Dylan Rainwater

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-23T07:50:23Z

Hi @GastricSparrow thanks for playing and leaving feedback, I appreciate it! You touched on everything I was worried about. I tried to include mostly non-US questions (there are over 400 trivia questions total!), but I am sorry that wasn't your experience. The sfx was added pretty last-minute, I should have worked to make them better, that's definitely true. As for the port, I struggled really hard with that. I spent the last couple of hours of the compo time trying to make a port, but I couldn't figure it out! That is definitely my fault though: I didn't start learning the tools I was working with until just under a week ago (just for LD41, actually), so I wasn't as comfortable as I should have been. I am used to working in Java, so porting was never something I had to worry about, this time I wrote the game in C++/SFML using Xcode, and I didn't realize until right before the compo started that Xcode only generates an app file.

Thanks again for your feedback, I think you had very valid points for sure.

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-23T21:40:08Z

@Aaron Nemoyten Thanks for your kind words! I like your ideas. Of course I only had a limited amount of time to do everything, so it's not perfect. I wanted to add categories and what-not, but I just didn't have the time haha.

@ditzel Sorry! I promise I tried to port it in time for the competition.

@Antti Haavikko Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed feedback! I apologize for the US-centric questions, I would patch it if I could, but I don't think that's really in the spirit of LD. I had plans for more depth for the fighting system (critical attacks, missing, more/less effective attacks, character-specific attacks, etc.), but I wasn't able to do everything I had liked, due to the nature of the competition. I like the idea about the slower appearance, shame I couldn't add it.

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-24T07:36:22Z

@notb Thanks! I would've added more characters, but I was pretty tight on time! Maybe if I work on the game in the future I'll add more characters, I had a lot of other features I wanted to add but simply didn't have the time to do so. Hope you enjoyed it nonetheless, thanks for taking the time to comment!

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-24T15:53:12Z

@sndr Thank you for the kind words and constructive feedback! I really like your idea of scaling difficulties, I hadn't thought of that. Wouldn't be terrible to implement (other than tagging each question on some sort of difficulty level might be a tad subjective). It's really a shame about the US-centric questions being such a burden, I really should have paid more attention to that. And thanks about the character designs too! That's the point I'm most proud of in the game, considering I'm usually not much of an artist in any way I really enjoyed making them. I think Hank came out a bit rough, but in the end I was happy with my little fellas.

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-25T06:16:28Z

@fashionbatman Thank you very much! I appreciate your kind words.

@Weston Walker Oh wow, thanks! I would love to expand on the combat system some time, it was definitely something I wanted to work more on but felt restricted by time.

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-25T07:34:22Z

@WalkDiGidong I agree, more content would be great. Hopefully by next LD i'll be more in practice and not as stressed by the time limit haha!

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-25T20:26:46Z

@Blinkenlights I do too! Sorry about that. I tried to get ports out for Linux and Windows but fell short of time.

@RAFFE Thank you very much! I appreciate your compliments.

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-25T21:39:56Z

@Blinkenlights I hope so too!

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-26T03:16:35Z

@matt-pattabhi Thank you! I appreciate your kind words.

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-26T03:47:40Z

@Ripter Do you mean he's your favorite, or because of the balancing issues he's just better? Haha. I think he is definitely my favorite but would not be surprised if he outranks the others from his special ability alone.

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-26T15:05:52Z

@hexagore Totally valid criticism. The defend function has a very niche use-case (you can predict when the enemy will use their special move, and when that special move is reflection, you don't want to attack so you can use defend or your special move if it is ready). I really do wish I would have spent more time on fleshing out the fighting system, it's one of my biggest regrets (along with not making porting the highest priority). I think I spent too much time trying to get the art right and the positioning of the menus right when in the end that stuff doesn't matter nearly as much as the fighting system. Thanks for your time!

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-26T23:18:57Z

Thank you @elemel!

Brainiacs! by Dylan Rainwater 2018-04-27T22:06:57Z

@TomekS Thank you! I definitely would add music and a increasing difficulty if I did it all over again.

@mrwillowb I'm sorry to hear that. I suppose it's not for everyone, but I did try my best to submit a fun game during the Ludum Dare compo. Any suggestions that would make it more enjoyable to you?

UNFINISHED by MSiddeek 2018-04-25T08:14:07Z

Just getting a 404 page from your link!

Wreckless Rally by Flaterectomy 2018-04-24T01:07:18Z

This is an interesting title! Nice submission!

Rythm is Lava by egordorichev 2018-04-23T07:39:43Z

Wow! Awesome entry.

Platform Hero by elemel 2018-04-25T22:30:06Z

Hi! I tried to play your game and got this error as soon as I loaded the game. Was unable to play unfortunately

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Platform Hero by elemel 2018-04-26T12:34:32Z

@elemel Actually, it was my fault. Just weird security issues on mac. Got the game up and running! Interesting concept, fun little ld entry. Nice work!

Feed the Beat by Benstar 2018-04-24T11:55:29Z

It's not perfect, but man is it fun! Super well executed! So well done for just a weekend of work. I'm very impressed, and I had fun playing.

My only complaints are that it lagged a bit every now-and-then (what can you do!) and the beat wasn't super synchronized with the actual song

Platform Hero by Rombus 2018-04-24T13:04:13Z

Wow! This was super fun, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Looking forward to your write-up on how you parsed the maps. Let me know when you post it please!

Think Before Escape by acoto87 2018-04-23T06:55:06Z

Wow! Awesome game!

Tower Defense Dating Simulator by Killian 2018-04-25T07:46:19Z

I agree, the speed is a little slow and I found it very difficult right out of the gate. Overall a great effort though!

Dangerous Fields by Gavin Camlin 2018-04-25T06:52:41Z

I wanted to play/rate this but had pretty major bugs on Mac. Just kept going black, I could hear the sound effects, but couldn't see anything unfortunately.

Sphere Hunter by Cohav0310 2018-04-25T22:25:55Z

Hi there aren't any builds posted, just the source code