Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → R.A.T.
By BlueStatic, kyle-reising and Trashbag
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1340 | 2.75 | 24 | |
| Fun | 1282 | 2.68 | 24 | |
| Innovation | 1345 | 2.36 | 24 | |
| Theme | 1239 | 3.00 | 24 | |
| Graphics | 1175 | 2.79 | 24 | |
| Audio | 731 | 3.07 | 23 | |
| Humor | 720 | 2.88 | 24 | |
| Mood | 1240 | 2.80 | 22 |
I love the parody description lol. This is fun! The swarms of rats look cool when they curve around and it's fun to evade them. It'd be nice to be able to move while attacking (or at least shooting) to be able to evade more effectively
Those rats are pretty pretty scary, it seems I did not learn how to shoot in the right direction and they got me cornered :O
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Congrats! Really like the graphics and the concept. It was a little confusing not really having a death screen and the melee attack was a bit hard to time. Otherwise, really fun game!
Really fun game i like the idea of it. Also the music and the theme is really cool and i loved them too.
Suggestions: Maybe make some ammo or health spawn by themselves because after you run out of ammo you are just destined to die because the melee attack is almost unuseable. I mean i get that this is the theme but at least give me a chance to survive. All in all, really liked the game.
Nice! The music was really well fitting I thought, and sfx were pretty good too. I thought movement was just the right speed, and having a bit of a delay before attacking was fun. Those tiny rats were scary the first time I saw them! Playing on a laptop, I didn't really understand how to use the gun very well, might have helped me out not sure.
The music really added to the urgency. Great job with hand drawn-esque graphics as well!
Hand drawn animations are always a big win!
Ditto what others have said about the hand drawn art. It came through really well I think. And congrats to all 3 of you on first Ludum Dare!
that's a lotta rats! :D I like the style and the overall colors. Not sure if intended, but when I died, my sprite remained on the map, and a river of rats continued to pour into my lifeless corpse. It was funny.
Y'all have a really goofy art and music style and it's beautiful and perfect. I love it. Well done!
I found the controls a little unintuitive. Having each bullet correspond to a different mouse button felt weird and took me a bit to figure out why I couldn't fire when I still had a bullet. Melee attacks not following the same mouse-direction as shooting also felt weird. Melee also had a bit too much of a windup/delay when pressing it, making it even harder to use. I also think using collision on the rats to prevent them from stacking up would feel better. As it is, once they clump up, your bullets feel like they do nothing because it only hits 1-2 of the 20 or so chasing you. Making the bullets kill more stuff would help the player feel more powerful and make the game more fun. I understand the point of this theme was to make defeat inevitable, but empowering the player to feel like they have more agency in delaying that inevitable is also important.
Sorry if that all feels like too much negativity. I do really like your style. The overly dramatic story text on the itch.io page made me think you were going for an ultra-dour FromSoft-esque world. But when the game loaded up with the snappy music and main character that looked like a dancing sentai hero, I had a good chuckle and it all made sense. Well done!
Keep making games and congrats on finishing in just a few days!
really nice game, it's fun and I love the art+sound. maybe it would be good to add some juice to it, some screenshake and hit animations, also making the melee animation faster but overall it's a good game!
@harrison-dunn and @edusilva Thanks for the throrough feedback, I think I'd change alot of these things after the competition is over to fine tune the windup, extend the hitbox to the player, and make bullets peirce through rats maybe? Getting the melee animation to point at the mouse would be a bit of extra coding and I'd like to properly finish the end of the game - but I just couldn't get that done in time, haha. As the artist and musician, I'm glad you guys like the style! I'll definitley be here for the next game jam.
Nice game! I found the fighting system confusing at the beginning. But I like the textures and animations. Good job👍
rats... lots of rats... at least it wasn't spiders :) after a while I think the game bugged because I couldn't move and I got more and more rats around me but not loosing any health (maybe that was game over...)
You should have made the barrels explosive when shooting at them :)
Funny design and music, uplifting! Character sometimes gets a little stuck when flooded with rats. Rats are very aggressive, it's cool.
A bit unfinished game, but I still enjoyed it a lot and liked the music a lot!