nanixdev 2023-05-01 02:51
Awesome game! All of the art looks really nice. It kinda reminds me of a mix between some old Nintendo games, River City Ransom and Paperboy. Well done!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → The Mailman
By castitatis
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 86 | 3.87 | 60 | |
| Fun | 119 | 3.69 | 60 | |
| Innovation | 253 | 3.16 | 58 | |
| Theme | 227 | 3.78 | 60 | |
| Graphics | 47 | 4.22 | 60 | |
| Audio | 104 | 3.62 | 60 | |
| Humor | 54 | 3.73 | 56 | |
| Mood | 160 | 3.47 | 58 |
Awesome game! All of the art looks really nice. It kinda reminds me of a mix between some old Nintendo games, River City Ransom and Paperboy. Well done!
Nice art work and funny ending, I completed the game in a minute by not engaging with any of the enemies haha.
@sashbros haha good to know, I tried it myself during dev and couldn't do it so I thought it wasn't doable :D I guess I'm not good at my own game XD. thx for playing
Very nice graphics and love that it is a beat'em up game. A few things I would take note of however are...
1. You can advance into new waves without killing the last ones plus save the girl without even fighting a single enemy
2. It was annoying everytime I die having to go through the title screen and controls, story and such. So maybe have the retry button start you from the start of the gameplay?
excellent game for the time given, its worth noting that you can just block everything indefinetely, and run through the whole game without interactivng with anything at all, but great art and soundtrack
@j4cko16 thx for the feedback. You're right on both points, I didn't manage my time properly and couldn't polish as much as I wanted
@brandon-campbell thx for playing, indeed, lack of time to balance all that :D
The sound from the title falling into screen jump-scared me, haha! It was fun! I also suck at games so I was having a hard time, specifically when you gotta shoot the army dudes and you have like 5 others on top of you. It was very fun though, gave it a few tries and then went straight to the end to see it, since other comments mentioned it being possible. Love the music and the graphics, very nice!
Cool game, I was hoping once I got the scooter I could mow some of the people down, but probably best you can't. How many people did you say kidnapped her? I was fighting so many people, I'm not surprised she was taken! Had a lot of buttons to remember what each did, but really cool graphics and gameplay
They are shooting the mailman?! :D - I really love the graphics, great job!
I like the idea, fun to play :)
Awww, the dogs go to heaven! Really loved the pixel art on display here, great stuff. The combat felt a bit stiff - I didn't really find the use of using block in combat.
really cool throwback to old beat-em-ups. i feel like attacking was a bit too slow and the difficulty went up a bit too fast in my opinion, so just ignoring all of the enemies was way easier than actually trying to fight them. another problem to me was that restarting took too long, and that going through the menus requires moving the mouse over and clicking, when the rest of the game doesn't make any use of the mouse. the variety of enemies is really cool, and the pixel art looks really. really cool game overall
I like the vibes the game gives. The music creates this oppressive atmosphere and calls for action. However, I found out there was actually no incentive to beat anyone up. It would've been nice if there were checkpoints or stops that force you to clear the screen and get to beat some butt.
Good job regardless!
The graphics look great and the audio sets the mood well. Like some others I feel that the attacks could feel better if they were quicker to do. I wasn't good enough at the game to finish it but I enjoyed my time with the game regardless. A solid entry, well done!
lol, the frame story got a good laugh out of me. Hang in there mailman, hang in there.
I never managed to completely defeat everyone on the street, but I got really close. My final superstrat was to block near a scooter, draw them in until everyone was there and then run them all over. That worked extremely well! The combat feels very good in this game, the animation when throwing mail, scooter knocking them all out, that all feels super fun. The animations are very expressive and cute too, especially the dogs. All in all a great beat'em up! Very well done!
Awesome pixel art, especially in the splash screen. Funny story and ending. I really liked the dog death animation with their souls leaving the body, lol. The motorbike was OP!
Great game, I was about to say that this game is too easy and you can just spam punch, but then the first trooper arrived. I was like well heres some mail in your face, still easy. But after some waves it came apparent, that it actually needs a well adjusted strategy to survive and then I died. So 5/5 I rate this game. Not much that it needs to improve. Maybe a slider to adjust the volume, didnt see one or was there a menu?
Nice game! Yes, it is extremly hard, but interesting. Graphics and audio design is great too. Like for noire ending!
Had a blast punching stupid hooligans!
- I like the aesthetics, I'm always a sucker for low poly / pixel art games - Colors are chill to the eye, I like it as well - Variety of enemies - Variety of smack ass possibilities (wish there was a AOE letter throw) - Actual difficulty is quite good - Audio / SFX in Compo is always a +
Not sure if I've found it anywhere but would be cool to have any sort of healing aid, or maybe I missed it completely?
Anyway, great entry. Enjoyed it a lot!
Very fun but short game! I really like the story and its really funny! The gameplay is alright but its very short. I know that this is a game jam but it was still extremely short! If there were multiple levels it would be much better but i guess you ran out of time. There was also a bug where you could just run past everyone without fighting which made the already short game even shorter. Good luck on your future projects!
This game sucessfully explored the latent rage inside all mailmen.
I really like the variety of enemies while stil being polished. Great work!
Really fun to play game, although the ending was a bit sad. :'( And it took a try till I figured out how strong and necessary mail throwing is. Usually if a "consumable" can be hoarded, I hoard it. This time I had to die to realise that I can't hoard this. :D Gorgeous art by the way, cheers! :)
Really nice art style and very well polished entry. I had fun
Love the artwork and animations!
What a well-crafted game! So many nice touches! The font choice, the enemy variety, the little doggie halos - so much fun!
Lore was cute, and the title screen gave me a good chuckle.
I'm shocked this was compo! Very well polished, and a joy to play. Thanks!
Love the visuals and gameplay. Well done!
Nice artwork!
Good entry! I think animation of attack should be faster a litle. In otherwise all is good. Nice graphic!
Great entry. Great pixel art, a catchy (if a little repetitive) banger of a music loop, and fun and engaging gameplay. Easy to get overwhelmed with new waves if you move around too much and don't manage your resources. For a short while I really became THE MAILMAN.
Cool game. Nice art. fun to play.
Excellence graphics and sound. Very juicy, including the gameplay. Good little touches like the ammo being letters and the refills being mailboxes (and the doggos of course going to heaven). _Very_ short though, especially if you realize that you can mostly just outpace all of the enemies, and if they gain on you anyway, just take a nearby scooter.
I don't have much more to say. It's a simple, tried and true concept, but aside from the low difficulty (or rather _easily circumvented_ difficulty, since a low difficulty isn't in an of itself bad of course), very well executed.
(Oh almost forgot; The entire game is played on keyboard, but the menu's are mouse only. Bit of a pet-peeve of mine.)
This was fun! I have a soft spot for retro beat 'em ups, so I oved the art and theme. I agree with others that the balance could use another pass, but being a compo jam game and considering how polished most of the other elements are, that's not something I hold against the game. The ending also made me laugh. Great work!
The cover art made me instantly click this game and I am glad I did, the artstyle is so well made, I love how it's based off street fighter, I would have never thought a game like this would be released in this jam, but I'm glad you made it! The fighting was really nice and well made, the only thing I didn't like about the combat is the fact you can just spam punch the people and they get stun locked infinitely until they die, but other than than this is a really well put together game and I loved it! Keep up the good work!
Graphics and sounds are very well made! And beating up folks as the mail man seems to be appropriate in this context :D I had fun playing.
This is incredible! I like the art style.
Great job capturing that arcade feel
Poor dogs :angel: this was really good! Scooters were slightly overpowered (wait for enemies to cluster, run them all down) but a fun mechanic - riding one feels a bit floaty though. Love the graphics, love the sound.
Game very good! nostalgic too, very difficult but well polished with a nice gameplay and nice graphics and sounds. I liked!
Very well made game, especially for a game jam and being solo. I'm impressed. My biggest gripe would be, that you have to use the mouse in the menu screens. I wanted to just click "J" and restart the game, but had to take my hands of the keyboard to click the stuff. That's obviously a nitpick, but I thought it still was worth sharing. That said, the game feels great. I don't think I could achieve something like that solo, yet.
Amazing job for a solo game !!! Nice variety in the enemies, the little objective alongside the road are super cool, they remove your focus from the fight for a moment letting the enemies reach you easier, very smart :) Great little game !
I like the visual style very much, I'm excited to see games with pixel compatibility, melee mechanics are cute and satisfying, I thought I could use the motorcycle for a longer time, but it suddenly stopped. the enemy waves were a bit challenging, I didn't survive very long, the volume was a bit high, but the sounds are good
lovely little beat em up! the visual polish here is wonderful, and the idea of a mailman taking letters from mailboxes is pretty funny. would have liked to see a combo or uppercut or something, but had fun till the end!
I am not paperboy,So cute game,when enemies are more than three,run and find a bike,than hit all enemies at once, I like action game so much,and all character design and animations are quite well,very nice work
Great game! I got overwhelmed quickly at first but figured out how to avoid taking so much damage. I'm a badass mailman!
Art, sfx and music were really nice!
My one tiny wish would be that the menu/tutorial would be skippable by keyboard, but no biggie.
Cool little beat-em-up.
I think this would have been a little better if you either had more means of crowd control looking at the number of enemies you throw at the player, or you reduced the number of enemies a player faces at a time. The mail works nicely as projectile weapons, but doesn't really help much again with dealing with so many enemies. The scooter also could have used a visual timer or something to show how long it would be active while you were riding it.
But the presentation is great. Love the different animations and enemy types. Some good feedback when you hit an enemy as well. Cool entry
Very well made beat em up. I like the motorbike power up. Really polished and well done. Great retro mood with the art and music. Great job!
The enemies are pretty fun to fight, but like others said there's no real in-game incentive to fight so once the waves are too big to handle I kind of just hold down right arrow and the game is basically over at that point. If you were to add something that made fighting situationally the best choice for the player I feel that could really improve the gameplay.
This was a really well executed and fun game! Punching people felt very juicy and it had the right difficulty to make it fun but not too frustrating. The art, music and sound effects were all great as well. It was a bit weird how I could hit a whole group of people with the same punch, but that did not take away from the fun of the game :p (it would probably become impossibly hard if you could not do that) Really well done! I enjoyed it! :D
Congrats on the submission!
I really liked the in-game graphics and the beat'em up take on the theme. There were a few little nitpicks like the stylistic inconsistencies with the font vs pixel art, though in a jam context I can totally understand. I appreciate that you released a completable game with increasing difficulty and actual music and SFX, great job there. The music was simple but didn't overstay its welcome in the length of my playthrough. Regarding gameplay, I think that the animations / interactions were a little bit rigid, encouraging a repetitive approach to fighting based on "stunlocking" enemies in groups. I would have loved to see some combos or knock-back to make dealing with groups a little bit more dynamic. Elements like throwing letters for dealing with the soldiers were a good start in this direction, so a bit more of that diversity forcing player decision making would have been perfect.
All in all, a solid entry. Thanks for sharing :)
This game is super impressing, I don't know how you manage to create everythings in the time frame. I never went for a beat'em up in jam because I feel it too ambitious. Anyway, the game is well polished with good looking graphics and animations. It was super enjoyable to play!