Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → ULTRA INSTINCT NINJA MASTER of the Dark Forest
By tygrak
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 15 | 4.16 | 27 | |
| Fun | 27 | 4.04 | 26 | |
| Innovation | 17 | 4.16 | 27 | |
| Theme | 114 | 3.92 | 27 | |
| Graphics | 49 | 4.13 | 27 | |
| Audio | 17 | 4.22 | 27 | |
| Mood | 14 | 4.24 | 27 |
Oouhou that's a solid entry !
Nice game mechanic, I thought at first it was easy to hit the corners and then you introduce the real challenge!
The art style is lovely I love the grungy music you got for that game.
Maybe my only complaint is that sometimes the timer end and there are still shields to hit. The time distribution of shield should be made backward from the deadline ( i.e you place the last shield to disapear to synchronise with the end of the ten seconds)
Great game at first I wasn't a fan of the idea of gameplay, but I am a fan of the execution of that idea. Art and particles is looking great, would like to see some more of such style, music is very fitting and gives interesting mood and the difficulty goes up in the right way. Well done!
Wow - this game is awesome!! I loved so much about it: The aesthetic is quite cool - the dark, scratchy art style really serves the story behind it well I loved the core mechanic - easy to learn, fun, satisfying, and feel very cool The character designs were badass, and the fact different enemies had different 'fight styles' that come out in the core mechanic - loved it The particle effects, sound effects, and 'hud' make the experience very satisfying The music is great too!
This is a great game - the dark, hand-drawn aesthetic suits this really well, and I found myself really sinking into the zone with the gameplay and audio drawing me in. I completed it first time so perhaps it could benefit from some additional challenge, but a really strong LD51 entry. Awesome job!
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I really loved this one. The art style was consistent, and the gameplay was really simple. The music fit really well also. I feel like there could be some more impact or feedback on each kill. Overall this was simple and really well done!
Wow, really liked this. especial love how the attack patters somewhat correlate to the designs of the opponents. Got a 32 in endless
wow this game is amazing, the art works so well creating a nice atmosphere with the music!
Really great entry, the controls feel intuitive and manage to feel nice and fluid while still being responsive. The aesthetic and the music match perfectly, and it's really great to hear fully produced music in a compo entry.
Fun gameplay. Love the art and music. The enemies look so cool. I wish there are more animation (attack, hit, etc), but aside from that it is amazing!
The visual art is great. The music too. It's a bit like a rhythm game :thumbsup:
This was great fun! There were so many nice little touches to animations: the camera shake, the springiness of the player's dot moving around. Just when I was thinking "it would be nice if the green things were hidden behind red things to force specific routes", you did it! There was so much content that I was trying to figure out if it was procedurally generated, but it had such a good hand-crafted feel to it that the puzzle difficulty increased perfectly over time. Really really nice job.
My only critique is that it was hard to see the monsters in the background behind the foreground gameplay. That kept the game very clear and easy to see, but I feel like I missed out on the art skills.
This one was tough! The first time through I got cocky and eventually got hit twice by one of the later enemies, the one with the 3g3r pattern. Awesome art style and great music!
I really liked this game, the art and the music definitely created an interesting experience. Once I figured out how to actually transition the cursor around without simply returning to the center I really felt like I was preforming a sword dance, and the transitionary animations of the sword in the background were just good enough it looked like it too. Only issue I ran into was that sometimes it felt like the cursor was too sensitive. Like I would barely tap a key and it would go out to a position that would make collecting something on the other side near impossible in time. Perhaps, you could make it so that around the outside the cursor moves faster, so doing loops with the sword be faster then going out in one direction and then going back. Regardless, really cool game!
What a great concept. You get to play out the fantasy of being a badass ninja without any crazy execution requirements.
My first impression was that it was like For Honor, and it was simply a test of directional blocking and reactions. But I'm super happy you kept exploring the idea, far beyond what I thought was possible! Some points that jumped out at me: 1. There are some with so many shields that you have to basically figure out routing on the fly, generally with only 1 second to spare. 2. The red zones placed into the middle of the diamond were brilliant. They are like ITG mines that you have to avoid, and they change things up SO much. 3. There was 1 thing that wasn't fully explored but I played around with it anyways. There's the idea that you only need to minimally touch a shield before returning to neutral in order to save time. This wasn't NEEDED though, but I thought it was fun to play with that idea anyways.
Overall, I found the game to be on the easy side but that didn't cut out any of my enjoyment of it. I think the concept has quite a lot of room to grow and that is not something I expected on first play. Great job breathing so much life into the idea!
What a great game again, Tygrak! I wanted to play yours since I enjoyed the one you submitted last year so much! So I played it on stream again, because I didn't know if you would be around. You can check out the VOD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1618415398 Its literally the first game I play.
A really great game played during my stream, i can totally see this game become a full game in the future. Well done!
I played this on my stream! [Here's a link to the VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1619345236?t=5h20m00s)
super cool game, enjoyed the music and the visuals a lot :)