thelastslowpoke 2023-10-02 23:57
This is not a genre I thought I would play today xD Loved the music!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Bimbi's Cosmo Party
By Devedse, frib, Sparkleypie and Yoctophi
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 631 | 3.50 | 61 | |
| Fun | 379 | 3.66 | 61 | |
| Innovation | 580 | 3.33 | 61 | |
| Theme | 1091 | 2.57 | 60 | |
| Graphics | 707 | 3.36 | 63 | |
| Audio | 394 | 3.48 | 61 | |
| Humor | 195 | 3.69 | 60 | |
| Mood | 660 | 3.42 | 58 |
This is not a genre I thought I would play today xD Loved the music!
Funny game. Loved the voice acting! Original idea with the drawings and topic. I dont get the connection to the Limited space topic though. Bimbi just gained a huge fanboy!
Cool, a multiplayer game. But I don't have friend to play with... :cry: Rated in graphics and music. Character design is super cute! and music is great!
Really enjoyed it, loved the variety!
I loved the minigame and the characters are cute. The voice is so funny! xD
I really hope you guys give our game a try with a buddy :), and that you enjoy it just as much as we're doing now the stress is finally over :D
So much going on here! Really impressive. Incredible amount implemented in three days! Really fun audio and character design. Great character select; switching between lobby/player select, game, results, upgrade states; animations; sounds; etc
I think the different sounds and visual styles lack a little cohesion, with some more polished and/or clear than the others, but arguably that's part of the appeal. The diamonds game could scale down to fewer players a little better - it took a while to play through solo with direction keys and ZXC, so I'd imagine with two real players it would be similar
I quit after four or five mini games, but enjoyed what I played - I guess there must be an end to the session at some point, with a wrap up of who won?
Would love to see this developed further!
@yndajas hah you almost made it to the end game! There's 4 minigames followed up by an end game. (The end game only shows up if you're actually playing with multiple people though)
It can be fun and challenging with friends, but if not so easy to find people to play with LD game. It would be cool to add some bots. Overall GJ!
@vadzim yes, we thought about adding bots, but then time suddenly flew by XD we'll probably going to develop the game further, so it's definitely something to be added in the future.
Nice minigame, characters look great and audio is amazing.. good job!
The web build seems to crash when trying to talk to the server. Seems to be something to do with SignalR?
@steve7411, I just checked and for me it seems to work. Are you able to open your browsers console (F12), then refresh the page and show me any errors in the console? (Including the game itself)
@devedse I just tried it in a different browser, and it worked for me
@steve7411 that's interesting. What browser did it work in and which one didn't?
@devedse Both Firefox, but one was the developer build. I suspect it was a browser extension interfering
I can't believe there's a multiplayer Mario Party game with mobile controls for people. That's very impressive! Really liked that the controls were just simple colors, and all the games revolved around that. Really clever and fun! One my device when the phone rotated accidentally, the screen went black for me. Really cute and fun though! :)
@jesse-j-jones Thanks for playing! Yeah there can still be some quirks when using webGL in a phone browser. We tried to fix as much as we could by attempting to force fullscreen landscape mode, and the UI should scale according to orientation even if that fails, so a black screen is probably something out of our control... However, I think it should be possible to reconnect to the same room with the same name, if it happens again in the future.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed the game!
Unfortunately I had to test it alone, but I really like the Jackbox style games where everybody can just use their phone and play and this is a frantic version of that!
Maybe something like random matchmaking would have worked for a jam style situation to play with random people who are also trying out the game - but even then it is difficult :sweat_smile:
@bumble yeah unfortunately that's currently not possible with this game's network architecture, we can only have one screen. You could stream that screen on something like discord to play together in separate locations, but there will be added latency that makes some minigames a lot harder to win.
Having full multiplayer would've made things a lot more complex for us to develop, so we chose for the "easy" way of only having one screen and focus on more content instead.
@frib no worries, I played it with multiple browsers open and tried out everything anyways. Nobody would expect crazy online stuff in a game that has been made in a few days - this even having an online element amazes me :smiley:
Man, congrats to you guys to make a multiplayer game on a Game Jam. It's simple, but ir works well. I'm impressed.
hat’s very impressive
I really wanna try this game but I don't know if I'll be able to coordinate with friends in time! Sorry!! :cry:
Wow, congrats on making a multiplayer game and just wow, so much content in the game. Loved it amazing.
Thanks everyone for the great comments, no matter what the results, your comments already made us feel like we won :D
Hey nice game! It must have been challenging developing a multiplayer game in such a short time. Sadly I didn't have a friend available to test with, but it seemed to work in solo mode too! I really like the gameplay and the sound effects haha It feels a little bit rushed on the art side, it somehow felt empty in some places.. but still really good! The characters are really cute and the voice overs are cool! Overall, I am really impressed! Good job!:D
In some places it felt empty, in others it felt a bit crowded for the eyes. Maybe using a color palette to make it easier on the eyes. Not sure, just an idea.
@maksimj thank you, glad you still enjoyed it! Yeah it works in solo as well, it tries to match the minigames we have with playercount so you're missing 2 games including the final battle (and our loose interpretation of the theme) if you play solo. Those two minigames require at least two players since you're playing against each other directly.
As for the art, yeah it's tricky prioritizing things and getting everything looked at when nothing is set in stone yet :D so the answer is (as always) we ran out of time to polish up some minigames properly and to make things more cohesive.
Wait that's actually so much fun lol had me smiling the whole time. Loved the music!
Interesting take, going with a a multiplayer game show style. The music helped sell the mood as well. The games seemed fairly simple but good for the short time limit.
Tested alone as well :cry:
Impressed by the game a lot! Party game is very uncommon party in game jams. Really love the art style of mixing 2D cartoon characters and 3d scenes. Every animal is lovely and funny. Music also fits the game very well. Mini games are short but fun. Hope to see this on steam or some markets in the future!
cool music sync
Impressive amount of variety here, wasn't able to test multiplayer but it looks fun from the video :)
I really enjoyed it. The music and SFX are really cool. Love the minigames as well. They are simple but fun to compete with your friends
Fun multiplayer game!
good gob!
It's truly wonderful to see a multiplayer game that was developed in such short period of time.
good job pulling of multiplayer game in such short time! played with a friend, now gonna try to get a bigger party, has so much fun :)
Extremely unusual, as for my taste. When you don't see the color layout, sometimes you get confused.
We'd really love to hear back from you guys if you actually have a group of people playing :D. I mean, we would be so happy if someone could share a video of them / their friends playing this ^^.
Genuinely really impressive, did not expect to play a multi-player party game where my friends could play too through their phones. Amazing amount accomplished in the time. I really like the style, the games are fun, the voice acting gave me a good laugh. A genuinely good party game with a innovative module adding mechanic, well done to the whole team!
This is a lot of complexity for such a short jam ! Highly impressed, great job.
Very impressive, all the graphics are really interesting and intricate.
Thought we could play together but ended up leaving 1 person out. A lot of stuff going on but not always clear. Would benefit from instructions then might be very good - please add variety to the music as gets annoying very quickly.
@rusty2117 that's strange, you should be able to play together. Maybe the connection dropped and disconnected you :(
Really fun game, multiplayer works surprisingly well!
Very interesting for a jam game, well done, I love the sounds.
Absolutely loved the vibrant graphics and energetic vibe of the game. It's evident a lot of effort went into the designs. The mini-games were fun and kept me engaged. Great work on keeping it interactive and enjoyable!
Amazing energy and game. The characters are charming and the mini games even with the jank are quite fun.
Very crazy and brilliant. I loved the bass music and the simple, funny animations. A very original atmosphere here. I just didn't think it suited the theme well, but it's fun.
Nice take to the multiplayer experience. It's nice to see how many cooperative games this ludum has.
Played with a stream, really impressed with all the work that must have gone into this. Loads of character and fun games. Would love to get the chance to play in a party setting :smile:
Thanks @alfred-clark , loved playing with you! The stream delay was horrible but really happy you guys were still be able to enjoy it :P
Lots of mini-games content! Overall it felt a bit messy an visually unpolished. The voices were a bit annoying as well. Music was a great fit, and I'm impressed with all the art that went into this! Gameplay was a bit confusing at first. And controls for some of the games feel very hard, like for the flappy bird game. Overall some of the games were pretty fun and appropriately challenging. A bit more polish overall would have been welcome.
@nyxkn thanks for your extensive useful feedback :)
Minigames are simple but very nice and funny. I love the rythmical graphics and I'm surprised that it has multiplayer (although I haven't been able to try it). Very complete entry, congrats!!!