FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD50 → Before The Bang

Before The Bang

By dgspitzer, vivyhasadream and Nancyliu

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1763.9653
Fun2293.8053
Innovation844.0153
Theme4203.8853
Graphics3184.1054
Audio3053.7353
Humor5623.1351
Mood4043.7553

Comments

smiley 2022-04-05 03:34

nice game idea and very polished.

It took one play trough until I actually looked what was on the right screen.

chartle 2022-04-05 03:53

Very cool idea, I liked that you could play it solo by switching your focus between the left and the right. I think the player could maybe have walked a little faster, but overall a very solid game. The sound was a bit loud though, and the audio sliders didn't seem to do anything :x

steve7411 2022-04-05 04:00

What a great idea for a game. I love that one of the players is first person while the explorer gets a nice 2D view of the ship.

dagostino-audio 2022-04-05 06:12

Awesome idea to make a co op game! Love the "person in the chair" vibes ! Great work!

andyzyz 2022-04-06 04:29

Great 2 player gameplay design. The fact that you can coop to fix the ship reflects the theme. Also the music has a strong sci-fi mood. A greate game indeed.

牛的。双人玩法的设计很棒!修飞船也切合主题。音乐科幻风很足。

boykala 2022-04-06 04:30

Innovative concept I do love the split screen gameplay. It would probably be really fun with 2 people. The whole experience was very polished from start to finish.

mooptychunk 2022-04-06 05:06

Bold of you to assume I have someone to play this with. Seriously though, cool idea!

vivyhasadream 2022-04-06 17:12

@mooptychunk lol. it's different experience playing solo or co-cp. ideally we want to make it co-op on two computers, and you'll be able to find a match and communicate through voice chat. so both of you could focus on your own duty, and more coop will be involved.

allax 2022-04-06 18:09

An interesting concept, but the game is pretty boring to play. It seems to me that the level should have been made smaller, shorter in time, but filled with a large number of details

kbf123 2022-04-06 19:00

Ha! Who needs friends? Took a bit, but I managed all the relics. A quick restart would be nice, but the game's pretty fun!

roronoacherry 2022-04-06 20:04

I played co-op and we love the idea, although we could not collect all the items, we really enjoy the game!

notexplosive 2022-04-06 22:21

Neat game! I played it solo but it seems like it'd be fun to play with a friend.

izhvaryag 2022-04-07 15:02

Buitiful visual style. And I liked the decision that the slot machine is also a map :thumbsup:

dgspitzer 2022-04-07 21:31

@allax Thanks for your suggestion! I'll improve our level layout in the future~

applestreet-games 2022-04-07 23:10

That was so fun! We played four times. Best score we got was 70.

randyrude 2022-04-08 04:44

Hell yeah, that was cool. Visuals look awesome. The first game I've seen in the jam to have split screen. Nice job!

joe-cowman 2022-04-08 04:52

This game is absolutely fantastic. First off, I **love** the idea of a local co-op jam game. I played solo, and that was super challenging in a very fun way. There were a couple of those "ah-ha" moments that are very rewarding in puzzle games like this when I realized where the passwords came from and how to click the buttons to delay the destruction.

All in all, I really admire the innovation on multiple fronts here. The music and art gave were nice complements as well to a very polished game. Awesome job!

tsugumi 2022-04-08 05:09

Very solid game! I managed to play through it myself. But actually you cannot delay The Bang right? So the player delay the extinction of human race..... which is inevitable?

vivyhasadream 2022-04-08 14:24

@tsugumi Fixing the equipment will give you a little extra time, but it can't stop the explosion of the spaceship is inevitable, which means you will never be able to save the whole human race. But you have the chance to at least save some human civilization symbols (the paintings, sculptures...). the symbols stands for human's existence.

kintama45 2022-04-09 11:06

The graphics are really nice, and the gameplay is really fun 很好玩的游戏!

kylazaur 2022-04-09 11:07

Fun little game you've got here, had a really great time with it :D

unitedfailures 2022-04-10 05:35

Cool and unique concept!

sarah 2022-04-10 06:03

I appreciate the click controls during the text opening! I like that clicking makes all the text fully appear without skipping and it looks super polished! The little loading bar was also really cute. This game is super polished and I love the idea of the two views side by side.

I love the idea that two people can play the game asymetrically! It's 3am so I don't have anyone to play with me atm but It's still fun to play both sides :3 I love typing the password in, its a super cute idea overall!

I think this would be pretty fun with a friend and working together to escape :3

Overall, really well done, a great polished experience!!

slecornu 2022-04-10 17:30

A great idea and aesthetically pleasing. Good job!

jozgames 2022-04-10 19:22

WOW! The quality of this game is really amazing! The theme and essence are unique, I've never seen a game with this kind of gameplay before. The game is extremely polished from start to finish and proves to be 10/10 in every artistic aspect.

easyluckygem 2022-04-12 14:59

Looks very good. Unique concept, great art design and intresting challenge in game. Nice Work!

kuggenhoffen 2022-04-12 18:36

The splitscreen mechanic works nicely and the experience was overall fun and very polished. Good job.

axlplosion 2022-04-13 10:49

It was a slight challenge playing solo, but I managed to collect all 10 relics and escape on my third attempt. Really fun though, I can definitely see it working really well in co-op too. Bonus points from me for including a skip button in the intro to make replaying it faster! Also, the main menu song was really nice, and I also liked the introduction cutscene, it made a simple game feel a lot more meaningful which is always awesome to see.

Great work!

tomssuli 2022-04-13 17:12

Nice game, we played it with my wife and had some fun trying a bunch of runs. We only managed to save 50% of the relics at best.

We liked the musics and the cartoonish intro was nice. Random level generation had it's difficulties and sometimes we struggled to find the repairable stuff, but afterwards I noticed that she could have looked at the map for me.

Overall a nice and polished game! :slight_smile:

joe40001 2022-04-20 00:00

Dang I was really hoping for a special ending for getting 100%. It's a sign of a good game that I kept playing until I got 100%. Which was pretty hard for me because I'm playing alone (and on a trackpad, lol).

Still good game feel, great difficulty curve.

jozgames 2022-04-21 00:00

bem bonitinho. achei legal a ideia, mas achei acho que daria para melhorar design, me parece que meio que ficou muito do mesmo, sabe?

lukasdonkers 2022-04-21 02:39

This was very fun! Impressive that it's randomly generated, and I loved the password doors

tominertv 2022-04-21 19:11

Great idear. Great story, great graphics :thumbsup: