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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | The Minstrel of the Kings | compo | 614 | 2.86 | 2.17 | 2.87 | 3.37 | 2.38 | 3.46 | 2.58 | 2.95 |
The lack of music is a bit jarring along with the fact that there are so few sound effects...
Though the game is NICE! I love the concept and the actual shooting is pretty good. It's missing some good polish though in game feel.
3.5/5 - Guards! Escort this man to the disciplinary cell!
Just a nice fun, sweet game! Aww! Finished with about 3% love left. Also there was this one moment:
Date: So what do you want to be when you grow up?
Me, a cold unfeeling robot: With 1000 thousand dogs
Date: Aww, me too! Dogs are the best!
Date: Aww, look there's one now!
Me: He appears 84% angry according to my scanners
Me: I will beat him to death with my robotic tentacles
*Robot tentacles appear out of hands*
Me: HAHAHAHAHA
Date: ...
Me: So want to continue our walk through the park?
Also, what was the lost cellphone for?
Short but sweet. Would love to see this expanded into a bigger game. Definitely would make a fun puzzle game.
@frostdragonliz Are you talking about the cube on the bottom? That's a chocolate bar.
There a shelf next to your desk and there's something on top that you'll need.
Edit: Whoops misunderstood, @temmy gave a correct explanation
The game is pretty impressive, I haven't seen anyone else submit a game created for such an old computer and that gives it a few points in innovation.
The game stuck to the theme pretty well, it combines 2 genres that seem fairly unrelated.
Graphics are okay, but this was made for the Commodore 64 so I think the game deserves some credit there.
Humor and mood aren't really here. The game's two genres aren't exactly funny (one is stressful and the other one is edutainment most of the time) and I can't say the game set up a good atmosphere for me.
The game isn't bad but I do have a few issues with it, one of which is the music.
Is there anyway to make the music not stop and start from the beginning of the song when you die? It kind of gives me a headache when it keeps looping again and again, and it doesn't help that the game is pretty damn hard.
Not to say it shouldn't be hard, I think the game could be pretty fun because of the difficulty curve.
But, the music is again making things a bit tricky. Could you tone down the intensity of the music? The original Flappy Bird had no music which allowed people to focus on the distinct sound effects for flapping, dying, and moving through pipes.
The music in this game is rather distracting, a calmer, slower track would probably work better. If possible, a few sound effects would really sell it. Make sure they're not annoyingly loud though.
The fun and overall would probably be a 3 if it wasn't for all the issues with audio I had. Mood would probably go up a bit too.
2.5/5 - Would play again with sound turned off.
Edit:
3/5 - Would play again with sound turned on.
Short but so bitter... first and second got to me hard. It has incredible audio and great mood, and the concept itself is very creative.
Pretty interesting game! I have to admit, when the music suddenly switched so quickly, I kinda freaked out... :P
Hope to see you expand on the game, possibly with the bug, that makes it so you can't control where the tiles go, removed.
Pretty nice! Though I'd recommend changing some of the colors like the yellow and green as my colorblind eyes can just barely distinguish between the two of them. :)
@kamtar Sorry! I kind of over did it with the introduction text. And there's also a glitch that caused the text to move much slower in the intro. :( Still it's not very long and all you really need to know is that there was curse, princess was stolen, etc.
@BlazeDragon I'm still a newbie at Unity, unfortunately. I noticed the weird scrolling but didn't have enough time to adjust it. :(
@kamtar Nah, it's fine. I guess it does take a little time to get to the text-adventure part.
Okay so the scrolling has apparently been an issue for a while, I haven't noticed it (probably since I'm on a trackpad or because my sensitivity is just really high) so I can only estimate how fast it needs to be. I yet again updated the post-compo version though so hopefully it'll be fast enough? I made it about 50% faster and 50% less elastic. Don't have a mouse on me unfortunately.
Okay so for now, as I'm not satisfied with the game as it is now, I'm going to be working on the continuation soon (well... soon enough, there's another game jam that I'll be joining so I'm going to have to set this aside for now).
And I want to get some more detailed feedback from all of you so I made a quick feedback form that you can fill out if you have a few minutes to spare:
[**The form.**](https://goo.gl/forms/eyTmB063ln99R19J3)
It doesn't ask much about things that I could solve on my own (fixing the scrolling, normalizing the audio, fixing the effects, changing the font, extending the rhythm game mechanic, continuing the story, etc.) and is more about things I can't understand from my perspective (Why do some people like the writing and atmosphere? How come someone said I did good on the sound effects while another said that it confused him? How long is too long of a story? Should I continue this? Does the game feel too linear?).
And if you answer a few of the questions then I'll be more than happy enough to check out your game (doesn't have to be related to LD41 really) in return and give you some feedback. There will be a little form on the bottom where you'll be able to enter you game's URL.
Great concept, though it's the second most stressful game I've played so far. :P
Where are the download links?
Welp, I don't know if that was a game but at the very least it had me chuckle. :)