Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Life of a skeleton
By pimeko
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 78 | 3.83 | 45 | |
| Fun | 79 | 3.74 | 45 | |
| Innovation | 50 | 3.97 | 45 | |
| Theme | 35 | 4.23 | 46 | |
| Graphics | 187 | 3.42 | 46 | |
| Audio | 29 | 4.03 | 44 | |
| Humor | 8 | 4.44 | 46 | |
| Mood | 36 | 4.01 | 45 |
The song is a banger and I find the twist on the theme of being summoned at inopportune moments really great.
I did notice that if two of the same letters show up in a row, hitting the key once resolves both. At least, I think that was the case?
Given the nature of the game, I would have appreciated if you could speed up the text or skip through it, but I guess that gets in the way of the summoning timing, maybe?
@owtuvammo thank you for the cool feedback, glad you enjoyed the game and the music :) Yes indeed to keep everything balanced, the dialogue timing was crucial. Noted for the bug report, it will be beneficial for the players at least haha
Trying to fight the monster for the necromancer fast enough so that I can keep arguing with my girlfriend is so funny. The music is intense and makes the stakes feel even higher.
@theyflower Thank you very much!!
great balance between the funny dialog and typing mechanism .. could not care less about the timer.. i would keep doing this, even if the dialog is repeated :D
@mdotedot haha thank you! The timer is here for even MORE pressure than the harsh convo 😅
I don't know if I'm worst at relationships or at typing, but one thing is sure : I would be a single level 1 squeleton. Great idea for the theme, being from the point of view of the summoned monster is smart and it creates an interesting gameplay. Congrats!
@yorsh Haha thank you very much!
Ha, this is my favorite take on the theme so far, very clever and a lot of fun. I had to play through until I figured out the right dialogue choices. Great job!
I had a lot of fun with this! The pressure could really be on to hit the right keys when getting summoned. The dialog was definitely a crapshoot. Integrating some deeper pieces to find out which dialog chain may lead to success could add more breadth to it, but overall this was a great entry. Nice work!
@maggardjosh thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed the game :)
@pres2300 thanks for the feedback! Indeed, I actually wanted the player to feel what it's like being trapped in this kind of conversation, just like in real life haha
What a great game! The music is stuck in my head. Story is funny. Good job
Very funny game!
Having to deal with both the summons and the arguing makes for a hectic but funny game. The pressure of having to type the letters as quick as possible to get back to our girlfriend makes it so much harder!
The song is great! And I love how it ups the ante with a choir when you get summoned. Amazing job there too!
There are some bugs. A most annoying one is that the timer continues to count down even after I selected an answer, making it possible to lose due to "my silence" *as she is answering me*. Not a big deal, but it makes the game unintentionally harder.
Well, that was the worst time to be summoned :D The things you can say under pressure... I may have ended up with some children and a relationship some subreddits would red flag like a street in China the first of October :D
The music is great and I loved the flute backing it ! I'd love to see more games that doesn't take themselves seriously, it reminds me of the Bard Quest webcomic :) I loved exploring the branches, how does working out works out for a skeleton ?
i like the idea with time when u have to make choice! good job
I really liked the story, it's really cool! A really great game came out <3
It was a very original idea xD I didn't manage to win it though, whatever I said Stacy left me. But maybe it's for the better. Love the art, love the music ! I don't love Stacy though. Very cool concept and easy to understand and play right away.
Hey, nice game! You were right, we have a kinda similar concept! I think I went through all the dialog options and only found one way to loop back to the beginning. Is it posible to win?
Excellent game! Loved the concept, took me a while to convince her to marry me and make skelebabies but it was all worth it :D
Music is a banger, definitely added a lot to the experience. Well done! :D
Very nice game! I'm a bit biased here, but I loved your take on the theme! The dialogue was great, and the timing between summons felt perfectly balance to create tension without being overwhelming or too annoying. The path to the "good" ending did feel a bit convoluted though - having to guess the name of her dog or birthday with zero information felt a bit bad, as each wrong answer led to a restart (and the birthday one took me 4 tries...). Other than that though, it was fun! Great entry!
A great witty game. And I also really liked the vibes of Undertale
Lol I immediately died, better meet up with Stacy in the skeleton afterlife :joy:
LMAO LMAO LMAO clever clever
this could easily be a successful skit
I was confused though in the start whether I should wait and fight or if fight was something going to happen eventually in the conversation.
also this is really hard not to get her to dump you lol
Clever idea, great music, and so stressful! I think you have to guess the right answer sometimes? Fun little game
Actually you're right Stacy, it's not gonna work out. I'm leaving for someone who actually appreciates my LotR novelty rings and interest in weightlifting. Fun game, if there was a way to placate her I didn't find it. Love the witty responses
@ron88 thank you very much :)
@jsmcag Haha thank you! The choir always amplifies everything. Sorry about the bug!
@rpgwanderer hahaha definitely r/relationships material! Thanks for the kind words :)
@rewquji thank you!
@afk-shark thanks, glad you like it <3
@dobrila thank you for the kind words! :)
@el-pepi yeah the whole "being disturbed by your NPC's task" definitely reminded me of your game as well! And yes, it is possible to win with the right combination :)
@frib haha thank you very much! Long live (die?) your skelebabies
@frogman thank you very much! Glad you appreciated the balancing, it was a great part of the design process :) There are actually ways to know some of the info the girl is asking you, if you've been through the right convos actually!
@torte478 oh you're right, I hadn't done the connection explicitly but there is indeed some Undertale expressing in there, involuntarily haha, thank you!
@wouterk12 haha in the afterdeath you mean
@velvetlobster hahaha glad you enjoyed the game, thanks! yeah she definitely wants to dump you from the start I guess
@fnelix thank you very much! there are some ways to know some answers if you follow the right convos :)
@imbajoe hahaha thank you and yeah too bad for her, she's the one missing out on something! And yes there is a happy ending to be found ;)
This was a neat idea, and it was fun to experience juggling work-life balance as a skeleton. It took a lot of random guesses to get to the end (gave her the ring). It might be nice to have hints / shortcuts / checkpoints / or something else so players don't have to go through the same dialogue more than a couple times.
That was awesome! Solid execution, the music was great, and the humor of both the concept and dialogue tree was on point. I'm also impressed by how the idea fit both the theme and time constraints of the jam so well. Like, when you're playing the game there's so much going on that you don't notice the scope is pared down to fit the time constraint really well. The play time for the perfect path is super short, but the fact that it takes several attempts makes for a reasonable amount of really good play time. Very well done!
The only thing that confused me when I first started playing was when you get summoned right after you pick a bad dialogue option. It happened on my first 2 playthroughs. I got a game over screen moments after the summoning started and I didn't understand how the summoning mechanic worked. On my third playthrough the summoning happened after I picked an option that had another section of dialogue after it and realized the summoning interrupts the conversation to burn down the timer. I think maybe preventing the summoning the moment you pick a bad dialogue option would clear up that confusion.
khkhkhk, very interesting idea!
I beat it and stayed in my toxic skeleton relationship and had many children. Love the concept! Was fun going through the various dialogue trees. God my skeleton girlfriend is impossible
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: i'm dying every attempt but it is lot of fun every time. Love the concept and music and text are really on point. Good job!
This is a great take and very funny, but honestly I think recognising that the relationship is toxic should be a *good* ending. Dialogue tree was a bit trial and error but the whole getting hauled away to fight a monster mid argument was hilarious.
Great idea for summoning! Loved the music.
This was interesting entry coming strait from playing TypeRacer. Nice twist on summoning.
I love the idea of being summoned away from your mundane life and having to fight off some wizard's enemies, but I felt like I had to bruteforce the conversation options - like I was just guessing which was the right option to move forward. Really interesting though, good job.
Frantic fun and hilarious premise. Loved the dynamic audio. Great job
It is a funny idea, but boy is mrs skelleton naggy! It took me a couple of tries to get through the end of conversation, but I had fun and I chuckled through the entire game. Nicely done!
The flute music is really enjoyable.
This is hilarious! I now seem to have three skeleton babies haha! Very unique take on the summoning theme! Loved the humour and how relateable it is haha!
What tops it all by far is the music! So intense and fitting the situation, it is really sooo good!! Also the variation that happens once you get summoned!
Really would love to see this fully fleshed out!
The idea is spectacular and original. The music is a real earworm and adds the right pressure while you're dealing with the keyboard letters and trying to read and respond to your partner. Perhaps there's a small bug that sometimes resets the timer even if you select an answer, but it doesn't affect the overall judgment of a game made alone and in such a short time. Very well done!
@rcxa thank you so so much for the kindest words and really glad you liked the game :) I understand your frustration, I've had this feedback from other players as well, I hadn't thought of that but it's definitely something to improve!
@goddzeproject @Rob6566 @denvil @Giulia thank you very much, glad you liked the game :D
@poboy haha she is definitely impossible, thank you!
@the4thcircle haha fair point, the relationship *might* be a bit toxic ... thank you!
@vivid-hallucination thank you! there are some ways to know what to answer for some, but it's definitely a feedback I've got and I agree :)
@vortexb thank you very much! Glad you noticed the dynamic audio, had fun with this one haha
@sodoj haha naggy she is, thanks for playing!
@@pascal-fitzner thanks, glad you liked the music!
@xhadie thank you so so much for the super kind words, your feedback is super appreciated! And congratulations on the newborn-skeletons haha
@nuanda79 thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the game and the music :) Thanks for the bug report, I hadn't noticed it while playtesting but it does happen sometimes!
Very funny game! :D I really like the implementation of the theme. The girlfriend really annoyed me, so you nailed that kind of conversation. ;) What would add even more fun to the gameplay would be if there are different "endings". I guess you could come up with even more funny ideas. Congrats to your project!
Nice and funny combination of a visual novel and typing game. The only thing you could improve is the readability of the letters in the typing game.
LOL, I'm so glad there was an ending to this thing. So many wrong paths. Reminded me of being married. Spooky-Jack doesn't know what he's getting himself into.
Really nice job with your design! I like how you took advantage of the simplistic visuals and made them work for you. Your narrative had a lot of charm and never dragged, even when I was clicking back through the options. The mini-game was cute. Well done!
This game certainly has a lot of charm and intrigued me enough to keep trying and trying to find my way out of the conversation. All the mechanics work as you would expect and are implemented quite well. The concept is a really humorous twist on the theme that lands really well. So my compliments, well done!
Hey, just wanted to say congrats on top 10 ten for humor. Your game was my favorite entry overall.