt.PNG
@stefan-laimer 49 days?! Definitely the best score I have heard of so far. Thank you so much for the compliments and definitely something we will write down to add some day in the future, would be fun to see how long everyone can survive!
This was great! The art, and the voice overs in particular. Very well done.
Haha nice game! Fun minigames, and sound effects are top notch
Big thanks @mrscythe and @fredrik-rosell for the feedback
28 days is all I managed.. but somehow it was stuck the first time I tried (couldn't move etc). a reload fixed that.
Solid entry regardless :smirk_cat: Especially the SFX.
22 days my first time, I can do better :) Nice game it reminds me a bit a game where you have to manage a train in some zombie apocalypse where you rescue ppl and where you need to help them balancing your time, needs and resources :) Nice job!
@xparker thank you! Interesting bug tho, havent encountered that before. Did you play the game on Chrome or something else?
@nidel thank you! 🤗
Hello! The concept is cool but I didn't like it. I still don't know what I shoul have done for the coffee part.
Very hectic gameplay! A neat and fun take on the theme. Could just be me, but there was no sound on the HTML browser game.
What do I need to do to make a drink? Can't drag or anything. Click just does the sound effect. hmm. Other than that, I really enjoyed fixing the same pipe 10x in a row. Just like IRL when I try to fix things...
I found the game really enjoyable but at some point it felt impossible as the parts broke as soon as I fixed them. The sound effects made me laugh and the art was great!
Game very good! I really liked the art and the minigames, the sounds make the game even more fun!
I managed to improve my score a little bit. But I got really lucky with the minigames :D
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@sagiii Thank you for trying out our game at least! If you had the chance, what would you have changed?
@malero I think the coffee minigame is a bit bugged unfortunately. I'll have to figure out what's going wrong later!
@nate-the-great thank you for playing and the feedback! From the feedback we've gathered we should definitely add a delay after you fix a minigame!
@battletoast Thank you! There should be music, it might have to be upped in the settings (we tried balancing it so that people won't go deaf when starting the game)
@psv-games-studio thanks for playing our game and the kind words!
@stefan-laimer So now you have first and second place? haha 😂 nicely done!
@jvdwijk The main thing I would change is the overall audio. Some audios are a lot louder than others and it can break the flow of the game.
What lovely graphics. I also really like the take on the theme.
Lot of variation in the mini games. Great!
I love the voice acting, and the variety in mini games kept it engaging for quite a long time! Really well done.
the graphics are very pretty and detailed. its nice how this game has multiple minigames, it didnt feel repetitive and replaying it so i could a higher score was very fun; and i really liked how the connecting wires minigame had a colorblind accessibility! for some reason it didnt have any audio playing — as i saw the game actually is supposed to have — but i think it could be because of my browser (im using vivaldi) instead of the settings not working. i saw it occurring w/ my game before too when another person played until they switched the browser. still was a lot of fun nonetheless and fits the theme nicely!
Quite nice and fun game, days are passing, you keep it steaming. Everything is fine, and suddenly boom, you need to add coal, let steam flow properly, patch up hole and fix electrical things. At once. Good thing, and can keep someone playing for hours trying to get to yet another day.
Small issues I noticed would be with: - marker that something need attention sometimes stayed on for me (coal minigame, not sure why, cannot find out why this happens) - electrical minigame could get with slightly oversized colliders for detecting mouse, cause I ended up often missing by few pixels, but that also is something players can just adjust and train to aim better at proper elements.
Game is quite fun and seems finished, no major issues are jumping out at me.
This game is addictive! I like the whole atmosphere, minigames, progress, art and sound (especially in electricity minigame). Definitely need more of this game! Good luck to the developer team.
Great concept! works really well with the theme. This would be a great project to expand upon after ludum that I would come back and play. Great submission!
@steve7411 @kromeboy @100th-coin @batt-boo thank you all very much <3
@yearningboo Thank you for all the kind words! A bit of a shame you missed my sound effects but I am glad you enjoyed it either way ^^ We've tested our game on Vivaldi and didn't have the audio bug so we'll have to look into that more!
@minus thank you for the feedback! We've improved the colliders for the next update already but are still looking into the marker bug!
@mook Thank you 🤗 We are actually looking into some new minigames and systems that would make the game more interesting!
Wow a lot of minigames for a game jam! Impressive. Train graphics is superb. Sound is ... Even a tutorial! Not my type of game, but I am very impressed with what you delivered!
Thanks for your submission! I was fully expecting for someone to stab me or kick me out as the impostor of the train :P
Hard game! But fun. Only made it 29 days haha. Loved the sound effects and your minigames were creative.
Good work!
By far the most hilarious game ive played so far, the art is PERFECT, however the playable character looks strange to be honest, the minigames are great and actually fun idk what happened but i got a game over screen even tho every single one of my carts had mid to full health, might be a bug
I found the game fairly fun until I realized how the parts decided how to break. It was really frustrating having things I just fixed instantly break again - my performance felt far more determined by RNG than by my skill. The broken indicator made this fairly difficult as well. I liked the individual minigames, though their differing lengths were kind of punishing. I liked how most of them, you could tell whether they were broken without having to click on them. Overall pretty fun, especially if these things are fixed
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450167991?t=09h50m52s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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Interesting concept, the many minigames to make the train survive longer so you have to do them quicker and quicker, it's nice! I loved the audio lol, but I think like the difficulty could have been risen in a more interesting way rather than just making the minigames appear quicker.
Also sometimes the locomotive indicated a problem but there was none, weird. Congrats on this game!
This was fun, but I hope you can adjust it to show off a greater variety of the minigames; it's a shame to know there are lots of people who might not realize there are a total of 8!
Good graphics and concept. A minimap for jump directly to the faulty wagon could have solved some of the negative aspect to travel back and forth in search of the issue.
I love the look and feel of this game. Similar like other minigame based games (think among us without the killing), I really find it impressive this was all done in just a single LD. Well done ! Really enjoyed playing this. Perhaps a little bit of screenshake and arrows indicating where you must run off to would increase the sense of urgency. But still, really enjoyable !
Love the game. The voice acting really brought a layer of surreal joy to it too! Might suggest tweaks to some of the colours and maybe a sound effect when something breaks to give more of a hint as to which thing broke.
Hello Milky,
Thanks for sharing your game with me! I love the graphics really pretty and the mini games were fun. Things I would fix is adding some sort of UI or help to show the player what they are supposed to do for each mini-game. Maybe even using audio with a reward type sound so I know I completed the mini-game successfully. The audio made it a bit confusing, I understand it was a bit humorous but it made me confused wondering if I did actually fix the thing when he said "is this fixed?" So again maybe just looking into some cleaner communication. Overall great game :D
Nice game! Thanks for showing up on stream :) Here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1453383266 Aleyoop
Awesome pixel art! Cool voice acting and nice mini-game. Well done!
I liked the concept, of an ever expanding train - yet also you add to the things you need to maintain! The pipe minigame I think was the best. If we could get a nice way to balance the things going wrong based on how far apart they are, so it feels like the player has a better chance.
Really liked this one (got to day 32 before writing this), the sound effects are great... Only problem I had is that sometimes there was an indicator pointing towards the locomotive, but it was already fueled.
PS: I knew the main character looked familiar to me... It was the same [Mink from LD49](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/drunk-hill)!
@itzemii Thank you for trying out our game, hopefully our next jam game will be more your style 😎
@debone @okamit @elysiagriffin @zimny11 @skvader-418 Thank you for all the kind words!
@nardandas Thank you for the feedback! I fully agree with the RNG and we are trying to find ways to improve it ^^
@kaldrin I think that is a bit part of the RNG system we got, we definitely want to change that system later on!
@javasaurus thank you for streaming our game, screenshake would definitely add a lot to the tension of the game. very good suggestion!
@drentsoft Thanks for streaming our game, in the next update (upcoming this week!) we already added a lot of visual tweaks to make minigames more clear!
@syafire Thank you for streaming the game, watching was a lot of fun! Definitely agree that some of the sound effects should be changed a bit (They were added in the last day lmao). We already got a small control scheme in each minigame but we'll also look into smaller hints for first playthroughs!
@mateusboga thank you for playing our game and creating the vod, that is very helpful! You had some good points during your stream too!
@honest-dan Thank you Dan for the feedback! Thought your feedback about movement was very good, we are now looking into how to adjust the movement system to make it more engaging and fun!
@bluishgreenpro Thank you bluish for the interview! Hopefully the next update will be able to show a bit more minigames to the players! ^^
@wendel-scardua thank you for playing and pretty good score! That is an old bug that will be fixed in the next version ^^
Always love when people recognize our characters! I talk a bit about Mink in [the new post!](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/keep-it-steaming/minks-journey)
Very cool concept. Also love the character's name :) So far, best my train ran for was 35 days
+ Love the voice sound effects for the train's tasks + I like the art style for this game + YEET caught me offguard lol
- Maybe find a way to communicate clearer that the red bar on the top of each car is the indicator that something on that car is breaking - Raise height of "keep it steaming" words so you can see title of game when in "play" menu or remove it entirely - The target area to select 'wagon' or 'wagon cart' should be a bit bigger. I tried selecting it but it wasn't highlighted on the entire button. - maybe find some music to help create more atmosphere to the game - I was able to still interact with a task behind the "fix the wagon" HUD screen was up
Loved playing this one and hope I can get a better score
Fun time management game! Graphics were well done, I liked the zoom in/out effect when choosing the menu options. Always impressed by seeing a lot of different game mechanics in one game. The voices were pretty funny sometimes, but I do wish there were some more SFX to help give feedback throughout the game. I definitely got stuck at first on the pipe games, but eventually figured out what to do after a few tries (I think a visual of the flow through the pipes would have helped me understand it better.