Stranger Coins by grena 2019-04-30T21:11:35Z
That was crazy, nice work! I couldn't get past the first stage as a coin though :(
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → keanutah
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | CORRUPT TUNDRA | compo | 546 | 3.40 | 3.17 | 2.78 | 3.58 | 3.77 | 3.18 | 3.56 | |
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Nexcidium | compo | 104 | 3.67 | 3.40 | 3.12 | 3.48 | 3.47 | 3.22 | 3.90 |
That was crazy, nice work! I couldn't get past the first stage as a coin though :(
@gear-steak Thanks for playing! I'll update the description to make it a little more obvious that it's a shooting game. But yeah as you said it's not 100% necessary to dodge, especially once you upgrade your fire rate. As your dosage decreases, you get visually smaller, but the collision boxes are actually the same.
I think some difficulty tuning will be done once the rating period is over :)
Great feedback everyone! I'm especially pleased you are all enjoying the story, it was my first time trying to wrap a game in any sort of narrative.
100% agreed that Rapid Fire is OP! I wasn't really able to balance the game in the time we had, and opted to make it fairly easy so that most players could finish it. But yeah, Rapid Fire is definitely the first power up you should acquire.
I might explore this game more post-jam! I have a few ideas on how to expand it.
Really awesome work, I'll definitely be checking out the source code! Totally agree with others that the text is hard to read.
I like the art!
Fun! I think the goal was a tiny bit confusing, I was expecting the battery pickups to increase the screen battery percentage. Once I figured out you just need to collect the battery and make it to the end, it felt pretty good! Controls didn't feel as precise as they could, but it was very playable. Nice work! Loved the screen and sound dimming together - a great concept!
Had a great time with this, once I realized I had to use the mouse to aim. Really nice concept! Sorta like a twin-stick shooter version of Crypt of the Necrodancer. Great music!
Very polished, nice work!
Great concept, nice job!
Really nice! The feel of the running was great. I did get kinda stuck in one area, and had to restart. Ascending the rock structures to get the high up torch was really fun though! Nice work
I had a hard time getting the shot timing right. But it was a neat concept, love the idea of keeping the rally alive. Maybe pong style controls would work well here?
I liked this. Nice graphics, and the typing game itself is basic but fun. Well done!
Hard to see the bear traps, and a pretty hard game overall, though I'm playing on a trackpad. I did find it enjoyable though! Graphics were cute and pretty nice. Good on you for learning an engine while building this, you did a great job!
Very nice! Definite Undertale vibe. Combat could use more feedback, it was hard to tell what was happening damage-wise. I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to make the green flower haha
Really great! Can't say much more than what's been said already. Awesome puzzles!
Pretty challenging. Loved the look of the game, and the concept was nice. Felt a little too hard, but I can totally see that you could get better at it over time.
Really innovative, haven't seen something like this executed this well before! Could see this evolved with more mechanics over time. Nice work!
Really cool! I feel like the rhythm game aspect of it could have been tuned better, more feedback for onbeat/off-beat would be nice. Great graphics, fun music, excellent work!
Nice job! Loved the sound effects, sounded like you had a good time. Cute graphics too!
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
@micahlg Thanks! I think the game ended up looking pretty neat :)
@roolow Glad you liked the jetpack. Total agree that it would be good to have another mechanic pushing you to move more. Definitely going to make some post jam changes!
@valdee Thanks! Warning alarm might be a bit too intense haha
@spacewizardj Haha that's funny you burned all the trees down, the game isn't super intuitive without reading the "How to play" write up I made. Love does have some 3d capabilities, but I actually built a really simple 2d voxel engine. I had already built one of these in love so I had some basic base rendering code to build off of thankfully :)
@shaolin-dave Graphics were primarily driven by limitations of the basic voxel engine the game is built on. Each point on the map can only have one height, so that limits the types of shapes you can render. I was happy to have the limitation though, and I think leaning into that a bit helped contribute to the art style. Totally agree on the lack of direction (without the instructions), that's obviously something I should improve post jam!
Thanks for all the great comments! Really happy people like the overall look.
@adam-konig Thanks for the play! Good call on the horizontal velocity. I basically always hold down "w" when playing the game, which will increase your velocity... but it would have been neat to not to lose velocity when you release keys. I'll have to experiment with that!
Thanks for the nice comments @stolen-biscuit @tso @jason-woerner @mza @kaeveris! Thankfully I had some prior basic love2d voxel engine code to start with, but I heavily improved it for this game. Glad you all like the graphics and sound! It was important to me to have a cohesive feel to the game, even if everything is pretty basic
Thanks @mantou and @chaseplays! Totally agree with the difficult tuning, I've already started to work on some updates to tune the difficult and gameplay :)
Looks cool, but the Mac version wouldn't open up for me at all. No error or anything :/
Pretty fun! Definitely something I'd like to see expanded. It did seem a little glitchy, but it was playable for sure. Not super related to the theme, but that's okay! Wasn't a fan of the buzzer sound.
Wow, nice work! Beautiful graphics, great mood. Very touching.
Very pretty! Music is great too. Gameplay was neat, very chill. I would personally remove the scoring element and lean into the creative side of the game. Or alternatively add more mechanics to make it more of a game experience. Either way though, a nice polished game!
Really liked this! Nice job. Cool music!
Cool concept, very frantic. Took a while before figured out all the interactions, a few were a little un-intuitive to me. So unique though, well done!
Sound design was awesome! Short and to the point, a good time
Nice work, love seeing fellow love2d programmers! I thought this was a pretty good game. Would have liked to see the sign throwing mechanic used more, like someone else mentioned I didn't really need to use it for a while. Maybe you could throw the sign and it would stick into stuff and become a platform? Something like that might be neat. Still, a fun little platformer, nice work!
Art style is very nice!
Really neat! Matches the theme spot on, beautiful graphics. Simple gameplay, but charming enough to be fun for a while. I think the music loop could be longer, gets a tiny bit repetitive I think
Quite hard, but I actually found it kinda enjoyable to rhythmically smash the arrow and spacebar. You could kinda get into a groove with some of the attack patterns! Nice simple graphics too. Good work!