ionbingo 2024-10-07 23:47
Really fun and challenging. Love the 2000s-ish art style. Had fun learning the patterns, it reminded me of fighting Kraid
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → Critter Conflict
By spirits, Scrumblob and TheeCrustaceanStation
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 70 | 4.14 | 85 | |
| Fun | 87 | 4.03 | 85 | |
| Innovation | 415 | 3.45 | 84 | |
| Theme | 450 | 3.79 | 85 | |
| Graphics | 117 | 4.38 | 85 | |
| Audio | 115 | 3.93 | 83 | |
| Humor | 121 | 3.87 | 82 | |
| Mood | 160 | 4.02 | 84 |
Really fun and challenging. Love the 2000s-ish art style. Had fun learning the patterns, it reminded me of fighting Kraid
I love your art style! The game looks really fun, and I really like it!
funny gameplay, I enjoyed
Oh wow, this is awesome. I definitely need to come back to it later, but from what I played I love it.
I like the story and setup, not to mention the really charming art. Love a good ol' boss rush, Cuphead style. My game actually froze/crashed after one of the times I got hit by the seed from the bird boss.
Either way, this is really polished for what it is, good job!
Wow, you went to a lot of trouble with the graphics, well done. The gameplay is very fun!
Fun game and cool art, would recommend
love it! it does freeze when i die sometimes, which makes restarting require refreshing the page/restarting the app, and the long beginning cutscene makes it lengthy to get back into the game.
@nikkunakku @will-liu Thanks for the feedback! We somehow never had that crash, must be our latest polish build that somehow broke something. Thanks for letting us know!
Very nice Boss Rush Game, watched proggz Play it. Its amazing you did this in such a Short amount of time!!!
Very nice Boss Rush Game, watched proggz Play it. Its amazing you did this in such a Short amount of time!!!
I loved it; this art style is quite remarkable, fitting seamlessly with the background music and the vibe it conveys there.
The characters have quite a bit of personality as well, and it's nice how you can sense touches of humor from the start with the Goblin, wielding its grand impressive rifle to negotiate. 😂
очень круто выглядит, только не хватило строки здоровья у боссов во время битвы. не понятно столько ещё его нужно бить, чтобы завершить битву(( графика и стиль рисовки - огонь!!!
Wow what a great and complete game! Really enjoyed the experience, would've loved a "hard mode" or sth like that that would be more difficult, it was very forgiving at times since the moves of the bosses were signalled very early. Really enjoyed it, the art looked great and very consistent, and the story around it made the world feel alive :)
Really nice entry! The boss designs are fun, the gameplay is smooth and responsive, the attacks are all really well telegraphed - all comes together to make for a really satisfying run. Awesome job!
I didn't realise just how small goblins were in the world you created. They're like tiny faeries! I didn['t realise how much of a joke it would be to send a tiny goblin with an AK haha. I thought those forest animals were gonna get obliterated, but he was like an ant with a water pistol. I love it! A boss-rush game with great music and cute sound effects!
Great art and very nice battles ! Well done !
finally a super very interesting game but the monsters are too strong and there are not enough lives and it’s just amazing
amazing art and overall feels very polished! serious Cuphead vibes
holy crap, what a fun game! you guys did an amazing job with the art, sound and gameplay. I want to play a full release for this game lol, that's how fun it was.
Small nitpick that the difficulty of the levels was reverse (earliest were hardest and latest were easiest), but that didn't matter because I LOVED all the bosses.
Best game I played so far
The story is very insteresting, and art is so cute. but i think is too hard for me haha
I love the art! The bear level is a great example of how to really sell the theme of being tiny - the bear is so big that you can't even see the whole boss on the screen. Love that another team is using Godot! The game is very difficult, which goes with the Cuphead inspiration, but maybe for a game jam it's more fun to be able to see more of the game? Either way, really good game, great art, quite fun!
Looove the story, the graphics are amazing and this tiny goblin is adorable !!
Like the graphics and the music, especially fight the crab.
A normal boss rush with a tiny story, not too unique but still very good boss design.
Very solid entry and thanks for the hard work!
@david-huculak Hi David, thanks for your feedback! It's true that the boss balance is slightly lopsided for the earlier bosses, particularly so with the Sky Raptor. We had anticipated that the players would challenge the bosses in any order they wished (Before the Crab), but it seems it's more intuitive to go for the closest one (Sky Raptor). Thanks for the kind words and feedback :)
I really liked the style of the game, the art is great, and there are also interesting mechanics in the game. In general, I liked everything, well done)))
this is the best jam game, one hundred percent winner, 4 very cool bosses, very good management, but not enough dash, and so the music and art are just great
I love the artstyle, how backgrounds and characters are drawn Simple and nice soundtrack, cool boss mechanics. You've done a good job
Love the art style of this game! I had a good time, and the game generally felt great. Love the little intro (though I can see it getting annoying if you have to restart a lot). The game did indeed crash for me when I did in mid-air.
The bosses had interesting and unique mechanics, but felt a little bit punishing. It would have been nice to get health drops during the fight to stay alive for longer. The biggest thing I felt missing was a health bar, because I had no idea how close I was getting to finishing up the bosses.
Still, amazing art and amazing effort for a jam game!
@tomrijnbeek Hi Tom, we appreciate your feedback! The crashing issue still remains a mystery to us, not a clue what's causing it sadly. Your point on the health bar for bosses is valid, it's a criticism we've received a few times, fairly so. It was an intentional design choice to obscure how close you were to winning to some degree, but it would have been ideal for the player to have some way of measuring their progress. I can understand why that would be frustrating, it's something we all agree could have been done better. Thanks.
I had an unreal pleasure playing your game, thank you <3
Fun challenging game, looks good as well!
You know, I have 430 hours of cap-head behind me, but this game has left me so exhausted that you can’t imagine) Don’t hurt the players anymore)
This is cute I like it a lot but I have a lot of issues with it as well. First off, the gun is kind of annoying cause it doesnt do anything, why have it in the game when all you have to do is hold left click and forget about it? Would be nice if you could shoot the obstacles like the bubbles, or target the mini companion animal to do separate damage or something, at least some reason to have it, otherwise it might as well just be a timer to survive. The art of the game is really cute but it would be even cuter with some other type of weapon than a rifle which I dont really feel fits the theme. One other thing is that the boss attacks were a little stiff, would be nice to vary the speed they move to give them a little more life. But with that out of the way, onto the good stuff. I obviously loved the art, theres so much character in each boss and the abilities are so fun and fit super well, I love the extra tiny creature that has its own effect as well. The character is easy to maneuver too so I never felt like getting hit wasnt my fault. The sound effects are perfect too, they add so much fun to the characters and a bit of extra warning for incoming attacks which really helps get out of the way in time. Overall I really liked it, which is why I had so much to say about it, so please don't take it as negative feedback even though I probably could have said it nicer, I just liked what I played so far and wanted to offer how I would think to make it even better. Nice job ^^
Cute and fun but first boss is super hard
I love the art style and music! It's a bit slow to get through the intro though, so something to speed up the text would be really nice. I'm terrible at fighting the monsters but the world is super cute! I wasn't able to beat a level, but that's likely due to my terrible skills. Nice job!
Outstanding work! Love the art style and the gameplay.
This game has a really cute aesthetic, and I also enjoyed the controls - they felt really smooth! It would have been nice to know how much HP that the enemies had however, as it felt a little bit endless without it. I thought I had done really well but the MC was toast >.
Awesome game guys! Love to see another cuphead style boss rush game in the jam, Congrats!
really fun!! couldnt beat fist boss but i kinda suck ahh so- lol. But it was rly fun :]
This was a really fun game with weirdly enough a ton of similarities to my game which also happens to be a boss rush, I loved the art and gameplay, very well polished for such a short time. if you would like to try ours its called critter gang
@nick-len Funny you should mention! I heard about your game from a team member who thought your game looked similar in concept to ours. I will absolutely give your game a try when I can!!! Haven't been rating as many games past couple of days but for another boss rush game I think I can do it lool. Thanks for commenting Nick.
Wooo, hoo! I did it. I'm the "hero" :wink:
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I really like the art style, presentation and atmosphere. Animations are great, and so is the music. The controls feel responsive, although I did try to crouch with Alt for a long time (as it is so conveniently next to Space) before my brain switched to S :laughing:
Bosses are imaginative and fun. If I can venture one suggestion - in the last crab boss fight, there seems to be not enough time to run from the claw if you happen to be on the far edge of the same side when the warning starts.
Really nice jam game!
This is a very fun game with good humor, music, sounds and visual, but I'm confused by the mistake when you go ahead and throw a bomb, the character continues to go forward and you have to press the button again to stop it.
Very fun little experience! The art stye is very cute, music and sounds are also very fitting. I completed all the four bosses and it's genuenly amazing how you managed to make them so different and clever in such a short time. Amazing entry overall!
@andriana-mantidfly Hi Andriana, we appreciate your feedback. I went ahead and booted up the game to try and replicate the issue you described, but I could not find any additional velocity being applied to the character during bomb throws. It could be a niche hardware issue with how your computer interacts with the game, a keyboard thing perhaps? I'll think more on this, thanks!
@whalejam Hi there, and thanks for your feedback! You raise some good points regarding how "useful" the weapon feels, if we had more time we likely would have implemented weak points or a similar system. Thanks for your kind words. :)
A fun game!
What a pleasant surprise this game was. Felt some Cup Head inspiration and the fights were tough but kept me coming back. I have saved this link to come back and play again.
THIS IS AMAZING!!! Love the art style and the gameplay! Somehow just couldn't stop laughing while playing. Such a charming game.
Art style is amazing, I like it, good job ❤️
Crazy that y'all done this in 3 days. Had a lot of fun playing this one, the art, music, and gameplay where just awesome! Had fun defeating all the bosses, cup head vibes :smile: Great Job!
This game is teaching me fun lessons like Destroy Nature and authority!
Very fun game in the Cuphead tradition, boss fights are extremely hard to make so it's seriously impressive you did so many.
By the way I was killed by the frog and the game crashed! Wish I could skip the opening cutscene on the reset! :p
Okay I just finished up after my reset! I really like the game!
My boss ranking in order from best to worst: King Crab, Alligator, Bear, Bird.
I think king crab has a little too much health, I was beating him perfectly and executing the pattern and I still had to stick around for a long time.
My biggest criticism is the boss's attacks are chosen completely randomly, so you can get a situation where they repeat the same attack over and over again which can trivialize challenge. It's okay to repeat attacks but I would bias your random to avoid doing it too many times.
I really love the molotov mechanic, and if there were more to the game I would want it to take advantage of the 360 degree aiming, which really sets it apart from Cuphead and Contra.
Wow, what an amazing entry to the jam. Congratulations to this awesome game. Feels very polished. It has everything: story, graphics, animations, soundeffects, music, multiple bosses. The graphic style is very unique and wholesome. I'm not particular good at this kind of games, so the bosses each took me several attempts to beat them. So for me it was a challenging, but in a good kind of way. I liked figuiring out all the moves the bosses do and learn to counter them. Every boss was different but also shared similiar types of attacks, so i could use my knowledge from before to adapt quicker (balancing well done!). I liked that i could instantly retry and not lose my progress overall.
My suggestions: - Maybe i'm blind but the bosses had no health indicator? Maybe it's a design choice but for me it would have been cool to see the progress i made in form of a healthbar. - Not sure if that was a bug or intended: Against one boss (the bird) i died but at the same time finished the boss after i loaded back into the map. I was not paying full intention, but probably i killed him with my last bullets during my die animation - The bubbles from the Crab were some of the easiest attacks to dodge and at the same time the hardest in rare cases (since they had a random pattern). I had at least 1-2 times where it felt impossible to dodge because of the way they spawned. Not sure if there is a soloution to that.
Wonderful game, I thought it was perfectly balanced for a game jam submission! Kept me interested enough to beat it but didn't take forever :)
The bear was definitely the easiest for me and the bird was the trickiest!
Compelling character design, cute sound effects, fun music. Overall, quite fun, and I could see myself circling back to play this some more.
Tiny request: Being able to skip/fast-forward the story prologue (pokemon skip-to-the-end-of-the-page style) would be a nice quality of life feature.
Hey, im the host for Score Chasers this year and wanted to ask if youre fine with me using gameplay + music from the game in this LDs [score chasers tournament](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/$405421/ludum-dare-score-chasers-qualification-begins) intermission video. (Would play in the breaks of the tournament on my stream). Last LD for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuddhZScWxo
The game's a visual treat and I very much enjoyed the boss designs combining 2 creatures. My qualms are largely with the gameplay. The attacks that involve tracking projectiles are very large and difficult to dodge. The gun and moltov don't lead to particularly dynamic interactions. If holding mouse 1 at all times is the optimal option then I should even have to click to fire. A semi-, automatic weapon and weak points might have been better. Delightful goblins, especially on the map.
@ategon Thank you for the offer, we would love for our game and music to be featured in this year’s intermission video!
The game does a great job capturing the same charm as Cuphead. The bosses are well thought out, creative, and well animated. It does make me feel a bit sad to be evil like that, but overall, it’s a great game with a fun challenge. Well done!
@she-wrote Thanks for playing! If it makes you feel any better, know that the goblins don't have a food shortage anymore.
Very beautiful and polished game! I like all the little details and ideas. The artwork is incredible. Unfortunately, I'm very bad at games like this. I think some sort of life bar/visible progress in battles would have helped me keep my hopes up that I could do it and try a little more often.
Really cool art, gameplay and audio! I loved the cuphead vibes. Amazing job!
What a great game to discover! I played Cuphead and it's obvious, that this game is kind of similar, but that's fine of course.
I love the graphics of the game. The intro, the overall map and the levels themselves are amazing for this short of time. The bosses have personality and the little creatures on them fitted nicely.
It was always visible what kind of attack would follow through little hints, so it was never unfair to me. The difficulty level was decent. I think it was in a good spot for a Game Jam.
The music is in my opinion not on the same level as the visuals. One song was good, but the other ones were not so catchy. But I like the fact, that every boss has its own theme.
The "feedback" of the actions (shooting, getting hit) could be stronger. The little weapon dots and the "dot explosions" are very small and therefore the impact wasn't that big. I recognised when I was getting hit by the enemy or a projectile, but it also felt a little weak for my taste.
The controls felt good. When I was hit I couldn't blame the controls for that. ;) The game overall was a lot of fun for me and one of my favorite games so far. Good job! :)
That is such a cool art style! Thank you for the game :)
@lllarso Hi, thanks for your review :) As the composer & sound designer for this project I take particular interest in what you said regarding the music, is there any chance you could go into more detail? Thanks.
Nice game,very interesting plot!!!!Nice job!!!!
Great artwork and sound! Super cool idea with making a bossrush game! Only feedback is that finishing a boss could always do with more juice in the overworld map after, but that said it was signaled absolutely ok as is. 5/5 stars!
Loved it! Keep up the good work.
Best game ever, cool mechanics, love it <3
I suck at the gaaaaame :laughing: I still had a great time, visuals are neat and gameplay is tight!
It's a really good game, I'd hope it to be a bit harder especially for the final fight and the one against the bear. The final one lacks because the pattern are too separated (it's really good that you HAVE to anticipate to dodge the crabs attacks) but I think the goose could keep attacking as a passive one that is always there and not be a completly different one ! As for the bear it's just too easy and obvious, I think a good solution for that would've not to change the attacks but the environment (tho yeah it's a jam so no time) anyway that's it for the feedbacks ! You did an incredible job I had fun, music is really good sounds effects too, KEEP UP !!! :fire:
It's a really good game, I'd hope it to be a bit harder especially for the final fight and the one against the bear. The final one lacks because the pattern are too separated (it's really good that you HAVE to anticipate to dodge the crabs attacks) but I think the goose could keep attacking as a passive one that is always there and not be a completly different one ! As for the bear it's just too easy and obvious, I think a good solution for that would've not to change the attacks but the environment (tho yeah it's a jam so no time) anyway that's it for the feedbacks ! You did an incredible job I had fun, music is really good sounds effects too, KEEP UP !!! :fire:
The huge bosses look awesome!! :open_mouth: I also suck at the game. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
You really have some nice and innovative boss fights here! Love how different they are. Also very polished game, especially the intro.
@tarisma Hi, thanks for your feedback!
We had some tough choices to make balance-wise, of course no matter the situation it could always be better executed. We find that our current difficulty is just about right for most people, however I myself find the game too easy at times. If we were to do it again with more time, we'd probably have a hard mode for gamers like you and I.
Great job! Keep making games! and please rate my game
@sasa-2010 Manners!
Good game!
Your art is very beautiful and consistent.
The homage to Cuphead is clear and objective.
I was afraid to play it thinking it would have the same level of difficulty as the one being honored, but in the end it was really fun.
Congratulations!
Great job! The art, the music, and the boss rush! It never felt unfair as all the attacks were properly telegraphed which made it possible even for me to finish it! 😅
For your records, here’s my archived stream 😊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkg-HvNRZgU
@philstrahl Thanks for the feedback, One of the things that we always struggle the most is the difficulty of the game. That's the main criticism of all projects, so I always try to telegraph each attack to let players know hey I'm about to attack you. Thank you for sharing video and the awesome feedback during your gameplay.
Really good game, the premise is really funny and the artstyle is really good, I liked all the designs and the idea of having a big creature being helped by smaller ones is really fun! the music was great too.
The battles were well designed and varied, I enjoyed all of them. The only thing I struggled a bit with was the bird seed attack, I found it difficult to dodge, especially if there's 2 in a row.
very good entry!
Easily one of the best games I've played this jam. I love platformers and shooters, and this game delivers on every level. Also great job with the music!
Thanks again for bringing the game to my stream :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ERIeCFIVg
~XpMonster
Really cool game, love the artstyle!
Really cool game and I love the bosses! I wish I could play it over and over to beat it but it keeps freezing during the bird fight so I have to sit through the whole intro to replay ;_;
@emmagsmith Thanks so much for your feedback! We're very perplexed at what is causing the crash, sorry about that!
Very nice game! I really liked the graphics and gameplay, the game seems to be well polished. Good job!