braveskin 2023-05-02 22:48
Good number and difficulty of levels and enjoyable to control both characters with different abilities.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → Food Service Singularity
By maidmage, andycofsky and cheesecube
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 654 | 3.52 | 23 | |
| Fun | 525 | 3.50 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 281 | 3.71 | 23 | |
| Theme | 656 | 3.85 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 586 | 3.69 | 23 | |
| Audio | 282 | 3.72 | 22 | |
| Humor | 566 | 3.11 | 23 | |
| Mood | 605 | 3.52 | 23 |
Good number and difficulty of levels and enjoyable to control both characters with different abilities.
Cool game! The fridge and drone are cute, there seems to be a good amount of levels (though I got stuck on a level with an impassable yellowish barrier so I couldn't see all of them haha) and the puzzle mechanics are simple but satisfying! Also, nice music!!!
@brineleaves Thanks for playing! That level is probably the most difficult one--you need to use momentum to throw the fridge through the yellow barrier. I'll be sure to play your submission as well as @braveskin's very soon. Also the music was done by @maidmage and @andycofsky so I'll be sure to pass along the compliment.
Very cool game! I like the dual aspect of the controls, however it would have been nice if it could just be one button toggling between them, overall a great game with tons of potential level dseigns
Nice job, love controlling two characters. I found grabbing objects with spacebar really inconsistent which was a bit frustrating given how much the drone also slides around.
Fun game! Very solid level design for a jam game, surprised you did so well given the time limits.
I found a bug where disappearing food permanently presses down on a button if it doesn't fall off first - allows you to cheese some levels. I thought this made the game more enjoyable in its own way though, always fun to discover the quirks in a game.
Enjoyed the soundtrack a lot as well, good work!
This is actually really good. I played through the entire game. I think the controls could use more work. Switching between characters was awkward and having to reach over to my mouse to shoot food was a pain. I have to imagine there is a reasonable way to combine both characters together in a way that doesn't require switching all the time. Great job on this game though I like it :)
Finished the game! I'd be lying if I said the drone pickup mechanics didn't frustrate me a few times, though. The hitboxes or perhaps the inputs definitely could've used some love, it was difficult to get things lined up the way the game wants in order to grab things. Some instruction on level 2 that we could pick up the fridge would've also been nice, since I think that's how you have to solve that puzzle? You don't get the instruction until level 3 tho. Either way, the music created a nice atmosphere, the fridge faces made me laugh, and the mechanics themselves were a solid base for what was a nice little puzzle game. Kudos! :tada:
Love the fridge and drone companions, would love to see more of them! The puzzles were a good intro into a game I would love to play more of! The music and SFX were fitting too. I think a bit more colour differentiation between the charcters and the background would be helpful, but the art style is really cool. One thing I got confused about a few times was the doors being open and closed, the thin line was hard to spot with the background behind it, and because of the background I often thought the doors were locked still even though they were not. One thing I would try to work on design wise is making sure people have to use all elements of your puzzle. One example of this is in the first level where you introduce the yellow laser. I can throw the fridge across the gap (very cool I love momentum), and then I can use the button to disable the laser to get the drone to come over. However, this isnt actually necessasry, as I can finish the level with just the fridge. Making it necessary to get both characters to the end might help with your design a bit, and make it feel more complete. I dont want to leave my drone companion behind!
Noticed a couple bugs, but nothing game breaking: -The Fridge sometimes got stretched out horizontally when being grabbed by the drone -The first time I loaded the game I couldnt make any inputs.
Will give you a follow on itch and see if you make any updates or add new levels, as Id love to give them a go! Cheers :P
I like the game and the fact that you've made a complete set of levels. Both playable characters made sense and were relevant. You've even made a tutorial section - very nice for a jam game. The music and dynamic changes were very nice. Having sadi that I have to opt out of rating the music since you've used not self made assets. I feel like the kill zones felt out of place. Movement was a little by clunky. Keep up the good work. That was a good game for my first rating of this LD.
@xsangyhix All the music was made by my other team members @maidmage and @andycofsky. If you are referring to the use of the wilhelm scream, from my research it is essentially in the public domain-although admittedly it is obviously not our own creation. Either way, I respect your decision not to vote in the audio quality, I just wanted to clarify any potential misunderstandings.
@oliver-pope thanks for the detailed feedback! I agree with all of your points on possible improvements--many of which we simply did not have the time to do. We are definitely going to release an update sometime in the near future because we think there is a lot of potential for interesting puzzles with the mechanics in our game.
BWAHAHA what the heck, i can't believe the fridge trollface'd me. the character designs are too cute! im absolutely in love with the artstyle and direction :D
like the other commenters mentioned, the controls are a bit finicky and slippery. one button to switch between characters would be great, cos i kept forgetting which one corresponded to which guy.
I love the concept and controlling 2 different characters in general! Combining a drone and a fridge sounds totally ridiculous but somehow it makes perfect sense here? You implemented cool puzzles with your mechanics. One thing I found a little annoying is how often you have to click to fill the feeding container. Reducing the number needed or being able to continuously shoot while clikcing would make it a little more anjoyable, might be a me problem though. I encountered a bug where, when I moved the drone from one side towards a closing door and the fridge from the other, the fridge became trapped between two doors and I couldn't progress.
Overall a very nice game though, with a little polish I could really see it shine!
Cool idea, the pixel art was great. Framerate felt a little choppy on my computer.
@jward thanks for playing, sorry to hear that about the frame rate. It should be locked at 60fps but sometimes Webgl can be weird
Great game, though I don't really see the point of playing as the fridge if drone can carry him around easily, which is, imo, simply more fun. Drone overall feels really good to fly around as. He's fun and looks cute.
the game is so polished I LOVED the music and the art and the puzzles were a nice amount of difficult! Great job!
Great switching character puzzle game. I think the drone is very cute, and the fridge is also cute, but when it gets close to the drone, it makes some funny expressions XD. Good puzzle and level design. Well done!
Very smooth controls. Excellent job. The switching between the two characters is seamless. Nice job with the camera movement! Very fun and intuitive.
Was a fun game. Also got stuck on the orange vertical bar level for a while, some sort of clue would have been nice there. Only other weird part was the fridge/weights seeming to have 0 friction when sliding over the ground but overall really enjoyable.
For some reason those cubes you get from pressing the lever have no friction and so they slide forever. Same happens with the fridge if you switch characters while walking. And as someone else already mentioned I wish you didn't have to spam the left click so much to feed the container. Other than that this is a pretty fun game.
A fun single-player co-op puzzle platformer. That's one very powerful drone, being to able to lift a whole fridge.
I got stuck in a room between two doors on one of the levels when I flew the drone inside it instead of running the fridge out of it, so I had to restart the whole game :cry:
@flying-dog-fish sorry you encountered that bug! It was a known issue when we submitted but unfortunately we did not have time to fix it. We will be updating the game after finals (we are college students so we don't have a lot of time).
I like the characters design and the little animations! And thanks to the question of BrineLeaves and your answer, I managed to finish the game (before reading it, I didn't understand that only the drone was repelled by the yellow barrier :sweat_smile:). Good job!