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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | F-L-O-I-D | compo | 352 | 3.39 | 3.33 | 2.74 | 4.08 | 3.06 | 2.94 | 2.11 | 3.15 | 66 |
Really great you coded a level generator! It feels very polished, only thing that is missing a bit are one or two tutorial level instead of the wall of text at the beginning (especially as the controls are not that complicated as all the text makes you feel). Maybe you could also add special elements that are introduced over time.
Very nice done! One thing though (maybe thats just me): I did not know what ingredients were needed.. :-) I thing most customers got way too much milk..
Great music game! Music games are very tough and I would have liked the controls to be a bit more precise (did I hit the spot?). The dancing character is the highlight of course! :-)
Interesting concept - quite different from what I expected from the screenshot. :-) I liked the idea with the permutation and that the rules changed during the game.
Really sad this isnt finished. Could be really cool with the finishing touches, it was a bit hard to understand what to do. For a post-compo version I think I would remove the two button controls limitation and maybe add even more "rows" to make different types of attacks.
Really nice! As a single person its a bit hard to remember the colors, but in co-op I think there will be many funny situation.
Very nice idea, as NuSan said, the start to aim should maybe be automatic, I always feared that I could press the wrong button and shoot by error.
Such a basic mechanic and so much fun to play! It made me go crazy, but liked it so much!
I would love to see other goals, such as doint special flips or something. :-)
After thinking a bit more about it, maybe it would help to include short videos for the basic movement patterns (crawling right, jumping, etc) to reduce the frustration a bit. I understand that it is part of the fun to find that out, though. Maybe a video could appear after some time not making it over a specific obstacle
Nice story, I felt that I was too often asked the same questions maybe (different questions actually, but the same meaning). After all very well done!
The atmosphere is really great (audio & visuals)! Unfortunately the controls killed the fun a bit, as after the third time I ran into that flower-rish thing it was because of the controls. Would love to play it with improved controls, it reminds me a bit of the game Limbo.
2695 :-)
Feels very much like the old Atari games - made me super nervously hitting the a key over and over again.. :-)
Nice idea well made into a game!
At first I found it very easy and it took a while that I found out that it actually increases in difficulty (it does, right?). An idea could be to split it up into several levels. Each level could introduce a new concept (item, good or bad) so the user gets continuously new content and and the game keeps interesting longer ("what else is here to see?") as well as it is easier to understand what all the items do.
Nice idea and the goal matching is nicely done!
The sounds are absolutely awesome! I had a lot of fun during the game and actually gave it another try just to find out what made which sound. :-)
Everything feels very polished. If I have to mention one point, it would be that it feels that "two button controls" kind of limit this game. Maybe you could do a post-compo version of it where you control the commander in the cockpit heading from one control to another as a time management game.
Feels very polished, very well done!
Really cool to have absolutely no idea what to do (only the major goal) and to have to find out by yourself. I would have liked to be more clear what the active and not active states are though. And in the status bars I was not sure if it must go up or down or stay in the middle. Otherwise a very clever game, well done!
I like the visuals and the audio. After a while I found out that the noise in the background is changing. Though I could not find out how to decide which way to go to make it more or less. That was a bit frustrating as it seemed that my decisions have no influence.
Very nice take on the theme! Graphics and audio are absolutely fantastic.
Nicely done puzzle game! I liked that new elements were introduced level by level.
Could maybe be extended to a level system in which you can solve levels differently good. So you dont need to reach all lights everytime, just for a perfect game.
Very cool idea for the game mechanics! I think that idea has a lot of potential when it is done more polished (it cannot be polished in 3.5 hours of course). I found the camera to be too close to the ground and maybe 3d isnt even necessary at all? Reducing it to 2d would focus the user more on that interesting base concept and away from issues with the orientation and obviously the graphics.
After all, very well done!
The game feels like a classic arcade game. I would like to see some more features, so it does not get boring too soon. But after all the core mechanic is very well done!
I love it! But it is fact really hard to understand how to control it. I don't know if I cannot do specific actions because I am out of resources or simply did not get the controls. I have multiple times shot when I did not want to whats a bit annoying of course.
I will definitively keep playing it and hope for some polishing update!
Ah and great visuals, I like them a lot.
Nice arcade game. I like the story behind it.
Wow, so many numbers! :-) I found it a little bit hard to compare the k-numbers with the non-k-numbers, maybe it would be more easy to read if they are all written the same.
Especially the coin-sound made this game very enjoyable! :-)
Very well done! Graphics and audio are awesome and a very innovative concept!
The only criticism I have is that the control felt a bit strange. Maybe my mouse movements could be more direct transferred to the square. But thats really criticism on a very high level. Great game!
I also had some issues to understand the difference between the numbers and the actual countdown.
Actually a very nice idea for the two button theme. Could be nicely ported to mobile devices by using swipe gestures.
Something like levels with different colors would also be nice!
Congratulations for finishing your first game! That's a very important step.
Some ideas about how you could continue: At the moment it's more a toy than a game as it has no objectives or challenges. I also like to start with creating toys as it gives you a good feeling whether or not the core mechanics is fun. If it is already fun without any objectives, this is a very good start to add objectives. In your case I would try to adjust the controls a bit as they feel a bit strange and get rid of that "hickup" when you collect other circles.
Very cool machanics!
I like the general idea, but the controls feel a bit too much "I needed to do this because its the theme". Apart from that I think this game could be easily improved to be a lot of fun, well done!
Really nice idea!
Maybe you should have left out the two button theme and stick to growing as the controls make it a bit frustrating. Would be nice to see this more polished!
Very very cool, my favorite LD game so far! I would really love to see this more polished (better contrast for light spots, sound) and with more content for mobile devices!