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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Co | ||
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| 2016 | 37 | One room | Cube Hop | jam | 17 | ||||||||||
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | Lanterns Light | jam | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Sheep Shape Shift | jam | 957 | 2.76 | 3.00 | 2.81 | 2.88 | 2.94 | 3.06 | 3.29 | 33 |
johnasebok leaves an average of 6.7 feedback comments each event.
Really enjoyed the game but unfortunately my shootin' skillz must not be up to robo-heritic levels as I died a lot :(. I fear I may never be able to project the commandment of 'don't touch Colin's stuff'.
The imagery, 8-bit and clean color palette really came together nice. Great job and presentation.
This would work well as an educational game for math.
With that being said... I failed. My first 2 plate assignments both required an impossible to get amount of ink in one color of another. It was sad to see Gutenburg starve, but he looks like he could miss a few meals :P.
I enjoyed the art work and the math-esque theme and music did make me think of a game I might see at the library or in a school.
The good:
The player moves well and the graphics game me a little nostalgic feeling for playing Dig Dug. The music does have a subterranean vibe to it.
The Ok:
I never felt threatened by the giant laser. I could easily out dig it so I felt I could dig forever. Without the danger there was not much urgency to do the artifact hunting. So although the power ups were a neat mechanic and I was at first curious to explore them - I felt I was playing Pac-Man and I got a power pellet on a ghostless board.
Over a good submission though :)
Woot!
I beat the game...Once i started playing it my loathing for the enemies forced me to complete it :).
The Good:
The level design was well thought out. The tower slowly coming to a pinnacle is a great way to send feedback to a play on how far they have to go to complete the level. The narrowing also makes the areas you can run to smaller adding some additional panic to the game. The spites were also well done. Although there was not much sound - the sound that was there was not distracting and provided a good que on when you had to watch out.
Suggestions: Several times when I started I was hit before my fingers reached the keys. Perhaps have the enemies show up after you have ascended the first room of platforms. This would give the player a few moments to get familiar with the jump mechanics before having to learn to dodge.
Good job :)
Fantastic! As suggested, I played through til I got back to the temple. ***Spoilers: If you get hit once you die, the easiest way to stay alive is when you see an armed heretic just stop and wait for them to get close enough for you to punch them in the face - unarmed people run away from you, red shirted knife wielding psychos charge you - I felt no remorse for face punching them***
I was hoping the temple had a pair of ice skates, could of used them - the terrain is not golem friendly.
Great humor though out, interesting game play once you figured out the mechanic and good pay off for completing the game.
Well done.
Music was catchy and I liked how you could find collectibles to change it. There was a lot of techno here but not sure about the ancient part :P.
Game had a Q'Bert-esque feel to it. The colors/electro blurs where both distracting yet eye catching.
I had a few issues... I got pretty good with the game and was able to explore most of the map. There is a bounding issue on the left and right sides of the map - that is to say you can walk right off the game and it appears you can go for infinity in either direction. Perhaps that's the best way to kill spiders :P.
You matched the theme by using ancient tech and not a bad entry for a shoot'em up game and nice extra effort by tying in a leader board mechanic.
The art work and GUI work for the room interaction was well done. I revisted this game after I played it the first time (the first time I just explored the room). After playing the first time I couldn't help but to think "There is alot of detail here for just a one room game". So I revisted... and scored a 70 :P
The varied attacks were a nice touch. The streets, city and people had a 'minecraft noir' feel, where things were designed to be low poly but the coloring gave a night time vibe to the game.
If I were to give one suggestion that is not mentioned here would be to add a few more details to the UI like humans remaining or your current shape shifter kill count.
Solid entry over all :)
Positives:
The graphics are superb and well designed. The backgrounds, characters and music all blend well together and do a good job of 'world building'. The characters are unique and cute enough to warrant putting them on a t-shirt to sell at your local watering hole :)
Negatives:
As you mentioned - its short. It took me longer to download the game then it did to beat it. With that being said - when I did beat the game I wanted more. Which is saying a bit because I there are many games that after playing for a few minutes I didn't want more.. I actually wanted my 5 minutes back :/.
With that being said - this is Ludum Dare, the goal is to create a proof of concept to see if a game is worth while to put more time in to build upon. My opinion (and seemingly the many other opinions posted here) are that this game has a lot of potential.
Good luck ;)
I really liked the hand drawn characters and I enjoyed the variety of possible shape shifts. I found the knight, the sheep, Mario Knight?, the ninja and the 'terminator'.
Most of the comments mention character speed and I am going to mention the same thing but elaborate a bit more on why I thought the speed took away from the over all experience. Over all, I thought horizontal speed worked well and I did like how each character had different speeds but the main character gets killed waaaaay to easy when he jumps as he has a really long and slow hang time where he can't attack. I would often jump and before I would land an ogre would sweep in beneath me prior to me landing and it would kill me. This would happen by dumb luck so as a player I felt cheated as no matter what i do - once I jump I have a 25% chance of an ogre cheap shotting me :/ (<--damn ogres... who knows, they may attack like this in real life and this might be the worlds best ogre simulator).
Other than that, I played multiple times just to inspect how well the animations were done. They reminded me of the flashback scenes in Kung Fu Panda where the action is depicted by hinged paper puppets. I might be reading to far into this but the idea of fairy tale creatures moving and looking like they hopped right from out of a book gave the game a well defined mood.
Well done and I hope you are feeling better :)
I really liked the character design and the over styling of the game. The one button control lends this game well to a mobile port.
A great game that shows when it comes to making card games, this developer is playing with a full deck.
Most card games feel like... well... card games. Take HeartStone or Magic the Gathering. You take a card and you play it. Each card in your deck is a fancy graphic that when you boil it down, all you are playing is a 'Old Maid'.
This game adds a refreshing and an interesting RPG element where the cards will quip back. Monsters cards have been given a personality which makes it feel less like a card battle and more like an old fashion (Final Fantasy-ish) fight. Options to choose your path add another RPG element and the story line raise the tension level of playing the game. All working well as a device to add weight, meaning and the sense that each battle won\lose will have consequences.
Well done.
I enjoyed the art direction and music. The characters and enemies all seemed well made and had a professional polish to them which is something that is rarely seen in a short gaem jam.
I like the minimalist art style and I can't shake the music from head - its rather catchy :). Although its been said a few times already in the comments, the controls are spot on and the transformations actually 'feel' fluid.
Well done.
Very cool and fun. The sound almost reminded of the days of playing Pole Position at the arcade. I made it through the first level but died more often then a nOOb playing Dark Souls on the second one :P
This is the first game i run into that the developer was kind enough to supply a manual for. Thank you :). Not only did the inclusion of a manual help but it showed that there was a bit more thought other than the typical "Me bash button, Me blow up thing, Me pew pew". I didn't score high on the theme cause not much shape shifting going on unless yo count the many blood stains I left of the rebel scum.
I had it stop on me a few times when attacking. But other than that it was enjoyable.
LD37 — One room (3)
Cozy Christmas Village by juxipolo 2016-12-15T03:26:00
Fantastic work for a game jam. The scenery and sprites makes it feel like sim-Santa.
On the downside... not sure how this fits the "One Room" theme.
Robot Retreat! by barkergames 2016-12-15T02:53:00
I can sum what I like about this game up in one word - "Details". I liked the extra effort of having the roller ball spin when you would travel on the ground. Although this game is 2D - the size, placement of objects, and even the color palette seemed to give a weight to the objects. When you are buzzing about the screen you never feel like you are moving a 2d sprite but that you are propelling around this hefty iron orb. Well done.
Namcap's Nightmare by bigpan 2016-12-15T02:31:00
I really liked this re-imagining of a classic game. The first time I played I didn't know what the "You might feel that you've played a similar old game before. " reference was about as I spent a few moments exploring the initial room and inspecting the painting on the wall when I was jumped by a ghost. Second time around I chuckled when I started getting the energy pellets and hit my first power pill I realized I was playing Pac-Man. The mood really changes once the hunted becomes the hunter :P.
So lets break it down... I liked the graphics and they gave me the "Evil Dead" movie vibe of being stranded in a haunted cabin. Most the models seemed adhere to the creepy cabin theme with exception to the power pill which just kinda jumped out to me as being out of place. I felt the game could of benefited by having a mini map or compass as the dark setting without many different textures makes it difficult to know where you have been or where to go. Perhaps the the lack of these type of helpers where omitted to compound the claustrophobic feel of traversing dark hallways, if that were the case I wold suggest adding a few more art pieces to the walls to give the player a sense of where they are.