oscarglo 2023-05-02 14:01
A nice arcade style game, with funny writing
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → Pro Epistula Mori
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 422 | 3.72 | 38 | |
| Fun | 434 | 3.59 | 38 | |
| Innovation | 454 | 3.50 | 38 | |
| Theme | 255 | 4.22 | 38 | |
| Graphics | 792 | 3.34 | 38 | |
| Audio | 482 | 3.37 | 37 | |
| Humor | 93 | 4.04 | 37 | |
| Mood | 547 | 3.58 | 37 |
A nice arcade style game, with funny writing
I love the character portrait art
FUn game, loved the humor. Nice to have a few different enemey attack patterns as well
I agree with the previous comments, the arcade game is very funny, but it's a pity for the little men))
Very nice! Challenging, good illustrations, absurdly large numbers of siblings. I enjoyed the additional hazards as things went along. Nice entry!
Cute little game, had a good experience, nothing major to complain about :) Collected all the letters. My question is, what font did you use for the dialogs? I like it
Dialog system is great, I love pico-style games! Keep it up!
The family will never be the same. At least I'm not a weenie. Really like the character portraits. It was quite fun, well done!
The progression of new challenge mechanics works really well. I also liked the narrative setup for constantly dying. There were a couple times where I got trapped after having delivered a letter and couldn't avoid the incoming fire when play resumed. The immediate restart made this not a big deal but it felt a bit like an unnecessary speed bump.
This is an excellent layering of mechanics. I love how each letter leads you to wonder what crazy thing will happen next to heighten the stakes and the difficulty of each following letter. Also I appreciate how much detail was put into the dialogue, especially your "lives" system.
Only piece of criticism I have for this is that you can sometimes be killed inside the delivery points where you get dialogue but you respawn there too so its not too big an issue.
Oh and I want to say that I really appreciate the menu having settings for sound that play sfx and music so you can tune things just the way you like it! Very much appreciated for a jam game!
@smoky01 such is the tragedy of war :(
@saviqq the font used in dialog and buttons is [m6x11](https://managore.itch.io/m6x11) by [Daniel Linssen](https://daniellinssen.games/)
@cinterre I was thinking of adding a message at the end of the game to tell you how many memorial plaques were sent to Mrs. Parts after the war, but that seemed a bit dark so I added the timer and made it show the time to complete instead.
@eharp, @calamador yes, I really should have added an exclusion zone around the delivery areas, not just because it can kill you unfairly, but also because the General and the Major are sensitive souls who shouldn't have to put up with breathing poison gas and being shot by artillery...
The art is so good.
Very good on the character and dialogue system, reminded me the old games, a fun game to play!
Very fun! The difficulty really ramps up very quickly, but the theme is on point and you did a great job with the art and characters! I really liked the duck and cover mechanic too, very unique!
I really like the dialogue and atmosphere, great game!
Love your art style! Had fun playing :)
Man they had way bigger family back in the days it look like hahahaha. The placement of obstacle can get really weird sometimes.
Like when they bombard one of the outpost and you are told "your brother died in no mans land" . Also the bombardement is slowing you down BEFORE they appear when it is still just a target
I didn't think that you can make a silly WW1 game, but here we are. I really liked the writing and how it fits the gameplay. As for the gameplay, it can be a bit annoying later on, when the shelling becomes overwhelming and your movement is slowed down because of all the craters.
This was funny, and the gameplay was original. My only complaint is that you have to go through a dialogue sequence every time you die.
Very clever game. Love the style. Art and sound are on point. Music is good too. The game buildings in difficulty very well with the new kinds of attacks. Great job!
Cool game!
Love the handwriting and scribbles on the letters. And the faces of characters are great
The final stage is moderately challenging. Fun gameplay!
The concept is interesting, I like that the gameplay feels fresh, and holy crap there are a lot of brothers! :) The letters unclocked after playing are a great addition, and I really liked them. The gameplay was a bit hard for me, but I enjoyed the challenge itself. Music really fits the game.
The never-ending waves of brothers was a fun way to explain multiple lives! Clever design and nice ramping up of difficulty and new forms of incoming damage. The music started getting on my nerves a little after a while - a lot of mud in the bottom end of the mix. All in all, *I had a blast.* Well.. I got blasted.
I do have a soft spot for the art style used in the portraits. For a game as cutesy as this, I felt the brothers were a bit too expendable. :smile:
At first I thought you were supposed to run on the wall, but then I realised you can just run across the field and that was the entire point (or only way to survive given how the firing zones worked). I think that could have been stressed a bit more. That cost the lives of at least 3 brothers.
Haha very nice arcade game~ That little whoop on the warthunder forums too tehehe~ Got the movie "1917 vibes out of it too. Loved the minimal graphics style, very lovely palette. Overall a jolly good job on it!
I liked that you can actually read the letters. And it was funny how many brothers were massacred in this terrible conflict :D
Very well written. Fine humor.
In the end it was pure chaos and I liked it
hilarious, well done. just fantastic writing in general. the game was fun, and pretty hard, but not annoying
Nice game, Love the dialogue and atmosphere.
Well done.
Cool take on the theme! Fun to play, looks good, Good job!
Nice game! Loved the sound and the letters!
Just how many brothers does the first guy have? Great entry!