Beyond The Dark by Avichal 2014-05-13T17:04:00
The game really needed a music on/off thing, as most games on LD, the mood was nice, but the mechanics felt slow and buggy. not really something that made me want to keep playing :/
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Bloody Barry | jam | 529 | 2.94 | 2.84 | 2.13 | 2.68 | 2.71 | 2.80 | 2.80 | 2.56 | 47 |
The game really needed a music on/off thing, as most games on LD, the mood was nice, but the mechanics felt slow and buggy. not really something that made me want to keep playing :/
Music was good, i really liked the graphic but one thing i truely hated - the lacking ability to turn off music - this is really an essential part of a game, which all ludum dare entries should have - when i play games i want to have the possiblity of listing to my own music.. lacking this made me quit early.
Also the depth of the underground moving things was almost impossible to tell :/
but nice idea - graphics and "story" though the flying balls made little to no sense ;)
music was kindof annoying as it started over a every new "level". but nice short game.. some movement might have been nice.. but i probably just don't understand the whole concept ^^
This was actually quite good - some misspellings but what ever, i would have made the same error if i made a story based game ^^ genuinely enjoyed playing it to the end - i got the "true" ending.. what ever that means ^^
couldn't really see how it fit the theme - but it's a nice way of doing a jumping puzzle game.. but the point of the game was hard to follow.. :)
But had a couple of minutes of fun ^^
Really hard to figure out the controls. were stuck in the game several times and when i started the recording thing i had no idea how to quit it.. might just be me who's a noob but i really didn't know what i could possibly do.. :/ but nice art - nice game - a shame that i suck at speedrunner like games ;)
really hard to figure out where to go.. but was somewhat fun ^ ^ just walked around randomly until i got bored and got some wasps killed.
is it unplayable on ubunut? couldn't get the plugin to work :/
i'll give it a try when i get home on my win7 computer.
Saw your stream and was quite excited stumpling over it here at random ^^
It's right clicking not left clicking - quite important and this is what i did wrong.
nice mechanics, nice mood.. but.. i really didn't find the gameplay that enjoying.. and not being able to turn off the sound or atleast turn them down made me quite irritated :/ sorry.. i really want to enjoy the game but being forced to not listen to my own music wasn't that enjoyable.. :/
But really nice graphic, sounds, mood and soo on!
This was really great. this was really a touching story, which i hope was the plan. The music was what took it to that level, without it, it would just have been 'another boring text adventure'. really really great job. i'm going to save and share this one!
oh btw: the ending.. it feels.. so.. i .. feel.. so bad.. :/ omg :/ nothing i would want to have changed. it is a masterpiece thinking of the time you/we had..!
Last comment.. i swear! do you have a soundcloud? the music. i want to hear it.. more! MORE!
stephan_h sorry - forgot the tell - look at the color of the number's ;) when white - full, red = empty.
think (hoped) i'd fixed the "when you restart it's at the same pace.. i'll try to quickly fix it as it's pretty game-breaking under the "MY GAME CRASHES, IS UNBEATABLE, OR I MADE A TYPO" rule.. :)
dj_pale - thanks - did the menu's a whole different way this time - normally i hardcode them, but that's pretty ineffecient. so i tried making them as physical objects which worked so much better.. i really think i've learned alot this time around - never done PHP before either, so the scoreboard was a "i have 6 hours left? i can probably make an online scoreboard instead of just having an ingame highscore list"
But the difficulty is something i probably would have worked on if i had another day ^^
That means alot joe. really do - just went on the scoreboard while talking to some friends in school about it, and saw your score - but yeah.. i think i forgot to actually add the functionality of the last class. ^^ sorry about that.. the last class was added last second, and we were focusing mainly on adding the last textures.. but i really have to say that your comment means alot - because the gameplay it self was what i worried the most about! Thank you for the feedback!
Yeah - he is not really what we planned - he was supposed to be a wiggum like policeofficer ^^ but i guess he changed for the better
got pretty boring in the long run but nice mechanics and graphics! lot's of potential i think..
aaww :/ can't play on my ubuntu laptop :/ looks great - can't wait to try it later today.
could have wanted an highscore list or something .. couldn't really compared my score to anything (got 103).. was an interesting gameplay though. but i think it went quite slow in the beginning making it somewhat boring :) but maybe make it be a bit faster at the start? maybe get 2 yellowballs pr. default.
a bit laggy, but that's understandable. :) easily got the diamond bugged down under dead police..
nice mechanics.. quite hard puzzles..
nice innovative game - thought somewhat boring :) but nice idea ^^
the music got very repeatative even though it was nice. :)
i would like to see some highscore.. but i don't really know how kongregate works... would i be able to see a highscore if i was logged in?
maybe write on the weblink that it's unity ? :) as a partial Ubuntu user i can't use the unityweb thing.. :/
nice game. :) like your way of doing the theme - very "outside the box".. or inside.. because.. your a box.. pun?
:D
couldn't play as lack of joystick - why not add keyboard controls as well? to widen your audience?
Neat idea - could be fun too, if it got some more work. It's really nice - i like the feel.. the theme.. but the funfactor seemed somewhat in the background.. and it was quite slow too.. :/
there would be nothing i would want more than the ability to jump - this constantly feelt mising.. but i liked to enough to keep going a couple of times - but seem a big "rough" as it could be nice with some fixes and stuff (for one, no enemies spawner higher than 5 maybe?)
but it feelt like a bummer when enemies could jump but you couldn't and also as you could get into a hole where if you dug down you would reach an enemy from the side, which if i could jump i could get "around".. a 1 block jump wouldn't be that gamebreaking anyway ;)
but nice game.. :)
Would give you one star more in fun and overall if i could have jumped :/
looks great, is really addictive and got a really good learning curve.. And it worked on Ubunut! Enjoyed bigtime! :)