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Ludum Ware

By penguinmunch, Riley Circles, Tharley and Xrios

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall12002.5933
Fun11962.3733
Innovation11472.4833
Theme8543.3733
Graphics10682.5433
Audio7342.6233
Humor7872.4430
Mood11612.3833

Comments

gryph0n 2022-10-04 00:19

I couldn't get the sweep or combat games to work, but I think your concept is very fun!

penguinmunch 2022-10-04 00:24

@gryph0n Did you try playing through the itch.io link? The embedded game here seems to have some problems occasionally

killerb 2022-10-04 00:36

Wario-Ware style minigames were the first thing I thought of when I saw the theme. What I had not thought of was the weapon chosen during the action minigame carrying over to the sweeping minigame. Giving the weapons different levels of sweeping efficacy is rather clever.

penguinmunch 2022-10-04 00:38

@killerb Thanks! The plan was to have each minigame have some condition that carried over into the next one, but we weren't able to get as many minigames made as we had hoped. We're planning on finishing out our original plan soon though!

joey-van-lierop 2022-10-04 00:49

Interesting concept! I think with a bit of polish it could be very fun :smile:

onedozenbagels 2022-10-04 00:52

Played on the itch.io version. I was able to kill everyone in the first game after figuring out I needed to run up to get a weapon, but the 2nd and 3rd games didn't seem to be working.

crimoudin 2022-10-04 00:53

Things seemed to go haywire while playing. Music got weird and gameplay was unintuitive.

saintchristopher777 2022-10-04 01:10

Ha ha, nice little set of minigames! :-)

penguinmunch 2022-10-04 01:18

@onedozenbagels I just added some fixes that should help it work better. I'm not sure what would have made the 2nd and 3rd games not work though, but hopefully my fixes fixed whatever it was.

@crimoudin I haven't been able to reproduce things going haywire, but I added some fixes that should hopefully make it more intuitive. For some reason the embedded version of the game here cuts off a portion of the top and bottom of the screen, so I tried to move things a little to work around that.

onedozenbagels 2022-10-04 01:33

@penguinmunch Whatever changed, it's working now! Was able to do all 3. Plus there was music which I don't recall being there before. I like the carryover idea.

caerul 2022-10-04 04:29

Nice and creepy, fun mini games.

phoenixofforce 2022-10-04 17:51

Nice mini games, some sort of score wouldve been great. Good job!

gossian 2022-10-04 18:06

This was very strange but I liked it

gorr 2022-10-04 18:08

Cute mini games. Relaxing

eugenik 2022-10-05 02:46

Nice game! Love the graphics.

shaggy 2022-10-05 19:29

Neat game! Not sure I understood the goal of the last mini-game though?

regalias 2022-10-05 22:00

I dont really understand the goal but it was fun to play

johnsensei 2022-10-05 22:54

Warioware games were a popular idea when we had a brainstorming session in NashGameDev.

otterfaelure 2022-10-06 10:15

The games were entertaining, but I failed to see the plot. ^^;

It's a really neat concept to fit into the timeframe of a gamejam!

mrmaico 2022-10-06 13:09

Sweeping game did not work for me. Nothing to do for 10 seconds. Otherwise an interesting concept and quite ambitious to do 3 games in one.

alks 2022-10-06 18:47

Simple concept but it works! Mini games are always a fun time :3

coatline 2022-10-06 21:59

Entertaining! Music was actually pretty groovy :wink:. Maybe if you already completed the task at hand, automatically move the player to the next task? Cool game!

penguinmunch 2022-10-06 22:00

@regalias @otterfaelure Yeah, unfortunately we weren't able to make the plot very obvious that we had planned to do, but all of the minigames were supposed to build on each other to make a sort-of plot. We're planning on finishing the rest of it soon though. @shaggy Going along with what I said about the plot, the last minigame would have made more sense if we had had time to get the game that was supposed to come after it in there :shrug:

penguinmunch 2022-10-06 22:01

@coatline That's a good idea!

erukolindo 2022-10-08 14:44

I really like the idea. Warioware style minigames are a perfect fit for the theme and I'm surprised I haven't seen more of them. That being said, some indication of whether or not you succeeded on a minigame would be very welcome.

fenrei 2022-10-09 01:34

nice use of the theme, just lacking in polish to be good. good luck if you keep working on it! warioware is always a good time

dgo 2022-10-09 04:44

Nice graphics!

penguinmunch 2022-10-10 15:50

@erukolindo @fenrei Thanks! We are definitely planning on polishing it up, and one of the first things I've started doing towards that goal is adding fail states so that at least you know when you don't win (but that's not released yet).

@dgo Thank you! We had an amazing artist!

jk5000 2022-10-11 13:41

The game is okay, but what you are suppose to do is not super clear. I overall like the music and the visuals.

pickens-inc 2022-10-11 13:45

I'm always a huge fan of wario-ware style games. This was a neat little addition into them, I liked the idea that the weapon chose carried over into the next, making what seemed like the incorrect choice at first actually being the key to doing the second game correctly. I would have liked more than just the three games, and some feedback to be able to tell if there was a reason the game had won or if it was just looping/I had done well, but time pressures get to us all. Well done!

ratrat44 2022-10-17 05:31

The music is good and the graphics are well drawn! The idea of having the object at the start is quite interesting, I think it would have been funny to have it also be put in the oven. It would also be nice if there was some kind of score counter.

borjan1peovski 2022-10-18 13:34

Interesting idea, however the was no win/lose condition or real point to the game. Also the music started overlapping after some time. This game could be cooler given an objective and more polish.