Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → DUCKDEPF
By jona-scheidig, Potatobrain and Hypixi
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 64 | 4.13 | 89 | |
| Fun | 20 | 4.30 | 90 | |
| Innovation | 374 | 3.33 | 90 | |
| Theme | 114 | 4.20 | 90 | |
| Graphics | 212 | 4.11 | 90 | |
| Audio | 33 | 4.22 | 88 | |
| Humor | 64 | 4.05 | 85 | |
| Mood | 165 | 4.00 | 84 |
I only played briefly, so my best score was about 1300m. The music is bumpin, and the art isn't that bad considering you bashed it in your own description. Yeah the game is really fun, but I wish the death animation thing wasn't so long cause the game is really hard. Good job this is a cool ass game. Oh yeah the bonk death sound is funny nice.
Great minds think alike haha; great interpretation of the theme. Gameplay is super fun, animations are really smooth, and the music boppin'. Gives me real Oceans 11 or Mission Impossible vibes.
This is awesome! The music, graphics, gameplay, it's all great.
Great concept. The overall flow of the game works really well. Losing really fast on the first run was a little bit of a bummer but you get back into the action really fast and I could see this being pretty fun to dig into for a long run. Awesome music - a real bop. The character art is great. Love the thunk and ragdolly effect that you used on the game over screen. Super fun - awesome job!
i like its sad face
I absolutely loved this game! I got hooked on it quite a bit, and ended up playing for 30 minutes at least haha. I loved the music, and I loved the music pitching lower when you die. The assortment of debris was just perfect, I never felt like it was completely unfair, because everything is signaled well to the player. I notice that you give the player a lot of options, like a float or a dive, AND a dodge. To be honest it was too much than was necessary. I personally didn't find the dodge useful. Anyway, here's my best score:
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wow, this is an awesome concept, I really enjoy playing this, very funny! I feel sorry for the poor duck! haha
Nice job!
The bonk sound is a fulfilling way to die. 10/10
This game reached depfs I didn't think possible. Great premise and really fun generated levels, kept things interesting. Really funny and kept me going till 1300, great job!
Gives me vibes of the old star wars flight sim games; they had a 'training' mode where you flew down debris cluttered tunnels like this.
Enjoyed it a lot!
What a great little game! I love jams that take a simple concept and execute it well. Nice job!
Fun concept. Well done. Simple but gets the job done. Good work!
I adore this so much. I have been wishing it was available on mobile with gyro to steer and float/dive on left and right thumbs. Idk if it would work well, but it is such a perfect game to have in your pocket. Loving it on my steam deck, it plays great with controller. All around five stars, my only "nitpick" is I wish there was fast restarts because I'm playing it so much! Awesome idea, awesome execution, awesome game, go you.
P.S. pls either release on linux with fast restart or post the source so I can play it so much more :p
Very fun, good audio, looks great. Love it!
@oxnh Thanks for the feedback! you can fast restart the run with pressing "ENTER" on the keyboard or pressing "ARROW UP" on the controller, have fun playing! :D
@maximevincent thanks for the kind words! can say the same about your game
@potatobrain Oh sweet that was my only issue, guess it was just a skill issue. I didn't say in my original comment but it would be good if the track continued playing after you died, it's too good to be interrupted. Did you make the music by the why?
@keely-brown thank you! @jona-scheidig made the awesome player model and @hypixi the banger of a soundtrack ^^
@jag damn thats the best compliment you could have given us <3 Thats a good point to be honest, i thought the dodge could give a extra skill cap, because it get exagerated by the movement and allows to cover great distances faster then normal movement, when timed right. 3691 is a great score! i think its even better then my current one xD, i will try to beat yours!
@fernando-tonon-de-rossi we maybe overdid it with the sadness ^^ but it gives character i think
@perpetualkimchi die by the bonk, live for the bonk!
@paragonraptors thanks! I think this is the best way for a game jam to be honest :D our last project was a little bit to complicated in its design to get finished in time, so we wanted to keep it simple but make it great!
@cure thanks a lot man, great you enjoyed it so much! To be honest a mobile version with gyro movement is a great idea, we will look into that 👍
You can fast restart the run with pressing “ENTER” on the keyboard or pressing “ARROW UP” on the controller. What was your best score?
@oxnh No problem :D, yeah the game is not that easy 😅 we thought about decreasing the difficulty at the beginning and make it harder as you go deeper, that would fix the fast looping of the soundtrack too.
@hypixi made the music i will check out if he realeases the track on any platform and send you the link!
@potatobrain Sick, I just meant was it made during the jam. But @hypixi is on your team so I guess so. That's really impressive.
Awesome game - pretty addicting and the music, vibe, controls are top notch! I didn't manage to find how to run the game in fullscreen though, unfortunately
The auto-restart is the most underrated feature of this game. You don't get kicked back to the main menu and have to navigate again, the action just starts again on its own. The visuals are great while playing, the stills don't do it justice.
Got to 2633 meters, really fun and challenging game, absolutely love the music, please release it seperately as well, it would be so awesome
@thatfirey we plan on building on the game after the jam ^^ with much more interesting obstacles, collectables and co
Falling and dodging feels really nice, and I like how Boost and Float add more dimension to the gameplay. The protagonist is adorable, their sadness actually gives you more motivation to win, and because of that, every dodge feels more rewarding. The music is amazing, and I love how it slows down on the game over screen. All in all, great work!
High marks for this game! The core idea completely won me over. Simple yet humorous and beautiful. Great job!
First of all, thought the music REALLY added to this game - it's so funky and fun!
The difficulty felt just right too - such well crafted obstacles, especially the big ribcages! It gives so many different ways of approaching the same obstacle rather than funneling you down into smaller and smaller holes, and keeps the game feeling so fresh.
There are really great little touches too - the stop signs, the trees which are oriented so you can fit through the branches, the slo-mo on death etc. Altogether feels like such a tight package, bravo!
Poor duckling, why did he have such a fate The game is very funny, thank you!
Loveeee! Its too ADDICTING! but im still bad at it hahah!! Played your game on stream today (ManishaGameDev), just dropping a comment + rating now :)
Got to 3600m lets go. It gets so fast
This game is seriously addictive. Everything is done at such a high level — I didn’t even want to quit playing. The only thing I’d add is a personal high score — something to aim for and try to beat myself. Other than that, it’s a 10/10. Super fun and a really unique concept for this theme, executed perfectly.
Wow, this game is a real virus, I literally want to go through it over and over again. Awesome 3D visual, funny music. The thing that is very important to me is the challenge, and this game has it. Great job!
Really nice game it is really addicting. i love to see more
I really like the idea of the game and the low poly 3D graphics I love! But the collisions are really too sensitive, there should be a smoother progression or at least a bit of a tutorial phase to get started.
It's always a good sign when you get hooked in immediately. The game is super fun, the music is a banger and the little audio manipulations when you die really add a lot of character. The game is well polished in terms of controls and really gives you everything you need in order to tryhard the shit out of it. I'm probably gonna keep it on the side to come back to it later !
Very fun game! Maybe I'm a bad person, but I laughed so hard at the poor ducky getting bonked and falling unconsciously to the bottom of the well :sweat_smile: My best depf wasn't very impressive though :cry: Снимок экрана 2025-04-09 235726.png
The cute little duck has to overcome such Challenges, we wish it good luck :( But it's still a great game, a lot of fun!
Solid implementation of a classic idea! I got to 2.3 kilometers. The wooden floors turned out to be the most difficult obstacles for me due to how much they obstruct your view. Good work!
I looked at Duckdepf's sad expression and thought "I gotta help this little guy or I won't be able to sleep tonight." I didn't anyway, too busy perfecting a dive, avoiding the percussive "bonk" of death. Dog, it feels *so cool* to go for it and dodge everything that ended up in this well. I think it might be cursed, or perhaps owned by someone with a sick sense of decor.
This song is bangin' and ayyyye I know that orchestra hit anywhere, heard it a bunch rollerblading in Tokyo-To!
Very high skill level or I'm very bad. Probably the latter. Overall, it was a lot of fun. I liked that there was a limit on floating and boosting to prevent too much cheesing it. I think that there were a few too many objects too close together at the beginning, at least for me, but overall the play was smooth and it was fun to play.
Good game! It is complete and it perfectly matches the theme. And I feel fun playing it.
I liked the controls and the sound slowing down when the poor duck dies) It turned out to be a very nice game! I got hooked on the screen)))
Got 2900~! Was very fun, i could probably play it for hours :D
This game reminded me how much I like birds. I enjoyed flying down. - The animation when hovering is expressive. - The music changing pitch when dying is the kind of polish I wish more games had. - I found it funny that the bird is perpetually sad-looking on his face. - The music is very fitting to a game like this where you are dodging all sorts of wild stuff. - I like that I can speed up and slow down. - I did not engage with the dodging much at all, but it was a fun little thing to play around with. Great one!
Now that was amusing, I can visualize in my head a mission impossible themed one with a duck too~ A bit hard, but really addictive!
@flinge Thanks! sounds like you enjoyed it a lot 😁. Yeah we wanted to add that too, but you know how it is, the biggest enemy in the jam is the time, we wanted to Focus this jam more on a precise simple Vision and execute it well, because we failed to finish our game last time. Appreciate the compliments!
@piero-pbes-studio we planned to have 3 different difficulty Levels with a bunch of sections, that start the easiest and get harder with the depth, but we hadnt enought time to make enough Content so it doesnt feel repetitive. But planned for the after jam verson for sure!
nice
@neon-kuroasa Thanks! It seems we hit the addicition factor with this one ^^
I like the really tight controls. Just the dodge felt kinda pointless/unnecessary. Great game overall. The music also really slaps!
The quick game loop always keeps you in the game and doesn't give you too much time to breath.
Changing the formula up to gradually increase more difficult chunks would be a great improvement and also could lead to the ability to do some environmental storytelling. I imagine you could start with wooden planks and branches, later introduce some of the machinery and industrial themed obstacles and end it in a demonic dark descent.
Timestamp to the vod https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2428950737?t=1h26m50s
I enjoyed playing this game, but there were a few frustrations, all centred around mis-judging my duck's position relative to the obstacles, causing me to collide with obstacles unexpectedly. I think a light causing shadows to be cast by the duck onto the scenery would help with this a lot. The bats being so much bigger than the duck model was a little counter-intuitive, too. I loved the music slow-down effect on failure, and enjoyed the blocky art style. It would be nice to have more coverage with the sounds though: moving obstacles making sound would be an improvement, as would having a whoosh or similar on the dodge. Overall, a great jam submission! Well done!
Ouch!
If I were a duck, I would want to fall into that well.
:D
What hinders the gameplay a bit for me is the fact that I can't see what's underneath. Maybe making it a bit translucent would help.
I loved your soundtrack.
Congratulations!
very fun and interesting idea!
Great game, good music, good gameplay, tuned nicely. Impressive work for sure, my only request now is for a leaderboard - that would really take this to the next level! Great job to the 3 of you.
Perfect panic-button punishment! Sound design (crashes, slowdowns, OST) is amazing. Loved it!
What a fun and addictive game, the only thing I wish was in the game is a leaderboard so I can track my score. The level generation is fair and well thought out and the gameplay variety kept me playing for quiet a while (best score 3000 and something). Very well done!
Very nice and polish! I love it! Also cool sound design. Good job!
Very well made! Simple in premise, but I like how many movement options you gave the player. I even got some use out of the dodge roll. Movement overall felt very smooth, enhanced by the jazzy soundtrack. Visuals were also nicely cartoonish, and the ragdoll on death a good touch. Overall fun and polished game, nice work!
BTW, high score was 2215.14m
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Very fun and addictive game, especially when you start to get better and get to use dashes to recover from a sneaky plank
love the silly mood too ! could be a phone game i actually play :D
I don't know what that "its actually pretty fun, considering it doesn’t look too appealing" part of the game's description is talking about. I see plenty of visual appeal here, *especially*, in the player character's model. His face expression is just so charming! <3
While the gameplay in itself is shallow, you can only do so much with this type of "obstacle course run" structure. Speaking of, I appreciate the variety in the many props used to impede your fall. The movement is smooth and satisfying, and the music slowing down down, turning into a more miserable sounding version of it self has to be the icing on the cake. Great job!
When I see all the other players scores I feel really bad since I only got 500 after a lot of tries, I always end up hitting something since I have the feeling all the hitboxes are really big haha, but I liked the little sad ducky !
Love the duck character 3D model so much! Fun game and having it just restart immediately after dying is a very good tactic for this type of game, it's really easy to get stuck in a loop of 'just one more go'. The audio is great too, especially the slow down when you die. Great job!
That music was FIRE! it made me keep going despite constant horrible fails (them WALLS!) Really fun game, sometimes it was a little bit not clear where the collision started or stopped, and I got some frame drops here and there that made my heart race :D But overall, great fun!
This game is so dope, I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I'm addicted I got 4328 and made a small clip of it, excuse my french rambling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqW710QC9E
I would love a version with it with UNLIMITED BOOST because i can feel the wind
That game was very well made, I hate the bats, that intro scene is amazing too, I hate the bats, the speed increase is so good that whenever i launch a new run I feel so slow, I hate the bats, the music is super good and the bonk + slow of the music is on point, I hate the bats.
Best game for me so far
I hate the bats
Had a lot of fun playing on stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2429489125?t=0h52m38s
I think it'd be an interesting idea to have diving charge the slow-down stamina bar. Then you'd have to go fast to go slow.
I did have a lot of fun and kept "one more time"ing it on stream which is always the mark of a fun game!
@nomus Haha the addiction is real xD damn 4328 is a really good score, nice run! Yeah we want to change the boost to unlimited and at the same time fill the bar for the float more. with some added effects its going to be even better believe me. Thanks you for playing and the kind words! Here is my current best run, maybe you could even beat it :D the speed increase till you hit 5000
https://youtu.be/VpJxSY3JIqk
@jddoesdev i totally aggree with you, the first runs are pretty hard, we definitely plan on increasing the difficulty slower so the player can get used to the controls, thanks for the feedback!
@zelberor the dodge feels like a mixed back at the moment it is really usefull if you get used to it specially the faster it gets, but the learning curve is much slower, so we will look into that, thanks for the feebakc!
@nomus man, I'm so happy to read such an exciting comment!
Merci beaucoup pour ton commentaire! <3
I feel like the game is appearantly quite popular in France (had another french streamer who loved it) We're really focused on making some sort of mobile release for this game with alot of quality of life changes that are gonna improve the experience even more. We're excited to see the feedback and will even add a personal score meter, aswell as a global leaderboard to compete even more.
Take care and remember: YOU ROCK!
@samuel-hollywood-summers Yeah i feel your pain, we will add a Proximity shadow for the player character to be able to judge the distance better and overwork the collision. Thanks for your suggestion, great ideas!
@potatobrain Damn 5779 is crazy ! I need to play it more to beat you, I wanted to go beyond 5k anyway That speed at 5k seems so adrenaline inducing
Wow, can't believe how polished and fully realised the game feels already after one weekend. Solid sound design, clear enough visuals and everything looks and feels professional in general. Very well done, fantastic job, had fun with this one.
Such a fun and intuitive take on the theme! Sadly I have been playing for a while and couldn't get past 1000m.. I really enjoy the music as well, even the bit that plays on death :D Well done!
Well, as a wise man once said - What doesn’t kill you, does make you stronger lol. It's HARD and fun!! It'd be great if there was a way to make the controls easier for the keyboard warriors :'(
The game is fun and cool ! I like visuals, especially the duck model. The gameplay is hard but interesting and engaging for me. I think that the music gives the vibes of the game really well. Overall, cool submision !
Player controller has gud impact, like it along with level design, which creates intreseting obstacles events.
My God. REALLY addicting. Gonna save it for later so that I can play it in my free time. I've got no complaints. Maybe I would like to see a drop shadow effect on where I'm headed, but that's probably by design. Anyways, good stuff. Oh and the music is just so AMAZING.
Amazing. Love the game over slow-down, music effect. Really sells the "aw, come on!". I gotta know what's down there!
Love this game, great job on it, glad you stopped by the stream!
`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FrSnqDGyks&t=3255s`
Haha, it reminded me of old PS1 3D platformer games like Spyro, especially the music, love it! I think a CRT filter and a limited resolution would make it better! Nice controls!
@cure thanks for the great feedback, especially the mobile controls. We discussing right now how we will move forward with collectables, many ideas to test and to filter out the not so fun, weaker ones. We will for sure inform you when our first mobile build is ready, if you are interested :D
Cool and fun little game
It's really fun and well made! Graphic style is simple but effective. Music is really good, and the slow down when dying is great. It's cool that it's hard immediately, so that you don't have to play 5min to get to the hard stuff every time.
I don't like the moving obstacles, since it's hard to tell exactly the depth difference with our duck. You can kind of feel the depth difference by playing for a bit, but to me it feels like I'm getting better at dealing with the issue (like you would get used to play around a bug). For a perfect audio grade, I would have loved sound effects in addition to the music (wooosh when passing close to an object, moving obstacles making noise etc.)
Great job!
The duck is adorable! And generally the assets were great, I liked the music, sound effects and animations
Frankly there were too many controls and objects for me to progress much, something with my depth precaption didn't work with this game for some reason
At least you here the cool *boink* with rag doll animation when you lose :)
Great game! The game mechanics were great and the game looked great. I really don't know what to say other than I had a lot of fun! :D
Please add an easy mode where hitting the walls is allowed :laughing: Very humorous entry, I really like the graphics (so much props varierty) and the music. God job!
Nice comicy vibe! I'm not very good at these kinds of games - wish there was a bit more forgiveness in the falling :wink: Music was a fun rumble as well.