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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Overcharged | jam | 695 | 3.32 | 3.22 | 2.98 | 3.21 | 4.11 | 2.25 | 2.96 |
Yeah, going with Unity to speed up development can be a double-edged sword sometimes, especially with simple ideas. I feel your pain. Still great job on actually finishing a game.
I liked the challenge and controls, but I feel like it's very easy for furballs to get stuck. Restart level button is ok solution, but maybe some limited way to shake whole house? Also, rolling animation of player ball can be tighter so it looks like its actually rolling instead of floating. Some effect on hitting the floor would also make the main mechanic more intuitive. Overall it's got potential, core gameplay is fun.
Simply great! Only complain I have is a weird depth sorting issues on some sprites, but everything - gameplay, music, visuals - fits together and just a blast to play. Extremely fun!
I loved the music and the fact that you changed weapon effects instead of just scaling them. Camera shake was a bit too much for my tastes.
Great animation, good music and visuals, but gameplay is meh. Some dynamics during monster encounters would help with boredom.
Game crashes on title screen :(
Windows 7 64, here's crash details if it help:
Problem signature: - Problem Event Name: CLR20r3 - Problem Signature 01: TempleOfGreed.exe - Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0 - Problem Signature 03: 5a267fce - Problem Signature 04: mscorlib - Problem Signature 05: 4.7.2114.0 - Problem Signature 06: 59a63ab8 - Problem Signature 07: 1077 - Problem Signature 08: 8e - Problem Signature 09: System.FormatException - OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 - Locale ID: 1049 - Additional Information 1: e8ac - Additional Information 2: e8acbfd1d9f69886ba134f54489f456d - Additional Information 3: 7f99 - Additional Information 4: 7f99a4eb23735870d609c76521eb2af6
Idea is fun, but I agree - controls need major reworking. I'd probably fix camera rotation too, since rotating world in top-down projection with lots of colorful blobs causes vertigo. Atmosphere is great and I liked the audio.
Very atmospheric environment and music, but I felt like enemies didn't quite fit in - since you were going for horror (I assume), I'd enjoyed more spooky and weird behavior from them than just slowly walking towards you. Crawling through vents and coming out unexpectedly, crawling on ceilings, that type of things.
Also, you probably should credit all assets you used, just to be nice to their creators.
I was bumbling with controls until I realized that holding RMB does nothing - only first click decides move direction. It's very unintuitive. I feel like WASD for movement and mouse for looking/actions would serve this game much better. Still had fun, and sword sound effect is hilarious.
Funny and gameplay actually sucked me in for quite some time. A little bit unintuitive at first, but gets better the more your play. I'd appreciated some simple satisfying sound of a pancake flip.
Strafe (A and D) didn't work for me. I understand where you were going with atmosphere, but I agree with previous comment - environment made movement feedback impossible. I'd advised some volumetric or pseudo-volumetric fog, but I understand limitations of jam - but at least some animated fog particles would've helped. Overall, much polish is needed.
I think there's quite a potential in this game, gameplay is engaging even barebones, after adding some features and polish I can see publishable commercial game. I would also add optional mouse aiming.
Beat is the most memorable part of it! I feel like controls should be more responsive with less inertia for that type of gameplay and music. Still, good work, it's a pleasant experience. Also didn't see any theme-related elements, though.
Thanks! I planned to change color and intensity of enemies "cores" with damage, but didn't have time to implement it - really easy task so I left it to last 2 hours, which I instead spent trying to make a working build ;)
Regarding sounds and hitmarks - I totally agree, these features are necessary but, sadly, time run out. If I decide to polish it further in the future, those would be my first priorities. It looks closer to UE4 because of linear colorspace along with PBS rendering and, indeed, post-processing. I think UE just does that by default while you need to switch a couple of things in Unity.
Really fun, indeed how gameplay feels reminds me of tetris - frantic yet relaxing for some reason. Some technical issues - once I got past I think 8 or 9 shapes, other ones start to appear outside rendering range, so it's very hard to proceed.
Very atmospheric and engaging, and great usage of inverted sphere environment. Red ball for best video-game villain of the year!
Sad that keyboard+mouse doesn't work, I feel like it would be easier to play with K+M than with joystick. Controls is the weakest point I think, gameplay itself is engaging and has potential.
Camera movement and controls got on my nerves, but the idea itself hit the right spot.
Very nice, consistent, polished visuals. Gameplay is simple but fun, I feel like it could serve as a basis for a good commercial mobile game - some events and more types of resources would be interesting, I think. Overall, great job!
Ok, I'm in love with this game. Usually I'm not into puzzle platformers, and I'd prefer tighter controls, but atmosphere just made it for me.