Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD58 → I Need Paperplanes
By kvn, popcat, Zyt and Lorance Pan
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 475 | 3.40 | 29 | |
| Fun | 531 | 3.13 | 29 | |
| Innovation | 446 | 3.16 | 29 | |
| Theme | 376 | 3.69 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 463 | 3.51 | 29 | |
| Humor | 327 | 3.16 | 29 | |
| Mood | 464 | 3.44 | 30 |
"The A and D keys are unresponsive; is this a bug? I can only dash by pressing AA or DD, and I cannot stop once I start. This prevents me from using the elevator to reach the second floor. Also, the nurse isn't actually moving, she's just pacing in place."
The only way to move is with the dash, the move buttons don't work. The nurse doesn't chase you but you can dash on her to lose. If you manage to go to the top with these restrictions, the number of paperplane you can collect is only at 4 but you need to get 7 paperplane so it's impossible to reach the end. You tried but maybe not had the time to finish, the result is pretty nice anyway, good job!
im so proud of your guys.you guys made it.theres a lil bug still in it.keep on going.
@shelter132 Thanks Playing our game, because we developed it using MAC. At the time of our testing, we didn't find these bugs. We will upload the new version again on Windows. Thank you very much for playing our game.
@absolushzero Thanks Playing our game, because we developed it using MAC. At the time of our testing, we didn’t find these bugs. We will upload the new version again on Windows. Thank you very much again for playing our game.
Hey @shelter132 @absolushzero sorry abt the bug, we fixed the bug in our new version, if you still have time welcome to retry :)
Great game, I had fun running away from the nurse. The art, music, and mechanics felt good. The game is fun to play and it's wonderful.
Great game, very innovative mechanics :)
Had a weird bug where the main menu and intro were excessively zoomed in, so I couldn't actually read any of what was going on. Luckily, it seemed to be fine in actual gameplay, although I couldn't find all the planes on the second level, so maybe there were out of sight ones I missed?
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Hi @profugo-barbatus, thx for the comment! I not 100% sure but it might be that u were playing in full screen? In that case, the corners of the levels would not be visible, so when paperplanes fall into the corners they can't be seen. Theoretically, the first 2 levels are passable and the last one needs just a little luck. If u would like, u could replauy with the window open (not full screen) and see if that helps?
Fun little game! It did felt a bit solvable as in when you know what to do you can clear the levels quite fast and get ahead of the nurse. Maybe a few checkpoints would have avoided that.
Nice little runner game. Took me a little while to figure out that I was supposed to dash and crash into the solid brick wall that blocked my path. :D Unfortunately, I seem to have the error with the cut-off screen, too. I've played in windowed mode, my screen resolution is 1920x1080 - the window was also too large for me to see the bottom row. So, I played in fullscreen mode to see where I was going. I like the way you can use your items to clear your path. Felt like I was solving small puzzles while running. The randomness of the drops were irritating, though - sometimes I got the item I needed, other times I got stuck, because a bin didn't contain a water bottle to destroy the next wall. I feel like the game would have been more enjoyable without the lucky draws. Also, I didn't see the difference between the wall crashable by dash and the dash-resisting walls at first - maybe a slightly different color might have helped. :) I really liked the way you integrated the tutorial in the game level. No waiting, just playing. Always a fan of that approach!
Nicely done, it's a fun little runner game :)
I believe the backstory of this game with the art style in the title scene has the potential to become something truly exceptional. When I see the words "childhood dream of flying through the night sky", I came up with the story: The hospital is kind like a prison that built in your mind. The paper airplanes contain fragments of your memories — collecting them helps you recover those memories and overcome the shadows of your childhood. At last the moment you collect all the airplanes and let it flying through the night sky. It will bring the sunlight which is also the symbol of you accept your childhood trauma and ready to move on. Sadly this is just a little running game. It's also a good game but not the kind of style I like:)
good end
@ntimi noted, thank u so much for the detailed review, this rly means a lot to us! <3
@daniel123 yes! we initially aimed for a powerful backstory that reflected themes relating to childhood, aging, and the often ignored group of Alzheimer's patients in society. Sadly we couldn't fully present it due to time constraints, but thank u for noticing it :)
I like the theme of this game :thumbsup:
love the theme and the story!
Love the idea and the theming for the game. However it looks like the drops for the trash bins is randomized so sometime you get softlocked by rng? Other than that very cool little 2D puzzle platformer
A decent runner game. I love the story. Unfortunately I did not manage to complete it. The sides were cut off on my screen which was not ideal. Once I completed a level but the light was still red though I could see nothing I missed, unless it was off my screen. It felt like I was randomly losing sometimes, I think it was because I was too close to an elevator when the nurse uses it. Perhaps a non-instant transition or a grace period would help there.
@someone Thank you for playing! The elevator's red light will only turn green after you collect all the paper planes on the current floor. Once it turns green, you can take the elevator to the second level. If you're still interested, feel free to keep challenging it!
I noticed that others have similar scaling issues to me. I'd suggest looking into the [Scale With Screen Size](https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.4/Documentation/Manual/script-CanvasScaler.html) option on the Unity Canvas, it will let you set a target resolution so that the game looks like what you intended for most resolutions and aspect ratios.
@jacobingalls thank u for the suggestion! I actually didn't know abt this feature of unity, I'll look into it <3
very good concept!
I like the concept and the atmosphere. It took me a while to figure out how to get past the first wall, but after that it became more interesting. Good job!
It was nice. I did not finish the game and it felt that some of the difficulty was not completely intended (or maybe you're just thorougly familiar with your game and it did not feel difficult to you), but I did keep trying several times, so you definitely have something there!
Took some time to get hang of the mechanics, but after that it was basically a memory game of " where is the thing that i need to use to get away ". Some music could have been a good addition?
It's a good idea, but the difficulty is a bit off. The controls are a bit complicated, and they're not very intuitive: for example, it's unclear that a wall only explodes if you move a little away from it, not if you're right next to it. But overall, I liked the game ;)
Great visuals and a great theme! I felt so tense during the struggle with the nurse, haha.