Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Flying Basement Studio
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | The Elementalist | jam | 1034 | 3.30 | 3.47 | 3.00 | 2.23 | 2.59 | 3.18 |
The minigames are quite simple but fun even after some time of playing (so not too simple to get boring quickly). The music is good and catchy and it fits the rest of the game. The visuals are also very nice.
Really cool puzzle. We were thinking about something similar but we weren't sure whether there would be enough mechanics to make it interesting. The game was very intuitive, it was clear what are you supposed to do and the mechanics were also very easy to understand. Great job!
I think the idea is really cool and it fits the theme nicely. I liked the fighting and the need for checking that you have enough boost energy. The visuals and music were nice and they nicely fitted together. Though I agree with others, that the controls sometimes weren't really smooth. Also the change to unsafe area sometimes happened really quickly after the previous one, the nearest safe area was quite hard and you had no boost energy left cause you just escaped the previous one which was loaded with enemies. This happened to me quite often. But overall, it is a nice little game.
Really fun simple game. The controls felt good enough, it was clear what are you supposed to do. The only things I was missing were some sound effects and music that would make the game more lively. Also the appearance of the colours could be little bit more balanced because it happened quite often that the colour you needed wasn't appearing often and you needed it several times in a row. Overall, great submission for someone new in game dev.
Nice idea, I lasted a week cause it was quite hard for me to anticipate the effects of my decisions. I was also missing some music or at least sound effects to make it more lively.
Great idea that fits nicely the theme. The controls felt good even though the vehicle was moving in an unstable manner. However, what ruined the experience for me sometimes was the camera. The angles were very often odd and I fell down because I simply didn't see the road (the camera was under it). It was also behaving oddly on resetting at checkpoint (it was facing the car so again you didn't see very well where are you going). The 'Pillars of Eternity' part was also very hard because of this because it was easy to hit a pillar (because the camera was way too much behind you and the other pillars were blocking your view) and in combination with not being able to go backwards it meant you have to reset. Also it happened to me several times that the colliders weren't working properly and one of the wheels got stuck in the round. My guess is that the camera was supposed to behave this way in order to increase the unstable feel but it didn't work for me. But overall it is a fun game with nice visuals and sounds (it all fits together nicely) and as I said, the idea is great and the controls are very well done.
The visuals and music are absolutely stunning! I also think it is an interesting take on the theme. The minigames were fun from the beginning but the game become repetitive for me quite quickly. Maybe it would be interesting to add some minigames to each location, randomize the countdowns or add some obstacles so the player needs to change the path a little bit. But I understand there probably wasn't time for this during the jam.
Very cool game! I loved the idea that both the weapons and the environment are unstable. You managed to do really a lot of work on this game. The only thing I didn't like was the control with the mouse, I tried to change the mouse sensitivity and play the game couple times but no setting felt very good (it was either too fast or too snappy).
The game was fun even though sometimes extremely frustrating (which is normal for this kind of game). Sometimes the controls were little confusing when I flipped the table the other way around (for this case it might be good to have slightly different legs so it is easier to differentiate them).
Fun game. I found the turning speed to be too quick but it's something I got used to after few tries. The SFX and visuals are decent.
Very clever and funny take on the theme :D The gameplay is simple but fun, the controls are intuitive. I loved the voice acting. Great job!
Creative take on the theme. The visuals look extremely nice and the music was also very good (it just wasn't looping very smoothly). I think in the beginning a quick tutorial would be nice to explain what the spells do and that you can build the giant any way you want. Some more SFX would be nice, for instance one for part of the giant falling off and one for it being completely destroyed.
Nice game it is a pity that it is quite short and there are not much things you can interact with after some time. I also thought that I will be able to open the bathroom door after working out and drinking the protein drink.
The ground was a little bit confusing for me at first because I thought is a maze and that I need to shoot my way through it. I realized it's not that case when they were enemies going straight at me. The idea is good and it fits the theme well. I think it would be good to know to what character you are going to shift next and what types of attacks the character has. But overall it is a nice little shooter.
Really fun tactics game with nice unstable twist. I think the visuals look nice and the SFX nicely fit the feel of the game. I liked the warning regarding the tiles that were about to fall, though I would appreciate if it stayed little bit longer on to be able to memorize them. I would also add some death animation or death screen because I was sometimes confused why I got send back to the Main Menu. Another thing that confused me was the increase of prices. Also it would be good to know how much damage the enemies do and how many HP they have (so I would be able to decide whether I want to attack them or avoid them). But I really enjoyed playing the game.
Destroying the environment to carve my way through it was really fun. The graphics looked really cool, especially the enemies (though I agree with one of the pop-up messages – I hate spiders). I was missing some sound effects which would make the game even more cooler.
Building a tower is a pretty obvious take on the unstable theme but this one is very interesting and original. The visuals are nice. The controls are quite hard from the beginning (the pieces of construction move very fast) but it is quite easy to get used to it. The only thing I would change is mapping the 'START CONSTRUCTION' button also to some key on the keyboard so you don't need to use your mouse when you want to restart the game.