Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Blight Radiance
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Spider tank | compo | 244 | 3.56 | 3.38 | 3.42 | 3.98 | 3.57 | 1.98 | 2.71 | |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Star clicker | compo | 564 | 3.00 | 2.73 | 3.18 | 3.26 | 3.31 | 1.56 | 2.77 |
The game feels polished. Graphics and music are great! I am curious: why did you chose to use "q" and "d"?
Movement sometimes feels strange. It feels like movement direction doesn't change while jumping sometimes. Also found a bug: Untitled.png
That's a good game given the development time limit (8.5 hrs). Good job! > > Next LD I probably won’t stick to the theme as much if it prevents me from making something nicer! Completely agree with you! Sometimes the theme seems like the biggest constraint. Good thing that it's optional :smile:
Works good using java 10. That is true that the game feels slow. The best strategy I found was to sort the numbers for as long as possible. I am probably not the most efficient garbage collector :smile:
I do agree with @gurbx. The game got interesting after the 10th wave. Difficulty feels just right on waves 10-16. The problem is that the game doesn't give you enough time to cleanup previous waves.
Awesome game! Good puzzle design. Music is alright, but the jump sound feels unfitting. Overall a very solid game!
I loved the story telling bits and all the animations! The gameplay feels alright, but the collision box of the items seems too small. It feels like it is easy to hit some flying rock (the most satisfying thing to do in this game :smile:) but hard to hit the items. Overall a very solid game!
Awesome game! It feels very polished. For some reason second level seems impossible like in @simplepotential 's case.
I tried to win the 9th level with the sword for far too many times :) The game is really fun to play. I liked the level design and the gameplay. Good job!
Thank you @paulstraw ! If you are looking for a complete game with similar spirit then take a look at the game called Into the Breach on Steam. I can't recommend it enough! My game was heavily influenced by some of the mechanics of Into the Breach.
@htmichael Thanks for playing! Enemies can shoot diagonally, that is not a bug. Working as intended :copyright:
@lars-erik Thanks! Sadly I wasn't able to make the game fully deterministic like Into the Breach. Rush type enemy is predictable. Ranged type enemy is very random. Stages themselves are random(ish). All in all, you are expected to lose and reset the levels :smile:
@jk-studio Yeah, I probably made it a little bit too random at times. That is part of the reason why you can restart the level as much as needed without any penalties
@rumor, @incobalt, @sh1rogane Thanks for the feedback! I wish I had more time to implement proper animations and make the mechanics much more transparent to the player. The truth is that the idea for the game was a little bit too big, so I had to cut the budget on some important aspects including UX, music, sounds and many many more. I will try to manage my time better in future projects :smiley:
@moorhuhn Yep, made everything myself. This time around I used: - PixiJS to make the game playable in browsers - GitHub Pages for hosting the game - Krita for art creation - DragonBones for idle animation - Some libs (pixi-layers, pixi-sound, pathfinding lib, dragonBones integration lib)
Managed to win on the first try. Pling is bugged (enemy doesn't move). Also had issues with using doors. The idea is solid.
The game is super chaotic and addictive. Good music, nice visuals. Managed to score 34k before exiting. It feels like it's impossible to lose :smile: Good job!
The green enemy spawns right on top of the player after 5 seconds even if I move. That makes the game unplayable for longer that 5 seconds.
The game is well paced and quite intuitive. I started playing it without reading the instructions (that is part of the fun :smile:) and managed to discover everything that is needed to progress. I started to suspect that there is more to the game than I initially thought when some anomaly started creeping slowly from the bottom of the screen. Great game!
I saved the world! :smile: The music is good, gameplay is not perfect :no_mouth: In most cases it is better to just run away. Final boss would have been much easier if it had a sound cue for firing the gun. Overall this is a very good game for the first try. Great job!
There doesn't seems to be a good way of earning money. At the end of the day there is no way to 'unbuy' things. What are some indicators that I need to kick customer out? Z-fighting is pretty bad.
That is a lot of content! Good quality across the board.
Some mini-games are better implemented than the others. Flappy bird is overpowered :P
The only problem is that I can not see a conflict between the genres. Other than that, great job!
Is there any way to acquire humans after all of them are gone? I wasn't able to gather any food before i was left with empty farm. Good idea. Great name :smile:
Finished the game. Negatives: - Last (third) level shows that there is too much walking - Crosshair seems to be unaligned. - Enemies are easy to cheese and are not challenging
On the other hand: - The game is looking good - Plays quite well
Great idea! And awesome implementation! For some reason workers didn't phase through each other (as seen on the gif). Therefore sending more than one worker to gather materials is problematic. AI is ok, but playing this type of game against real people would have been brilliant :) Managed to win all six places (heh) on the 3rd try.
Good job!
Great sound design. Good visuals. Interesting and meaningful stories. All of this is supported with very creative use of the theme. Brilliant!
Managed to get 3.4 million points just by clicking 'X'. Flipping through the air is more important than making pizza. That doesn't seems right :P
I don't think that turn based part makes this game better. Basically, after platforming section you flip the coin to see if turrets will kill your character or not. Gravity switching and platforming feels good.
Managed to beat easy mode :) Controls are quite difficult at first. It's hard to aim because it's hard to tell if 3 turns have passed while trying to preserve perfect attack angle. Some hits don't register properly making game a little bit harder) Nice graphics and sounds! After few tries, turn based element 'clicked'. I think you managed to implement the theme quite well.
@quixatocs thank you for your feedback!
@l14-game-studio if you don't mind me asking: what browser did you use? I might be able to fix this problem.
@syrapt0r thank you for the kind words! :smile:
@Mathiouza There is a tradeoff between clicking and surfing green zones. Good movement is awarded with higher score. You can play it as just a clicker but you probably won't receive highest possible score (unless you are really good at clicking and have some luck with energy bursts :smiley: ). Either way, thanks for the feedback!
@SuperTibbles The game does have an end. It is possible to finish the game in about a minute if you click fast enough :)
@boblova, @MacDoom Thanks for the feedback! I do agree with all of the criticism. There is much to be desired in terms of gameplay. Will try to provide better gameplay in future entries :)
@ropedog Thank you!
@foolmoron The only reason to stop clicking is to position yourself better in green zones. There is no hidden health bar, but there is a score multiplier. The higher the multiplier is, the bigger text size for the score.
@vfqd There is no way to lose. You reached the end of the game)
Great game overall. First boss was the hardest for me too. It seems to me, that all of 3 genres are pretty compatible :)
@harry-light After thinking for quite a bit about the theme, I can only agree with you! Almost any genre combination sounds pretty compatible to me :smiley:
Nice gameplay and puzzles. Controls feel good. This game hits the right spot with the difficulty. The game tries to teach the player in a 'learn as you go' style and manages this quite well in my opinion. Really good game! Good job!