gaalsien 2024-10-07 20:00
Really nice game! Perfectly fits theme of the event!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → Dr Shrink and the Horrors of the Infinite
By conor-wilson
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 268 | 3.83 | 41 | |
| Fun | 196 | 3.82 | 41 | |
| Innovation | 31 | 4.17 | 41 | |
| Theme | 35 | 4.39 | 41 | |
| Humor | 124 | 3.87 | 41 | |
| Mood | 360 | 3.73 | 40 |
Really nice game! Perfectly fits theme of the event!
Verry funny game, really captivating
Thanks for the feedback guys! :)
Also, turns out that the ldjam.com embedded build is actually working on some machines. Please use the itch.io link if it's not working for you!!
Very good, love the game! I wish the music would continue, it just sort of peeters out after a time. Pretty challenging on the last segment as well, took me a few tries
Great game! I loved that the whole level was there in front of your eyes and you shrank down to different persepectives to go through it. That last level is a doozy, took a few tries but overall had a blast!
That got dark... :grimacing:
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Really clever - I think this works really well and definitely nails the theme. I saw the tiny platforms when the game booted up and had a feeling I would be shrinking multiple times, so it was cool to be able to scout out the level early on.
I think my only complaint is that it was a bit too easy. I never really felt threatened by the the enemies, and when I was at the smallest form, I realized I could just run through all the enemies without taking enough damage to die. Of course for a game jam, it's better to be a little too easy than too hard.
Especially for your first game jam, this was a really solid entry. Good work!
I love the game! The concept is cool and you implemented it well given the time we had! Here are some things I noticed in case you did not notice them and want to make this into a full game (which I think you should!):
- Infinite throws of the potion seemed a little overpowered (but was really useful at times) - The music (which is super vibey) stops after about a minute - It is a little finicky to shrink sometimes; like you have to try a few times and move around a bit - I couldn't always tell if I was going to be able to go through a surface or collide with it so maybe that distiction could be a little more obvious - It was a little weird that my potions could go through any surface even when I couldn't
Overall, I think the game is so fun! I would love to see it expanded!
Really amazing and innovative game with terrific implementation. Amazing take on the theme.
This is one of the best games in this jam that I've come through so far! Unfortunately, the final level can be buggy. It was impossible to jump high enough to reach the potion until I restarted the game on Chrome. The potion was spawned a little too high out of reach.
I also think "catalyst" is misspelled twice in the game.
So glad that you guys seem to be enjoying the game :smile: And I'm genuinely loving the constructive feedback, I'm writing it all down and will iron out all of the edges (and spell everything correctly) after the Jam!
The music not looping in particular is super annoying because I had it looping fine and then I must have disabled the loop somehow just before exporting :rolling_eyes: oh well it's the nature of the beast that some things would go wrong.
Really fun game, the idea of getting thought the same level with multiple sizes is great. I don't know if it was just a problem for me, but the clicking S to get smaller didn't work sometimes. Also because of the shrinking and growing, some enemies were hard to avoid at certain size (ex. mouse when you are really small, because you can't jump over it; or orange bugs when you are just one potion smaller, because you barely fit on a platform with them).
Really cool concept... It definitely gets harder and harder! I enjoyed playing the game... well done!
Holly molly! This is your first jam game? And you worked solo on it? Man kudos to you! I hope you continue your jaming journey and we can play more of your games. Since I love platformers and those are the games I make the most often I wanna share of some of my knowledge with you that will help you improve the feel of your games in the future.
First and the most important one, platformers need something the collective has been calling "coyote jump". Because your game is lacking it, very often jumps may feel unfair, or your character unresponsive. Check it out and try to implement it to your post jam version of the game would love to check it out.
Second important note, are unavoidable/ unfair enemies. When you shrink to much the mouse enemy has to be tanked. There is no way to avoid it since your jump is to low now and you cannot outrun it. Same with spiders, I feel like there is to many of them and they are relentless and feel like they spot you immediately.
Now what I loved about your game, and I really mean it is the concept. The idea and the clever use of theme was brilliant. Such a cool concept you almost made me want to make game like that, when you can see the level at first and than just shrink and shrink and unlock new passages. It's amazing how many new paths you manage to stuff in to one level. Some really impressive stuff for your first game.
Please continue your work on games, and I hope you will update this one and let us all know.
PS Just read the description part about known bugs and I can see the coyote time has been addressed already. Should've done that before I posted this wall of text. Oh well I guess I learn something today as well :P
Very cool, really great idea to have the same level at different scales, very unique! I struggled when he became really small as the creatures ( ants in particular) gave no quarter :cry:
It's a unique concept, top marks for innovation, if you did develop again beyond the compo , a few tweaks to the jumping / throwing mechanics would make it more fun for sure.
Good idea for theme, and liked the doomed ending too. A nice balanced difficulty and some nice pixel art. Nice work!
That 's fun, good idea
Nice, good pixel art
This was fun, cool idea :)
Very neat!
love the concept and the implementation is quite genious! The art is also superb!
Only nitpick i have is that sometimes the jumping felt off, but that-s about it
Keep up the good work! <3
Ouah, so much interesting, great idea and great game, congratulations!
well done. got a bit stuck on the begging but ended up having a lot of fun!
What a fun project! Honestly, creating the little doctor character is very amusing. The fact that this is your first game jam entry is truly commendable, congratulations! I imagine you have made games before, given that your gameplay mechanics and narrative are very well developed.
For your information, the game on the Ludum page doesn't run for me in Chromium on GNU/Linux, but it works on itch.io. Honestly, I have very little negative to say. The only suggestion I would make is to create all the graphics yourself, as this would make the game feel more complete and personal. While it's okay to use third-party music, creating your own graphics (or collaborating with an artist) would make your game shine even more.
Nevertheless, my sincerest congratulations, it's a great game and I had a fantastic time playing it!
You did a really good job making it so the level can work at all of the different sizes, and so that it feels interesting and different between them all.
You might want to consider Coyote time in the future though. A lot of my struggles were jumping just a fraction of a second too late, and that's pretty rough feeling.
But yeah, a very impressive first game.
That's a very cool and funny idea! Unintentionally shrinking yourself multiple times is hilarious!
All the criticism and tips I would give are already pointed out above, so I'll leave you with a well done :smile: Impressive for your first game jam.
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2273720699?t=04h31m28s)
I love how much mileage you were able to get out of designing a single level. The character's size really does change the whole dynamic of the traversal, which must have taken a lot of thought and planning. Well done!
Nice Art, great job Guys!
Very fun game, we had a similar idea for ld54 a year ago ! With Alice shrinking and growing to get to different parts of the level. Very cute graphics and animations, it was fun to play :)
Wow great game, I love the idea of shrinking and making what was previously trivial a challenge. Really great.
Great tiny game! Although I see some... scaling problems
Really cool! Love the coyote time!
The idea is really well exploited, I loved being able to guess which path I will use next. Using the potion as a weapon is pretty fun too. Well done, this is a nice game for a game jam !
Great game, nice matching with theme, keep going
tried to start the game but it states " Failed to read the 'serviceWorker' property from 'Navigator': Service worker is disabled because the context is sandboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' "
@ginxel that's an issue that seems to only be present in the ldjam.com build. I'm not sure what causes it but I've seen it with a few other Godot games during the jam (as well as other general problems when playing the ldjam.com version of games).
The itch version should be working fine though!
https://quietlantern.itch.io/dr-shrink-and-the-horrors-of-the-infinite
Thanks so much to everyone who played and rated this game!!! I'm absolutely thrilled with the result.
[The post-jam version with all the fixes to the bugs you all found is available on the itch.io page :ok_hand:](https://quietlantern.itch.io/dr-shrink-and-the-horrors-of-the-infinite)
[I also made a Post-Mortem blog post that you can find here :smile:](https://ldj.am/$406585)
See you guys next time :v: