forshley 2024-10-07 23:00
The art is amazing!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → Wink and the Fae
By pious, Sofimei and Agent_Peterson
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 253 | 3.86 | 64 | |
| Fun | 257 | 3.72 | 64 | |
| Innovation | 775 | 3.00 | 64 | |
| Theme | 142 | 4.16 | 64 | |
| Graphics | 62 | 4.50 | 64 | |
| Audio | 266 | 3.66 | 58 | |
| Humor | 570 | 2.99 | 54 | |
| Mood | 264 | 3.86 | 62 |
The art is amazing!
OMG wonderful art Wow
Fabulous art. They tiny creatures are sooo cute!
good simple graphics, the game is understandable, the soundtrack would make it to my playlist ;)
Fun and easy to play. I just loved the aesthetic! It was very relaxing. The experience left me wishing there was more game to play honestly!
We thought the game was really cute!
I love the amazing art! Well done :)
Very cute, wonderful art. The shooting was satisfying and the hits were filled with game feel. I do wish the embedded player on itch was a little bigger, or able to be fullscreened. It was pretty small on my screen.
Adorable characters!
Superb art style and character design! I just wish the screen wasn't so tiny so we could appreciate your work more!
Love the art! Is there a full screen button? would love to see it on big screen.
I wish that having a line of friends behind me would give me some sort of bonus effect so that the player would have to make a choice between keeping them behind the player or sending them back to the safe zone :)
Very nice, small game, good job!
I made so many friends :hugging:
Stunning art, fun and simple gameplay loop, absolutely love it ^^
cute artwork!!!
Easy to learn and soooo cute. The movement and shooting were both very smooth!
Nice art, simple yet effective gameplay.
I really enjoy the gameplay and the graphics. The music and sound effects are amazing!
Fisrt of all, thank you for detailed feedbeck on our game! The advice is very useful, we will continue to work on it. And about game, I like the artstyle! The creatures are so cute and the main charatcer also! I would get merch with it if it was there. The game is simple and clear, and most importantly without complex mechanics. The game has everything you need in three days and as an idea it can be further developed. Perhaps only a few different types of enemies were missing to complicate the task a bit, but still everything is wonderful!
Relaxing music and charming art. Simple but fun gameplay. Great Combo!
Super cute, very fun! Like everyone is saying, the art is amazing! The gameplay is simple, but it feels great
Absolutely loved the sound when returning loads of lil friends at once. Really satisfying little game. Would be nice to have some more difficulty/powerups or something to keep it entertaining with replays.
Nice and simple little game! Cute creatures, cute graphics! Will probably enjoy it a little more once the screen resolution gets adjusted, for now the sprites are a bit too small. But I understand that's bound to worked out in time. Overall, nice work!
This game is so cool! I loved it!
Wow this is so charming! I really liked the aesthetic. The art is beautiful! I kind of wished it was zoomed in a bit more, so I could see the friends i was rescuing. The gameplay loop was very solid. I liked the quick runs, and corralling your sprites back to the glade was very nice feedback that you're doing well. The tutorial was very sleek, and the haptics on shooting was a nice touch. I did notice that you could walk off the map around the center-right wall, did you have other locations planned?
Great game!
@chartle @imberny @okshirl @demiclod @jdeedubs Figured out resolution problems! Thank you so much for your feedback. It took some tinkering with itch's settings but we figured it out thankfully. You should be able to enjoy Sofi's art in full screen and see the fae you saved in all their glory.
Please take a look and see if it's to your liking!
@prussichger @rodgems Thank you for your feedback! We misadjusted the timer clock's initial settings that made it too short to fully appreciate the (poorly coded and rudimentary) difficulty scaling. It is like 20% likely to *start* seeing the second enemy when people had their 20th fae saved, which was the last few seconds with the misadjusted clock, and it was impossible to see how the game scales like what we intended. Fixing the clock's values made it so you can appreciate what we had in place.
Please try it now!
@okshirl That is such a phenomenal idea. Would've massively increased the game loop and incentivized making a big conga for as long as possible. It might make it into the post-jam version, we plan to expand since this may be our proudest one yet!
The art style is so cute, i really love it. and the music fit so well with the game. the overall game felt really polished and well made! the difficulty wasn't that hard, but the first time getting the other enemy gave me a jump. nice take on the theme!
Very fun, but above all beautiful
Very fun game! Very cute art style, the music is nice, and gameplay is flawless. Great job!
game is understandable and art and music are so cute!
love the graphics!!!
I love how it iterates snake game idea :D Plays very smooth and feels fresh. P.S. Why do I have to be reminded all the time that I've let down 4 friends, I'm so sorry, friends xD
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Guys, you are absolutely amazing, I don't even know where to start! Your mechanics are so simple yet addictive, the polish, art, sound, and animations are just on point—I can't stop playing your game! I love how the tutorial is so straightforward and the level is time-limited instead of endless, like in other games of this genre. And special shout-out to the snake you build up from little friends. Sure, the best strategy is to gather them in small groups and send them to the safe spot, but man, it’s just so satisfying to have a long snake trailing behind you! I always try to make it as long as possible, and then feel heartbroken when the spiders show up and take them away :'(. Solid 5/5 in every category—thank you for such an amazing game!
This entry is so polished, it's impressive!
The second type of enemy is very deadly xD
Great job :) I had a lot of fun playing, and I think I could spend a lot more time on this on an expanded version.
What a charming little game! I love how they run after you, i mean look at all the friends I made! Untitled2.png
I love the coffee-stained look of the background and the overall aesthetics. Games like these always make me wish to make games with such art rather than the pixelart ones we tend to do. Overall, great entry be proud!
Adorable article, really cool, you did a great job
A very interesting game, it was fun to play) I also really liked the style of the game, it's just wonderful
What a lovely game. The art is amazing, and the game is simple but engaging. The main thing missing was a bit of an evolution of the mechanics. The enemies got more powerful but you could only really counter them by shooting a lot so it would be nice to have some kind of powerups or pickups for that.
Other than that felt super polished and the little dings when delivering the friends was a cherry on top. Great job!
Great game, I loved the art and the gameplay. Everything is very smooth and I loved the mechanic of saving the little fae and keeping them away from enemies. In the later stage of the game, the stone enemies were too sticky and made it a bit frustrating. Awesome submission overall, good job!
Wow! Amazing art! Looks a bit like Link but with a gun :D Really nice entry, well done :)
Simple but very nice Game Loop and as others have mentioned the Art is very good! Very nice Submission!! Also thank you very much for your Feedback!
Love the art style. I too enjoy brutally incapacitating small creatures with firearms. If only it would let you kill your little "friends."
Very cute art and style, and the game plays really well. I' love to have one more mechanic, but a wonderful jam submission anyway!
Simple and fun. Plays really well. The hand drawn graphics are super cute! There's some kind of an issue going on with the background color on my machine though (MacOS, Firefox), but it didn't hurt the fun too much Screenshot 2024-10-10 at 0.55.27.png
@jnur Oh that is so strange, does that happen on other browsers? I tested on a Macbook before and it didn't give me that. Thank you for your feedback!
Very lovely game you made here! I felt so bad having so many friends dying my fist playthrough, the rock golems took me by surprise.
The art and controls are fantastic. The collect and bank gameplay works well. I do want to point out that your windows version files are incomplete. You uploaded the exe, but not the pck that has your compiled scripts and art assets in it, so the windows version won't run.
@tsaot Thank you for pointing that out! Will fix that!!
@pious Played it now that it's been fixed! I love it, it's lowkey addicting actually haha. Great job!
Great illustrations and visuals. The gameplay is very addictive as well, reminds me a lot of Gungeon and 20 mins until dawn. And overall it just feels very polished.
Really great job with this - the visuals had a strong, coherent sense to them, and the gameplay felt extremely responsive. When the mechanics are this simple, they live or die on how responsive they feel, and these nailed it. The music was a nice fit - I would have enjoyed a little more sonic variety, but there is only so much that can be done in a game jam weekend. Well done!
Beautiful art and cool concept! I enjoyed a lot creating a huge line of tiny creatures before saving them at the last moment. I'd love to see more feedback on the shooting to make it more satisfying. Congrats for your entry!
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"It looks really good! Also, the music and SFX are not bad. By the way, saved 42 friends / 16 died :C
Many of my friends died, how could you do this to me?!
The blocky enemies just wiped out like twenty at once T_T.
The game is very cute, the itch.io page especially!
Simple, but really nicely done with great art.
Very beautifull art style ! Vvery great music too ! Nice gameplay ! :)
Really good game! it's simple but it works so well! The graphics are impressive for a jam. Great job!
Cool game! It feels pretty good to play, it's short and fun. Graphics are nice (I love the overlapping sheets, I may steal this in the future ahah). Music is great. Gameplay is simple but interesting.
I find that there are some discrepancies in quality in between things of the same kind. Eg the flash on hit is great, but it's lacking some simple particles & sounds to really make the hits feel great. Enemy death anim is really cool looking, but the gun fire anim is meh. Looks to me like you spend too much time on some specific things trying to make them too good, and then run out of time to polish the rest. If you can fix this, your next entries will really feel amazing to play. Now I don't mean to say that it's bad now, it's really good already. Congrats!
What a cute game! I really love the aesthetics and how it plays. I also appreciate that just having your critters in a conga line doesn't keep them safe - I was unsure at first at how I had some that died, but it totally makes sense that you should avoid touching the enemies, haha. I wonder if having to reload would be good? It would make the game more difficult but maybe it doesn't need it, with how many enemies you could end up with on screen. I'd love to see how this gets expanded either way, really nice entry!
Very fun to play! The graphics are amazing, I loved how it feels that you are playing with paper made characters! And it also comes with a nice gameplay, well done!
Beautiful art, very cute. I had fun killing monsters to befriend them. Or maybe they were trapped inside the monsters, I'm not sure.
I love the calming, melancholic music, and how it becomes more intense as you progress. Very cool.
I couldn't resist doing a conga with my tiny friends.
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I was having so much fun that I forgot to bring them back home. Look at all the friends I saved!
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Very cool game! I really liked the graphics, gameplay and sounds, overall the game is very polished and fun. Good job! Captura de Tela (1094).png