The Secret of Tikal by FranFox 2016-08-29T14:18:00
Thanks Peter ;)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → franfox
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Twist of Souls | jam | 415 | 3.54 | 3.30 | 3.09 | 3.04 | 4.19 | 4.20 | 2.16 | 3.94 |
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | 👥 | The Light City of Karola | jam | 43 | 4.13 | 3.84 | 2.88 | 3.88 | 4.46 | 3.65 | 2.39 | 3.91 |
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | The Secret of Tikal | jam |
Thanks Peter ;)
I really enjoyed playing this game! The art and the music are cool, I liked the squared screen format too but for me the best was the clever way to adopt the theme with the 3 space positions (and of course the mouse wheel motor, lol). I think the mechanic of changing the position is very fun and it can be expanded in the future.
I've noticed the HP bar on the bottom left corner is hiding your ship many times so maybe it needs some UI polish. Anyway the game was so cool and fun! Good job!
I love the game and the way you used the theme, very clever! I really like the guy that enter in the room to tell you that is weekend time, it's very funny :P Congratulations, good work!
Nice game, it's hard to play (the platformer part) but the programmer's life is hard too so... 👍
Lovely graphics and good soundtrack. I love tower defence games and I think it's a good way to apply this theme. You mentioned you make this game by your own in 48h, don't you? so it's double merit!! If I need to say something would be related to the light / black energy and how it's working, I think it could be more clear for the player. Anyway, good work!
Nice game guys! I liked so much the graphics and the music. Also how you give to the player some tools to avoid losing energy like the automatic walking corridors in the floor. I think there's space to improve how you communicate the mechanics to the player such the right mouse button and the energy chain. Anyway is a pretty cool game, congratulations.
Nice game! I like how the glowing energy spotlight looks with the dark ambient. Shooting enemies was fun and the momentum you're falling without energy and get some was pretty cool too. Maybe a faster movement would add more fun to the recipe 👍
Hi there! A very nice entry here!
I think the game is very polished, the art is beautiful, the whole look and feel too (chat bubbles, colors...).
I love the main character and I love he/she don't have arms, looks very interesting (like our Olympic Games pet in Barcelona, Petra 😉) and the walk animation is cool. Music is very nice too, you have many melodies and this is a lot of work for doing in a Jam. Well done!
I'm curious about the world creation process, is that a world you created for this game ad-hoc because I think is quite deep with a lot of characters. Anyway, is very cool!
I love the visuals and your interpretation, the console control is cool but, dammit! I'm very bad to playing it :S
Hi! I would suggest to increase the cursor size or remove it if is not necessary for the core game (if it only is used to menu you could implement the keyboard input) because is hard to find it when you are on menus and misleads when you are playing. Otherwise I think you've done a good work in the technical part, good job.
Really cool game guys! I like the art style and the gameplay. I think that with more time you would improve the balance between your units and the enemies to make the game more addictive. Good work!
Nice style, love the graphics. I felt a bit frustrated while moving when I know I won't get energy because the movement speed feels slow. Anyway, it's fun to play, good work!
Love the pixel art, very nice work. I can't play it smoothly on my regular browser (Safari for Mac) but is working fine on Firefox. I really like the birds.
Babies are healthy... good to know! Love the graphics specially the Dark Lord. Good Job!
Interesting way to present a game, I like the idea and the mood. I'm very interested in the way you do that! Did you use some framework or is handmade code?
Hello! Very nice game, I really enjoyed playing it. I think it could be great if you keep a suggestion of the controls during the gameplay, especially since you need to switch from batteries. Congratulations for the game 👍
Hi, this graphics are from [a tutorial of Lynda.com](https://www.lynda.com/Unity-tutorials/Advanced-Unity-2D-Platformer-Player-Movement/367449-2.html?srchtrk=index%3a12%0alinktypeid%3a2%0aq%3aunity%0apage%3a4%0as%3arelevance%0asa%3atrue%0aproducttypeid%3a2), right? They were made by a friend of mine.
I'm wondering why people isn't having a lot of comments and reviews. I think is on of the best games I've played this LD. Congratulations!
I love it! Nice visual ambient and the music implementation is awesome. Doing all this in 48 is f**** awesome 👍
Good art and look and feel, the atmosphere of the game is cool.
- During the first plays I didn't notice that the player was a light bulb, I think his glass could be more evident. - Maybe you can add some effect to the batteries to be more clear that is interactive and get the player more chances when his energy is low and he almost can see. - The main menu and the buttons could be more integrated (maybe with some light on/of effect like a light bulb?) and more responsive. - The feel of the game could be more cool if you improve the FX, especially the shooting effect.
I hope it helps. You made a good game, congratulations.
Love the artistic way you've done here, very beautiful ambient and good hand-painted backgrounds. I love the music too. I like how the light is glowing in the maze but I didn't like the core mechanic itself, I was a bit frustrated while I'm moving in the maze with the only feedback of the keyboard indicators of the top-left corner. Maybe it was intended but unfortunately I didn't enjoy playing the maze, sorry.
Love the art and the UI! The fact you need to move or do something to keep your bar charged is an interesting approach to the theme (the majority of jammers did the opposite) and it works fine but I didn't notice until passed few minutes, probably because I can't stop slashing, running and shooting... haha. I think the difficulty is cool for a jam version but agree to @jahndis that maybe a more hardcore logic on the recovery bar would work better. Best game, congrats!
Hi! A nice game here! Maybe a correction on the color palette would improve the visualization of the enemies because it's hard to see for me with the actual setup. As your game has a very retro-futuristic style I think that the soundtrack should join to the visuals to improve the general mood. Congrats!
Great art and original interpretation of the theme. Unfortunately I think the way you applied the theme to the game affects negatively to the gameplay because although you are an old super hero, and he's the fact an old person, the slow movement of the character make it tedious to play... I think a different approach to represent the decay of the hero, mixing up and down power moments could solve this. Other aspects of the game are pretty good. 👍
Good work! It could be great to have any visual representation for the - and + objects to give the player more immersion but It's a good game. Congrats 👍
I like the basic idea and the art but I got stuck in the first room for many minutes, maybe I'm very bad but me feeling was the game was broken :( After going out the first room, the second puzzle take me a while... I think a better design level progression would improve the whole experience to keep the players playing with a success feeling. I hope it helps 👍
Good visual style and nice light effect. I don't get what the energy is needed but is pretty to fun.
One of my favorites games so far! I really liked the way you applied the theme and how you used to integrate the UI with the puzzle, really clever! Graphics, music and level design are very cool too so you deserve 5 stars. An extra point to do it alone, it's a lot of good work made in 72 hours! Well done!
Very nice entry, I liked the art and the humor of the game, really cool! I'm feeling lost a while because all is happening very quickly, maybe adding a normal / more speed time (like on Lemmings for example) many players would feel more confortable and it helps them to understand better the game mechanics and the experts would play more quick. Anyway the game is fun!
Very cool game! I like the art style and the gameplay. Is fun to imagine this weird athlete running on the streets and passing forward vehicles and yelling "Get out of my way!!" 😂
Thanks @kade we thought it was clear adding the glowing effect around him because we didn't want to add any UI but maybe we need some polish, thanks for the feedback!
@flukeshot thanks for the feedback. We started with the level design seriously just 2 hours before submission but we'll try to improve the levels for the post ludum version. About the final level, isn't intended but I'm glad you found it, haha!
Thanks everyone for your feedback! @easy82 could you tell me what's your OS and what version? 👍
@tuism thanks for the feedback. You're right, until the last 2 hours we had a secondary button to use a power that increase your speed but at the end we didn't find the way to explain this and use correctly in our levels. It's fixed now on this page main image. I think we can improve our level design too in a post LD version of the game. Thanks to point that.
@rune-drawer in fact there's a backstory but isn't explained because we want to keep the game simplistic. If you feel curious there's a short brief [SPOILERS]: "Your people carry a course that make you dependent of the energy crystals. You know about an old legend about a city in which the curse should be cured so you decided to find that city. The enemies you found during your travel are in fact other people that tried to do the same journey and failed. At the end you find the city but there's no cure... the city is made itself with energy crystals and you can live there safe but for the same reason your give up your freedom to leave in peace."
@johngun, @unoion thanks! This is the magic done by @davidcollado.
@easy82 we've updated the game, maybe it's working now? (If not feel free to write me on Twitter [francesctovar] to get more info about your hardware. This is the ugly face of using custom engines 😜).
Thanks everyone for your comments, I hope we can make an improved version with more levels soon 👍
Ouch! @flobar, @fingamer, I'm sorry to hear you... I hope we can fix it soon. Could you tell us what's your operating system version and your graphic card model?
@neowhoru, @dragwa, @richard-bunn thank you so much!
@mrerdalural I agree that it would be a great feature, thanks!
Wow @vizitas this is so weird... It seems the framerate is causing this on your computer, no coins needed you should reach the first base only running... Did you tried in fullscreen mode? Are you recording every time you playing (this could cause a low framerate)? Other games are working fine in your computer? Thanks for share with us 👍
No worries @vizitas! We're working to improve the performance in some devices so your comments are welcome. I'm freaking out you passed the first level with that problem... you're a beast! 😂 Thanks
Thanks everyone for your feedback. We finally have an improved version following some of your comments! https://davidcollado.itch.io/karola/
PS: I hope we can upload more levels soon 👍
@grena could you try the improved post LD version? https://davidcollado.itch.io/karola/ thanks
Thanks everyone for your feedback!
We've fixed some double jump (@grena) and crash problems in the entry version and also we're improving a lot of stuff in our [Post LD version](https://davidcollado.itch.io/karola).
Your comments are being very useful, thanks 👍
Hi @levidsmith! I think you're wrong... The rules of the Jam say it very clear:
As for bug fixes, you shouldn’t be changing your game, **with the sole exception of fixes for problems that are stopping people from playing or finishing your game (and thus rating your game)**.
As you can see in the comments above yours, some people have been reporting crashes and frame rate problems that made the game impossible to play for them (for example in the comment by @vizitas and others...). So in our entry builds we tried to fix those crashes and game-breaking bugs that people have been reporting.
I hope now you can play our game and enjoy it 👍
Thanks guys for your comments.
@alexandr-androiddev I'm afraid we won't have a Linux version, sorry.
@ferran-benavente, the music suggestion was solved in the final version with a lot of more improvements but thanks. Per sort si, gracies ✊
Per desgracia no tinc Windows per jugar-lo. De totes formes visualment fa molt bona pinta. Good Job! 👍
I like the art and the fact of using different buttons for the same element to interact with. I didn't understand very well the electricity purpose at the beginning maybe with the UI finished it will be more clear. I think the game will be more accessible if you make a short tutorial. Good work anyway!
Hi there! Just notice that in both download pages your zip file is marked as Windows, Linux and Mac compatible but when I've tried to download from both sites there's only a Windows executable inside :(
I love the music and the art, sometimes it remind me the art of Moebius. Otherwise, I think the movement is too slow and it can be a problem at the beginning to hook the player.
Nice game! I liked specially the visual effect when you hit a score and the zoom goes out, nice sounds and cute voices (it remind me Tiny Wings which is cool), did you recorded yourself? 😂 I think it's the perfect game for a mobile device. Very polished, well done!
@gwineell I really enjoyed Toast Time a few years ago so I'm so happy to see this little toaster again. The game feel is very good, I love you need to have precision to get more energy instead of shooting around . Of course graphics and music are delightful. Very good job 👍
Really love the graphics, funny style but super cool and pig enemies are the best. I really like how he's punching like a Dragon Ball weird combat, haha!
I played the game entirely just to know what happens at the end! I don'w want to spoiler but I think the last level is Superb. Good job, very funny!
Love the pixels and the idea of going left another instances of the robots and the persistance of the map. Good work!
Very nice graphics and music! I love the mood and of course the cute aliens too. It cost me some time to understand how to interact with the ground cells and the mechanic about the box with the wires. I think that a visual improvement of the dialog boxes of the tutorial could reduce the friction with the player. Nice game anyway!
I'm trying on Mac but I can't play it because I can't exit the tutorial screen. This is how I see the game:
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Nice entry! A good dungeon crawler made during a jam. I like the election of the main character but not the soul picking mechanic like mentioned @theflyingkeyboard, I think a Lich should have the ability to attract the souls with his own magic with de second button. Although art was pretty good I think the dungeon is too much illuminated, I think a more darker ambient would fit better with the whole game theme, then the candle lights would shine more ;) A good game anyway, good job!
Hi @jk5000, please let me know if you release a Mac version to try it :)
I love the art of this game, I also follow Bodie's work and I think you did an excellent job. The itch.io page is pretty good too :)
First of all, congratulations! That's a great horror game! I really liked the atmosphere you'd created, the fact you control a group of people and how they reacts to fear, entering in panic. The creature is really cool too! Well done!
The first run I've played I've started with many people but at certain point, when I was alone with Giuseppe Slow, I died. Then I've tried to play the game from the beginning but now I always start only with this guy... After some tests I've noticed that It only happens to me on Safari for Mac, weird, right? I'll keep playing on Chrome, no worries. I'll try to beat the game when the sun goes down! :crescent_moon: :fearful:
Most cute game of this jam! Love the art! Also the controls and the game feel are very polished. You guys making a Gameboy advance rom, that was crazy!!
Please let me know if you publish a Mac version! The game looks nice ;)
Amazing work! This cute platform game is very addictive!! I love the art and the music, also how the theme was applied. I think I need to finish later after half hour I'm stuck here, any advice?
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You guys are amazing! I've started playing it and since the first time it came to my head Crawl, I really like your style! The theme fits perfectly and the execution could not be better. My favorite game so far by the moment!
It was nice to play. Maybe the fish mechanic is a little tricky, it's hard to get the right point. I like the character, very cute.
This was a cool game. I loved the graphics, the sounds, the christmas-like song and all the characters. Nice done!
Really well polished game, good UI and very juicy game & feel! But I'm not sure how the theme was applied :thinking:
A bit creepy but funny to play! Good work! I have a medical intervention in a months so I'll try to forget your game... :smile:
Nice game! Very well polished and theme applied as a funny way. I love the llama :P
One of my favorite games of this LD. Beautiful and well polished. I loved the explosion particles. Making a game like this in compo mode is just amazing, @antti-haavikko you are a monster!
By far this is the more addictive LD game I've played today! I like how tricky is the way yo need to push the corpses in the first leves, after that, when you get more powerful and the sword acts like a gun it's a little less funny but still being addictive. Good work!
Nice looking game but It's a pity It can be played well on my keyboard :S
I like the mood and the acting, specially the spell cast voice. Otherwise I think you should skip the intro in the second run because is a bit frustrating to walk again the same corridor when you die. Anyway I think it's a cool game, congratulations.
PS: I like the monster model too
Hi guys! Good jam entry! I love the art and the mood. If I can improve something maybe could be the jump, because isn't feels very nice to me.
Otherwise, when you died maybe you could change the "Thanks for playing" sentence by something related to "you lost your crew", because isn't clear that every time you die you are playing a different crew member (I saw the different colors but I thought were a random player generation). An initial screen with the title and whole crew also could helps to enforce that concept (which is very cool).
Anyway I think it was fun to play and I liked so much the in-game sentences. Good job!
@easy82 Maybe is only a personal feeling so don't worry about it if nobody else felt it as me :)
@easy82 sounds good! Just let know if finally you do :ok_hand:
@joshanthony1990, @captainweeaboo, @jandourek you guys are right! I’ve changed the idea of the core mechanic 4 hours after deadline so It was pretty intense ending. That’s the consequence of a bad planification :S
Hi, @publicidadeba, I’m not sure what’s the “slow movement“ you said. I’m glad you like the audio!
@najmm thanks for the website comment! You’re right, I’m thinking in improve it a little for the post ludum version.
@goldenmelon you’re very kind. I agree about the theme, I need to improve it in next jams. PS: I’ve enjoyed your game so much and was pretty close to my original idea. Good work!
@velocity7 thanks! I think your idea is better than mine :)
@mattwagar Yep! I’m totally with you, the core mechanic need a bit more of spice. Thanks!
@groggi Thanks! Could you tell me what Windows version you used? How many times it crashed?
Hi @t1a2z, yes, I’m planing to improve the whole level design for the post ludum version. When you say that “pixel perfect jump” thing are you referring to the first big jump or in general? thanks!
@aeveis yes! It’s definitely just a perception. The problem is you get used after some jumps, I need to add extra challenges… but thanks for playing it!
@jiri-hysek, @raffe, @hechi, @kirke, @wowa, thanks for your comments and for playing the game :ok_hand:
@groggi Ok, thanks! I'll try to find it.
Thanks for your comments @ddrkirbyisq! There's a final version of the game with a lot of improvements and fixes in the itch.io page :ok_hand:
Wow @icxon! You really made a big sacrifice playing it! Do you think I should reduce the difficulty in the last part? (the x4 part :sweat_smile:) In a range where 10 is satisfactory and 0 is frustrating, what note do you think the game have?
Thanks for your time, it really helps!
I think I'll keep it as it is, it's hard to know the right point when you've played thousands of times :) So thanks @icxon, it helps me a lot! Best!
Thanks @jk5000! Normally I do not like having to explain the reasons or the history of the game and I prefer it to be in the player's imagination but you are right that it may not be very clear. Thanks for the comment
Thanks @bbaf! It's true, @agentarsed did an excellent job with the soundtrack :ok_hand:
Thanks @tgiant! I'm glad you liked it!
Hey @easy82! Yep, I'm squeezing by code! Thanks for your comments. I was not very sure about difficulty but as I won't continue developing this game I think I'll keep it as hard it is. Otherwise I've been having problems with fullscreen but I think I could fix it in a new version, did you played in Windows? Thanks and Merry Christmas :christmas_tree:
As fun as always! Nice game, I liked so much the different sound tracks for each character. Happy to meet this fellow again :) Congrats!
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Looks nice but I can't play it. Are you planing to make a Mac version?
@raffe nice!!
@raffe thanks!
haha! That was nice! I really like the idea about pausing the action to enter into the combat, also the different 4 characters and their special abilities. I've managed to fight against Faded with my Agent and I used dab as final attack... The monster died to cringe and I died to shame!
Maybe you could make the combat system a bit faster but anyways it was very fun to play. Congrats!
Nice job! I really appreciate how you guys could make a game like this in the compo mode, it's awesome. Love the music and the visuals and how the theme was implemented, very clever, it reminds me Abe's Oddysee. Well done!
First of all, nice concept, art and presentation, the game looks really cool. Well done! Anyway I've played for 10 minutes and I can't figure out what's the wind for... When I used it I started to lose my score and only can improve the civilization with the rain. I'm missing something?
ok @gaming-night! The game make sense now :ok_hand:
Are you planing to release a Mac version?
@bbaf sure thanks!
I have some problems when I played on the HTML version, the biggest was in the second level only appears the leader and I could do nothing. I restarted the game many times when I access to the door because E and R are so close to my fatty fingers :sweat_smile: Anyway was nice to play, love the art and the characters and how the theme was applied.
Hello! I think the idea is good. I've tried to switch to full health bar to pass trough the first "blue fires" but I can't. As a suggestion, I saw you put [?] button on the corner but maybe an in-game keyboard indications could be more intuitive as the player has many buttons to remember them. Anyway, good job!
It was a bit confusing at the beginning to understand which role has every character but it's normal, it's hard to have a good introduction to mechanics in a Jam game. I like the snake mechanic (I also made a similar game few months ago) and extra point to putting a bazooka in each side, totally cool! Well done and congratulations for your first LD game ;)
First of all I want to say the game was so cool. My first idea for the theme was similar but you guys did it very well dividing the gameplay in three characters (It reminds me Lost Vikings). Love the graphics too!
Otherwise I have problems with the web version. In one side the indication texts was very small, hard to read, on the other side I can't play the music playing on Safari on my Mac (Finally I could play it on Chrome). A native Mac version could be nice to add the game to my collection :)
PS: Take a look into your Itch.io page, inside the Itch native version your page is blank :S
Fantastic game! Even if you make me sacrifice a little baby... I had to save Soler! :sunny: :open_hands:
Really good game! Thanks for sharing how was made :ok_hand: By the way, I've played in B/W I can't see the colors you have in the animated gif, is this normal?
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That was crazy, guys! It's like a Serious Sam but shooting babies against hentai girls, awesome! I really loved the audio FX :joy: