Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → Crabload of Shells
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 430 | 3.71 | 41 | |
| Fun | 221 | 3.83 | 42 | |
| Innovation | 675 | 3.23 | 42 | |
| Theme | 632 | 3.88 | 42 | |
| Graphics | 233 | 4.21 | 42 | |
| Audio | 338 | 3.61 | 41 | |
| Humor | 508 | 3.22 | 38 | |
| Mood | 406 | 3.74 | 41 |
I love this. It's so simple, yet everything is spot on. The graphics are great and easy to read. The shadow of the seagull is a nice addition that adds the right amount of tension. Sometimes it was hard to pick up the right color of shell if it was close to another one. Great job!
Very kind of you @bauke-regnerus, thank you!
I like this a lot! The graphics are very nice and its easy to understand and fun. The seagul could move smarter imo but there should be some time to react to its attack. Right now I never have to dig in and its better to avoid the seagul by simply moving out of line.
Haven't played yet, but before I forget, it is never good to use escape as a bind for a WebGL game, since it will just close the fullscreen :)
Thanks for your review @retrific!
@ausstein noted, thanks! I'll make sure to rebind it to Enter maybe?
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Very cool game Overall. I think it shoold increase to more than 3 seagulls at some point. because It gets boring after a while with just three seagulls :)
@mitur Yes enter should work or P for pause is another common one ;)
@ausstein wow, I suck at my own game then - you've got a much higher score than me :D More than 3 seagulls at the harder phase, noted :)
Very fun game! I like the quests and the difficulty spike with multiple seagulls! The art is very cute, and the music is amazing. Very strong entry overall! Good job! :) I only managed to get up to 3k points.
I'm very happy you liked it @remus, thanks for your time!
This is so cute and enjoyable game!
Thank you very much for playing @emazuro!
Super cute and polished pixelart, love the animations. I got annihilated as soon as the two extra seagulls came out, haha. Good work!
Glad you liked it @zerovirus! Such a relief that someone except myself is annihilated when the extra seagulls come in XD
Pretty good, i think a screen update to deliver your shells would be nice, i was a bit confused at first. The crab and animation looks real good. Maybe also disable the collider for the shell when its fading out cus i could still grab them
Thank you for the detailed feedback @ryan-wine!
The game looks pretty good and the concept is simple, but it works well. All the animations made the game a lot more enjoyable.
I have two minor suggestions: 1. Make the shells spawn at least a specific distance away from other shells so they don't stack too much. They seem like they might already do this to some extent, but I think increasing the range slightly would be helpful. 2. Add some kind of clear indicator when you have enough of the required shell.
Anyways, the game was fun. Great job!
simple, fun, cute, and feels super polished. love the art and animations !
I was confused why I was losing, but turns out I'm just bad at reading directions! Once I had that down I enjoyed this quite a bit, calm but ramping to difficult once enough birds are out.
Really cute pixel art! I was surprised when more seagulls came in also, it was a cool ramp-up to the difficulty. Sometimes the shells would spawn on top of me was my only issue. Great job overall :)
Thank you for your time and a detailed review @dafluffypotato!
Appreciate your time @raftario, glad you liked it!
Thank you for playing our game @khaokg!
Thank you for the kind words, @lychee!
@mitur are you planning on updateing the game to more than 3 seagulls? if yes ping me in a comment once you do :)
I definitely want to @ausstein! :)
I have quite a backlog of updates that I've gathered from the comments, but I'm afraid to update the game on the itch.io page because it would break the deadline rules, wouldn't it?
Great grafics! I was terrible at the burrowing mechanic, so that became frustrating rather quickly, but overall solid game! very polished and beautiful.
Great jam game! Controls work well, burrowing is a neat mechanic for dodging, and it escalates nicely with more seagulls as you play more - but I could see even going more than 3 to really ramp things up.
so cute crab !!!
Playing the HTML5 version my score would stop increasing at 4 or 5, and also my health would not update when hitting the wrong color shells. The end screen would always say my score was 0 no matter what. The art is excellent though and the burrow mechanic was really creative.
Thank you for playing @brandon-campbell!
The score is shown at the end of the game :)
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In order to get points you have to turn collected shells of the proper color to the crab NPC :)
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Lives get deducted when a seagull strikes the Player.
Collecting shells of the wrong color deduces the game timer.
@mitur Ah ok I'm just dumb. That makes so much more sense now. I gave the game another try and updated my ratings.
It's very kind of you, thanks for your time @brandon-campbell! :)
Thank you very much for playing guys @kopako @asmadigames @kristallllllik !
It took me until my second play to realise that to dodge the seagulls I had to hit burrow BEFORE the shadow reached me :D But thats a me issue. I really loved this game, the graphics, sound and the controls once I came to grips with the lot (which didnt take THAT long) were spot on! I also see this was your first entry :O Welcome to Ludum Dare and brilliant work!
my best so far was 1740
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Pretty cute crab game. I love the crabs :3
Thank you for playing guys! :heart: @balimaarthebassfish @badcop @rincs
very fun game! Had a great time playing it, also the art style is amazing, simple but very cute and polished. Congrats!
You're very kind @barce, thanks for your time!
Simple but effective and fun! Pretty well polished for a ludum dare game, well done for that, it's not an easy task!
honestly kind of a perfect jam game. Everything is exactly where it needs to be, kudos for scoping perfectly
It's a simple yet very fun and well made game. I think the burrow could be a bit more exciting if you had a small time window to dodge the seagulls as soon as you touch the shadow.
Nice art really pretty looking game :)
The rework definitely is a better version, nice to see you take the time to make some updates.
One of the most fun entries in my opinion! Super fun and the art is very good too
*This is nitpicking* the game is a very impressive jam entry as it is but i found a few things annoying
maybe the shells could have some indication of where they are spawning, very often i would pickup shells spawning on top of me, with no way to avoid them
and maybe a little window of time for the player to react with the burrow mechanic before the seagull strikes
Awesome game though!
My first time doing Ludum Dare, but I'm already in love! :two_hearts:
So much constructive feedback, like from you guys @lucas-taniolo @loo27, thank you! :sunny:
Thank you for the kind words @groundwater-studio :heart:
And thank you for taking the time to play __both__ versions @hcs-hades, I appreciate it! :pray:
Really cool game! Love the graphics and the concept, fun gameplay too!
You're too kind @the-wondering-vagabond :hugging:
I've made some updates to the game, the list can be found in the description.
A big thank you to everyone who played and left constructive feedback - I'm overwhelmed with how nice this community is :hugging:
@ausstein you asked for a ping when there are more than 3 Seagulls :wink:
Excellent game, really short, cute, fun, and to the point - love it! Awesome work! It would be nice if there is an opportunity for health pickups, and if the seagulls maybe did something else occasionally other than fly around. Seemed a bit abrupt when the game stopped after dying, might feel a little better if it kept animating in the background. :) Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to seeing what you put together next time. Congrats on your first jam!
Thank you very much for detailed feedback @kevin-scroggins!
I really like the seagulls overhead and burrowing to dodge them, but I found that I didn't really need to do that very often since it was easier to move around them. Maybe the seagulls could move more intelligently to target the player periodically? The gameplay did get a little repetitive though. I'm not sure if the different types of shells adds anything meaningful to the core gameplay loop of collecting shells while avoiding seagulls (they're all effectively the same shell). Just off the top of my head: what if you had a mechanic where every once in a while, a special shell would spawn that adds a score multiplier, but there's only a limited time to get to it?
Art and aesthetic very both on point! The crab is very cute c:
Really fun game. Simple but interesting gameplay, and intuitive controls.
The pixel art and sound effects are pretty good too.
I hope that the game spawns enough required shells around the map, when the crab with requirement appears. The requirement was like 4 red shells and there was only one on the map and I had to wait a while for the rests to spawn.
Some music would be great.
Thank you for playing @francis! Different colors of shells are for the extra challenge, since collecting the other two colors of shells will decrease the game timer (maybe I need to increase that value so it's felt a bit more). Initially the seagulls had a radius in which they swap to a "pursue" type of movement, but I was afraid it would be to oppressive in combination with the "burrow" CD :sweat_smile:
Thanks for the feedback @kyboon! You didn't have music? Just checked the page and the music is present :eyes:
Oh I wasn't aware that collecting the other shells did something! I wonder if the burrow needs a cooldown at all. Since the goal of the game is to collect shells under a timer, and burrowing doesn't let you do that, you're already discouraged from burrowing unless you have to. Maybe it could take half a second to burrow / un-burrow and that's enough.
Have you tried the post-jam version @francis?
I'm sure that somewhere around 5 seagulls you'll feel the need to burrow strategically (that's why it has the CD, so the Player can't abuse it).
I'm thinking about @kevin-scroggins idea about health-pickups, can't find a good mechanic to introduce it at the moment :thinking:
@mitur finally got back to trying it. first place first try :)
8 seagulls finally got me, told you 3 is to little haha
You're a monster @ausstein! :heart:
I was so impressed when I saw you beat 1st place with one try on the database :first_place:
simple but nicely rendered idea