Bonnie Bones 🧙♂️💀 by xUMR 2019-10-27T08:05:04Z ♥ 0
Cute little witch. I'm guessing "no soul for compo" means that you got the game world going but then became too tired! :( But I hope you keep the concept, it has a street fighter type spell feel.
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Cute little witch. I'm guessing "no soul for compo" means that you got the game world going but then became too tired! :( But I hope you keep the concept, it has a street fighter type spell feel.
I didn't mind the leisurely speed - it's a bit of change in sailing as opposed to all these modern fast games! I only saw one wind direction I think - from behind the south east? So it wasn't clear if I was supposed to anchor and have a meal waiting for it to change. Pirate port!
25/30! After a while, could be because I have a heavy drain on the browser and comp overall, but it really slowed down.
But I hope this gets it out of Danger Zone!
"by mathemagician (@mathemagician), published 2 weeks ago ... Is it intentional that falling into a fruit doesn’t seem to eat it?"
"by FrozenCow (@frozencow), published 2 weeks ago @mathemagician Thanks! It wasn’t clear initially whether it should eat while falling, I think eventually we decided it should but didn’t have time to fix it unfortunately :D"
Sounds like an idea for a Post Compo version! Simple (?) mechanic change and a menu, leave the levels (almost?) where they are (unless something became unwinnable).
I like that the graphics are simple and crisp, rather than 3d render or something, because there's some counting involved.
I haven't tried level 3 much as I post this, but what's interesting by not allowing a "simple fall" on the apple is it takes some finesse to get the height sequencing right. Certainly the gravity is rather strange!
Tip for people: check your browser zoom. While some people can do it, you shouldn't have to go after the tree "blind" - zoom out so you can see the tableau.
Update: That aspect made level 2 much harder for me than many of the succeeding levels. And in fact, if you didn't want to change the mechanics, just swap level 2 into the end! The rest are far easier! I had to do some sophisticated counting for level 2, and the rest felt much more natural. But pleasant little game!
It's still a bit thin. I added a bit of dialog to a dwarf, but I'm not up for an epic effort today.
"by carterjin (@carterjin), published a day and a half ago ... I found a strategy that works. Basically you start and research fungus farm immediately, store up some food early. Then research hydro electricity, then try to gather some wood and steel. When you have 3 fungus farm and a hydro power plant, then it’s all set. "
I'm on the Windows build, on a Win10 box, and maybe it's bugged out. Nothing seems to build, researches don't tell me clearly (at all?) how many science points do anything, and it almost won't let me do any 2nd form of research, nor do I know what the requirements to research are. Clearly the first move is destroy the toy plant, borrow the workers, make 2 farms and a sawmill. But then absolutely everything seems to stall out!
Yep, and people used to tetris might get disoriented when they can't move the pieces, so the long horozontal one flattens you, and then that trapped thing.
Grandly dark indeed! I do agree a bit with the walking pace, I'll try to remember to play this one more later when I have patience. I think you can make decisions that block the win and not even really know, because one tenet of game play is to explore the menu buttons, the other is that probably "do everything" is the right gameplay.
I want a zelepath!
Funny little platformer! "The name is weird" - You collect little piles of poop!
"by CG_Fred (@cg-fred), published 2 weeks ago Uhmm yeah weird name but the game was nice, not sure how related it was to the theme though."
Hmm, you gain a point of health for every poop you collect, so starting from almost nothing. I didn't see any checkpoints but the difficulty level looked generous enough to at least get a few levels in.
Relaxing indeed! Since it''s already above, I'll sharpen the hint that the Alligator goes in the bottom room. Work in categories! : ) I think I saw a bug though, on Vivaldi browser, the actual names of the items weren't alwys showing up in the grid inventory.
A grand game indeed! A few people have done the Platformer with Missing Abilities. I'm terrible at platformers, so it was nice I was able to actually finish this one! \ Interestingly, I started with the Easy version, so I knew about the camera shift.
- I didn't see anything fancy to do with Blue Mode, and I was hoping that Elevator "bug" was a Mario type secret passage (but you can still only go right there to a point!)
- if it's humor, I get it, but I was confused by not seeing any effect from the Fairy, or Squeaky Shoes.
- Really generous checkpointing - it could have been far worse with the 3-5 lives then back to way back!
- Clever use of Left Only. I'm trying to remember if I've seen t hat again yet after playing a bunch. So the rotating platforms are simple enough in reg platforms, but then you discover you botched the angle going too far left and can't fix it!
Grand little game. It's a dead heat in style for a Commodore 64 classic called Rags to Riches. The ending here is much funnier though!
Rags to Riches had one more layer - when you were down on your luck, burglars would try to steal your pocket cash so you had to bank it. Unfortunately, that game also had a game breaking IRS agent who could wipe out your entire bank, severely decreasing the fun! But the burglar might be a nice touch. You'd duck into places to get away from him.
Visually, the graphics are certainly different than Rags to Riches, but broadly the same pixel depth or so. So I could see a Jam game with the extra time and human power bridging the gap of 30 years!
An interesting play tip for people I learned on that one, is to "over-qualify" before moving up. So it turns out, the Pizza Chef is quite irritating as a platform grind! It's much easier to churn the Bin Man all the way to the specs for the secret door.
Small Businesses are exhausting! :)
I found it nifty too. However, the timer was rather fast! It might be nice to have a "leisurely" option!
And I made it once to the Hand of the King ending, but I haven't found any secrets!
Yes, nice little proof of concept. I'm getting 3 trees and 4 houses is stable on water with the other resources growing, so if we want them all growing, maxxing pop, it's 2 trees and x houses. I get 5, leaving a 1 increment on food.
I can't see any effect at all to anything else, nor have I really waited too long for some resource to hit a threshold like the delivery guy to do something.
But the graphics are crisp, and then you can just do whatever you like with the engine shell.
"by RilleP (@rillep), published a day ago
I’m not really a fan of games that you can’t win or lose, but this was very chill."
I think you CAN win this game, just not really lose! I didn't iterate it in depth, but maybe you need a few of almost everything, then the last 4 make a sun.
Pleasant little game!
"by Z_Doctor (@z-doctor), published 7 hours ago
Did anyone use the escape button to quickly end timers?"
... And the whole game!
And it really wasn't kidding about an early close if you don't try to dig!
But then, Enter works pretty well on the Dig screen.
I'm there for ya buddy!
To me it was a mobile art piece. The sunset, and the car were really well done!
The site description is a little unclear. You start with 3 health, shown at the top, then you have to get boxing gloves to knock off your lives and send you airborne through passageways, some hidden, until you die in a heap on the next level and respawn at the checkpoint.
Clever mechanic! I got quite a few levels done, until finally I simply got stuck. I can't formally rate, but here are some thoughts. Innovation high, graphics below average (simple boxes), no sound, but decent playability if you get into it. Passable3 difficulty curve - I didn't beat the game, but got enough levels in to get the style.
I got tuck figuring out where things like the key are. I kept trying to shoot the projectiles but that didn't seem to help.
Fun little game! I couldn't find the last (middle?) ending though. I didn't feel up to methodically trying to proof out if certain items were needed for the launch or not.
Apparently, "F" toggles people following you on and off, E is some kind of Interact. So kinda shuffling people until little "blips" when progress seems to be happening.
Two levels, fun little game, and if the ending is what I think it is, funny!
I forgot who it was, but I think I remember something like the Match to House story. And I also like how relaxing this is, great for something idle when you're on hold with the bank processing all those trades! :)
I saw a hint of sadness that was stronger than the humor. But pleasant little poem!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! this is strange… explain"
It's like an interactive scaling version of the painting by Edvard Munch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
Splendid little Tower Defense.
The Dragon is clearly the MVP. I use the other ones to create "traffic patterns". And it's clever to box the big boss in so it can't move at all.
I'm rating this more as a sound check - I have enough stuff going on now I have to global mute to go to sleep. Also might detect mistakes like your number pad getting stuck.
Very charming!
I couldn't figure out of it was a fixed deck or Random Generator, but it's plenty beatable without that nuance level of strategy.
This is a nice question: "A question about the rocket launchers: since they can be countered with flares, is - given the choice - building a laser always a better option?"
The Rocket Launcher might be better, since the opponent has to buy a flare, (costs a point), and you have to wear down the shield more than it regenerates, which takes a few turns. But this game rewards a Defense First mindset, and a slow grind.
To all of the people talking about Graphics, not counting some tutorials and clarity, Ludum Dare is famous for Saturday Obsessing over Art, and it would have been a tragedy to have the entire balance off kilter "because worked on Art".
It's pretty fair, and it's nice to know if Opponent Goes First and draws a Double Big Bomb, you can still sometimes pull it back!
I liked the music too, Retro is great and it avoided the "searing Treble" that sometimes drifts into "retro tunes"!
Fun stuff!
I rather like the lack of "pressure" like #moves or a time limit etc, because if you don't have the pattern down to a science but just know the basics you can afford to mis-step and then fix it the 3rd time around or whatever.
So maybe it's been done, but it's all where you look, and since my main focus is on LD, this is the first exact copy of this I've seen!
And like the other people were saying, sometimes it's nice to have a nice presentation on top of a simple puzzle, because in other contexts you can possibly "separate and sell" the graphics engine to be put on top of other games in the same class.
Yeah, just left and right shooting and not a lot of strategy so I kept dying about half way through Gatling Gun and didn't see what else to do.
Yep, I had a lot of fun on easy level, I'll repeat the comments above about simple but effective graphics and a nifty concept I'll liken to de-energizing your opponent's nodes.
I glanced at hard-mode and it does seem to be firing more accurately, so I'll think about that later the next round of playing.
Haha, my counterpart Phoenix849 has the comment I want to echo, that the "2 button" theme has kinda tricked some of the devs into a playability trap but after a little practice you really get into your "weapons of various destruction"!
I got 25,000+ on about my second try.
Re ElliottD's note, the way I got into it was noticing how long and far the missiles went, so you can prepare "cover fire" to crunch the planes at the beginning of their range.
I plan to write this one up over at my favorite other site DonationCoder.com !
I agree very strange!
I couldn't figure out how to get past the wolf though!
I wish there was a way to know where the boss was. I kept fading into the distance!
But at least I got my serpent the right length in the post compo versions, but still had trouble finding the boss so I couldn't even try to figure that out!
... For 20 hours work! (Plus Post Compo)
Yep, me too!
Sometimes it's nice to have a game that just is lots of fun even when it is super easy!
Contrary to some opinions, there are plenty of hard games on LD, I probably would have been frustrated if there was a "fatigue meter".
For once I just liked doing two air raid bolts then hailing down wings of fire!
Whew!
I beat the game with only 88 retries! (Yikes)
Some tips for players:
Some of the moves are pixel sharp. But they all work.
In my opinion there are 2-3 "scorcher" levels near the end; the early levels are to demonstrate the mechanics.
There is no "gravity penalty" as found in some games of this genre.
Good luck!
I agree with most of the above, nailed the presentation. I think it's not at all a clone of Simon because the distraction factor begins to get to you! I believe this could actually have use with psychologists!
And it has a Phoenix!! :)
Very pleasant!
There were old skool handheld Nintendo games before they got into hi-tech that mechanics a lot like this, except the ones I remember used falling items and not a curve bounce.
And it's nice because I am a casual LD gamer, so I liked not getting crushed on level 1! And I'm terrible at most speeds of DDR type games so I could mostly pass this one at least the silver trophy within a few tries though I had to work a bit at the last one.
And really clever music note placing, that had to take work!
Yes. in fact
i play chess.
Ya gotta know (on paper!?) about 7 equations then you win.
52 cards per deck is 4 x 13 so nothin' near 54
And the prog likes to ask it twice
I think the game is a bit better than the pics might suggest.
The difficulty seems doable for anyone with shooter experience - I'm terrible at those and I got to near the end. It's a short game.
I didn't see many outright bugs - it was just awkward trying to snipe at the robots. So the "gain health as you shoot" is actually an interesting mechanic, so I ended up discovering you can "stand on top of the robots" and your health comes out as a tie, so you save that if lucky for the last round and it could be tight but feels winnable.
In the chat we went over it could have used with a couple of level saves, and a fast option to skip all the dialog, but a pleasant little game!
By the overnight into Wed Dec 16 2015 US East Blackbird put up a different build that can sometimes help players running XP avoid "invalid app" errors so I got to play it just now.
I'd call this game a really solid entry, easily 3-4 on a lot of categories.
There's a couple of different types of puzzle games - the ones with "sneak shots" where a player can get really frustrated (some like it though!) with obscure things to do to advance the action along.
This one tries to "play fair" in that it's about the pattern sequencing of the water vs the max capacity 6 drop cap and which way you go which direction and so on.
So I just ran through it with the help of the devs and with one exception once I got past "some funny stuff" I did just fine on all the levels except one.
More detailed stuff in a second post just to avoid walls of text.
The art is solid, there's some soft music, and the puzzles are ultimately very doable. There's one level in the middle Into the Trees that some of us think is actually harder than some later levels so don't get discouraged!
Yeah, pretty good stuff.
There's a couple of big font comments per "act" that don't move, so that might help a little to stay anchored and it's holistic, so if you miss a fragment it's not like a game where you lose your character-life.
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Hey guys, for all of you who got frustrated with the first ultra hard version try it again. It's balanced much better and while I still lost first try, I'm gonna go back and try a few times because at least it feels like I have a fighting chance this time!
Yeah, per sathorn and the others, this is a prime candidate for a Post Compo version. I'd think some kind of width addition check in pairs should work.
And I just rolled my critter to very small and left it that wsy. I didn't see any incentive to get bigger.
Some of your games are skull bending! But I played Unconventional Earth a while back (though my comp is misbehaving now!) and I think I recall that one being fairly easy to grasp and beat.
(I think it was some kind of defend and slowly push an advantage kind of strategy.)
This one is too hard for me because I'm no good at visually assessing complex angles and stuff!
Logicon, yeah, the point is when you're small you basically gain nothing for points.
So the whole point of the game is kinda pseudo-psych-warfare trying to "outsmart" the bullets when to grow and your points skyrocket.
But a tip is you gain the same points "1 step shorter than max" so you grow and then *shrink 1 level* so you're only two taps from being small then you can jump the grounders.
Difficulty ... a little strange. This LD is producing a lot of games that are "both easy and hard".
I know, it's prob random gen, but if you "pseudo-treat it as psych-warfare" if you think you see "1 opening to grow" don't fall into the "trap". Stay small and deal with the 7 grounders!
Then when it looks like you've got a legit window, grab points.
I made it over 10,000 a couple times before I began to do other things.
Extremely simple game but per the site notes the guy isn't a coder, but found something and gave it his all, and made a game and I don't see any / many bugs.
And it is the closest I've seen to a private joke about a program I made as a child some 28 years ago and now it reminds me of "avoiding random people here in New York City wandering around looking at their cell phones and you have to dodge them" : )
I'm new to your games, and it's *Compo* not Jam, so you def have a talent for art! This is a quick post that the concept is a lot of fun, and I'm building a list of games to go back over in more detail over at DonationCoder.com so I'll post back again in a few days during voting with more!
Yeah, I'm in the crowd of really being impressed at the art and quiet music too, and it actually *runs* on my undead monster of a comp!
It's important to separate what might be an "Easy fix" vs harder stuff. I'd think stuff like the rising prices of everything is a snap to change, and I'm with amras0000 when you build cities, (except maybe small "yearly" increases), the units stay the same, so you start with little houses then build bigger stuff. With the price of everything increasing *every purchase* and the "time to wait for a sane time to buy land" is in realtime, he's right that maybe a good concept got crunched into the "clicker" category that's an imitation of the fun like cotton candy, but then you sour on it REAL fast.
I know this is LD, but even something as simple as "build enough money to build Hotels and become a millionaire" is a goal. 1 more bldg type, but it's closer to the city build genre not the clicker "increase forever until a house costs 400,000 and you wait half an hour to buy land".
The question of difficulty is tricky here. The first several levels were like a tutorial with little risk. Then I got in real trouble with one of the ones with the spikes and gave up because it's just getting late. But really cute graphics indeed!
Very pleasant little game!
Great example of a game that rides on the character art, so it's crisp and well done.
It has a slow learning gradient so people who like leisurely pacing will like this one. The last level or two is tricky though!
And don't forget the dev was wise enough to have no lives, no timer, and infinite level restarts by holding down both left and right keys. So it's all about the puzzle, without "artificial" external pressure.
Nice! : )
Yeah, all that art work, for me only to be "ruined" by trying to jam it into the 2 keys bit. The controls were *very* strange.
Hi Gang.
Thanks to Tetha for the shout out!
Tetha said it was okay for me to give y'all a couple of VERY basic tips just to get a handle on what's going on. But you'll need a bit of cleverness to beat hard level!
- The soldiers can sometimes move diagonally to auto-attack in horizontal or vertical directions, and it's the same move, not "attack next move".
- Except for strategic gameplay, "nothing happens" until a soldier gets to your source saproling. About mid game, when you get time, station a ManEater kinda near your saproling just to help prevent last minute disasters and buy you some time to think.
- You have to maintain invaders at *all the towns* to win, so if they break free you're not done yet.
-- Strategy tip. You don't have to spend all your points every round, so bank some points Because it's all about the ManEaters.
Good luck!
You can grow your herd!
But it's tricky, I only got a few sheep, it's really easy to get jammed into a corner (but they have bump detection) but in-game that top cul de sac next to the herd pen is really tricky.
Cute little strategy game.
The initial spread is random so my highest score was 125 because the virus was trapped in a lump and some spreads you can't beat at all.
But one of the better early ones.
Hysterical parody of the LD process!
It's a pity though that 60 sec is just a little too fast for me!
Hmm. Okay, I found the game quite easy and beat it within minutes. For those of you who find it difficult, your key is that you can "wiggle" the ghost and PacMan really doesn't, so you can box him in pretty easily. So He goes for the power pills too fast, then he's stuck with dots everywhere.
But brilliant concept!
Fantastic art!
To me though it makes or breaks if there's a way out, and I didn't find it! It would take grinding and I'm not up to it.
It doesn't seem to be running as a valid application on my machine.
Yeah, the "slow down penguin" was priced too expensively for me, and starting around round five it really gets tough!
I also agree there's no trade-in system, so you're forced to use some optimal placements early on just to survive, then you wish you had them later for a big defender.
Fun little game!
I'm not so good at multi key controls but I made it to level 11 once.
I can see distant echoes of PacMan here! I did best by running first, putting a hole down, letting the enemies run into it, and then switching hands for the closeout nav to the door.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in!
I'm not part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
"!! The game requests latest version of Java. !!"
Yeah, something is wrong with my version so it doesn't run.
Yeah, a very initial version of the collectible card game style play.
I played a lot of Magic the Gathering in its early years. So this little game brought back a nice little memory or two!
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
Hi Nick!
Doreen Konbberts remarked on this. I posted a self reminder to me over on DoCo. I'll try to take a whack at it when I have a good chunk of awake hours again!
--TaoPhoenix
This looks locked behind Google Drive.
Yeah, I think so too!
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
Funny little game!
The only trouble is deciding when and why to use the teeth.
So it looks like it could benefit from an end condition so you can decide if there's any strategy.
Hallo!
This is one of the first detailed reviews I posted over on DonationCoder.com
That link is:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.msg380019#msg380019
This is an interesting "little brother" to a Tower Defense style game. The enemy aliens travel only on a certain diagonal path, so this suggests a winning strategy of planting your crop fields in the corners.
After a couple of early rounds just getting the initiative, then you slam on the accelerator by upgrading all your turrets and planting lots of fields. I don't know exactly what the final triggers of a win are, but somewhere in that range where the aliens stop damaging you and you have a lot of fields going works.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games. Yours is one of the first!
--TaoPhoenix
--TaoPhoenix
I'm not sure if this is funny because the tiger eats you first, or if it's really unbalanced gameplay!
I don't understand the objective to be able to go for the win.
Okay, here's a bit of a controversial post. At least part of my audience is the game reviewers.
This is also, the Age of Information. That also includes game spoilers!
Arrow keys move, and the 5 key spits out a green blob to help you fight the existing red blobs. But if you bomb the screen, then you find they all flip and turn into angry red enemies and you die!
Instead, only split out about 2-3 green ones. Then when a couple of them left turn red, the same 5 key shoots stars to kill them.
You should be able to win in about 30 seconds.
I think LD games should angle a bit past a "1 time joke", and more towards a repeatable game in itself. A game that is easy to beat is fine - just don't make it so the entire gameplay relies on first-play ignorance!
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
Great art and a funny "grow noodle" mechanic.
But I couldn't get the instructions so I don't know what to do! "Press any key to start ... press any other key for directions" ?!
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
In some senses, I'm not sure this is a game - I picked random stuff until I ran out of picks each year, and destroyed the island in about four years.
I visit Ludum Dare to find fun concepts, and it's the time limit of the compo/jam that nudges people into certain scope. But then it would be neat if some of the devs liked the concept enough to keep doing stuff with it.
Sometimes it's a "quick fix". I don't think that's here this time. I think this is a fun concept, because it's the "build game" in reverse.
You've got a tremendous number of things to pick. But they don't really seem to do anything. You could make a 2.0 version if you tied them all together with something like 7 stats of the island/citizens, and then gave the options prices, specs, and damages. Then you have running readouts as the user picks his weapons!
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
This one strikes me as having lots of potential for further work, but it's up to you if you "just mashed it out to make the entry", or if you like your idea enough.
--TaoPhoenix
Hallo!
This is a compo entry, so where did the graphics for the avatars come from? Do you have a character designer software program?
The art is really good all around. The concept looks nice, different from "mash the keys to type words as fast as you can". This one is more of a word search.
However, I think it's some combination of too hard and Mordrax is borderline cheating, because here is a sample of "words" he was picking:
Skrik
Cly
Deva
Skol
Rill
Are the letters chosen at random? It seems to have a lot of odd mixtures that make it really tough to get "regular words".
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
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This one is just missing the cut! I'd like to see a Post-Compo version!
--TaoPhoenix
Not a bad start. I got a little confused on the differences between cabbages (?) and tomatoes, how to control one or the other, and a bit of flow.
Mood is sometimes the easier of the two to get - but really good art can be tough! So clearly you've got a suite of tools around. I looked at your web page too.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
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Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
This one is just missing the cut for that, but that's where I fuzz my reviews a little - I'd like to see a post-compo version with all the stuff added back in! Drop me a line on DoCo because this one could really take a review!
--TaoPhoenix
For the "Red Thingie" level, I somehow couldn't get it "intuitively" so I had to iterate it.
The winning combo is Tech Support/Beam/Unclog.
"Done Naturally" I would have expected Unclog/Beam/Tech or Tech/Unclog/Beam.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
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Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
Yeah, I get some kind of "log in to Google Drive".
I'm just getting "not a valid application".
I like these little strategy games. I have rated this "Phoenix Easy" over on DonationCoder.com.
For anyone getting stuck trying to win, start reactive, then get about four tornadoes going in tandem.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
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Also over there, I post a few of my reviews of some LD games, and I put a mini review of this one over there!
--TaoPhoenix
Cute little pseudo skeet-shooter type thing.
The birds were easy - but something about the precise movement to shoot the turtles/hedgehogs was really tricky!
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
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--TaoPhoenix
An interesting decision not to have "game-enders". There seems to be no life counter and no time limit. And I think this is a good thing for this one! It's hard enough that even having a bunch of lives would get really frustrating!
It also seems to be pretty generous on "save states".
Fun little platformer!
I agree, if there's a post-compo version, try to tune the fine mechanics of sprite placement. I'd also make the art slightly less jaggedy for the terrain - maybe a bit less "grass and vines".
By the way,
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It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
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--TaoPhoenix
This looks like a cute little platformer. Very fast initial impression is it's decently balanced, so I'll play it a bit and give another update.
I don't understand. The link is a picture.
Yeah, me too, but funny take on the idea and a good example of how to stay in scope if you run out of time.
Yeah, a fun little game.
The controls feel a bit loose though.
Also, maybe you can put in more than one life, just to save annoyance when you hit the dangers.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
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--TaoPhoenix
Well, I think it's a bit "risky" to make meta-jokes for LD.
When I click Begin ... nothing happens. So, I'm sorry everyone if that's a spoiler, but there's enough roughness between people not finishing de-bugging games, and user UI problems everything from broken Unity plugins to quirks of the user machine.
A pretty tricky game.
What's the final objective?
I was trying to use the moon to knock the green planets together, but I couldn't get it done.
You might want to add to the readme some basics. It looks like if you get too close to the planets your hit points go down until you die.
Tech note: For Unity Windows, I was getting horrible near crashes, because the "Windowed" checkbox was unmarked. Once I checked that, it did what I wanted, which was to play the game in a window less than full screen.
Pleasant little concept, but the controls are really loose and bouncy!
How do the controls work?
Very funny!
Another one harder than it looked for me. My reflexes didn't take to judging how long it takes to hold down the charger to launch the chicken a certain distance.
Def high marks on the art and humor.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
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It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
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Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
Harder than it looks. I think the "danger box" is so far away from you, it makes it tricky to see when you get hit. I think I'd have preferred if they fly all the way to you before it registers a hit.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not
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Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
It looks like this game wants to involve a microphone where you make actual physical sounds.
I won't be playing this one.
Hallo!
"This is my first Game Jam, I have no idea if work has to be up to a certain "standard" but I didn't want to be over ambitious and work beyond what I believe I can do."
Yeah, work *does* have to be up to "certain standards plural", but then those move around in the context of each individual submission. A key idea is that prototypes might be a good idea to get comments. Then in the "little bubble" of that dev's game world design experience, you look for little settings that show you put some polish into the game.
So on this one, what velloso was saying that I agree with is that you need to put more warmup into the game, and more slack time before collision, and more than one death.
So look at your size settings for all the "moveable objects". I think if all of them became skinnier horozontally then it would take the enemies some 12 seconds to reach you instead of five, and a "3 2 1 go" countdown would help too because you need a mouse to click play but then run out of time getting ready for the keyboard controls.
By the way,
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40573.0
It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
If you stop by DonationCoder, please put in the code/tag LudumDare-Tao so they will know it's my doings that brought you in! I'm not part of any of the site structure ... just doing my bit for my favorite site on the net!
Also over there, I post a few of my detailed reviews of some LD games.
--TaoPhoenix
I did pretty well with the controls using two hands. I put my middle right finger on the Z key and my left first two fingers on the A and Q. I got to 171.
It has a little trouble drawing the socks around that point.
The DonationCoder LudumDare 32 April 2015 thread is here:
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It happens to be their 10th anniversary! So I don't program myself ... so I am unleasing Weapons Grade Enthusiasm!
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--TaoPhoenix
Cute game indeed, but I ran into some bugs where it would lock up esp at 0 action points.
Yeah, good concept. I'm getting bugs where the souls get stuck spinning in circles. I managed to beat it once so far though.
Nice little relaxing concept!
Yeah, I'll echo all the comments above about the art, and loose controls.
Fun tip to beat the boss: Run back to home base. It prevents the spawned minions from bothering you too much except the dog. : )
Cute little game. The last level 7 is the one that made me think and work a bit. You sorta have to change directions because that first planet on the left has the really fast transfer rate.
I'll go a little sideways and pass on the "graphics" because with minor tweaks they could have been Atari 2600 graphics.
It's just a cute little theme, and for these kinds of things, when the UI is minimalist, you can't have many bugs and this one didn't have many.
I write posts on DonationCoder.com, and I try to rate games to my own (very subjective) difficulty scale. I think this did a decent job of training and easy early levels, then about 2nd before the end of the slow levels and def the fast levels, it jumped a notch in difficulty.
But nice concept, something I haven't seen before.
Another cute one all about the fun and the art. Many games here are getting good music, especially the jam teams with a music guy. But art seems to be much harder, and this is amazing for a compo!
Yep, this was just a blast of fun art!
It's my first clicker game in a long while, so the novelty was good for me. I got to the e120's and let it go there too.
That seems to be the spot, after about an hour and change.
Yeah, I too liked the idea but the difficulty was too hard!
I never played the original flappy bird, but this was cute.
Funny spoof on the old Nintendo fighting games.
The health bag is nice and generous.
PS. It's got the Brokken flaw of World Heroes 2 - kicks are about 5 times stronger / distance advantage than your punches.
Cute little thing. I quit after a best of 8, but at least you stayed simple and completed it.
Yeah, ya gotta let experiments live in their own space. So it's about the art and mood, and not about bunches of levels.
A nice relaxing platform "mini puzzle". When I play LD games, I enjoy them on the easier side, and this one was really generous with level choosing, and the game play wasn't "pixel sharp or die in 1 minute".
Hmm, I'm not seeing anyone posting spoilers yet. The plane is in fact the last level. (That seems to have been happening a bit in LD lately - fairly short games, but everyone gets stuck on the last level just when they are about to win.)
The way to beat the plane is to fly diagonally up or down and far right, then match the rhythm of exactly five shots and a space, so that in the interval you decoy the plane up or down not to get cornered, forcing the red plane out of position, then it can't catch up. After some 4-5 times of doing this, it starts to get close, so then just when it's done firing, you brake hard and get behind it. Then it can't hurt you, so stick your nose turret into its rear engine or whatever and press the mouse to blow it up.
Sorry, the ending doesn't explain anything, but not bad for a beginning developer. I'd prefer like here that there don't seem to be any/many bugs, rather than sometimes otherwise the dev burns a crucial 6 hours in the start and then gets jammed at the end.
Yeah, this was a subtle entry.
P.s. I am getting an error.
"
error during shader init:ERROR: 0:3: 'highp' : precision is not supported in fragment shader"
And I'm not sure what "s" does. In my Windows version it started changing the overall size of the game screen.
I am stuck. What are you supposed to do once you have the stuff from the underground room?
Yeah well when fellas go Retro, you "lose" all those million dollar CGI renders but you go back to the games that made us as children.
Especially in a time limited compo/jam, it's a clever trick that can save an entire day if you can polish it enough. I think I'd wish for more than one life here.
But I was slightly too late for pure PET goodness. I'd seen notes about it all here and there, but I grew up on a C128 which was a C64 packaged with a top-layer of easier Basic. But I screen-shot'ed the opening intro! Commodore lives again for one weekend!
Often I wish these games had adjustable difficulty settings. I really liked the layout of this one, but it would have been more relaxing to play if you had real chances to save all five miners with mostly smart play. (When going through a whole bunch of LD games I'm not a fan of really hard games, and a lot of the devs keep remarking that their instinctive settings are too hard! I did finally manage to save a couple of miners but as mentioned elsewhere bad draws can really sink you!)
I also think there's a small problem with the random generator. I started keeping charts and in a few whole runs of closing the game and re-starting it, the "preferences" of who likes what consolation remained constant, and one of those runs almost forced bad draws!
Otherwise I really like the layout and I have been talking about it on DonationCoder.com! : )
Despite a few comments here, I'd rate this game well on the side of easy, which is "relaxing" vs a frenetic miss a move and you're dead kind of thing.
I created a "minigame" to push the game to its limits. I've gotten a couple of wins on the 600+ man range. With a little work I think someone can hit 700+. But around there feels like the limit - just running out of room in all categories because the villagers can't serve the last couple of rows of houses.
But the engine still sorta worked with 600 items, so that's impressive for a Ludum Dare.
For those of you who were hoping for more depth, he was trying for it, but got jammed in the stat balancing. See his writeup here:
http://hybridmind.com/games/ludum-dare-29-in-the-black-post-mortem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ludum-dare-29-in-the-black-post-mortem
Meanwhile, there are at least a few paths to a win, so if you beat it once, look for one of the other ones.
Tips for first timers:
Ignore punctuation
love love is a double word
try to stay way ahead to give time for the big words.
The first couple are magnificent and administrators
Cute little entry. I'll go easy on you, since I can't program at all. My easiest improvement would be to have spent just a wee bit more time on the graphics, even half an hour, to make the main character be a smiling critter with a hat or something. Maybe 7 lines of text would establish a meta-joke that you're stuck in an Atari, just to turn the retro look into humor.
"Hard to get used to the physics. I think it would take a good bit of practice."
I dunno, I caught on to the basic concept in five minutes, and in fifteen I made it almost twice around the planets. What worked well for me was taps of the arrow bar to keep the speed down and a little lucky intuition that you can "Lap" the enemy knights so to give you room for planet jumping.
"You need the August 2008 DirectX update in order to run this application...."
I won't even try - my comp is older, circa 2006.
I got about 4 screens in and then it seemed umbeatable but different, aka the famous "run the hands over the keyboard" did nothing against a green square. But I think I had all/almost all the previous T-mushrooms.
Not sure how to proceed. I made a bunch of blocks on top of the (viruses?) and then it all just sat there.
I'll also echo the nice innovation/art but I had no idea what I was doing and accomplished nothing.
I coudn't find anything to do. After the left and right arrows running my hands over the keys did nothing. And Bad Physics, if you're gonna let me run "under the planet", don't kill me by making me "fly off at Australia".
Too hard to install - all the pieces were on Google Docs.
Sorry, this game fails Discovery from my view. When "smush your hands over the keyboard" does nothing and the ladder kills you after five levels, there's nothing here to help.
Sorry, this fatally crashes on my XP box.
I can't find any objective. It seems like it's nothing but escaping sharks, but without any end objective. (Or if there is one, it's too far out.)
For example, a Northern felt pretty easy, a Straight South route felt incredibly difficult (25ish deaths in 10 minutes)
Instead, I found the easy difficulty relaxing - I won't be playing this game again, (because there are so many of them!), so it was nice not to have to deal with such a brutal difficulty level to goad me into faux obligation. I slipped down to as low as about 2 lives near the end with the triple-beehives and the MonsterBee, so total brain dead playing would have killed me. But I was able to beat the game on the third try after a couple sacrificial runs just seeing what can be touched or not.
LD46 — Keep it alive (1)
MACHINA by Harry Alissavakis 2021-03-31T15:36:06Z ♥ 1
Look! It's a late comment! That's half the fun of LD for me - going back when people tink it is all over! This is indeed great general gaming music, and it works because there's no timer!