Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Aiko
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Hooper | jam | 1108 | 3.29 | 3.00 | 3.06 | 3.38 | 4.10 | 3.43 | 3.10 |
Short, sweet and polished to heck. I love what you've done! Taking a simple concept (That totally fits the theme), putting it into a game and then just perfecting it. The music fits, the particle effects are beautiful but simple, and it was fun!
The final dot was quite tricky to get, but I got it on my first shot!
Going into this I was thinking two things:
"Oh I guess making a shmup in 72 hours is pretty cool" "Wait how does this have anything to do with looping?"
Well, you definitely managed to fool me, this was pretty sick! The music slowing down, the rewind, the explosions of your clones, it was great! There's just a few points I want to point out:
-Like Quinn mentioned, your clones aren't really that helpful, because when they die, you're immediately in hot waters again. Maybe it would be cool if, instead of starting out with them, you could spawn them when you need them! Might not keep in line with the theme as well, but it'd benefit the gameplay heaps! (Definitely cause the game is hard and I'm bad at shmups.)
-The background was a bit too busy. It was kind of distracting and the simple sprites moving over the complex background made it harder for me to focus.
But, I'm not gonna lie. Damn dude, that was pretty awesome!
~~I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go.~~
Very charming little experience! The only thing that kind of held it back was the fact that keyboard input was only detected every now and then, making everything I had to type out extremely slow.
Man, I can never get enough of games that let me mess around with the file system. I always wonder if I missed a little easter egg somewhere...
You planning to turn this little thing into an ARG?
Very charming! Got a little confused on the boot cause all I could see was the debug menu. The silence is a bit of a shame, but I can clearly see that all the love and time went into the art and the mechanics. Brilliant little puzzle game, although one could say this concept has been done a couple times before.
@kyrio Yeah, we had to rush a bit to get it shipped. The spinning's a bit tough to get used to and a little feedback on when it's spinning hard enough would have been nice.
The chest actually does work, but you have to defeat the wolfette that's guarding it. Didn't really have the time to make that clear either.
Crunch got us good but we had a great time :D
@sidonie-go @no-grapes-games Thanks for playing! Lemme tell you though... We've tried keyboard controls and it's far more RSI inducing than using a mouse. We were thinking about using gamepad controls, but we didn't have time to make both and didn't want to exclude the people who didn't own one.
I also agree we need to make everything a bit more clear. Damage indicators etc.
I appreciate the feedback!
Everything's quite responsive, but I have to say, the first time I hit a spike I jumped out of my chair at the sound effect! I also can't finish the first clockwise loop, I just simply can't make the jump unfortunately. I also couldn't go back because spikes had appeared that I couldn't quite jump over.
The graphics are quite charming though!
Wow. I knew we were going to get some P.T. inspired games but you outdid yourself. For such a simple game every single loop was gripping and different. You didn't drag it out too long or pulled any jumpscares, these are the kinds of horror games i love.
Also, can I talk about the **MUSIC**! Definitely the best part of the game. The loop was very satisfying, and it actually only became better when you started messing with it. I'm incredibly impressed.
Thank you for letting me play this. Honestly.
I did wish for a second that there could be more endings, each revealing a little bit of the story behind the game, but I think that might be a bit much to ask for 72 hours.