The Good Doctor by Sestren 2012-12-20T00:30:00
I really enjoyed the graphics and the mood, and I also really like the mechanism where the little rats would squeak when you got close to them to let you know which way to go.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → angela
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 | One room | We are going to play this game. Cause its a really great game. | compo | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Grow Ray!! | jam | 692 | 3.13 | 3.00 | 3.20 | 3.80 | 2.47 | 3.20 | 26 | |||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Escape the Bug Screen | compo | 607 | 3.15 | 2.96 | 2.93 | 3.41 | 3.44 | 3.22 | 3.35 | 41 | ||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | You Only Get One Skate! | jam | 474 | 2.47 | 2.59 | 3.35 | 3.29 | 2.18 | 2.88 | 33 | |||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Clowns Vs. Bunnies | compo | 608 | 2.54 | 2.18 | 1.69 | 2.11 | 3.00 | 2.91 | 2.30 | 2.63 | 40 |
I really enjoyed the graphics and the mood, and I also really like the mechanism where the little rats would squeak when you got close to them to let you know which way to go.
I don't think the puzzles are working for me. I got through the first one, but couldn't get the others. I went to your site and entered the answers from the walkthrough, but still got access denied. It could TOTALLY be user error though. This was challenging and fun to play. Props.
um... well, i didn't rate it because it says "Do not score unrunnable entries." But - it's probably still better than my game :) +10 for innovation!
nice graphics
the audio was excellent, and I love the game mechanics. The [i] for info and [c] for controls didn't work for me though, so I couldn't see a score or anything. But I know how difficult it was to get everything working in 48 hours.
What a great idea! If you expand on it, you might consider making the space bar "shoot." Using the arrows to move and the mouse to shoot was a little counter-intuitive for me. But awesome game - great job.
lol @ "Power of Love 'n all that." Fun game.
apparently not everyone shares my inherent fear of clowns... i was actually pretty proud of the collision detection between the clowns and the roads and other clowns. I guess I should have a made a visible field so people know that clown can't be placed there, instead of just making it disappear. it was my first video game
@zenmumbler - that site is awesome!! thanks for the link. my favorite part is the "slap the clown" game - I wish I'd have thought of THAT during the compo :D
I made it through 6 towns so I guess my mustache was adequately large :) I can tell you put a lot of work into the points/damage system, but maybe a fire button would have made it feel a little more interactive.
was fun trying to keep the balance
Dude, sick! ;) But props for the car handling, the sounds, the tire tracks were a *great* touch, and also the little people flying when you hit them. Also, I accidentally trapped a guy between the car and wall and he just rained out carnage for like 30 seconds - made me laugh. Great game - would never have guessed you pulled it off in a single weekend.
little buggy, but Yay! I won :)
I couldn't do it. It was too hard. But fun trying and great idea.
the reverse screen thing is pretty cool, and the gamer rage was funny.
well, I don't get it, but kudos for matching the audio in the video clip. your sounds are spot on.
I like the double jumping to get up walls. I'm not left handed though, so it would have been great to be able to use shift and control on the right side of the keyboard. Great art style.
Original idea! Really challenging. I only made it to level 3 before I yelled at it and quit in frustration :) Fun game though. I might try again later.
Great art and music. I agree with Binary - "Difficult as all hell." But fun. I also love how the sheep runs toward the grass on each level. adorable.
We apologize about the timer synchronization. Because we couldn't figure out how to get the actual engine timer to work right, the timer is "tick" based and can occasionally be glitchy. Usually, restarting the VM fixes it, but not always. We're currently working on separating the timer out and implementing it like it should have been. This hurts our scoring, but we think the overall concept is fun and want to extend it. Look out for updates to this if you care to see our progress. We really do appreciate all of your inputs! :D
Can you be more specific about the error message you received, or is that all it says?
One of the doors timed out after only about 4 seconds, and there was no way to get down to it in time to get through. Not sure if that was some kind of timer glitch or something I missed? Anyway - great concept and art. I kind of liked the weird doorway camera angle thing - added an extra challenge to figuring out which way to go.
I have to agree with mtrc, but don't let that make you feel badly. It was a GREAT concept, and I would even love to see this fully fledged. A FANTASTIC submission.
Good game. Innovative and intuitive. Difficult, but rewarding when a level is complete. I just wish there was some way to skip levels you have already completed.
lol, this was pretty challenging. I seemed to forget who I was looking for the minute i closed the objectives. Interesting and innovative, and ran very smooth.
Little buggy. I found 2 other students but they kind of got stuck on one another and then none of us could get out of the corner. Nice labyrinth game though. good job.
Cute and fun game with a unique take on the theme. I enjoyed the trail left behind by speeding potato.
The Good: Music was great. I like that it was easy - a good casual game for average people who don't have a lot of video game skill. The challenge is to not get trapped. The bad: I could stand in one place and survive for a really long time. I think it might be more fun if you also added a secondary goal, like trying to hit the blue blocks while avoiding the red. Also, the screen fills up pretty quickly, you might think about adding some exploding blocks to keep taking the levels down and changing them up?
There were so many things I love about this game. First of all it has dickbutt in it. Also - the the actual window grows with the game(it filled up both of my monitors) the dead dickbutts that hang around on the screen, being all dead, the sound effects are so incredibly fitting, and also - dickbutt. (it's worth mentioning twice). the bad: the collision detection on the sideways spikes was really touchy, and I didn't finish it, because I couldn't figure out how to get past that one part without dying. There were dead dickbutts everywhere. I'd love to see this game play-reviewed by someone on you-tube. That would make my day.
Very challenging. You might try making what the blacksmith says easier to see from the far left. The art is really good, and I like the concept you came up with.
Loved this! It reminded me a little of the Ultima Online game, and little bit of the LOST tv series. Scored this high on innovation and fun. Having the secondary goal of punching in the numbers made it really fun and challenging, and the suicide button was a nice touch.
I'm so bad at this game that I didn't have anyone to play with, and I still almost lost. I could see this being a fun party game, if you could port it over to a console.
I really didn't think I'd like this game, but I started laughing when I got to the part about how your nipples repel nazis. It turned out to be a surprisingly fun shooter.
The pixel was kind of cute. I like that he jumped like a flea. But at my resolution, I could barely see it, and it only flashed some of the time. I think you've got a good concept here, but the controls weren't very consistent. Sometimes the pixel could move without jumping, and sometimes he had to jump to move. He also didn't always jump the same distance, so it was really hard telling where he would end up. So I didn't actually make it very far. But it was fun. I kept trying for quite awhile.
This would be a great game for kids. Loved the graphics.
LOL, I kept dying at the alligator level, and finally my boss walked in my office and caught me playing games. So I shamefully confessed what I was doing and he said "that looks easy." So, yay! I'm not in trouble! I'm definitely going to try again later. This is fun. Great job on the game mechanics - it has everything a lot of the other platformers lack - like rewards, and increasing difficulty. Plus, a box that runs around jumping on birds and springy things is kind of funny.
My high score was 2!! It might be better if you started easier and worked up to being more difficult
Ahhhh all the little bunnies ate my Santa Clause! At least I think that's what was happening. It was really tiny on my screen. This is a good one to score for "mood", I think.
I love the concept! And I liked the twist when they reached the side. My little light would go out the right hand side of the screen and get lost once in awhile. Also, I think I got pretty good at it but I still wasn't able to kill every person, they just moved too fast. +1 for SNOWMAN!
I like the idea, and didn't have any of the problems some of the others had - my rails snapped right into place, switches worked just fine. +1 for well programmed. The only problem is that, if I wanted, I could make a loop, let it run, and come back in an hour to lots of money. I think you need some mechanics that give it some risk and challenge. For instance, maybe you could do something like make the player balance passenger "missions" with freight "missions" in order to optimize profit. Maybe stations would have to close if the train didn't make it on time. That type of thing.
I like how you implemented the concept. Its kind of like a modern day pac-man. Its got some bugs, but all of our games have bugs because we made them in 48 hours! This game is really well structured compared to a lot of the others i've tried so far. I played it till it crashed and had fun.
In theory it sounds a little like Age of Empires without the war. In practice, there wasn't much to do but move around press B. But making any game at all in 26 hours is a pretty impressive feat. It worked well and didn't have any bugs.
Pretty impressive, especially considering you scrapped 2 ideas. Kinda fun too. My only suggestion would be - I would start out a little easier and gradually get harder.
I like the concept and gave you high points for innovation, but its hard to learn to control. I think you should increase the time it takes to starve, at least at first, to give the player time to learn the controls.
@TomenLuca - Lol - ya, we know. We were butting up against the deadline and our aliens were still walking backwards, and we got that problem fixed and were like - "it's playable! ship it! " haha. We'll probably wait until after the compo to fix some of the bugs, casue we're not real sure about the rules on making changes during judging. Thanks for the feedback!
@blackwires - I really thought there would be a lot more phallus games! When we were thinking up ideas, I kept saying "I can't help it! It's the only thing that comes to mind!" lol. But, I guess I'm the only with my mind in the gutter. Well, me and you - apparently :P
Very original idea.
Ok, took me awhile to figure it out, but once I got it, it was fun. I like the music and the nice bright graphics. really innovative - very original mechanic.
Some small suggestions: A scoring system for how many jumps you make between rockets. If your only goal is to last a long time and reach the sky then the best strategy is to not jump at all. So seeing a score for how many jumps you've made would give some incentive to jump.
Also, the camera could follow the little guy, so you can see what you're shooting at, and it's hard to predict which direction the rope will shoot (but still pretty good for being made in 72 hours).
Overall, really good.
great concept. great art.
i can't jump over the first white blob without dying. Like, even if i'm completely up in the air, as soon as it passes underneath me, I die. Like, hitbox problem maybe? it's possible that I just can't get the timing right, but I tried like a million different ways. Love the art and humor.
It would be kind of cool to see this as web app, where you could decorate with your friends online.
AWESOME! I love the way to the 2d graphics always face you, and the music was great! especially the part at the end with the tetris theme in D minor metal style.
Really polished look and feel. Great humor.
This one is my favorite so far.
Hey, this looks awesome! I really want to play it. But I get through the cut scene in the beginning, and then I just get a blank screen and hud, and nothing works.
I'm running it on Windows 10. I'll check back in a few days.
Hello! It looks funny but it won't load in my browser. I'm using Chrome, and this is the error in the console.GET http://www.sergiomalonda.com/games/ludumdare/ld34/Release/FinalBuild.js 404 (Not Found)
I'll check back later. good luck!
Took me a bit to figure out the controls. But once I got it down it was pretty fun. I like the mechanic - where you fall a lot, and can't really see what is coming toward you. And then you're like "Oh thank god, I landed on something!" :) The little balls of light that flow off of the main character are a nice touch.
My only advice is that you might consider upping the shot range. It might help with game balance if the player can shoot at least as far as he can jump so that you can clear a path for your next move. I mostly stuck to the walls.
But, good solid concept and fun game.
Hey, this was really fun! Has a good balance, and I like the way the maps generate procedurally. There was a good balance too - never got a map without a gold mine.
Consider adding a button to make dialog boxes disappear, and maybe adding a way for us to prevent pirates and plagues. Like, build walls or hospitals? Just suggestions - overall I really like it!