Lost Robots by stromchin 2013-12-20T02:11:00
Could have been fun but very skippy for me for some reason?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → careless
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Vine Climber | jam | 475 | 3.36 | 3.33 | 3.76 | 3.05 | 3.29 | 2.73 | 3.11 | 41 | ||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Monster Break Out | jam | 261 | 3.53 | 3.44 | 3.03 | 3.03 | 3.81 | 3.39 | 3.55 | 59 | ||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Light of the Living Dead | jam | 152 | 3.69 | 3.65 | 3.38 | 3.78 | 3.67 | 3.53 | 2.66 | 3.61 | 73 |
Could have been fun but very skippy for me for some reason?
Beat it pretty quickly but a great idea, my fave so far of the many I have played
not a bad effort, got to level two. Watch is pretty handy!
Be nice if the camera rotated for you, other than that bit of fun, date went ok but I never got to see her
Great idea, nice graphics and simple sounds affects. Difficulty should not have gone so hard right away. Level with all the bombs and arrows I got myself and the key to the door with luck more than anything.
Stuck on level in the dark, worked out where all the platforms seem to be but got fed up and left it at that. With some work on level design and improved controls would play this!
Looks very neat but not sure what I was doing, quick change of clothes then?
Very nice idea, very unconventional. Nice music and a simple look and feel to the game.
I struggled a little with knowing if I was using tactics.
Fantastic game, the pixel art is top notch. I have no idea how you got it so good in such a short space of time.
The controls are really good and I like the shield mechanic you have. Dragged the shield back and took out two enemies at once, very satisfying. I played on the keyboard but an old NES style usb controller would have been nice to use, I will try out the box controller later. Its tough on the keyboard and one hit kill is tough.
Really well done on a great game, one of the downloads I will be keeping :D
* * * * * you got my 5 stars
This is Flappy Bird to me! By that I mean I fail quickly but refuse to give up!!!! I die because of my own mistakes so I cannot be mad at the game, just mad!
The graphics are great, big fan of trees so perfect setting for me. The audio adds a nice tension to the game.
Running on a Mac, runs smoothly but couldn't switch to windowed mode (a non issue tbh)
Great overall game and scored very highly by me
Really cute and fun. Controls took a little while to remember and I found it better to hold Z then press X to throw.
When i got to grips with that which was pretty quickly really enjoyed it.
Sounds where great, would really make a nice hand held game or be better with a controller maybe.
As always out standing pixel art, animations and run smooth.
<3 scored highly for me!
Solid entry, smooth animations, a great tileset and lots of fun. Have a feeling similar games inspired yourself as they did me to make a random dungeon, love these type of games.
The attack distance is quite unforgiving but that may be intentional? Was quite tough.
Really enjoyed it well done
Really fun, worked out the attacks pretty quickly. Audio is good and the graphics are clean and simple. The mechanic would be great for a mobile game. This is something I would play while stuck on a train. Lots of fun nice one!
Scored 19 first time, wasted too many shots!
Really well done, shame I played on a laptop! Nice graphics and sounds.
Solid entry
Lighting was different, what did you use? Nice map generation, liked the idea of the angled tiles rather than just normally aligned.
Good to have some upgrades, the enemies were pretty crazy. I went a bit mad and kept running out of nuts too quickly.
Lots of fun
excellent, great story and more effects, ideas than I have seen from these type of games previously.
I did not complete it sadly but spend quite some time checking all three floors and collecting and reading everything, must have missed something out
Just tried this out and had no performance issues, saw you streaming late last night wile you encountered problems.
The audio is a nice little loop and suits the game. The pixel art is by far the best thing about the game, highly polished look to it!
At first I thought the game was broke as I could not jump with spacebar, would really add this in. The movement of the character is really smooth and the turrets too.
The mechanic is a neat idea, had fun throwing bullets all about the place. It would be great it the turrets exploded, that would be more satisfying.
I feel you should have limited the slow-mo time, being able to use it constantly made it a little easy.
Overall a great idea well executed, would make a nice game but never been a fan of too much slow-mo in a game.
Great game and a nice mechanic. The sounds are really cute and love the main character. well thought out and a great level design.
Satisfying to see the black blobs break into lots of pieces oh and the shadows really added to the atmosphere.
Lots of stars!
I always forget how much I love these games! Really well made and enjoyed playing.
Gemini Wing is one of my fav shoot um ups like this and had elements of that to it.
Great job
Really nice look to the game!
I flew around for some time with the block chasing me but never saw any other enemies? Placed lots of light so I could see the block.
Think I totally missed the point somehow but its a very nice concept, the shop controlled nicely and it ran smoothly.
Very cool idea, didnt work out about the weaknesses straight away but became apparent just before I read it on the wall!
Nice pixel are too, no sounds which is a shame would have been nice to hear the words shouted out.
Once I killed the initial wave I did not get another.
Over all a great prototype and a nice twist on an old classic
Thanks for all the great feedback so far.
I would really like to add more variety and a boss fight.
@silentbaws did you extract the game? What OS are you on please?
Thanks for all the great feedback.
@HolyBlackCat - my mistake I should not have put a web link in. Did you unzip it before running it? Sorry it didn't work.
Really nice graphics, lots of content and a fully working concept.
I played through several times, my first I just used all the cards in one go and watched them fight away.
Second time I actually read what the cards did and tried to be tactical but score worse.
Third time I selected 4 * "Draw 6 cards" which helped a little as I was able to play more cards.
While I really enjoyed the game I would have preferred a larger screen size as it was very small, I did not understand how I could draw new cards, also the card descriptions do not show up if you hover over one then move right to another, you have to click else where then re-hover over the next card.
Great entry though and would actually play an improved version of this for sure.
Crazy game! I am on a laptop so a little tougher to control. I found the baby thing but didnt make it to the exit. I did last quite some time flying about and sticking to things.
It was fun and very bright/flashy quite liked the music too.
Tested on Mac, Chrome and ran fine.
Love the music and enjoyed the game. I found a little cheat, if you switch weapons while shining the torch you get the laser and the torch light stays in place to help you.
I also made a torch game so its great to see other takes on it. Well done :D
Really great game, playing on laptop with tracker pad so got a little stuck on the level with the large gap.
I found clicking constantly on the drop level worked, even though the cursor did not keep up the mouse must have been in the right position. Maybe this would be better as a desktop game.
Graphics, animations and feel is awesome
Nice soft objects, a funny cookie monster and cool music. I like how the cookies stack up when you throw them.
Killed all the enemies but the Cake killed me? Or was that the end.
Nice entry
The water noise when you swim is really great, I would like to version of this where the screen is much larger and you can just swim about.
Apart from the collectables its very calming the sea sparkle is spot on.
Some top marks in there for me as I played this for longer than you might expect!
I will beat this! Then I will score it
One of the most fun so far, played it for ages, got to level 4 or 5 and still have the tab open to try and get further.
Once you get used to dodging bullets, killing and moving the guy out of the way so you can survive its not so tough.
graphics and sound didnt matter so much as the gameplay was great
Sad music and dogs, very touching. I enjoyed reading the messages on the way through the route.
I found two endings.The dogs tongue wagging about was a nice touch.
Its a nice idea and stick to the theme overall, I think you could have added in more obstacles or made it a little longer but it was fun and I do love dogs.
Thanks
Very nice game, made it through several levels. I liked the graphics and the concept is very interesting.
Quite difficult bit pleasing
Amazing and it didn't even seem odd I had bird and rabbits helping me as I attacked bats, cats and rabbits with light.
The companions were a great touch, you added quite a lot of content for the time!
High scoring for sure, lots of fun!
Download failed, please retry - tried Chrome, Safari, Firefox
Very cute, nice that you would make a game with your daughter! You can tell her that I loved the pixel art.
Ahh! I was relaxed doing well made it what felt like quite far then I got hit! Really nice idea.
If your own personal air strike is conventional then what am I missing?
Great idea and easily addictive. I didn't understand what to do for about 3 seconds without reading the how to, so nice and easy to work out control.
I liked the music and the feeling of the guy going on a journey.
I scored 14128 and made it through to the end. Lots of stars for this one!
I like the idea but am unable to stick a poster? The guard heat is nice as they catch sight of you. The art is a little rough but its a good concept.
Thanks
Nice entry, was unsure what the falling item gave me but I caught a few?
Good job!
Really liked the idea maybe you just needed some more time to polish up the game play.
Loved the idea of a guitar as a weapon and would really like to see you continue this.
I too went too far right and had to restart the game. I had a play for a while and it was fun! Thanks
Being from Wales and obviously having a love for Sheep I took much pleasure out of saving them!
Really loved the top down 3D, its made me actually want to make a 3D game myself. The trees, sheep and all other models looks fab, nice audio to go with it also.
I think Worms did a Sheep bomb?
Anyways great little game lots of stars from me
fun game, really liked the idea. was a little tough to pick the right time to lift the log.
Could make a good mobile game.
Runs well and fun, good job
A really simple for fun idea. Could be a great mobile game, could spend quite a bit of time playing it.
Checked out your source code and fair play you kept it neat! On the last day I lost control a bit when running out of time.
Overall a high scoring game, a clever weapon and interesting idea.
How much fun can you pack into 2mb! The swininging of the fish was really cool and the level generation was something I had not seen before so will give you some stars for that!
fighting was a little tough but there are some great ideas here!
Very nice, the particle fx were great, satisfying explosions and decent sounds.
Nice to see someone try something totally different!
Really kicks the llamas ass!
That was completely insane! The big boots looked awesome. Played a full 4 rounds, much fun.
Nice game, runs well and a nice simple fun idea. Worked out how to skip one obstacle but 4 boxes was not enough to complete the level.
I was sent back to the start over and over.
haha I just watched you play through it to get some tips and in a game called "Dick Cannon" you mentioned 'hard' and 'polished'...
Anyway's it is a fun game but too difficult, if you were just a little faster then avoiding the bullets would be a tad easier.
The pixel art is really neat, I like the mouse/camera movement.
Going to have a few more goes to complete it after voting, well done
It looks great, the graphics are fun, the sounds too but I am useless at this type of game sadly so couldnt enjoy it as much as I would have liked too.
The typing mechanic is very well done and easy enough to follow.
well done on a great entry and still scores high even though I am such a poor typer!
Nice entry, reminded me of the game 'knock ya block off' a little. Would have been nice to see when and where exactly my hits took place.
Well done
A nice UI, simple to play and the Fat Batman are pretty funny and there were lots of them.
Really cool. Putting all the files into one download would help people out. I downloaded the exe and it said files missing so had to go back and get everything else.
how hard can it be to think of words! Very nice idea and enjoyed playing.
Nice entry!!
Funny how green and positive comments make you feel that you are winning and the red nasty comment makes you feel you are losing.
I like how you did the different seasons and the background music was neat.
I think this portrayed a sense of depression as well as bullying in a very simple/effective way.
Well made!
Excellent game, first level took me ages as I was unaware you could jump up to a block.
Really simple and lots of fun!
I like the idea of making an analogue game and you have thought outside of the box.
I am not sure I will get anyone to play this with though. Maybe if you posted a video?
A nice idea, lots of fun squishing the little bugs. Easy to beat but the concept is clever. Would be interesting to see some other mechanics added. I did try to score a line Tetris style but nothing happened.
If you are not careful the bugs can get housed in. Music was good and sound effects added to the fun.
As always a solid entry, very nice pixel art and really unforgiving game play as were all the old game.
Very well put together :D
Excellent game, really had lots of fun playing this.
Graphics are spot on, very nice pixel art. Great concept, smooth controls.
Music is good too.
Another great entry, the mechanics could be applied to other themes to create all sorts of fun stuff :D
I know where you are coming from with writing an engine, I spent a few hours writing a level editor before deciding to just create lots of separate objects!
Really fun idea which is well executed, as always the art is cute, colourful and awesome.
Sometimes jams are just about experimenting and not making a game as such.
Great effort, has lots of potential if you decide to work on it more.
Really cool idea, took me about 10 goes to finally beat it.
Great simple and effective pixel art, the music really makes you rush through finding everything so fits perfect.
At first was being too impatient hitting the different keys while I should have waited a moment, thought I could button bash my way through.
When I see these smaller more simple ideas it really makes me wish I could think of something like this, always try to do too much. My next goal is to make something more like this for a jam.
Great job! :D
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Nice entry, thanks for voting on ours to! Great work.
Wow there are like 8 Loch Ness monster games!
Really nice idea, a bit like being a celebrity maybe, always wanting some attention but not too much.
I died by loneliness and science lol, I will play again to see if there are more alternatives.
Nice sound FX, controls nice and simple, graphics could have been a little better but did the job. Not a huge fan of bag pipes.
Good entry well done.
Nice idea, music and graphics worked well for this type of game. Interactions / UI were simple and allowed you to concentrate on the story line.
Good entry :D
haha very nice entry!
I did not even put up a fight, I am ashamed!
Great graphics, nice sounds and a really clever idea. Love it!
Thanks for the comments so far, I am glad you have enjoyed playing our short demo. I have always wanted to make a platform game a little like Flash Back, Another World or something inspired by the likes of Half Life. When the monster theme was announced I stuck with my original idea and tried to push that into the game.
As always with more time that would have been more subtle and slowly developed as a theme in the story, no excuses though the ending is a not good.
With the controls I was hoping to implement XBOX X Y B as the options to interact or use the arrow keys left, up and right for keyboard users, time was not on our side.
We will rewrite, redesign and work on this as a project over the next few months and release an actual demo. We look forward to all the comments and will use them to make a much cleaner and more polished version with guns, tactics and more puzzles.
Thanks to anyone else who tries the game and look forward to playing all of your creations <3
Very nice game, got stuck on level 11. These simple games always keep you playing the longest!
The graphics were nice and clear and fun, sounds perfect for this type of game.
Really simple and enjoyable idea, I liked that you were being hunted like a Pokemon.
This is the sort of game which you could put on a mobile and keep added new levels and challenges too.
Great entry!
Took a few seconds messing about to work out what to do, but then was fun. Bears and Rabbits seemed pretty easy to get made but kept falling short on the controllers!
A nice idea which would be even better given some more time to sort out levels etc.
Nice graphics and the music also. Well done!
Cool game - nice mechanics, the AI was great, really nice entry. One little bug - Had to reopen the game each time I died as it froze for me. Check out and rate my game also please :)
The concept is kinda cool, you could take this as a base for a bigger game, maybe sneaking around taking out enemies without getting noticed etc.
Nice music and loved the people chatting. Very nice pixel art and cute animations. Was very tough not to be shot very quickly.
Was unable to turn back to normal for some reason. A few fixes this would have been even better.
Good Job
Good job, I like the idea and had fun testing it out. I think with some improved art work and a new user interface this could be something I would play through.
With regards to the speed I was ok with it, but if you get enough people mention it then you could maybe speed things up a little bit, even have a click to skip to the next speech/text.
Do no be put off by those comments though I think people are just being honest to their experience.
Coming from an Amiga background this is the sort of game I loved playing, not sure if you are going to keep working on this but let us know if you do.
Anyways great entry well done!
Great low poly models and a nice clean environment. Simple controls and task, was fun to play. Did not hear any sounds at all, maybe a bug on Firefox for Mac not sure.
A few attack FX and some basic animations you could make a nice game from this, you got a good solid base to something bigger.
Well done.
A nice idea, very hard to manage more than like 3 workers. Got very tough very quickly. A unique take on the theme.
Really nice look and feel to the game, lasted around 3 minutes. Would have been nice to have some other events occur, like getting revenge on some of those flower girls! Maybe like in Pacman where you can eat the ghosts if you collect powerups.
Sounds really made the experience quite creepy.
The graphics were fun and well done, I liked the idea of the moving floor and have the items pop up at you.
With more variety and some levels could make a nice mobile game.
Well done.
Really nice voxel game, music and lighting worked well. Killing stuff is quite hard but dying is easy.
Maybe the challenge of the game should gradually increase, and killing improves speed etc.
Would be nice to have an AOE attack and a charge up attack.
Well done.
Nice music and a good simple game. The music did not loop so after I took a while to collect the first 10 the music had ended. Had to use a house to re-align a girl to get her into the car.
Graphics are cute!
Well done.
Nice entry, smooth movement, nice simple but effective graphics.
The animations are really cool, would be good to see where you might take this.
Great work.
Really nice game, always loved Lemmings.
Great pixel art, cute sounds and very well made. Had lots of fun trying this.
Excellent!
Why did the little one have to die! Great story, fitting music and nicely narrated.
Art style and animations was great. Well done
How do I play this, can only see the source?
Score high for me as its contained all the annoying things that real monsters use to annoy everyone else.
I remember having my chips spoiled at school with the salt trick, we had jam jar sized salt jars as well so it would be a plate full of salt!
The Leaning tower screen was clever! Could think of a few more you could add too!
Would make a really nice mobile game you could keep adding too.
Awesome job!
Web version - controls do not work on for me on Mac. Is there a Mac downloadable version? Twitter @carelesslabs if you can a solution so I can vote. Thanks
The music loop could have been a little longer as it drove me a little mad in the end.
Shame you didn't have time to add more artwork for the scenes.
A nice idea with completely mad story line, transitions between scenes could have been less quick, not sure how I got from the wedding at a Fish restaurant to a Presidential debate :D
It is good to see unique and quirky game with a crazy sense of humour. Well done.
The graphics are really great, nice level layout and colour scheme, love this type of low poly model.
Music was really good, created the right mood for the game.
Controls were fine and the camera worked well, the security cameras were a nice idea so you had to figure out which was which in order to complete the task list.
I was a little unsure of the best tactic to complete the tasks and not quite sure what leaving the clone did.
With some more work and maybe a tutorial room this would have been even better but in the time available you did excellent!
Great pixel art and music. Loved the idea and had some challenge to it.
Would be nice if you showed the special ability cool down. Not sure if you only get it once or not? I did spam it and used it a few times to beat the last level.
Really like these sort of simple but fun games, really well put together. Thanks for sharing :D
Arrow keys just moved page up and down sadly was unable to control the game.
Streets of Rage style cookie monster! What more could someone want in a game. Awesome :D
Really cool simple graphics, loved the colour scheme. Sounds are really great!
Reminded me slightly of a Ridiculous Fishing type game, has potential to be a great mobile game if you added power ups etc.
Animations were spot on, nice work.
Loved the look and feel of the game. Graphics were very nice actually, loved the glowing sword and the bit of personality given by the little face.
Took me a little while to figure out that I had to kill a wave then hit the stone thing to open the next area.
Movement was no fun at all though, shame you had not stuck to just the growing theme :D
Excellent entry! Did not notice at first that the hole to pass through was getting smaller was so focused on watching the adjacent circle spinning.
Graphics are simple but suit the game type perfectly, controls work great.
I think this would work well on a mobile device, would seriously consider porting it was very addictive. The screen shake added to the difficulty!
Will keep playing only at a best of 11 at the moment.
Really neat idea which has been well executed. Nice simple but challenging game. Love the pixel art.
The music helped build up a nice atmosphere.
The look and feel was quite similar to your previous entry "Fathom".
Over all great work though well done buddy!
108 Triangles was my best. Quite fun, do you get anything for filling the screen?
Was a little bit too quick. Would be nice to have to complete a smaller grid each level, the grid could grow each time.
Very cool though well done.
haha I thought I could multi-task until WASD appeared!
I BEAT IT! That was the most amazing / frustrating game in the world!
Just when you think you have a working technique it all goes wrong!
I recorded my game play and will edit/upload it to youtube shortly!
Amazing idea and by far my favourite game in a while.
40 minutes to complete all the levels.
I made a video of my 40 minutes of play https://youtu.be/Hg4_dN6NY3w
Thanks for all the feedback thus far, I rushed to make a simple entity framework but had no idea of the bad decisions I was making at the time, basically I am getting the enemies too all do too many tests per second its silly.
Main lesson learned is to write a map editor/ entity framework prior to the compo.
I lost too many hours on day two to really sort out the controls and admit they are not clean enough!
I will look into making an .exe for Windows and upload that, thanks for the tip SSJMetroid.
Some nice pixel art and a good UI. Good work.
Score 4562, I never realised my life was missing flying through the air as a squirrel! Its quite surreal but mesmerising at the same time.
The graphics are cute, loved the little touches like the snow and the sound the panda made has be pounded the snow.
Should have air time bonuses!
Really great!
The graphics are cute, loved the little touches like the snow and the sound the panda made has be pounded the snow.
Should have air time bonuses!
Really great!
Score 4562, I never realised my life was missing flying through the air as a squirrel! Its quite surreal but mesmerising at the same time.
The graphics are cute, loved the little touches like the snow and the sound the panda made has be pounded the snow.
Should have air time bonuses!
Really great!
I am on level 5 at the moment and getting very angry lol, its a great game with a neat but infuriating game mechanic.
Well done oh and this:
"Hi random stranger... you are not supposed to read this, go win the game. If you are reading through my code, I am sorry for all the ugly duplications and similar evil things in my code. I am learning... But I am glad someone is interested."
Enjoyed that, some nice graphics and random text was fun. Good that you managed a few game types also.
The aiming is very tough, the swing could be a bit smoother.
Good Entry
Tried and tried but could not get a high score, one run I just used C and managed to keep dashing over and over.
The graphics are quite nice although the buildings could look a bit better. The zombies and hero look cool and the sounds/music are neat.
Love to see people using LibGDX!
Great work
Really enjoyed the game, would be cool to try it out with multi players.
Nice simple but neat graphics, cool retro sounds and nice controls.
Had a look at your timelapse video also, thanks for sharing :D
Some awful graphics but quite challenging game play! Scored 1376 http://snag.gy/jKm5E.jpg
Took a while to get even 2 logs to stay up but got the hang of it in the end.
This is what LD is all about, trying things out, if you are bad at art that try a flat UI style of graphics, plain and simple is better than bad pixel art.
Well done on a great entry though!