Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Hyorvenn
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Save Your Assteroid | compo | 619 | 2.84 | 3.18 | 2.31 | 2.39 | 3.07 | 2.29 | 1.79 | 2.58 |
That voice is just perfect.
The game is really fun to play, but maybe it's a bit too easy once you got the trick (Wait to be at least 10 000m away from the rock -> date finished 100% of the time). With a bit more traps, maybe some sort of events ? Like assassin lady instead of a date, lady crowds because the MC is such a dandy, etc ...
I get an index out of bound with the HTML5 version. The error : https://pastebin.com/bWJ1uqq2
I finally got a date, yeah ! I had no idea of what I was suppose to do at first but the game is pretty intuitive and we don't need more than the basic controls, so thumbs up for this.
The only complain I would have is that there is some input lag that can be frustrating.
Good replayability, good graphics (simple but I kind of like it).
But the sounds are off, unless there was a music there are not really necessary and tend to hurt the ears for headphones users.
It's pretty nice,
I had a bit of a trouble to understand that the body was the player's life, at first. The gameplay is simple but effective.
Firefox seems to have problems to get the website's https certificate that hosts your HTML5 version.
It's fun to play, bonus point for the fullscreen ! The only complains I would have is the mouse pointer slowness, and the target hitboxes, sometimes they don't die even if the fire is completely on them, it is frustrating.
I didn't really understand where this game wanted me to go. I managed to get out by attacking the door, but what's the point of the initial escape game ? What about the 'light is the key', about some of the codes ?
When I first received the pop up asking me whether I wanted to sleep, look for food, I thought I would continue the escape game after that, but the game keeps waiting and repoping the window, is this intentional ?
Really fun to play, frustrating at first but it definitely becomes addictive after the 2-3 first upgrades. I unlocked everything :D
@GameCarpenter No problem ! About the controls, it was actually strange at first, but I guessed it was for the RPG gameplay and that it would be less and less slippery to control the car. But in the end I kind of liked it because it added a bit of a challenge.
I had the same as @bcvery1 , nothing happens.
ARGH, I died just because I missed the 5th cookies while trying to escape the slendcar, and end up stuck in the wall. I was so clooose.
Your game is really cool, it made me jump a few times. Perhaps the controls are a bit slippery ? Maybe it was designed for this, though. Overall, it was a good experience :)
I'm not too much into farm games, but this game is cool.
I like the graphics, there are nice and clean. The battle system keeps it simple but it works well, it's intuitive and the commands responds without lag.
A little music could add a great ambience to this game.
Well I didn't have someone else with me to play, but I had a gamepad and the gameplay is really cool, smooth and dynamic. I'm sure it can be fun to play it with someone !
@Memel06 Thank you, it really makes my glad to hear that :)
@bcvery1 Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I tried to use pyinstaller but I didn't manage to include the resources and sfx files, even after modifying the .spec files and addind the not found folders... So I decided to keep with the classic python way.
@StarzzDrak Thanks !
@XCVZXC And I thought of it at the last second ! I didn't have any idea.
@GameCarpenter Hi, thanks a lot for your feedback, I'll try to answer to most of your criticisms:
Graphics : Yeah, at first I had only idle sprites, and it was already nice by itself. I tried to make things a bit more lively by adding turning animation but I'm really not good at pixel art, and as it was really secondary I rushed them, the result is clearly visible.
Gameplay : For the insta death borders, it was to add some challenge by preventing player to put themselves at the bottomleft/right positions. But I realize it was indeed both non intuitive and frustrating. For the item spawns, I voluntarily make bonus spawn at the top and invert control malus spawn at the bottom of the screen to force the player to move from safe spots. But yeah I should have prevented bonus to spawn at y 0 position because it's just impossible to pick them without taking a hit 50% of the time. I just wanted to reward players that take risks in order to get an advantage against others.
Score bug : I wasn't aware of that but I think I know where it comes from, and thus, was a rookie mistake from me.
Sounds : I don't really know what to think about it. At first I didn't consider making any sfx for the game at all, because I don't know anything about music/sound creation/composition. I read about sfxr in the last hour and tried to make some basic sounds. In the end it wasn't really worth it and I didn't even manage to fix the pygame sound lag problem. I think it was a stupid mistake to include audio like that, at least I will be more prepared for a future game dev. I really would have liked to have some kind of exciting music, though.
It is a straight-forward dodging game, absolutely. There is no two (incompatible) themes, the LD theme didn't inspire me at all so I tried to make something with what I learned about pygame for 2 weeks. I'm really aware about a lots of weaknesses from this game, the biggest being the lack of personality or something to make it distinguish itself.
Thanks a lot for your review again, I greatly appreciate it !
The game is pretty cool but I had game-broken bugs while playing it. If you reach the biggest snake size while in the door sealed room, you get stuck because you can't leave the room, you're too big for the walls (event if you're visually smaller). At the elevator, I left the map when I touch the button, I had to retry several times to finally move the elevator.
Same as @spthiel, the game could benefit a longer sound loop. With it, it would be more fun if the shoot rhythm was the same as the music, making your entry a real rhythm game.
I have bought coop to each country and now I am at 70/50 for each one, is it normal ?
(The HTML5 version seems not to be working, I get a forbidden error)
Hi, I promised on twitter that I would check your game out, so here I am ! As expected, it's a really nice game, damn hard and frustrating ! I didn't manage to make even 1 line, but I'm already bad at classic tetris, I had no chance at this one ... Congrats !
I really like the idea of choosing the path based on a narrative choice and evolving on it, especially the "overwork" part that was well designed ('Will it ever end ?'). The music is good, it's enough to setup an atmosphere with only a short gameplay. For the gamepad, I chose to play first with it because I think few people use them (bad for the feedback). Maybe you should have added joypad commands to navigate in the menu (start, quit, suicide).
There is potential for some good full game, here.
I like this game, the concept is really cool !
The game is really hard though, you tend to have too much wolfs around you when you reach 10~ crops harvested, and as you can't create hide tiles, you just end up with 3-4 wolfs one tile way from your crops and you're ******.
As @Vasco Freitas mentioned, I would have like to just keep the mouse down. Speaking about controls, I'm sure this game would be even better with a gamepad. A good game you have here !
I managed to make 325129 points in normal mode ! (But I lost)
This game is really great ! Good music, good graphics, fun, dynamic. I like how it is almost a rhythm game by using alternatively red/green shots.
(I played with a gamepad, it feels really intuitive)