Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → GammaFlight
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Plox | jam | 1661 | 3.30 | 3.45 | 3.62 | 3.92 | 2.52 | 3.55 |
Brilliant idea! The graphics are a treat, the audio is well done, and moving all the windows to climb around was very fun. The innovation and technique required to blend a game with the desktop (with Unity, as well 😲) is incredible. The only part of the experience that was negative for me was the learning curve, but it was otherwise an incredible play.
The theme and art bits are very nice, but the game is a bit hard to play. I'm really glad you got the difficulty worked out in the patches, because it feels much better. The concept of charging a battery has a lot of potential and you could make this great by pushing just a little harder. I can see that the art is really nice, but the game is upscaling it and making it fuzzy. Art in this style tends to look better with hard edges, which you can get in Unity by changing the filter mode to "Point (no filter)" on the art file. That and the skybox being the default skybox are the only things that stand out to me, and the game is fun to play otherwise. Great job!
The technical aspect of programming this in Javascript and three.js alone warrants a kudos by itself. The concept is relatively simple, but works really well with the atmosphere. The contrast between the blips of the virtual-child and the growls of the creatures sets the mood really well and I had fun surviving it.
Another thing I just thought of: this game makes me remember playing the DS at midnight and using the screen to check the shadows occasionally. Great horror game!
Lots of fun, great job. The music is fun to listen to, I'm pulling my hair out fixing burning servers, I'm dishing out classic advice to coworkers, and I'm fired with a hilarious animation. Fantastic job!
The levels are pretty fun to play. Even though I lost a bunch, I clicked again and ran through the levels dozens of times to try and make it. They can be improved, but their difficulty is pretty fun overall.
I love reading these! Thanks for the feedback.
@enya454 , there is a restart button, but I poorly call attention to it, and it's only mentioned in a single level, and only if you get stuck. The key is R, and thanks for pointing it out.
@brenan , the lack of checkpoints was something I thought about, but was too lazy to tack it down early-on. I am working on it, and you've inspired me to engineer it further. Each "screen" also decides whether you can place blocks and which ones, and also whether you can erase or not. It's not entirely obvious (also my fault.) 😬
@romaric I'm really glad you liked the concept. My partner and I thought the concept was fun, but we didn't put enough time into gameplay and level design to bring it up, and I couldn't initially figure out a good way to keep the levels intuitive enough. A mobile game is something we'd really like to explore; thank you.
@donitz It is pretty short, but I hope you enjoyed what little there was.
The concept is excellent, and the graphics are really well done. The only complaint I have is: the rules are explained, but not their significance. The first time I played, I couldn't figure out the importance of Doctor tiles until it was too late and the map disappeared before my eyes. Overall, I still had lots of fun with it.