Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → bergs
By CaineTinyArms and burnttoastdev
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 66 | 4.18 | 127 | |
| Fun | 15 | 4.35 | 127 | |
| Innovation | 35 | 4.23 | 127 | |
| Theme | 122 | 4.27 | 127 | |
| Graphics | 607 | 3.70 | 127 | |
| Audio | 153 | 3.94 | 125 | |
| Humor | 123 | 3.97 | 125 | |
| Mood | 213 | 3.97 | 120 |
Highest marks so far! I really had fun with this. On one of the levels with two switches one switch didn't trigger for some reason, but that didn't knock any of my ratings down. The sound was great, the style is great, the puzzles are great and I'm a big fan of the concept. Very simple but fun is #1 with this game. Reminds me of a game I would enjoy on a handheld system. Fantastic work!
I faced an impossible level the one with the slim cube. The theme fits and I like the unique summoning take. Great Job!
I really like the concept of your game and it is so much fun to summon a new version of you to solve the different puzzles. I like the tempo-ey music and the sound effect every time you summon another version. The visuals and getting a new color every spawn is really well done. Nice entry and keep up the great work!
Very innovative and great use of the thematics in the gameplay itself. Awesome!
A simple concept of summoning bergs, has a vibe similar to games where when you die your previous dead character helps you out, the level design is peak however, showing off different mechanics! (I also broke the level with 2 buttons, as per expected from my curse to break games) overall well done!
Summoning with "E" feels kinda difficult to play. Needs a little bit of polish but my god did I have fun? This adorable game was so fun and well designed. The difficulty curve it's a little wonky, but great job!! I really liked this game!
Awesome game design! I love that you were able to turn a simple mechanic (summoning another player character) into something with so many facets for puzzle design. Art is minimal but cute and has character, it reminds me of some indie games from the mid 2010s. Sound is a little basic, but I appreciate that it is all done during the jam, so props for that!
Really fun game, some levels tested my brain XD. Cool mechanics, good way to use the jam concept!
Unluckily did the buttons in one level not work, but it was still a really fun experience! In the beginning I didn't know that Bergs spawn in different sizes, so I used the reduced hitbox after landing to be low enough for the crouch part :D. Really nice game!
The level with two buttons seems to be bugged, even if I placed myself on both the victory point was not activated. Otherwise, good game, you have managed to implement a good level design with the mechanics you had, 10/10 in that aspect, keep it up!
I love the concept. Style & sounds are very nice, and puzzles are cool. I just wish there was a background music, but that's about it. Great work!
Great game! This concept feels like it could lead to a lot of interesting puzzles! As mentioned in the previous comment, one of the levels has a switch that doesn't trigger, but the overall result is great (also at some point I just kept on mashing the "summon" button just because I loved the silly voice clip)
Very cool idea, great puzzle game. Id maybe have given 3 different summon buttons, 1 for each size of berg to give the player a bit more control. It reminds me of a flash game I played a very long time ago where you had a number of animals and you could make them jump into spikes and such to make way for the other animals (I cant find it or the name D:). Novel concept, good puzzles, it only needs more content and a little bit of polish for the user IMO!
Thanks for all the feedback!
Sorry about the bugged level it should now be fixed :)
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The music really added to the game experience BLARG! Cute lil Bergs. Thanks for the submission. You did great.
@storeyware Thank you
It's one of the games were i got the most fun, and that's a hard task cuz i usually hate puzzle games. It's also pretty original, while most of used made devilish, magician or heavenly stuff, u made some original and quirky characters that reminded me to Pikuniku, it's super cute. Congrats buddy
I had an absolute blast playing this! Puzzles got challenging at times, but the silly BERG! kept me going until I solved every last one. Kudos for making such a simple, but fantastic game.
Great game, the graphics are cute and the sound effects are hilarious! I liked the level design, my only complaint is that failing the level by going too far left or right feels a bit too punishing and unexpected (though falling down the pit makes sense). Congrats on your first Ludum Dare :)
You fully deserve your full points for innovation and music. You have made a really cool puzzle platformer. I feel that this mechanic has a lot of potential to be expanded upon. The controls could be a bit more forgiving. Great Entry!
The Good: - Love the silly little guys. - BERG!!! - music and sfx were a lot of fun. - summoning more dudes mid-air was a really neat mechanic.
The Not So Good: - Didn't really have any major issues or bugs, but one thing I found mildly frustrating on the last level was that if I missed a jump and died it would reset _all_ of my progress.
Design Notes: - I found a few places where I could bypass some obstacles by jumping carefully just _barely_ off the edge of the screen. Pretty sure this is not intended. - Related to my not so good note: I would personally make it so that dying just respawns a berg at the same location you last spawned one. Especially with levels that have _multiple_ buttons to press, it feels a little frustrating to lose all progress because of a missed jump. Reserve a full reset of the level for only if the player presses reset.
TL;DR Really fun, super creative, love the little guys and the art. Only a minor design gripe that only really bit me on the very last level.
BERG!!
There`s something about this game makes it nostalgic for me and I love that. It reminds me of something I would have played when I was in middle school in the computer lab. It`s super cute and well made, great work!
My bergs will blot out the sun! Love the idea for a puzzle game, mood was great, made me laugh. Puzzles got tricky too!
Best entry I played so far. Congrats
This game was really fun! I love the sounds for summoning. Loved the puzzle design as well.
I've got Pikuniku game vibes here. Love it!
I quite liked this, I played all the levels but I did think level 3 was hard/unclear since I don't recall any explanation for the Berg's being different sizes. I think you used the theme really really well, the summoning feature is was makes the game fun and involves no magic lol. You guys got quite a bit of bang for your buck with that summon feature. Reminds me of a 3DS e-shop game from back in the day. Good work.
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(loved this game, so many cool puzzles with such understandable and approachable design)
Love it. The different sizes having different abilities was cool, but the RNG was unfair at times, like needing a little guy or big guy and never getting them in time. The audio on the summon was an "interesting" choice... Sorry to say I muted it after some time lol. Level design was fitting, and offered a good amount of "ah ha" moments and puzzles to solve using surprisingly few elements. Overall a great entry, and especially clever use of the theme. Great job!
Absolutely phenomenal. Love what you did with height and leg length. Amazing work for a jam game.
Berg!!! Such a silly and fun puzzle game! I got stuck on level 4 for a while until I realized there were different sized bergs.
This is simple but really well executed and very fun puzzle game. Despite being a simple mechanic, I think the puzzles that you put together actually presented a good level of difficulty. Honestly, I'm always really impressed when some one is able to come up with such a clever, straight-forward idea and then make it fun and challenging.
It looks fantastic and is very polished with fun music and sounds. I think it's a really cool interpretation of the theme, too!
Great game! Well done!
So well designed games. Exploring levels and finding ways to finish them gave me so much fun
What an awesome concept! And well executed, too. Needs an undo button, although for a jam it's ok :) Congrats!
I can't stop thinking about this sound 'bergs'. Awesome work!
This was super cool. Great BAARRrgg.
The puzzles were designed really well and I loved the concept!
I love the little guys :^) Really cool stacking mechanic, and I love that there were different colors of guys to summon because it made the environment look more alive and interesting the more they appeared on screen. The music also had me dancing, it added a nice vibe to the overall gameplay
Ok, cant tell much because that was awesome. Innovate, the "eeej" sound is a catchy, tutorial in form of slow progression is most them welcome.
Great entry.
BERG --\(˙<>˙)/--
Berrrrrrrg I like the design that characters of different sizes having different abilities
Thank you for your submission! I'll be finishing all levels and providing more feedback later ^^
What a great game! I love berging so much <3
BERG! <3 Thank you for sharing, I LOVED the Bergs
Cool game! Nice art style and music. I would to play some more levels. Some feedback: - Edges of the screen should work as walls, since falling through them feels a bit weird. - Maybe adding some control over who tall the summon is would be nice. To give more control to the player. - In some levels the solution did not felt obvious, not sure if I solve them as intended. It is not a bad thing, but I felt a bit lost because of it not knowing if I'm missing some mechanic or not.
Anyway, good job with the game!
So freaking incredible, BERG.
Multi~~player~~berger maybe? BERG.
Number of stars: BERG, BERG, BERG, BERG, BERG.
very good game, want to see it developed and on mobile platforms! "BEAARHGH BEAARGHT BEEEERG"
** BERG ! ** very great puzzle design !! i Love the vides, the visuals and audio !! Congrats ! Capture d’écran 2024-04-18 235154.png
Lovely cute game! the best part was when berg said "It's BERG time!" and started berging all over the place, 10/10
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Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg!!!
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=2h28m3s
What a delightful game!!
I loved it!!
Simplicity and fun. It's what I admire most in a game.
Really a brilliant idea.
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I;m going to cry every single time I play a game I go "this is the one that should win the jam" and then I find gold like this you cant keep DOING this to me (really fun game I love the berg sound effect lmfaiogheui)
One of my team members told me to check out this game and I really don't regret doing so, very fun and creative use of the theme! the presentation is simple but charming
I really liked the puzzles, I thought they were the right about of difficult, the whole experience felt very polished and very much what I look for in a game jam when it comes to gameplay! I can totally see this being made into a full game, there's lots of potential
excellent entry! good job!!
Looks great, sounds great, great idea, great job!
An excellent platformer game in all aspects. The mechanism is innovative and the level design is interesting. You deserve it.
Fantastic game! I got stuck on the level right before the last one (i think haha) it had a red area near the top right corner. tricky tricky. Very good game overall. I suppose the only place i think it can be improved is the time between pressing E and being able to move on, probably just as simple as making the bergs fall faster. Perhaps that can be optional, if the user is holding shift or something.
BERG! So cute! Perfect in game teaching of mechanics and difficulty scaling. Awesome mouth effects.
Fun concept, nice little game! The randomness of the bergs was a little frustrating at the end when you need a small one or one that can jump higher. Having to restart the level because the level simply got too cluttered with unwanted bergs was funny but not really the greatest feeling haha. Game is defintely well put together though, nice job!
Berg!
Berg!!
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ahah, BERG. Great puzzle game, I didn't go through everything in one breath, but I had a great time. I think it's very easy to adapt to the mobile game format, and it fits perfectly!
Wow, very clever summoning idea for puzzle game! Congrats on submission!
BERG! A great little game that is almost perfect, with just a couple of notes. Firstly, jumping off screen to finish a level isn't always the most obvious to a user, so finding a way to demonstrate that mechanic would be a good start to teaching them that this is a way around. Of course, that may not have been the intention at all. Secondly, the controls could be tightened up just a little to feel better playing. That last level had me walking off the edge a lot when I was trying to jump. Finally, having the restart button so close to summon did cause a couple of accidental reset. All in all though, a fantastic game and I really look forward to seeing where this one goes in the future!
Hello
Another entry where I am like "You can't make a game out of that" in the beginning but after few levels life reminfs me I am not the best game designer in the world. Fantastic utilization of mechanic
All the best, berg
This game was cute! I love the music and visual effects for the bg and goal, and the funny audio BERG every time one was summoned. The concept for summoning was also very well executed. Sometimes the character walks a bit too far to the left or right and I have to restart the level which felt a bit unfair especially when I was close to beating it. I liked the way the levels progressively taught the players the mechanics of the game. Overall a really fun and challenging puzzle platformer, great work!
BERG!!! it was very fun, love this minimalistic style. first i was not sure about moving above screen (feels like bug, because side borders kills you) but hey, Mario did it, why i shouldnt?:)
nice entry, i like simple games like these :')
It is a super cute game. All the little guys are climbing on each other to form Lader is quite interesting. I really enjoyed them screaming BERG BERG :D
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Nice little game. Not too difficult, not too easy. I liked the fact you can infinitely spawn bergs but you can get stuck because of that. Multiple sizes of bergs were such a nice idea espacially with the jump height difference. Really enjoyed playing it! Also sound and music are very good, graphics are well made too with a unique style. Nice entry!
Very enjoyable... fun to play! Loved the audio and graphics. Just enough of a challenge to keep you playing. Congrats on a great game!
Very cool idea! The game is really fun to play. i didn't get through all the levels but I had a blast anyway hehe
Super cute! Very fun main mechanic that seems to have a lot of versatility for creating interesting puzzles. My only real complaint is that "E" and "R" are right beside each other. There were several times I accidentally reset a puzzle, but that's my own stupid fault.
Really well done, I enjoyed that a lot!
First puzzle game I came across this jam and wow! Cant wait for your next game in 6 months :D
Brilliant design and theme interpretation! This was quite an enjoyable puzzle platformer experience, with a core mechanic introduced and explored in depth through level design. The simplistic graphics are also effective in conveying the mood and the cues. One mild hindrance, were I to get picky, is that it was not made clear that getting to the unactivated finishing point before activating the switches does not get the puzzle solved. An improvement I can think of is to add a hint for the height of the coming berg, similar to Tetris.
I'd personally be more grateful if there is an "undo" button (given a deterministic random sequence), but never mind, I guess such punishment for failure in execution is what puzzle platformers are about (^ ^;
I loved this game. It was a lot of fun and nearly perfectly done for what it was going for. A few tiny polish things and it would be perfect, but still incredibly fun and incredibly well done. 4.5/5
Super fun game, creative use of the theme and the whimsical nature of the sound design accompanied the art well. Would love to see more levels!
It was really fun! I loved it, the puzzles were excellent. One of my favourite entries so far!
This is great! I love the summoning sound effect. Platforming was occasionally a tiny bit janky (and you could die by walking off the edge sometimes) but that's forgivable as it's a jam game. I really like the clever puzzle design here. I agree with the point made above that having a "next berg" indicator would be nice or something because sometimes it was a little hard to plan your next move when you weren't sure what size you were going to get next, and I got stuck a few times due to that. I really liked the graphics, it gave me flash game vibes a little bit. Overall this is really well done, props to you!
This game is fun and light-hearted at its essence! I enjoyed a lot playing it for its simplicity and charm
Also, at the time I'm writing this the "Ratings received" count is at 98.25, so am I technically the 100th person to play & rate it? I'm not sure but congratulations for that achievement! :100:
Whoa, that was fun! Love everything about it!
Mechanics are genius!
Besides being able to see the next berg to be created, maybe the game could benefit from a button that erases bergs in last-to-first order, in case of soft locks.
Excellent puzzle platformer game. Conceptually, it's similar to my own (clone as a main mechanic to solve the puzzles), but way more fun! Good job on this entry, one of the most solid and polished I've seen here. :)
Super fun and cute puzzle game, thanks for making this I had a blast!
BERG!
Very nice game! Such a simple concept leading to very smart levels!
This is so good. At first I was thinking there couldn't possibly be any challenge if you can just spawn as many as you want, but you quickly proved me wrong! Especially on the levels with red areas you won't get anywhere even if you spawn 50 of them if you're not clever about it.
Simple graphics but in such a nice way. Looks so nice and consistent with the vibrant colours and complete adherence to rectangles. The bergs are so cute with their li'l faces and different variations, and of course the size actually matters to the puzzles too and you introduced that well early on.
Great music that fits well and of course the recurring "BERG" is iconic.
I agree with a comment I saw that WASD + E was awkward, at least when you needed to freeze a berg at a specific position in the air, but that was easily solved by just moving with arrows instead, so that's another victory for options :)
Finally the puzzles themselves were a lot of fun and you ramped them up well. Very nicely done.
This is absolutelty adorable! I love the creatures, there's a lot of really good puzzle design in here, and you get so much out of such a simple concept! Well done!
bergs bergs bergs i love bergs!
The conecpt is nice and simple, and I love the level / puzzles! It was quite challenging. Probably needed some extra context or just make some core mechanics more obvious, and the game probably need a little bit of polish. But other than that, this is a very **great** game! I like it a lot!
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Despite being so minimalistic it's such a great game. I definitely had my fan with it. BEEEERG! I also loved the music very much. Great entry!
Pretty fun. Neat that the bergs are a bit different and that they're visually identifiable variables. Concise game had me trying pretty hard.