Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → cyber_serpent
By picross, Camden Obertop, zrandolph977 and Mr_Sun_
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 36 | 4.27 | 60 | |
| Fun | 17 | 4.32 | 60 | |
| Innovation | 263 | 3.73 | 59 | |
| Theme | 185 | 4.19 | 60 | |
| Graphics | 64 | 4.49 | 60 | |
| Audio | 22 | 4.30 | 60 | |
| Humor | 529 | 2.97 | 53 | |
| Mood | 186 | 3.99 | 59 |
Incredible style and juicy effects! This game is punchy and satisfying right off the bat. The sound effects and VFX are top-tier. I also really love the teleport/dash animation. This is a brilliant blend of Snake and something akin to Geometry Wars. Great job, you guys!
Fantastic graphics and polish! This game just feels good to play. I especially liked the teleport animation even if I didn't use the ability much at all.
The fact that you only have one life makes things very tense all the way through, so there's no real rest break. There's a lot that can kill you in this game and missing one thing sets you all the way back to the start. I lost most of my runs to the Lazy Laser since there's no warning before it shoots. You just have to recognize the enemy by its model and know to stay out of its way. That's really hard to do when you have seven other things to keep track of.
Oh, and forcing me to take my hand off the controller so I can click the submit button after every run was rather annoying.
But overall this was a fun and well-polished game. Great work!
Very solid entry! I liked the change to the classic snake game. 360 movement and being able to portal through yourself and enemies is a cool addition. Having a leaderboard setup is also great, really makes me try to break into it.
I'm definitely coming back to this later. Good job!
Awesome game! Would love to be able to skip the submit part and get straight into the game. Also most of the time I died to the laser enemy, too hard to react properly. Even a small telegraph before attack (drawing a line where the lazer will shoot) would be super helpful.
Anyways, replayed like 20 times, very addicting!
This game is addictive! Great mix of genres. Good job!
Fantastic! Fun take on Snake with great visuals, music, and voicing :)
Really well-polished, loved playing it. Always thought a snake twin-stick shooter was necessary lol.
Looks supercool and movement feels great. But it's a really requires skill to keep track on so many things: enemy projectiles, your position, your tail position. Couldn't get far but had a great time!
I'm very bad at that sort of game. I can't aim and at the same time avoid projectile, and avoid my body. I had a hard time distinguishing between enemies dying particles and enemies projectiles. Otherwise it was well polished, nice work.
awesome stuff! I wish i had more lives never really got very far.
@chompdev thank you so much for playing! Geometry Wars + Snake was our exact inspiration - i'm glad you caught that!
@zungryware appreciate all the feedback, thanks for always playing our games <3
@logicon211 great to hear!!! let us know if you get a high score on the leaderboard!!
@nozomu57 Great points! Glad you found it fun :D
@vyndilis @kyle-farwell @driagonv @rolferm thank you all for the kind words!
@n-feofentov @thebmxeur totally hear you. we plan on tweaking the difficulty and adding in some more difficulty modes post-jam. Thanks for playing, despite how hard it is!
The game looks and plays fun. Like visuals and music, but aiming on arrows isn't a good idea in my opinion, mouse would have been better.
this feels really polished for a jam game, great job guys!
Amazing entry! Only thing I'd change is maybe shrinking the player's hitbox a little bit - had a couple "oh come on!" moments when trying to squeeze through a tight corridor. Otherwise though this is super polished; gameplay feels well-balanced and is incredibly addicting! Leaderboard was a great idea!
Sounds and effect amazing! Very imprasive game!
Amazaing game!The graphics are amazing because it matches the name "Cyber serpent". Everything is done in the same style and it's gorgerous. The effects in the game are cool, the mechanics are also clear and simple. Yhis is a very good job!
An interesting iteration on Snake, it was a little unclear what would happen when something hits your tail. Bullet Hell meets Snake?
Graphic direction is amazing <3
Really like this game, its confused me to need to use both hands independently but the fact that all the enemies have unique abilities and graphics look amazing in general.
A nice take of snake but still has a kinda retro feel about it. The different enemies really add to experience. How do people get such a high score?! Love it
Very cool and polished game, as well as a super addictive gameplay loop! Well done!
this one is actually good. really good take on the calssic snake game. i can see the potential in this game. enjoyed playing it and loved the music. yah keep working on it after the jam ends aswell.
didnt realize i was also getting an asmr experience with this game. those whispers activated my inner cyber-serpent! awesome entry, any game with a leaderboard is also such a perfect fit for the jam experience.
Initially tried with keyboard controls but swapped to gamepad and the game was immediately much more fun. The gameplay was super smooth, the soundtrack was boppin', loved how when enemies died the cymbals crashed. Cool mashup of some classics like snake and geometry wars. PS: Thanks for rating our game!
Really great game and really well polished :D
Lots of fun. The only thing that bothered me was the delay in horizontal beams dissipating after you killed the enemy that shoots them. Great job!
@nondev thank you so much for playing! Nice high score, I see you on the leaderboard! :D And yes agreed, it's a bug we're ironing out!
a bit overwhelming at times but a SUPER fun entry! i'm very impressed you guys managed to not only put up an infinite mode and a curated challenge mode, but you also had time to set up an online leaderboard
I love the gameplay loop, and though juggling moving and shooting is a little tough for me, causing to run into myself very often, even after learning how the dash worked, I couldn't get a good enough score to get to the top 10. Still, I liked this entry a lot!
Yes, yes, yes!
I thought the movement a little wonky at times, having played with the keyboard, the serpent takes a while to change directions, and though it *is* quick, for such a fast paced game, it still feels slow, and I've ran into enemies because of the "steering" delay...
A solid entry! Really love the fancy effects. Gameplay is a bit tough to me since I'm not good at this kind of shooting game. But it's still very fun. It's well polished and could be a mobile game in app stores. One of my favorite ones.
Wow! So addictive! I like it so much!
Well done! Take a candy! :candy:
Really great game and so addictive. Very good job on this game ! :o The game is really well polished !
GG ! :)
sometimes my snake dashes without me pressing space/right click, am i missing smth or is it a bug?
@kuviman ah good catch, that was a bug! it was because we accidentally left the mobile touch screen controls on, oops! We updated the post-jam version to fix it. Thanks for letting us know, and congrats on your high score - I saw the leaderboard!
@devook ayyy thanks for the kind words! agreed, hitbox could definitely be a tad smaller!
@gentoogames LOL i love the old mac whisper tts voice, had to use it. thanks for the kind words!
@deadjolly yeah gamepad controls are definitely more appropriate for the game, glad it was easier once you tried that. Thanks for playing!
@catusfelony very fair! Would love to iron out the keyboard controls in a post jam build. Would rec trying with gamepad if you have one! Thanks for playing!
@jamesw appreciate all the compliments! thanks for playing even though its hard :D
@allenski @bobbie @falestress @hagamosvideojuegos thanks so much for playing!!
Interesting game, kinda like snake, just an improved version ahahh
I love the modern take on a gaming classic. I think I spent too much time playing it, but I will definitely come back and play more anyway!
Brilliant. Great mashup of genres. Very tricky but very replayable. Somehow manages to balance feeling like classic snake with limited directions of movement and feeling really fluid. The excellent animation, style and polish really help! The game feel and the art style really go well together, and the animation and particle effects are very nice. Implementing two game modes in one weekend is also really impressive!
The only two suggestions that came to mind when playing it were: - a quicker way to restart an infinite run - you get kicked back to the main menu if you select the play again option - keyboard controls in the menu, and fixing the focus when hovering with the mouse
But overall, great entry!
- faster way to restart would be nice to have - when you put your name into leaderboard it puts me into main menu after 1 sec automatically - sometimes the horizontal beams kill me even when they have completely disappeared already. looks like their timing is shifted - they dont hurt in the beginning too - the shots from cheese blasts disappear but still look very similar, sometimes hard to know if they will or will not kill me - would be nice to have some visual indication of cheese blast enemies shooting cooldown - after you are dead you still can dash - need particles on players head when you die i think
good game. @camden-obertop im coming for that 1st place
@yndajas thanks so much for all the kind words! We’re so glad you enjoyed it :D Great feedback, I agree with both your points
@kuviman fantastic feedback, thanks so much!! @camden-obertop watch out 😤
Hey, I’m the host of the Ludum Dare score chasers tournament for this jam
Wanted to ask for score chasers if you were fine with me playing some gameplay of your game in the background + play the music from your game in the waiting period. (As well as if you were fine if I played your game music while competitors are playing your game if it gets picked as one of the games played in the competition). In the waiting periods its going to play tracks from games one at a time (entire track unless the waiting period ends) and while a track is playing itll cycle through gameplay from a bunch of different games in the background
@ategon Sure, we’d be honored! I can send you the bgm file that has the kick drum playing the whole time (it ducks down in audio if you stop shooting in game). Let me know what the best place to send it would be (or i can upload it to youtube or something and link it here!)
@picross Thanks, Best place would be on discord, would need an actual audio file so it can be edited into a video properly. Score chasers discord is at https://discord.gg/FhP4jaZ7KS for sharing a server so dms work. Discord username is just same as my name here
Ok it took way longer than I thought it would but here we are ez game
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@kuviman congrats you madman
I love games that are mechanically simple and super well polished! Good job!
Excellent entry, the polish on this is incredible. I feel with some polish this bad boy could be at Steam as well. Good job all around!
Yes, please provide me with some juice! This presentation is exceptionally well-crafted. I appreciate the unique approach to the voice-over(whisper-like) top quality. The addition of the Portal feature adds a captivating and stylish dimension to the overall experience.
Furthermore, I'm curious if you've also incorporated dynamic music into the project? The interplay between visuals and sound enhanced the immersive quality of any interactive venture.
I experimented with various control methods, such as using a controller, a mouse, and arrow keys, and I must say, all of them functioned seamlessly and offered a truly exceptional user experience. Your entry is truly impressive and stands out among the competition. This feels like a finished game :)
@martenscedric @petunio thank you both for playing, and for the kind words!
@senso we're so happy you enjoyed it! There is a touch of dynamic music, good ear! The kick drum track only plays when you're shooting bullets. The bullets have a fixed rate that roughly syncs to the BPM. I also created all the SFX so they're in the same key as my backing track. If they don't have a melodic pitch, I make sure they fit into the soundscape (like the enemy death noise, which is a 909 crash cymbal that fits with my other house drums). The music's segments roughly time with the backgrounds changing. I really wanted to create that authentic early-2000s acid trance/techno vibe!
Glad to hear all the controls worked for you! My favorite way to play is by moving with the left thumbstick on controller, but by aiming with my right hand on the mouse. Best of both worlds! Thanks for all the kind feedback!
Ah yes good one, mouse and controller haven't tried that combo. Thanks for explaning what you did on the audio (learened something).
The voice over work really pushed this from "incredibly well polished game jam game" to "experience that I will carry forward with me for the rest of my life."
Thank you Cyber Serpent, for telling me how much of a good job I am doing.
This is outlandishly polished and juicy, goddamn. Beautifully cohesive audiovisual style. I couldn't get very far unfortunately, but this game is so satisfying to play I could keep going again and again. The words of encouragement in my ear helped a lot too lol, that's a funny touch. I really have nothing to say about this that hasn't already been said, this game is so perfect, precise and intentional, that it doesn't feel like it was created by humans.
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@keely-brown aw shucks we appreciate it! yes i was tired of games insulting my skills so i added words of aspiration LOL
@fupi omg thank you for the art I love it so much! we definitely went for a simpler idea this jam and it allowed us to polish it up a ton. I promise it was lovingly crafted by humans... or was it ;) thanks for playing :D
btw we are big fans of The Rock that game cracked us up, we streamed it on our dev discord on 2 separate occasions
@picross And you didn't invite me to watch?! Shame on you 😭😭 (thanks <3)
I'm still in awe of the style, this game has that Polybius-like quality to it where it feels like a forbidden piece of technology engineered to brainwash the masses, in this case with words of affirmation. This is the kind of game I could see a dead-faced teenager play with a neuralink in a post-apocalyptic cyberfuture movie. Simply unreal.
Really like the core gameplay and art style, nice job:)
its little hard for me at first ,but I get hang of it quickly XD
Wow, that's the best take on the old "Snake" game I ever saw +_+ I didn't realize it right away, but halfway through playing it suddenly struck me xD and I am a big sucker for nostalgia! The audio for the game is just fantastic, definitely giving this one full 5 for audio because it's the best I heard in this jam, for me personally. It fits the game so well, music and sounds, and at the same time somehow adds to my feeling of nostalgia <3 Loved the enemies designs as well, so unique and pretty. Really cool game!
@dsk we are so glad you enjoyed it! i'm glad you got the hang of it - it can definitely be tricky!
@kanity thank you!! i love snake and i love geometry wars and they just seemed to naturally fit together. i'm so happy you liked the audio! i'm still pretty new to audio design and music composition so it means a lot!!
Wow! This is such a cool idea to build on top of snake!