Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Harrm
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Stuck in the Luntic | jam | 1434 | 2.97 | 2.43 | 2.67 | 3.48 | 3.40 | 2.20 | 3.23 |
That seems like a pretty unique gameplay idea to me, I don't see that often. And nicely implemented, the only concern I have is that it's often enough to hide somewhere and wait until the previous version passes the maze. This was smartly addressed by level design, but still sometimes pops up.
Great job! Flawless teleports and very impressive postprocess. Despite the small size of the game, it leaves very positive impression. Would like to see this idea elaborated further.
Spooky. My thalassophobia isn't feeling great. It's awesome that you did it with just SDL and OpenGL.
Great narrative and nice implementation. Transitions between systems are a bit long though, it quicky becomes boring to wait 4 seconds every time.
Cool visuals and narrative, but this lonely room amidst nothing with one man floating inside gives a gloomy impression.
Cool gameplay idea and unforgettable graphics.
Great art and idea, but I don't understand how to play it and backspace is broken.
Jooooooooooooooooooojo!
Totally awesome, in every aspect.
I like the artstyle and the whole idea but the controls made it barely playable to me and I didn't quite catch how I am supposed to drag the cows, it just detaches when I move away from them.
It's totally awesome, but you do need antialiasing because text looks awful, and also I stuck in one place with walls appearing around me when I tried to move. Dunno if it's planned, but it was quite frustrating.
Didn't understand the gameplay tbh, but music is very relaxing.
Brilliant. Love the mix of 2 and 3D.
I believe that usual lighting does not go well with pixel-art and if it was done pixel-wise(I mean the size of the pixel used in the game art) it would look better. Also, it's too hardcore, but I can't say I don't like. Some guidance or a way to isolate oneself from aliens would be welcome.
Death Stranding is awesome.
To be serious, cool innovative idea with hidden words in the text.
Must be the best one, especially regarding fun, that I've seen.
That's extremely fun and good-looking! But I got stuck in one place Безымянный.png
Very cool, but the controls and camera should be improved to provide pleasant player experience.
This is just lovely, art, music and gameplay altogether.
Magnificent gameplay, art and sound. But controls might be more responsive for a platformer, I mean a jump could be adjusted to match the level desgin and so on. But for a jam -- great.
The animation of the main character is great and the atmosphere is amazing. However, the progression of the game plot is not very clear and thus fails to be captivating.
Great, atmospheric art and cool narrative.
Reaaaaaaaaaaly long intro. Aaand I failed to catch the car with the fluid, which left me unsure if it's possible to catch it at all. But it's still fun and bright.
Very pleasant graphics. Quite poor gameplay though.
Great FX, a bit boring gameplay because of an unclear goal.
Controls should be elaborated on and one-pixel wide feet are scaring but. But it's still quite fun play, no doubts.
Quicky got lost without any idea how to proceed. Seems more like a level design flaw. Overall it's quite enjoyable.
@honey @michael-horst thanks a lot for such detailed feedback!
@honey Yes, you are completely right, we planned to add distinguished features to help players navigate, but unfortunately we didn't make it in time, we had only 2 days. Some of the character's quotes actually were meant to give a hint when it teleportes (like 'I feel weird'), but this was done it great haste so apparently didn't work out well. Thanks for advice with different ground and torches, btw, I didn't think of it but now I understand that it would be a great thing to add.
@michael-horst totally agree about the sound, it totally slipped our mind during the jam, but after the deadline I saw how much the sound would add to the atmosphere. Gonna need an SFX designer for the next jam. Also, I suspect you didn't now that you could move faster with Shift key, which is totally my fault as I didn't add a short tutorial on controls to the game. And escape key, oh, I will write that down and put in a frame till the next jam, forget about these things every time.
@robonaut121 the labyrinth is indeed looped, but also there is a much deeper expression of this idea in the ending, which unfortunately wasn't discovered by anyone because of major flaws in game design caused by a short amount of time we could dedicate to the development of the game.