FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD51 → The door and the cap

The door and the cap

By vkaike2 and heinz_music

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2213.8737
Fun1303.9737
Innovation6123.2737
Theme2364.0237
Graphics3243.9837
Audio1663.8837
Humor7052.6035
Mood5933.4437

Comments

olivieryc 2022-10-02 23:15

Sweet levels!

core-foliant 2022-10-04 10:48

I really love this graphic!) Like old school Gameboys)

anton4ik-dev 2022-10-04 10:51

Balanced levels, understandable mechanics and movement. I don't know what to say. But I saw a bug with levels, they sometimes changing strange but I think it's easy to fix

lespaul59 2022-10-04 10:52

Cool idea and lovely graphics. Also nice tune, i wish it was longer :) Well done!

codeforjoycaro 2022-10-04 10:54

Neat little bullet hell.

smilotron 2022-10-04 10:55

This was quite challenging but fun! Love the retro edm inspired soundtrack :)

phoenixofforce 2022-10-04 10:58

Very nice Game :D

valyaseverin 2022-10-04 10:59

I'm not a fan of bullet hell games, but I enjoyed playing this one. Good balance of levels and they are not too long so I get too tired and give up. For me, as a noob in such games, it was an exciting adventure!

vkaike2 2022-10-04 11:00

@anton4ik-dev, thank you for your feed back. I have a question about the bug, are you talking about the animation that the game does when you change the level? because I notice that too, sometimes isn't fluid, but I didn't had enough time to fix it :upside_down: I will try to fix after the JAM.

bobo-oh 2022-10-04 12:37

Nice entry! Loved the character design and the sound design! congrats!

iluvatar 2022-10-04 12:38

Cool level design, adequately challenging. Well done animations and sound effects. Was surprised by the music too! :) Very solid entry, Imho this is a textbook Jam game.

probe2 2022-10-04 12:39

Nice, very challenging.

01edward01 2022-10-04 12:43

Very Fun game! i like it a lot!

dokan 2022-10-04 12:48

Simple (and damn hard for me) but very well exectued. Love the overall artstyle with arcade sfx.

kostya 2022-10-04 12:51

Nice style!

2022-10-04 12:59

I know us french people are not the main target, but we have azerty keyboard, it's very hard to use these keys :/ I would've used "q" to jump rather than spacebar to keep the keys closer together, might just be me.

The graphics are amazing and the gameplay is fluid and challenging, overall a good game.

vkaike2 2022-10-04 13:08

Sorry for that @remjob I didn't knew about this, but I will keep it in mind to my next games.

You could try to use the arrow keys to move the character, it works too.

dae-udain 2022-10-04 13:10

I'll admit, I'm a sucker for platformers. Just finished beating the game, and only after did I remember that I had a dash ability that probably would have made the last two levels much easier. Had a lot of fun playing, and might revisit if more levels are added post-jam.

shiro-white 2022-10-04 13:27

Smooth Control,Amazing game pace and rhythm. stylish art. Very Good one!

eager 2022-10-04 13:29

3 gun shot level too hard. :/

2022-10-04 13:30

Game boy game play, pretty nice !!

gonzalol 2022-10-04 13:52

5 stars overall. A classic great Ludum Dare game: fun to play, fit to the theme, beautiful art and sounds. What else can I say.

lex 2022-10-04 14:29

That winning tune hypes me up!

lavendaggers 2022-10-04 20:35

Good bullet hell! Was definitely tough for me but good controls!

tyrannas 2022-10-04 20:40

First levels were really easy and quite fun, and then starting the level with the 3 horizontals turrets it was suddently way too hard for me i could make it ! But nice concept and realization ! good job !

vkaike2 2022-10-04 20:44

@tyrannas thanks for you feedback, I should had added an option to change the level difficulty, but I didn't had time for it.

tyrannas 2022-10-04 20:49

@vkaike2 I'm not sure it's really a difficulty issue. Maybe the problem is more that the step in difficulty is too big, or maybe the jumb is not precise enough, I couldnt avoid one of the three without getting hit by the others. But I'll have a look at your video ;)

vkaike2 2022-10-04 21:19

@tyrannas you need to press "S" while in the air, it will make you fell down faster and then you will be able to jump again. Like this: https://youtu.be/R0IK_xlHilk?t=80

43sam 2022-10-05 09:13

Great idea and the implementations is really well done! I appreciate all the movement options available to the player to help. One thing on that is that I would make the dash maintain the players vertical height to make dashing through gaps in the air more consistent. I really liked the music and created a lot of tension and excitement in each 10 seconds, I think restarting the levels could have been a bit faster but that's just me eager to get back to playing haha. The art and style of it all was perfect as well. Really enjoyed this game, well done on the entry!

vkaike2 2022-10-05 10:32

@43sam thanks a lot for your feedback, and I agree with you, I should have worked more with the dash, maybe create a level where you actually need to dash to do something, and about the restart, I tried to make this as fast as I could but I agree that It could be faster, I will take notes for my next game jam.

glaikunt 2022-10-05 11:44

Love the way you used the start as a tutorial. The art & intense music work great with the gameplay. It was really challenging, I was never great at bullet hell games so sadly wasn't able to complete it but the controls were great & super responsive. My only criticism would be I wish that I didn't have to go through the animation each time I died, I just wanted to jump back into it. Overall really enjoy this one great job!

tyrannas 2022-10-05 18:48

@vkaike2 ooooooh I didnt notice the S key while jumping !! that's definitely on me I had forgotten that it was shown in the tutorial (but at this point I didnt really understood what it was for!) thank you :)

james-joubert 2022-10-05 20:01

Love the survive for 10 seconds design. Game feels super smooth and polished. Overall an amazing entry!

wouter52 2022-10-06 14:01

Awesome game! A classic example of 'easy to learn, hard to master' :-) Yours is very polished and thought trough. Great job

Only feedback I have: - After a while, it gets a bit dull having to wait until the start-of-level animation ended

vkaike2 2022-10-06 15:02

@wouter52 thanks for your feedback, I will release a new PostJam version later where you don't have to wait for the animation if your character die, only in the first time

juss 2022-10-06 16:49

I spent unreasonable amount of time trying to beat some of the levels! Great game, really addictive and challenging. Good job!

Soundtrack is just perfect for the setting!

sztrovacsek 2022-10-09 21:42

Love the graphics! The creator is right, the game is easy. I definitely didn't spend more than an hour trying to finish it. That would be stupid. *awkward laugh*

shogeku 2022-10-11 18:53

Enjoyable bullet hell. Found the hit-boxes a bit tough. Would like to see some midair adjustment when going down.

doot 2022-10-11 19:16

Cool game! Controls are nice, pixel art is great and the super fast level is really fun to play! Last level is especially cool.

There are some visual bugs now and there, and I would have liked it better if the dash canceled your vertical momentum, but the game is already very good for a jam game!

Good job and thanks, I had fun!