l6ria 2025-10-06 21:46
love this game
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD58 → ShroomBound
By tomssuli, kakka22, Saana, duckman, SilentLegion, Turgunen, Dasnukki, A4po, Salvation, Nani, maldoror, Seamonsteri, Bigstrongddoge, Septimor and JimiKe
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 134 | 3.89 | 41 | |
| Fun | 269 | 3.53 | 40 | |
| Innovation | 308 | 3.38 | 40 | |
| Theme | 88 | 4.18 | 39 | |
| Graphics | 178 | 4.14 | 39 | |
| Audio | 46 | 4.16 | 39 | |
| Humor | 44 | 4.11 | 40 | |
| Mood | 25 | 4.36 | 40 |
love this game
I can't seem to pickup the mushrooms at the beginning? i can pickup the flowers no problem but the mushrooms just don't get picked up. I do absolutely love the style and audio and i chuckled when i went to pick the flowers up.
Edit: It seems to be a problem with the LD embedded one, the game through the link does work properly!
Thanks for the comments! The "flowers" are actually mushrooms too, maybe we should have been clearer with the design. 😂
i lost it on the first mushroom i picked up, lol also, shooooooms
@robert18 The game had a bug initially when we uploaded the html version, it is fixed now.
Picking up a first flower caught me off guard
I liked this game. Good drawing, as well as sounds. I definitely didn't expect the main character to pick up things from the ground like that..
this art is amazing, obviously took a lot of effort to get all the assets for the game, i will say Grandma picking things up did catch me off guard in a bit of humor. it seems scarlet rot follows me in a few games.
over all fun experience, gameplay left a little to be desired, but the theme music and art add to the overall feel massively. it almost felt Fran Bow esc or like Miss Fortune in vibe. granny could have used as much art love as the rest of the game as she stands out form the very detailed background
over all really good game with so much style
Your rap skills are too funny :-D
When I click the credits button in the main menu I have to refresh the page to get back to the main menu :-)
Couldn't the old lady stoop over in the other direction? That is a funny gimmick :-)
The art is really cool, you got a lot done in 72 hours, impressive!
At first it was not very obvious to me why I died, I had to figure out that I needed to let the creatures follow me, then hide until they were gone. But I got the end eventually.
Overall a really cool game, great job, good work!
Loved the overall atmosphere with the cute graphics and nice music! Fun touch when crouching haha
You guys rock (and rap)
That was a very fun experiece, I must say. I liked the crepy vibe on it. The granma is awesome... although, I don't understand her fixation for mushrooms... hehe
Good entry! I finished it and got to hear the rap at end. Very nice. I like the story, and the grannie panties were funny as hell.
Cool! Like It!.
@l6ria @eugenik Tell me more! What part did you exactly like? Did you play to the end? Was there something we could have done better?
@rise12600 @gonutz Thanks for wholesome reviews. Nice that our humor and mood worked so well! I wish we had time to playtest more and put in more hints for how to distract the monsters.
Really loved the art style! Super detailed and cool, with music and sound that add a lot to the mood. I had a big laugh gathering the first mushroom lol. Embedded version couldn't let me advance past the circle of musrooms, but fullscreen version works fine! Really funny + creepy = great game! Thank you for the experience!
The music and graphics are awesome, the bare butt is too, everything is great, 5 stars
@kupnu4 There was a bug in the embedded version at first but we fixed it already on tuesday.
I tried the embedded version right now and could get to second level just fine :thinking: ...there is a possibility of failure there though as the wisp has to hit the player to continue, if that somehow fails you softlock there.
Anyways, thank you for the review. Our team worked real hard for the game. Its nice to hear you liked it!
@nexyisan Thanks for the praise! The butt wasn't actually naked. The darker part not supposed to be a shadow, it's panties :laughing:
The mushroom picking animation was a hilarious surprise ))
I was eventually knocked down by the light point because I barely dodged or countered. Oh my, the grandmother's jumping energy is astonishing.
Wasn't expecting jiggle physics and grandma-panties
Well... that happened.
Here's my recorded playthrough to provide as much feedback as possible. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-d0cf8VPfs
@100th-coin Thank you so much 💛
Great playthrough! It's always fun and enlightening to see someone go through the game and to see how they react to everything. Loved all the voices you made for our characters <3
The mouse was supposed to move the grannys gaze (the flashlighty thing) and the gaze did couple of things inside the game. The weeping angels only follow you when you look away and the Troll gets temporarily blinded by the gaze... And of course you'd want to take a look at the detailed scenery with it.
I think you might have had a controller connected. If a controller is found, the gaze follows the right stick instead of mouse.
That bug with the wisp in the fairy ring is common. Because of how it was programmed if the wisp missed the player, you would get softlocked. I think that's actually gamebreaking and I could probably fix it so further players wouldn't encounter that bug.
Nice game. I almost finished third level. There are a few tiny detais which could be more polished (I can make a list on request) but nothing what would make me give you less stars in any cathegory I rated.💗
@8bitcharlie Thanks for the review!
I'd very much like a list of what to enhance. This competition is all about progressing game-development skills and it helps if we know what we could do better!
@tomssuli Here it is: 1) I didn't find a way how to exit credits (had to realod the web page); 2) In Settings is 'Keybinds' but no way to select it or click on it; 3) When I clicked on 'Start' for the first time it looked like there is a deadlock. Actual game was entered roughly 15 seconds after I clicked on the 'Start' button (played in Firefox on old MacBook Pro 2014); 4) There is "glowing yellow sphere" around the player which prevented me to be able to read "[Down]" in "[Down] to Pick Up" (white text on yellow background...).
Oh, this has great atmosphere! Like the others have said, first time picking something up caught me off guard... :-D The logic was a bit unclear, i.e. why I kept dying even though I managed to avoid the creatures. But perhaps I got it now from the other comments. Anyway, I especially enjoyed the music that was a big part of the atmosphere, and having a story behind the game definitely adds to its charm. Good job!
yep the rap part in the end makes it perfect :D no really the game was fun and the creature design was insane. also cool twist and the mood of the other world was really nice. good job!
This game is incredible. I have no idea how you all put this together. Perfect as a Halloween theme and perfect for the Collector theme. Perfect game! I gave it 5/5s across the board. =)
Huge team! Must've been some wizardry going on there to get all of those coordinated :smile: But in any case, great work! This is now the second game this LD that has made me laugh out loud :laughing: Liked the subtle details going forward in the game and yeah, granny is pretty awesome :smile:
Loved the ambiance! One thing that bothered me a bit though is the text animation, think it would have been easier to read without the layout readjusting at every letter appearing (not sure if my explanations are clear).
@7uc4s
Thanks! ...and yep, I also wasn't sure if the center aligntment of text was the correct choice. It made the text creation a bit jumpy. But we decided to go with it and didn't change it while developing.
Maybe we try different kind of texts in the next game. If we make texts at all.
Thanks for the fun experience. It was really fun playing this game. I didn't quite expect to see a grandma's butt, haha. Снимок экрана от 2025-10-22 02-40-06.png I really enjoyed the story, the atmosphere, the art, the sounds, and the mechanics. The game is addictive. But I still haven't figured out how I can die, other than being caught in the fire. I'm slowly becoming covered in moss, but why? Overall, I really enjoyed the game. Good luck at the jam!
By the way, if you enjoy weird atmospheres, you might want to check out our game too!🤪
I like this game. The atmosphere is great. It took me a while to figure out what I needed to do. The music is very special and very pleasant to listen to.
Woah, love the atmosphere of this game! The pixel art and music is amazing (und the grandma is super funny too XD). Amazing entry!
Amazing game, super spooky and great atmosphere. Beautifully done by the team!