Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → Watch Out
By 100th-coin
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 4 | 4.41 | 119 | |
| Fun | 7 | 4.29 | 119 | |
| Innovation | 5 | 4.41 | 119 | |
| Theme | 98 | 3.96 | 118 | |
| Graphics | 46 | 4.16 | 119 | |
| Audio | 8 | 4.36 | 119 | |
| Humor | 6 | 4.36 | 119 | |
| Mood | 15 | 4.21 | 117 |
You actually recorded the acapella track! It's awesome. Thank you for making another killer game
I understand the clock in the bottom left isn't colored by design, but maybe it should? With the locked camera angle it's sometimes hard to see the clock on the ground.
I probably got the blue castle time piece by accident, by swapping out and back into blue, which heavily pushed me upwards.
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Pretty fun game. The puzzles are all super solid (I'll admit I gave up on the level after collecting the batteries because I couldn't figure it out lol). The mix of a 2D character with a 3D background gives off strong Paper Mario vibes and you honestly really pulled it off.
The voice acting was also really strong for your first time and the a capella track was hilarious!
Only real sin imo was defaulting to fullscreen with no way to switch to windowed but that's a really minor point
You always find a way to give a unique interpretation of the theme; while probably 99% of the entries will be about something that happens based on time, you managed to dodge this and offer something completely different... Amazing!
I don't have much to say about audio and visuals. The level of polish for a game jam is incredible. Everything looks and sounds so perfect.
The gameplay is solid, and the puzzles design is smart. On the downside, by relying on physics, there are ways to "break the game", or sometimes you are confronted to some jumps that can be frustrating (thinking about the very last puzzle), even when you know the solution.
But that's just nitpicking... Overall very good job!
VERY nice and in 48 hours.. Impressive! Really like the graphics, audio and.. Well everything :thumbsup: everything goes so well together so nice. Great job.
Awesome game! I only wish that there would be a way to listen only to the acapella track, as it was much more fun then the regular music.
Absolutely fantastic game! I am your fan now UPD: I just downloaded sources to listen acapella again and again
SUCH a fun game with a LOT of great gags; very charming. It's a creative take on the theme, which was difficult to pull off this time lol. Super impressive for the compo!
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Really cool concept and well executed. Good job :)
Very nice to see you participating again, your entry last year was amazing and this is somehow even better! I loved the voice acting and humor, and the puzzles escalated in a very nice way, the penultimate puzzle was the hardest for me by far, as it required me to memorize a lot of stuff, and the last one was my favorite for uniqueness.
All-in-all, an amazing game! Already looking forward to your next entry :smile:
We were surprised to see you record a let's play of our game, then surprised even further to see you produce an awesome game yourself! The progression works great and the polish is quite good. I like how it's a good take on the "10 seconds" theme without being a panicking, anxiety inducing game. It's a breath of relief among all the other games released for this theme.
Good work, and the colour blind mode is great to include! Accessibility is important!
Oh damn what an entry, real trip through the fourth dimension (still waiting on Miegakure to be released :D). The art and voice acting are super fun, love the little details like the synchronized clock on the hat and the background progression! The puzzles were a great as well, some of the trial and error got a bit scary especially late in a level but managed to sweat through it, the puzzles were really nice in general. I learned that "peeking" in the time dimension by quickly while standing on a platform was the safest, not sure if this was intentional or not. One option would be to show ghost blocks of what's going to change when getting near a threshold, but that would alter the difficulty curve quite a bit (and maybe make the whole thing a lot more messy?).
Anyways incredible execution, everything is super slick and well presented!
I love how you interpreted 10 seconds. Tight control and a charming character. Amazing work for 48 hours!
Great humor, like last time, and impressive graphics given the time constraint. Snappy platforming. Felt very complete.
I did find myself over-spinning the clock a lot, to my frustration :angry:
I also felt ghost blocks might help, but I think the game may become too simple in that case.
Overall well done :slight_smile:
Fantastic game overall, as I think everyone has come to respect. Graphical and gameplay polish is out of this world impressive, and it's a wonder that you manage to cram it all into the compo time limit every time. The idea was a blast, and the audio with music/the narrator were a lot of fun too. My biggest issue were some pretty finicky platforming controls, especially struggling with depth perception and landing on certain things since the character is completely flat and the fixed camera doesn't offer much relief. Remembering where all the platforms would appear is also a little bit of an annoyance sometimes, especially when I fall all the way back down due to rotating the hand the wrong way. But, nothing that couldn't be fixed if you wanted to and everything else was delightful. Amazing job as always :)
Super slick, took me 20:57.73 to beat! Some jumps were frustrating but the watch buddy made me stick around till the end, the last section was fun to figure out! wish the UI clock had the colors too, didn't realize the colors changed per time till near the end :) Really loved this!!
Got 11:12.12!
Haha really liked you manipulated the theme, really creative. Liked some of the puzzles that you had to do with changing the time, and also how you played with the concept and had some of the blocks "animating" - that was very cool.
I also really appreciated the commitment to accessibility and how you included subtitles with your VO even in a jam game (as well as color blindness too). The acapella was nice and really like how committed you were to the bit haha.
Great job!
Very like the interpretation of 10 seconds here, using a clock to represent time. I failed a lot in the 4th or 5th level where the road is completely colorful blocks.It would be nice if there are more flaut tolerance in levels.
This game is great. The visuals are really nice especially with the character flipping and the awesome sprite work. The music compliments the game nicely and the acapella track was a great switch up on it
Fantastic job. Super creative mechanics and puzzles. Amazing art and music. The dialog was pretty funny. Camera was a little awkward at times. Took me 24:33:?? I wasn't very good. One bug I found is that if you click on your time at the end it changes a toggle of "true" or "false". I had a blast playing. I would love to see this expanded into a full platformer game. Tremendous job well done!
Have to shout praises at this game like everyone else here, seriously insane 48hr submission ~ every part of this game was gorgeous from art, mechanics and music ~ I laughed, I cried, and found the challenges super rewarding! Clock voice 10/10 peak content
I won't reiterate what everyone else said here- I agree with them. The mechanic was unique and fun, and the music was great.
I found the camera to be difficult at times, especially with the fixed perspective. I also occasionally had trouble determining the depth of my character due to the extremely thin shadow at certain times. I think this could be improved by adding a "blob shadow" under the character (like in Minecraft and older games) instead of using a shadow map. I think the shadows were great for everything else though.
Besides those relatively minor issues, I had a lot of fun. Well done.
For a compo game submission, every aspect of this was done phenomenally, good job!
Very nice, graphics cool
Wow holy shit this game rocks so hard. Also your accapella is actually pretty good!
This game is really cool. A combination with 2D and 3D is very well done. Musics are (especially acapella one :D) also great. Love the characters too. My only problem was the camera though. Overall it's a great game, good job!
It's the best compo game I've found in LD51 just for now, I love the art style and the BGM (especially the vocal part XDDDD), the level design is also very excellent, I will recommend this game with my partner. Still, there are some bugs in player's animation, the player animation will be stopped when the player get stuck with the scene.
Dude, you're just a genius, it's a masterpiece. I liked every pixel of this game. Beautiful graphics, good music (especially the a cappella, upload it to Spotify (or some service that is not banned in Russia), I'll listen to this track every day on my way to college), the gameplay - a brain breaker. I absolutely liked it.
Amazing execution of the theme! Highly enjoyed this experience. Great puzzles and even better voice acting. Just like some others the only issue I've had at times is with the depth perception.
I don't even know where to start... I don't know what to say at all. The game is really a masterpiece of this compo, and in general, probably of all Ludum Dare 51.
Everything is fine here - from the graphics and music (the acapella is just beautiful), ending with the gameplay itself and the main mechanics.
The best I've seen so far!
Played this for the second time and just realised the lighting follows the clock's orientation as well!! So clever, this whole game feels so polished I refuse to believe you are one singular person, so in my mind you are three astute racoons in a trenchcoat. Good day, sirs.
11:21.78 here, the final puzzle was the best, even though it stumped me hard.
The graphics were very charming, cute and colorful. The little pout the protagonist has is very cute and adds a lot of personality. Music was amazing too, as many have pointed out, the acapella section was wonderful. Same for the voice acting, it gave so much life to the watch character, great job, especially since you wrote that this was your first time doing it. The gameplay was very fun too, finding the correct path through time, edging the clock trying to see what the adjacent 10-second blocks are. All in all an amazing game!
Woow, super nice game, very good humor and interesting, unique gameplay! Took me some time to get into whats going on, but worth it! :D I had a bit hard time figuring out where to go, but then I realized if I quickly switch between the two sections on the clock, back and forth then I can stay on the platform where I was :D Graphics are very charming, 3d pixel art the best! Good and also very unique use of the theme! I really enjoyed it, very nice game!
Brilliant game! Unique gameplay, great humour, and so so original :)
My favorite game for the moment, I really like the theme usage, the audio is hilarious AND great, and it reminds me of Super Mario 64 somehow which is cool
Very fun game ! i really liked the audio ! The puzzles are great ! Good job !
very fun, great puzzles and good music
Absolutely hilarious & fun! Music and graphics are really cool and unique, the simple animations make things feel very premium. And you totally killed it on the acapella, great moment!
The platforming puzzles were pretty fun. The movement was a bit sluggish but ok. The camera obviously makes things too hard though, when moving back towards the camera. There wasn't much punishment for failure so it was fine. The last 2 levels were really great though - it really forced you to read the full level before going ahead. I also found that you could jump then "peek" into the next time zone and then switch back, to safely figure out what color you had to go to.
How the hell did you make this in 48 hours? It's so good. It's got great mechanics, audio, and visuals. I love how the hand of the clock continues to be a part of the level design throughout. There were some great moments like the acapella song and getting pranked. Great job all around. Very well done.
Quite unique
Well, first of all, very nice entry. Second, I felt style similar to some old LD entry, called Ribbon. And after looking at your previous games I see now why. :smile:
That was really good! The humorous voiceover was very fun, kept me engaged and entertained, and the puzzles were tricky but not prohibitively so.
If I had one suggestion, it would be to add another shadow directly underneath the character (even just a tiny circle) so that I had a bit more confidence in where I was going to land. All in all, a really sweet platform puzzler with time manipulation!
Fantastic! The talking stopwatch is hilarious, you've really nailed it.
Very impressive game! I love your approach to the theme and level design. But I must say - locked camera is very inconvenient
Very good take on 4D mechanics and fun voice acting was the cherry on top of the cake. Could be more intuitive to play with a little feedback about where platforms are going to be after turning the clock. Without any visual clue sometimes feels like a memory game or brute-forcing a combination, depending on player approach.
This is wonderful! 5 stars on each category, honestly! The last puzzle is particularly well thought out. I think the only problem there is the camera. It's too much focused on the character and it's hard to see what happens when you rotates the camera. Other than that, i would pay for a game like this one. There are good games in this jam, but this one is fantastic! Congrats!
Wow, one of the best games I tried in this ludum so far. Funny, challenging, and with great graphics. Great job!
Great concept of dynamically generated levels, also a nice dificulity curve ramping up partially, really enjoyed the voice naration and trolling events )
So funny and unique! I didn't notice the background until the end but nice touch. Voice narration is top notch :smile: I was able to beat it in 12 min. I guess I'm not much of a speedrunner :smile:
DIY sound style combined with unique core mechanic create memorable expirience!
I'm going to have to try this out on my desktop!
Wow! What an awesome game! I would say it's the best game I've played in this gamejam! Simply amazing!
The interpretation of the theme is perfect! Really very creative! Congratulations on developing the game. The graphics are beautiful, the sound is perfect. There are always new lovely surprises in this game. And finally, the gameplay is very creative. Good job!
Insane game with good mechanics! The Music is very cool and the graphics looks awesome and polished.
Wow, I really would not have guessed that that took me 17 minutes, I was pretty zoned in! Nice job. The controls were a bit awkward on my keyboard, but it didn't take that long to get used to. The voice acting was great, and getting pranked got a good laugh out of me.
Very cool game, I really liked your idea, it was very creative and interesting, the audio was very good and the graphics well polished. Good job!
Alright, take my money. You nailed it. The concept is super fun and the voice over/mouth-sounds music was top notch. More of this please.
This is an incredibly well-made game. You somehow managed to make 4D mechanics approachable.
I've had a really good time :full_moon_with_face:
Absolute banger of a game! Unique and innovative gameplay, catchy bgm (wonderful chorus as well), and thank you for including a colorblind mode :D I'd give this game the labor of love award if it was on Steam
Really fun game, I love the ending level and the general level structure. It was great for the introduction to show how the clock arm moved only to use it in puzzles, but not overly rely on it which was very tastefully done! Also as a semi-color blind person myself (red green color blindness) I really appreciate the setting!
aargh I want to play this but there's no Mac release =/
To be honest, this was one of the first entries that I felt like it was fun just to play it, actually forgot to take a look it in more "analytical" or "reviewish" sense for some time. The graphics are quirky, but that's kind of the addition to the game being fun. The game idea itself is quite interesting and I liked the take on the theme, however it doesn't seem to have any strong connection to it. Only thing I didn't like was the perspective, sometimes it's hard to see where you have to move, it was a bit annoying. Also, very cool VOs! I enjoyed playing this one.
You made a real fun puzzle game. I.m amazed how you make them this quick real good job.
Now THIS is my favorite entry, Even though i stuck on digit clock level
The game is fun, and looks great. I see you stepped up your game and went 3D and added voice acting. And it works so well!
Although I was expecting it, the part where you switched from music to acapella still made me laugh.
The level before the last one almost made me rage, but I finished the whole game (twice, actually). So the difficulty was just right for little old me.
I love the little detail that the clock moves it's mouth when speaking (or singing, lol).
Great job as always bruh, although I wouldn't expect any less from you :smile:
Really impressive!
The pixel art is fantastic, the difficulty and challenge just right, the music catchy - let's be honest, the best bit is when the batteries are dead :D I loved your take on the the theme, it was such a clever twist!
Nice. Really unique take on the theme. Controls were solid. Did not manage to finish the game due time constraint but have to come back and try to find my way to end and hear the dialog. Great job
There's nothing certain in life, except that you will produce a new masterpiece every single Jam :'D
The concept itself is so good I'm asking myself why I never saw something like this done before, and the execution is amazing. The VO was also very clear and fitting, and the acapella bit had me rolling. Wow, simply wow.
Outstanding, and another favourite done by you. Thank you so much for the fun time!
Can't believe I haven't discovered your games before. I'll definitely be following from now on.
I think this game is the perfect example of what a game jam game should be in terms of pacing. Good games show their hook early on and then explore it for a while, basically juggling the player's interest levels like balls and trying their best to keep it up. The issue is that with a lot of jam games, they start to run out of steam after a while once the allure of the hook slowly goes away.
There was none of that here, I couldn't believe it. The hook is immediately recognizable and grokkable, and my brain started to light up thinking about what the game would offer. The thing is......every time I thought something like "I wonder if the dev will make me do more complex clock turns" or "I wonder if the dev will make me use the hand as a platform", you delivered on that the VERY NEXT SECTION. Like you were reading my mind as to what I wanted to play. Nothing overstayed its welcome.
Let's talk about the ending. My god was the ending so good. The idea of moving the clock + our innate knowledge of how numbers are created digitally culminate into an eureka moment where you get to feel super smart for solving the last puzzle. Utterly brilliant and an amazing place to end the game.
So basically, you start high, and then end even higher. You even tossed in some good humor just to collect even more LD points. I am incredibly impressed. This was a nice, tightly managed package and possibly the best paced game I've ever played in a jam.
Superfun! Excellent voice acting. Nice visuals and music! Love the sense of humour!
This is absolutely amazing. I feel ashamed of what I made after playing this, 10/10
This is incredible! In all aspects! The looks, the sound, the writing, voice acting and gameplay!
From the start I really like how you play with player expectations and do funny deliveries of them! The voice acting is good and doesn't sound like it's your first time! The art is really good looking and unique. It really has a quality of it's own and is instantly recognisable! As I already stated the writing is terrific! Music is nice vibe and the acapella battery skit got me laughing so hard :D and lastly the the whole idea and gameplay is so one of a kind and innovative! How can you even come up with all of this? And execute it so quickly and well! Hats of to you! Every single one of them that I own (like 5 or 7) Anyway such a great entry! Always great to play your games! Thanks for making this :) !!
Great core mechanic, works fantastic! Using the hand as another platform was also a great choice, found myself standing on it and just spinning sometimes lol. Great job! Only thing for me was the camera made some parts difficult, such as the third floor, I was on the left side and couldn't see where the timer was positioned so I fell off from not being able to remember which way I needed to spin it. Despite this, nice entry!
We seem to both love jumpin' on disappearing floating cubes! Cool idea for that last level. I would have loved to see a level where you jump between analog and digital clocks, but I know how little time there is for level design in the compo. The voice acting definitely livened the whole thing up; you're making me wanna try that too... although I think I'll leave the acapella to the professionals.
Absolutely loved this game! The humor here is great- the acapella is simply music to my little ears. Having the stopwatch animate on the playable character's actual sprite is a great touch, and overall the whole project seems really polished. My only real qualm would be the reliance on memorization in the second-to-last level, maybe my brain isn't big enough but I'd get to a platform and be like "wait, do I need to go forwards, or backwards in time, here? Crap..." and almost always choose wrong. Maybe that's more on me than anything though lol. The whole thing is just totally charming though, super well done!
This is the best game I've played so far. Can't compete against you :) The innovation is top notch, the audio is amazing (congrats for the acapella track), the humor is so good. I found the platforming devilishly hard (my speedrun time was 29 minutes, I've seen the above screenshots with 8 minutes times!!! I spent about 20 on the batteries level. I clearly suck at platforming). Also I was about to rage-quit, but the game's so good I neeeded to finish it, so I didn't. My sole complaint is I wish you could rotate the camera, sometimes the angles were weird. Really really nice. Kudos.
This game has the best idea for the theme I have come across so far! Incredibly creative, wonderful puzzles, very humorous pocketwatch, lovely voice acting. The part where the radio dies is a magical moment. It didn't have to be in the game but it gave the game so much personality. Gave me a big grin.
For me, the game got much easier when I realized I could take advantage of the little transition between platforms to toggle between two states real quick without fear of falling down.
Thanks for the experience, awesome work!
The voice acting is the best part about this game, it makes everything really engaging. Gameplay is simple and easy to understand, and the bit with the radio and batteries is great. All things that other commenters have mentioned before, but it's worth another mention. Nice work! :D
Really great concept, was very fun to play! (:
Wow, really great idea, was fun play it.
Masterpiece! Innovative ideas. Delightful performances. Lovely character design. Funny music switching. I can't imagine this was done in 72 hours. The gameplay aspect is very innovative and when I played it was smooth. Really liked the pocket watch narrator, very funny. The music that switches when the battery dies is really funny. Thank you for creating this.
You had such a great idea ! While we all use the time as a timer you used it a different way !
That's so cool that you managed to have voice acting inside your game... The art is really great and it's really fun to play !
Well done you made a really nice game !
Great game, I love it! I love the art style, the concept is very clever and the voice acting is really good.
you have voice acting in the game. It feels so good as a Compo entry. Appreciate your work!
This game is crazy for having been put together in a game jam. Awesome concept, great visuals, lovely humor, and wonderful sound/music. I really don't know what else to say. Great work!
Dang this game is fun! This is an insanely good jam entry, well done! I'm gonna be shocked if this game doesn't make it in the top 10 of most of the categories, truly deserves it!
Wow, what a great entry! Voice acting was funny, music was fitting, innovative game mechanics! Did I already say I loved the voice acting? :)
Nice, complete and polished. Played it through. I can't think of anything I didn't like about this game, sorry :sweat_smile:
Super clever and cute!
One of the best games so far!!! So polished in every way. I LOVE the 2D / 3D mix, I'm a sucker for it. The voice acting was pretty good, the game was funny, the puzzles were good and balanced throughout. I really enjoyed it, great work!!!!! Screenshot (262).png
Really liked it. You have lots of comments so I think all the things I liked are obvious, but I will maybe add : I love all the little touches you made in the game. The colorblind mode, of course, but also the coyote time which often saved me, the "down floor" at the end just before the last time, a few little walls which block you (And you don't fall), the fact it's a kind of elevator, etc.
Really good job. Really pleasant to play. But unfortunatly it seems I don't have the world record. :dog:
EDIT : I'm a terrible reader. The previous comment was 12min, and not 2min. I wait the one who will eject me from my throne ! :D
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This was full of charm! The base concept is nice, and the level interesting enough to provide a pleasant time. But the narration and the humor of the game makes it really memorable! I loved all the little surprises that the game offers through the adventure.
Nice attention on the colorblind mode too! Although I didn't really need it in the end. Remembering on which time which platform appears is too cumbersome, and not necessary to finish the game. Instead I mostly focused on how they appeared relatively to each other (when this platform is on, then 1 step to the right activates this platform, and then 1 right again this one, etc).
Congratulation for making this entry!
This was so cool to play! I love the unique interpretation of the theme and had fun controlling what felt like my position in the 4th dimension while platforming. I also appreciate the colorblind mode, many games that use color for gameplay are difficult for me to play without colorblind options but this wasn't one of them!
I loved this!! I want to live in a clock!!
I can barely believe it's a compo. You must have gotten like zero sleep over those 48 hours :laughing:
Tremendous job, great concept and excellent execution. A cappella part of the music track was as fun to listen to as it was fun to make. The whole thing feels polished and well-thought-out.
Graphics are pleasant - the only thing about them that I'm unsure about is the character's flipping animation. It makes her to be flat, like made of paper (like Paper Mario) - but nothing else supports that idea and her environment is not paper-made either. It crated a bit of dissonance for me.
The music is fitting and adds a nice rhythm to the game.
Loved it!
Was very intriguing!
The graphic style is somewhat similar to Mario, I like it
Wow, its really crazy that one person made this! I have nothing more to add because everyone else has added many comments which I agree with. I actually do like the paper-flip of the character because it seems more like a storybook to me. I really enjoyed the radio/batteries part of it. Good work! and yes I am finally getting around to commenting and rating haha.
Man, I really liked what you did.
Voiceover already puts your game in front of many others, but game have other benefits also.
Haven't seen this thing with "level change" mechanic on this jam, and it fits into this perfectly.
One thing that I want to wish for you is do some work with camera to see the level. I understand, that static camera is ususal for this type of graphics(btw I love your visual), but I think you can play with it to make it comfortable.
Overall - gameplay, audio, visual, theme(theme? didn't catch theme here, but it doesn't matter, I like it anyway) is as awesome as you. Thank you for entry!
Wow, what a great concept dude! Nice voice acting, really enjoyed playing through the levels. Only when you mentioned the colorblind mode did I start thinking about why the colors mattered and then I figured out that each two hours had a specific color to them. I also really dig the 2.5D style of the player, and the addition of a shadow when the player was getting blocked by a block from the view, was a very nice touch. Overall, a super polished game, well done!
Nice voice and kudos for colorblind. Very cool idea and execution.