FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD54 → Rabbit Reporter

Rabbit Reporter

By lucavazz, Momo_Hunter and LauraWilkinson

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4473.6826
Fun6293.3627
Innovation3613.6027
Theme7263.4027
Graphics2494.1328
Humor1313.8827
Mood3383.7926

Comments

alpie 2023-10-03 12:36

The style of the game is awesome!

It was kinda complicated to navigate in all different UIs The idea and the visuals outweight everything tho :D

artilor901z 2023-10-03 14:16

Congratulations on finishing the jam with that brilliant work! Gameplay smoothly fits with the jam(space contorl and management) and the art is so cute.

weefairyfabi 2023-10-03 14:21

The art of this game is so cute, I really love the style. The gameplay was fun and I really enjoyed running around interviewing people! Amazing job

just-dzhi 2023-10-03 14:27

looks beautiful and cute ^^

valentinwb 2023-10-03 14:30

Such a cute entry ! The paint artstyle is so cool, and the dialogs are funny, good job !

jesse-j-jones 2023-10-03 16:21

Super cute game! I really liked the mechanic where you assembled your newspaper, that was a lot of fun! I enjoyed it so much, I wish there was more stories to uncover! Hopefully you keep working on it, and add more to the game. I really liked it! :)

sebi 2023-10-03 17:21

really cool newspaper creation mechanics ^^

yucong 2023-10-03 18:46

A truly unique style! Love it! 😊

takhomasac 2023-10-04 01:24

really cute game and concept. i couldn't help but sing rabbit derulo in my head 🤣

matthewdrake 2023-10-04 14:31

Very cute art style, really enjoyed the segment where you assemble your newspaper. It's a shame there wasn't enough time to add multiple days, but you've got a solid gameplay loop here. I could definitely see this becoming a bigger game.

ditam 2023-10-04 14:40

Limited space! Somehow I have the urge to give this very high scores in the theme category... Jokes aside, this is a very solid entry with a lot of content, and a very unique art style. Well done!

pichiiparu 2023-10-04 22:08

Such cute art! I'm absolutely obsessed with the style, were the majority of the art assets made with traditional art? Nevertheless, amazing job!

lucavazz 2023-10-04 22:11

Thank you all for your comments, great to see that you're enjoying our game so much :rabbit2:

@pichiiparu In fact _all_ assets were hand painted in acrylic paint and then scanned for the game - you can see some more details in a [Behind the scenes](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/rabbit-reporter/rabbit-reporter-behind-the-scenes) we posted the other day :)

alec 2023-10-05 01:54

As others have said the art is really great here! I think it would be awesome if textbox was themed with the same art style. Also I think this is a good idea, limited space on the newspaper is a really unique take on the theme!

martenscedric 2023-10-05 02:01

Really a cool entry, really different than anything I've played so far. I've never played a game as a news reporter and I see it being a possible genre now!

p-zzz 2023-10-05 19:04

The rabbit hops as it moves is funny. I like the graphics style.

shmi 2023-10-05 19:55

I like the idea of using hand made art work to create the graphics for the game. It was super simple to play and I liked the little stories you came up with for each character.

kanity 2023-10-06 22:24

Followed this one after seeing the hand-made goodies in the post during active jam phase. It is so unique and exciting to see something crafted by hands to be incorporated in a game, so I really wanted to check it out :) Love the custom cursor, though it might be bit too big to be comfortable enough but is SUPER cute and I still enjoyed using it ^^ Loved the interactive map too, it feels satisfying to use. The mechanic of creating the newspaper was super fun as well and the dialogues are wacky in a good way! :D

I missed some kind of audio, you probably didn't have enough time to add it, but maybe just using some copyright-free music (like from youtube audio library, etc) and still opting out of audio category since it's not original, would be a good temporary solution, and then you can always switch it to the original music after the jam :) I just put on some music on youtube while playing so it's not silent %)

The options being like "find out more" and "not care" are a bit obvious and ofc I am going to choose to talk and not just go away, so it kinda defeats the purpose of the options being there.

Nitpicks/bugs? -Dialogues activate by pressing space even when I am not close enough and the figure is not highlighted by yellow. That's not a huge problem, just noticed after pressing space just for the fun of it xD Then I tested it a bit more and it seems this only works after I already talked to said NPC once.

-I went under the sprites sometimes: spritesRabbit.jpg

-I love how grandma (looking young btw, let me know her beauty routine!) was bragging about her carrots while surrounded by tomatoes XD -Not sure if that's on purpose so we don't fat-finger the choice, but on choice boxes your custom cursor turns into a regular one. -I reckon that's because of a time crunch, but just noting some characters have "names" like "carrot_dress" :)

My newspaper ^^ rabbitPaper.jpg

geckoo1337 2023-10-07 21:51

Good game with a strange concept, but a clever use of the theme. I really liked the mechanic where you assembled your newspaper. Unusual aesthetic for a solid entry. Well done. Thank you. I wish you the best ++

uee 2023-10-13 17:22

Love the graphic style! So cute!

tetracold 2023-10-15 13:58

this is very charming and cute!!!

I love the artstyle choice. when I saw it I instantly wanted to check the game! It's very well done and it really helps it stand out!

I like the use of the theme, it's pretty creative! there's a good variety in what you can put in the news paper as far as subjects and I like that The writing is really good, it got a few chuckles out of me, I enjoyed going around interviewing all characters and everything they had to say!

I would love to see this expanded with more stories to report on and and different plotlines and such

I see a lot of potential here!

igor-evlahovich 2023-10-18 18:42

👍👍👍😄😄