Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Brandon Diaz
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | [REDUCE:REUSE] | compo | 256 | 3.55 | 3.05 | 3.21 | 4.10 | 3.93 | 1.96 | 3.23 | |||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Lights Out | compo | 52 | 3.94 | 3.30 | 3.33 | 4.06 | 4.03 | 3.52 | 2.47 | 3.59 | ||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | RSV Resourcer | compo | 204 | 3.47 | 2.58 | 3.58 | 3.21 | 3.90 | 4.10 | 3.77 | 3.53 |
Brandon Diaz leaves an average of 13.7 feedback comments each event.
Very cool, great art style and effects. You managed to get a lot of UI done in the time given as well, it's impressive. Like others it took me a long time to get the hang of it, but I sunk a good 15 minutes building aimlessly.
Game itself was neat, however I had quite a few technical issues. Playing on OS X, initially all fonts were missing, being replaced with the [?] glyph, console had no 404s for the font failed, only missing .mp3s. I refreshed a few times, and it finally loaded. The cursor capturing was also a bit of a nuisance, I had to keep flipping to another app to make my cursor visible, and then flip back so I could change tabs.
As far as the game itself, I think the levels and objects were well designed, ignoring the obvious current/resource issue. I like the design of the buildings a lot, and it was easy to understand how everything worked. I think given the connectivity mechanics, it'd be useful to have an indicator of the other building's connection radius as well, particularly when you're linking the distributors up to generators; I kept missing them by one tile because I'm bad at remembering.
Solid entry overall, good job.
Very cool, interesting concept. I've been playing a lot of Reigns lately, so this one stood out to me. I only played through two endings, but I enjoyed both runs.
Took me a bit to get the hang of it, but it was a pretty cool concept. Losing a day is tough, I think it's good that you didn't spread yourself too thin and seemingly focused on what you had.
Like others, I think having unique colors at the very least for the buildings would help.
OSX here, if I run the jar allowing unsigned developers, the .jar immediately closes out. Running through command line shows that it can't find liblwjgl.dylib:
Exception in thread "OpenGL" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Failed to locate library: liblwjgl.dylib at org.lwjgl.system.Library.loadSystem(Library.java:146)
Solid, well polished. I'm a sucker for match3 games, so it was an easy sell, but I dig the art style and concept.
Neat concept, feels good, solid graphics. I thought using the flow of time as a difficulty modifier was a really cool idea, and I will absolutely steal that at some point in my life.
To be honest, I expected more Redbull games, thank you for not leaving my disappointed.
Interesting, I liked the light mechanics. I think it would help if enemies also had health bars, I didn't have a concept for how much damage I was actually doing relative to their HP pool. I also think that when you take damage, it should be a number as well to keep it consistent.
Good job overall, best hamster wrangling game I've seen in a long time.
I'm pretty bad at it, but but I really dig the aesthetic and the corpse mechanic, very cool.
Really cool art style and atmosphere. Gameplay was simple to understand, but I think having some tooltips or similar to indicate what things "are" would go a long way. I wasn't really sure what someone would be once I powered it up from the scrap heap.
Cool concept, certainly different from what I expected. I enjoyed the humor and overall tone. Definitely took me a while to really understand what I needed to be doing, but I suppose that's kind of the point.
Very interesting mechanics. It took me a few runs to get the hang of it, but the help/tutorial was very helpful. I ended up spending forever on my turns because there were so many possible moves to make at once (in a good way.)
Absolutely loved the art style and overall design, extremely well done. I found it a bit difficult in a frustrating way to time the jump attacks to hit lights within shorthop distance, but overall the controls feel really solid.
I really enjoyed the movement speed, jump weight, etc., it really lent itself well to the robot feel. I'll defiantly recommend people check this out.
I'm terrible at controlling the ship, but it was certainly interesting and entertaining. I liked the art style of the ship itself as well.
Fun, plays smoothly. I think adding impact effects (color flash/-HP indicators) would help a lot, sometimes I wasn't sure if I was actually hitting the dark enemies. I actually ran away from them initially because I thought they were invincible.
I think it's pretty cool how large you're able to share up your main spell, it made me laugh the first time.
Very interesting, loved the overall mood. I didn't understand the bar at the bottom, it would light up and then go dark seemingly at random, it wasn't tied to the orbs, I think, and seemed vaguely tied to my movement? I thought it was a timer when it start draining to black, but then it never actually emptied.
As others have said, very well put together. I think your level were designed very well, I was able to plan my moves out before executing, and understand what I needed to do; I also dug the art style.
Really cool concept. I'm a huge fan of games like Factorio, so even with the limited building options I still had a lot of fun laying everything out.
Like others, I found the graphics to be a bit "Small", although playing on a non-retina screen helped. I also had some difficulty understanding how the AoE worked, I kept shooting my freed robots. Maybe a visual indicator/color change would help indicate if the robot was friendly or not?
Interesting concept, I enjoyed it quite a bit. I had some difficulty running it in my VM at first, it kept crashing at boot.
I liked the minimal style quite a bit. Would make a solid casual mobile game.
I really enjoyed the aesthetic/music combination, moving felt good and it was always clear what I needed to do next.
Solid overall, simple to understand and play. I think the movement was a bit slow; when jumping or falling it felt like a gravity thing, but when moving side to side I just felt sluggish.
Simple and fun, the controls felt good which surprised me, as the "jetpack" type controls tend to feel slippery to me. I think the shop should have been available without returning to the surface, I could have managed resources while I was drilling without the timer being quite as stressful.
Simple to grasp, cute little game. I really like the graphics on your home screen as well as the in-game GUI.
Very cool, the tutorial was really well paced. I enjoyed the frantic pace and overall gameplay, I think it was very well done.
It looks really interesting, however I can't seem to get it working. I see the UI in-game, but the main area is solid black. I tried various keys, as well as selecting a logic gate and trying to click into the main area, but nothing. I'm not sure if I'm just missing something, so I'll hold off on the scores.
I like the concept. I think instead of using one timer to complete everything, you could guide the player more by have one objective at a time with it's only short timer, e.g. "Build 10 Trees" -> "Construct a Township".
With the current mechanic I think you could improve things quite a bit by at least visually displaying the objectives in-game, possibly crossing them off as they're met. I had to play through a few times to remember how many buildings I needed.
Overall I think it's a cool idea, and it could be fleshed out into a cool kids game or tutorial.
The gravity is a fun mechanic, although like others I was very confused by the thrusters at first; I used almost all of my fuel before I realized it was backwards from what I expected.
I enjoyed the overall style and the missile-command type gameplay; I did find it difficult to anticipate which tower I was going to be using for my next shot, especially when the nearest tower was on cool down. It looks like it's sorted by nearest, but I wasn't able to anticipate it very well.
Overall I think it's solid, feels good and the concept/gameplay is easy to understand very quickly.
Cute and simple, avoiding the white bees (?) is pretty difficult since you can only move on one axis. I think gradually ramping up speed or similar could add to the hectic feeling, but at the same time it has a pretty chill vibe as is.
(480 points, I'm a terrible bee.)
Like everyone else, I loved the music and the overall visual style. I didn't immediately understand that I couldn't convert the larger shards, once I understood that I really felt that there should be some way to at least deter or stun them, otherwise it just falls on blind luck to win.
Overall I feel like your entry has a lot of polish, it feels really smooth and refined; a quality that's often missing due to the rushed nature of the jam.
LD42 — Running out of space (1)
Spaceless Space by Maffew 2018-08-13T23:49:09Z ♥ 0
Solid overall, liked the crushing walls mechanic. I noticed a slight issue where using a bomb while ghosted prevented the bomb from destroying any of the asteroids.