zazios 2026-10-19 22:27 ♥ 1
Short, sweet, and fun. Nice :D
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD60 → I am Computer
By ioana
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD60 | Ever | |
| Overall | 26 | |||||
| Fun | 26 | |||||
| Innovation | 26 | |||||
| Theme | 26 | |||||
| Graphics | 26 | |||||
| Audio | 26 | |||||
| Humor | 25 | |||||
| Mood | 24 | |||||
Short, sweet, and fun. Nice :D
FYI, there might be something buggy going on with your site - Using the arrow keys to move around causes the site itself to start scrolling down to a console below the game. At first, I thought this might have been a meta computer-within-a-computer bit of gameplay, and was quite confused.
Going into fullscreen did help, but every time I closed a menu with escape, I'd have to hit escape twice (once to exit full-screen, and once to close the menu)
I didn't leave a rating yet since it definitely wasn't working as expected, but let me know if you make a fix and I'll come back! :)
@koolruz You can close a menu using the same key you used to enter it, this should fix the fullscreen issues. I know Emscripten was being a bit finicky with the website. Should be playable though if you don't use escape.
Oh, that worked! I kept getting stuck because I pressed enter on the confirmation screen when I installed an item, which got me stuck in my inventory.
With that new knowledge in tow (and about a dozen failed attempts) I made it through!
I didn't expect the ending, and it made me quite sad (which I suspect was the point, so well done!)
@koolruz Thank you for playing until the end! Sorry for the bugs here and there, and I'm glad the ending came across the way it was supposed to:)
Very unique game, but I found it very confusing, I didn't really understood how to kill the enemies, maybe an small tutorial could help? But I really like the graphics and how the game is structure, just like old school dungeon crawlers.
@neeko69 You're right about the tutorial, sorry it was a bit confusing. To attack you walk into enemies, like in traditional roguelikes. I've changed the description to reflect that.
Thanks a lot for playing!
THAT'S why people say the simpler the better! The mechanic is fun and quite clear after you get a hang of it. Confusing at first but when it clicks, it clicks. Awesome.
Such a unique and clever little game—amazing work!
Very nice theme and idea to collect old software!
Great job on this project! The visual style and audio fit together really nicely, creating an awesome vibe. Super impressive execution within the 72-hour limit! Left my ratings! If you have some spare time, feel free to drop by our page and try out our entry as well. Would love to hear your feedback!
Simple and straight after understanding the controls, I think adding some retro sounds or sound effects would add a lot to the mood of the game and graphics. Great job.
I like it, classic dungeon crawler style with a retro tech theme. Could use some better feedback when you are attacking enemies.
Always love to see raylib games, well done ! Maybe lacks some feedback when interacting with the enemies, at first I didn't really understand why I died. But overall its nice !
I like it, simple but enjoyable. Nice work mate
@randomhuman @alex-lumi More feedback would've been a good idea, you're right. I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway!
Not fully sure what I was supposed to do with installed software. I mainly tried to lure enemies away from blocking the pathways and it worked until it didn't. Simple retro style works!
Great job, your game is amazing! I loved playing it, super cool
Nice to see a take on roguelike in LD. I used to play them quite a lot when I was younger (countless hours in ADOM), this brought back those memories. Nowadays I don't even have a numeric keypad to test the diagonal movement but I'm guessing there isn't one anyway.
I liked the idea and I feel that it fits the theme quite well. At the beginning it wasn't clear to me how I died (I thought cats might be friendly) - but I just didn't see the life meter at the bottom of the screen. Only after going fullscreen this became apparent. So I agree with what was mentioned before about the feedback - maybe some UI adjustment would help as well.
Enjoyed your entry, thanks & congrats!
@marudziik There is no diagonal movement, no. I don't have a numpad either, and I thought the classic hjkl bindings would be a no-go. Most people are used to a four-directional grid so I just did that.
Yeah I'm kind of frustrated by how Emscripten handled the window resizing stuff, I was considering just locking it to 800x600 or something. The UI could have been a bit better in general, though.
Thanks so much for playing!
it definitley helps to in stall the things lol tried my first run but couldn't figure out what i was doing second time around it made more sense. great concept and fun originality.
I really enjoyed the unique atmosphere of crawling through the dungeon while dealing with these retro installations. The premise of having to install old software to progress is a genuinely clever take on the roguelike genre.
Very interesting! I especially like the terminal down the screen, that really feels like an old computer a lot!
Cute little classic roguelike. I found it a bit hard to figure out how to deal with the fish enemies at first, due to not being able to see how much health they had left, although I got it eventually. Not a very long game overall, but I had fun.
I got to the end, but I might have missed some content.
At first, I tried to explore every floor but died to some fish. Next try I decided to just head to the next floor as soon as I find it and unexpectedly got to the end skipping a floor or two.
It would be cool if enemies dropped different modules so the player got surprise rewards for fighting them.
Also, the game didn't launch on Firefox 158.0.1, but it works fine in Chrome.
@woona Thanks for playing! Yeah the drops and spawn algorithm aren't very good, they could definitely have been made more interesting.
In firefox it probably quietly asked for WebGL permissions, that would be to the left of the URL bar. I don't think you get a pop-up so it's possible it just went by unnoticed. It should work on firefox, unless I messed something up really badly.
@ioana Oh, the game works in Firefox now. Sorry for misleading.
I am unsure what to do in this game, does installing the old machines do anything? Health in this game is too low I think, some enemies leave traps in room entrances upon dying, so that if you have 4 health left you can't access the room. It is also unclear whether the fish and the astronaut are friendly or hostile.
@andriybyelikov Thanks for playing!
The descriptions for some of the software are a bit abstract, but yes, all of them do something. Some increase damage on hit, some slow down enemies, and there is one which makes enemies visible outside your field of vision. You're right that could be more clear haha.
One of the discs on the first floor (DDT.COM) will have the effect of restoring one HP per turn. This will reduce the problem you've encountered with too low max HP. Retreating from fights is sometimes necessary to let HP recover, but you can sometimes get into some sticky situations where you are surrounded, especially if the RNG seed is bad.
There are balance issues with the game, yeah. On a decent RNG seed you can finish it, although the last floor can be quite difficult w/ the fish, who have really high HP.
All NPCs are hostile. They each drop a different kind of hardware/software. I could've made that clearer, that's on me.
Could you elaborate on the trap thing? There are no traps in this game. But yeah entering rooms on low HP can end the game easily; hopefully if you have DDT.COM and aren't unlucky with the dungeon layout you can heal before needing to enter a new room.
Sorry you didn't have a great experience! Your feedback is noted, thanks a lot:)
@ioana The traps are the things that look like bear traps, which if I remember correctly killed me a few times upon me having 4 HP and stepping on them. Also I never managed to find this DDT.COM. Perhaps because of bad rolls?
@andriybyelikov The DDT.COM is one of the two discs guaranteed to spawn in the same room you spawn. The field of vision is quite low at the start so it's possible you missed it?
As for the bear traps.. I think that's just where my programmer art breaks down:) It's probably the computer chip symbol which represents a piece of hardware you can install with F. Completely harmless. You might have gotten hit by an enemy instead, perhaps. Or hit some bug I'm not aware of.
I think I definitely should have included a tutorial room, but I kinda ran out of time. Thanks for the feedback!
