Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Helloons
By Samariswords, casualnothing, cconnors, Julia Nistel, beanboi, The pen god and tycoonbelle
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1090 | 3.00 | 21 | |
| Fun | 1127 | 2.73 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 157 | 3.89 | 21 | |
| Theme | 936 | 3.18 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 854 | 3.26 | 21 | |
| Audio | 681 | 2.94 | 20 | |
| Humor | 644 | 2.92 | 21 | |
| Mood | 1060 | 2.94 | 21 |
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I actually always sucked at folding balloon animals, but now this game lets me also suck at folding balloon animals *in clown hell*.
Making a game where you can draw in 3d is certainly an interesting challenge... the drawing works as a cool tech demo, and the theming is great!
@breadstick Thanks! I had fun making the 3d drawing and am pretty happy with how it turned out.
Technically very impressive! And loved the fact that horrifying demonic figures come to order balloons hahaha Good job!
The lines are smooth and balloon-like, and the book made me learn how to do some balloon animals very quickly. It's a little hard to judge the depth, but it's also more fun to make ballon this way.Nice work.
Great work! I'm not sure if the game was grading me on accuracy, but I hope it wasn't because butchering the balloon forms was more fun anyway xD
I played a little with drawing balloons and only after a while I noticed that there are multiple keys to control the model. The drawing effect looks really good. It is an interesting idea but some polishing in other parts would help, for example a tutorial and some kind of scoring or accuracy would make the game more engaging.
@piw For sure, I agree. We did have someone implement scoring code, but we weren't able to incorporate it and test before the deadline. And yes, a tutorial would have been nice but that's a classic thing to go out the window in a game jam because of time. The full controls list is shown on the page here.
The main mechanic of this game is super neat. It's a lot of fun to experiment with and all the designs you've included are nice challenges. Here is an absolute masterpiece I was able to create
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I was trying to make a little present and then I realized I could rotate the view while drawing so chaos happened
Really cool concept! Spent a good half an hour just drawing the "helloons", it's pretty fun. The music is great and the art is interesting. A bit simple but could definitely be expanded upon, good work!
Great vibes. I had a good shift and stayed long after it had concluded.
Idea an music are great. It took me a while to understand, that I could flip the pages of the list of blueprints, lol.
Very cool idea and mood!
It takes me a moment to understand how to craft my balloon, but then it works great, well done!
A scoring system and different colors may have added a little more lifetime, but good game :)
Very cool idea! Maybe there should've been more of a game in terms of succeeding or failing, but there's something to be said for how all the hell creatures are so polite and content no matter what I give them.
Love the music. The laugh is a nice touch. It was fun to read about the different creatures. My favourite is the squonk.
It's a little janky but I wasn't sure whether it was actually intentional sometimes, like how the text would move to a new text box for just one more word even when there was plenty of space in the one before, because it seemed to kind of fit with the vibe/humour of the game :)
Had several crashes unfortunately: once when pressing backspace (at the same time the game had also failed to clear the previous balloon when moving on to the next task), once when pressing the summon button in the book, and once as soon as I started the executable.
Overall needs work but of course you did a great job implementing the main mechanic and it would be cool to see it polished!
Really cool concept! I think any confusion I had playing the game would be fixed with an in game tutorial, but of course not always time for that while jamming!