Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Michael Grand
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Shapeshift | jam | ||||||||||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Finna | jam | 224 | 3.44 | 3.78 | 2.89 | 4.00 | 2.72 | 3.81 | 28 |
Michael Grand leaves an average of 4.5 feedback comments each event.
Flappy Bird never made me angry. This made me angry XD I'm not docking points for that though! It was obviously the design intent.
I don't want to spoil anything, but there was a point at which I felt REALLY uncomfortable pressing the keys I needed to press >.>
This was an interesting game.
(slightly off topic, but: Nice! You have it up on Kongregate :D)
First impression was really good: I like the graphics, audio, and the core idea of the game.
Unfortunately I then spent about a minute trying to mine out a hole in the wall, eventually giving up; I am guessing you can't actually dig your way through everything, which I was originally expecting would be possible. Not necessarily a bad thing, just unexpected :) A similar thing happened when I tried to kill the ghosts, but the damage number "0" eventually gave it away.
It's a fun game!
My guess is that I'm not going to find the truth o.O I have a suspicion that the game is randomly generating terrain as I go, and I'm not actually going anywhere, lol
I was expecting the spikes in level 2 to kill me: Pleasantly surprised that they didn't XD
It took me a long time to figure out that you can jump higher while sprinting; I'm not sure that was actually mentioned in the controls list.
I like how you handle enemies in this game: rather than deal damage to you directly, it looks like they drain your sanity... Or something? At any rate, definitely an interesting approach.
First off, I'd like to say that the picture tutorial really helped! Short, simple, easy to understand, and to the point.
That said, I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to get two spheres to connect :( I could get one to connect to the black sphere, but getting that second orange/blue sphere to connect was quite confusing. I eventually figured out that you just have to wait a bit before they interact (explode); I was expecting immediate feedback and the lack of it really confused me.
There also doesn't seem to be a "You Win!" objective, but this is a 48 hour entry so I don't really think that's a negative :)
I like how the spheres will rotate around each other when connected; I don't know why, but it really adds something to the visual side of this.
Overall, good game :D
Bit of a problem I ran into: If you spam-click on an ice block, the match will continue to burn down even after the entire ice block has been revealed (and the treasure inside recovered if there is any). Other than that, it's a fun small game :)
Cool dungeon crawler. My highscore was 775 and floor 4 :D
One thing that was a bit annoying were the black thingies that would disappear and reappear. I at first didn't know they were bad and thought they were teleporters >.< And it was pretty much impossible to tell where one would appear unless you had seen it disappear. Some sort of warning system might be good, unless they don't kill you as they are appearing (I didn't test this theory though, and just tried to completely avoid them :) )
LD31 — Entire Game on One Screen (1)
Snowman Runner by Pantelis Petsopoulos 2014-12-12T20:59:00
It took me a while to figure out what the goal was, but I eventually got a score of 23 :D Once you figure the game out, it's actually really fun to just circle around and around, trying to keep up momentum and not hit anything.