ben-lusted 2023-01-09 21:21
I had a hard time believing this was a jam game, it looks so good! The mechanics are super well done and I have a good time playing this for a bit today! Well done
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Buzzkill
By cullencoyote and brittbrady
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 96 | 3.97 | 22 | |
| Fun | 280 | 3.57 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 417 | 3.27 | 22 | |
| Theme | 30 | 4.40 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 3 | 4.77 | 22 | |
| Audio | 24 | 4.25 | 22 | |
| Humor | 316 | 3.13 | 21 | |
| Mood | 184 | 3.81 | 21 |
I had a hard time believing this was a jam game, it looks so good! The mechanics are super well done and I have a good time playing this for a bit today! Well done
Graphics are really cool. Gameplay can become a bit stale because of lack of variation in strategy. Gameplay is fun tho and again art style looks amazing.
Awesome game! Everything fits really well together. Loved how the music was relaxing then at night sh*t got real xD I survived for 7 nights. Did get some lag near the end but apart from that every else seemed to work pretty well for me! Great Job!
Loved the sound design and the relaxing music! The pixel art, controls, and atmosphere are amazing too. I agree that the game becomes stale quite fast, but the polish on this is really really high.
Awesome artwork! really nice and polished mechanics too, love the rts style commands. I would maybe add some more depth in the later game to keep things interesting but overall I think its great. Really enjoyed playing.
very well polished and great audio, if a little simple
super polished, I love it when a great idea is found in something so simple!
Nice audio and visual part. Good harvest/fight balance. Additionally pleased that the game teaches you to play yourself not through text, but intuitively. Great job!
Solid Entry, the units deselecting after a command was given was a little annoying, I was not expecting how crazy the fights would look and feel great job
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Congratz of delivering this project! Well polished and fun to play :) Looking forward to see ya on the next edition!
Amazing job on the music and sound design! It took me a while to figure out how it works, but loved the art and relaxing music.
The art is wonderful! I especially love the attack effects :D
The contrast of music between day and night is surprising but they are great in their respective genres.
I survived 7 days. Really well polished game!
Congrats on making an eye-catching RTS in such a short time! I have some feedback on game mechanics:
1. Selecting units and moving them once works great. 2. I do not understand how to combat the enemies safely. My troops fight really well at first until they get stun locked in a tight group where the enemy keeps pushing them back without my troops fighting back. Maybe some invincibility when an ally gets hit would help it have enough time to recover and hit back. 3. Combat units clump up and are hard to separate out for strategies like surrounding the opponent. Maybe if the troops spread themselves out while traveling in a hexagon formation they would be stronger as a team. 4. I like the simplicity of the unit selection, and how the title screen encourages almost mousing over the hive on start up to direct the player on where to hover. 5. I think the title screen would be more user friendly if the mouse was at least partially visible, such as by making it partially transparent and drawn on top of everything. Making a mouse completely hidden may confuse the user when they lose track of their input of a mouse cursor.
I also like the uniformity of the art and gameplay for simplicity, I forgot I was even looking at a game and was able to focus on tactics within a cheery world with nights of danger.
I loved this! A lot of what I was going to say is in the above comments, like possibly having a formation for the troops when you send them to attack to give them some spread. And maybe it's out of scope, but a group numbering system, so you can create hotkeys to quickly switch between different groups. I think you did a great job on the music and sound, just a bit more variation in the little emotes would be good. I'm a huge fan of resource loop/rts stuff, and you have a lot of great stuff in here that I enjoyed. artwork was great too!
Wow, what a fun little game! Everything is so smooth and polished. The art is so cute, and the sound effects are perfect too. There's just a few things missing, imo: -I don't know what my goal is...survive as many days as possible? -I can't tell how much health the hive has left before it's destroyed -I can't tell when/why new "attack type" troops are available to spawn
What a precious entry! made it till day 6 T____T
you really honored those fuzzy buzzies with this sweet game! the audio and sounds are simply adoreable and the night music made me laugh haha, so perfect!
At times it was a bit hard to control my bees and I would have liked if it was easier selecting single bees, but other than that, and especially for a gamejam this felt really awesome and polished :) good job!
Hi! I really like the artstyle in this game! I love you guys' work! 😁