Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Korso
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Animal Farm | unfinished | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Ludum Delivery | compo | 31 | 4.04 | 4.00 | 3.50 | 4.29 | 4.05 | 3.60 | 2.98 | 3.52 | ||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Monster House | compo | 268 | 3.39 | 3.13 | 3.41 | 3.15 | 3.48 | 2.52 | 2.34 | 2.67 | 65 |
Very nice graphics, and the controls are ok for me -maybe a little less gravity and friction would help-. Nice music and mood. One complaint though, I'd add frequent savepoints if the game is so hard.
Graphics are awesome, although some tiles reminds me to Zelda Link's awakening, and the sound and controls are good too. The thing is that these games -for me- need a reason to continue exploring. In 3D is somewhat easier because you can draw an interesting place far away. In 2D you need some history, motive, clue, anything. Look proteus, dear esther... Nice work though!
Very cool! And the music is good too! Have you tried to implement a dual control scheme using mouse to aim and keyboard to fly?
Like the graphics and the mood is good, but you can won only holding LMB (I think that attack is linked to mouse_down instead of mouse_pressed)
With more polishing in level generation and some tweaks to enemies AI, could be much better, but well done! The "compass" is a nice touch!
I'll leave the complete walkthrough for tomorrow. Graphics in cutscenes are awesome :D
I really like the idea, but -in my opinion- needs more interaction in the travel phase. You fit theme perfectly and in an unique way.
Very neat. I also saw the bug GAFBlizzard says, but quite polished apart from this. Nice music too!
Very good controls, and the music is good too.
Reminds me Hotline Miami. I think it would be better with double control scheme with keyboard to move and mouse to aim. The "tutorial" was nice, with only the necessary words.
I cannot play because a missing dll (VCRUNTIME140.dll)
I'm the first! :D
Good game, very well fitted to the theme. Nice graphics & sound too. I miss two things though: something to recover life when you clear some waves and new abilities/mechanics to kill more soldiers.
Anyway, one of the most polished games I've played in this LD, good work all of you!
Roleplay choose your own adventure! Great!
Hitboxes works fine enough -for me at least-, but I can't hear any sounds, which is weird because apparently there are according to the comments.
Original idea!
The only thing that I was to object were the assets, but it's a Jam entry. Good Music, Art and history -with a twist-.
Nice sprites. Warriors could be a little slower, and pathfinding could be better, but OK overall. Reminds me Llamatron :D
@rampantinsanity
There IS a fast mode, just click F in for activate it in the level! (as I wrote in the tutorial ;)
@AlariSilver
Maybe you played it and after that not restarted -clicking stop button-?
The game block any movement of the monster once you hit play and until you hit stop to prevent 'cheating'.
Love the omnidirectional weapon, but almost all of them are great!
This is the best game I've played today. Cool mechanics, good use of particles (although the game slows down form me when using multiple tsunami) and very fun.
Good level, I would liked a tutorial, but finally I completed. Nice concept and very related to theme.
Very nice! Addictive, polished and with editor. Congratulations! I can't beat 16.133 sec -for now-
Love the graphics -and the music- -and the presentation-. I miss a tutorial or a controls screen. I don't know if I have completed it, but the I kill some guys, They don't come anymore.
The concept is really great. A bit buggy in collision detection for me, but great game overall!
Loved the mood. I miss some more mechanics besides organizing the bag (I don't know if I can do any more than organize the items until the bag is full). The graphics and the animations are the best I've seen today.
Nice little puzzle, and a good fit for the theme. The board growing is a good mechanic to increase difficulty, although more colours make a little too difficult for me. As a little complaint, I'd limit the animations for the slimes and maybe the palette used, since you have to watch them continuously during the game.
Good job overall!
Very solid. The movement feels nice, and the mechanic of collecting cargo and visit planets is really cool. Love the music and the overall design. Good job!
One of the most original games I've encountered in this jam. I managed to clear 251 blocks. Nice concept and music too. Some critisicm, if I may. A tutorial showing the mechanics for each piece would be very helpful, as at the beggining you start by choosing the pieces without any clues of how the differents powers may affect the game. Also, the theme fitting seems a little "forced" to me, as the objective is to battle the glitches.
Overall, nice entry, good job and kudos for the originality!
Very cool concept. Clear rules and easily undestandable. You may use less cubes in the level design, though. In the image, I would need to collect the 36 cubes once, only to discover that I had to discard it one by one and collect some other color to construct a staircase, discard the spare ones again and collect all the red cubes. I think you can think in a similar puzzle design but using 10 or so cubes in total, improving the playability.
Captura.PNG
Overall, I enjoyed it. Good job!
Love it. Simple to understand and very well executed. Nice physics, and addictive too.
Good job!
Nice graphics and aesthetics. They remind me of Faster Than Light. The movement until you get the boost upgrade could be polished a little.
Nice job!
Lovely little game. In the last level some cats caused a jam in one of the refrigerators xD. Good work!
Quite an original idea. Need some polish on execution though, but I think you are a pretty solid base for a great game. Some predictable order in how the items in the inventory are used would be useful. The conveyor for the item could be less "flashy", and I think that maybe would be better placed at the bottom for the fluidity of the gameplay. Maybe if the velocity was a bit slower you would have more time to look at what is happening at the top, and then you could add different weapons for different enemies, etc.
Overall, I liked the concept very much, and I think I'd enyoy an enhanced version of this game. Good work!
Liked the concept, the graphics and the simple interface (although I don't now if it's possible to deselect one item on the right). I encourage you to finish it, cause the foundation seems pretty solid.
Wow. Fantastic entry, and very good execution. Clever puzzles, simple rules, and fits the theme well. As a very minor nitpick, a shadow showing the area of effect of garbage station and electric plant would be nice, and some sort of highlight for the item currently selected.
Best game I've seen so far in this LD. Very good job!
Wow. Fantastic entry, and very good execution. Clever puzzles, simple rules, and fits the theme well. As a very minor nitpick, a shadow showing the area of effect of garbage station and electric plant would be nice, and some sort of highlight for the item currently selected.
Best game I've seen so far. Very good job!
Liked the idea. Definitely chanllenging with the need of aiming while maintaining the ship in the air. Maybe it's me, but I found the difficulty curve a bit too high. A bit after the begginning I was barely able to keep up. Maybe a free aim with the mouse while flying with WASD would soften the difficulty. Good work nonetheless. And the online highscore is definitely a good detail!
Link's Awakening meets Binding of Isaac with a tweak that fits the theme well and very polished. Thats a solid 5 for me. One of my favorites. Although you had me with the pallete change ^^
Very good job!
Pretty good game. I liked the music and the twist of reducing the space, although I feel that some minor changes would soft the difficulty curve. Good job!
It's a great idea. Reminds me to Polarium (for DS). I'd change the colours (and hopefully the alpha) of the blocks that are generated because sometimes is hard to see what's behind. Otherwise, it is fitted to the theme and the mechanics are solid. Some polish in level design (although it is not bad, specially with only 48h) and you can have a pretty solid game.
Good work!
Very polished game. I am not very convinced of the main mechanic, not being able to determine the movement of the pieces. Sometimes I caught myself shooting repeteadly to the piece trying to get it to a corner. Other than that, good entry, fit to the theme and with very polished art, music and movements.
Well done!
I was not expecting it. Very original take on the theme.
My actual record (clicking S in rhythm while spawning B, you evil xD) Captura.PNG
Nice design. I've enjoyed the game, although an alternative remap for keyboard users would be nice.
Nice little game. Matches the theme quite well but it becomes boring after a while due to no new mechanics.
As an idea, you could implement a color change in the triangle with spacebar, so the ship so that it is not affected by circles of the same color.
Nice job nonetheless!
Great game overall. Feels polished and the controls are intuitive. It is definitely noticeable the time you spent time polishing it on day 2. Loved the physics.
Loved the graphics, very cohesive. Simple but solid entry nonetheless. Well done!
Solid game with nice controls and feeling. The different powerups add variety and killing some enemies is really satisfying. I'd have reduced the screen shake though.
Nice job!
Love the style. I only miss some mechanic to restore the first tiles, thus enabling an endless mode. Great use of PICO8 pallete.
Original and very good implementation. Loved the balls physics. Nice job!
Interesting take on the theme. I was expecting some sort of Into the Breach, given the initial images. I think you could have limited the size of the board while playing more with the different mechanics, although it was in the bigger scenarios when I fully realized the complete range of the jump, that seemed random to me at first.
Level design could be polished, but I like your approach on the theme.
Good work in the cohesive graphics and the animations! I like the idea and fits well on the theme. As a minor complaint, I think that with some work on the camera when aiming at the sides and maybe enabling transparency when the aim is over Goat Guy the gameplay can be enhanced. Otherwise, a solid entry. Congratulations!
Cute little game. Loved the graphics, the ending and some little touches like the grandma shadow before the items update. The mechanics are simple but well thought, too. Good job!
Maybe it's me, but I can't attack with middle button :(
Like the idea, but I think that the mechanics need some work. In my play, I start hovering all the books and selecting them by rarity (color). Some time constraints (or more space constraints) or new mechanics involving swapping books between shelves could enhance the mood (in my opinion).
Liked the little tune :). Good work!
Original and well executed. I personally found it too difficult though, because the lack of hints of where the piece will fall in the other grids.
I think that some shadow pieces in all the four grids indicating where the piece would fall if you rotate the grid would be very useful (similar to Tetris DS). Some animations on rotations probably would help too.
Good job nonetheless!
I liked the graphics, music and the idea. It fits well the theme. Not a big fan of the random aim. I think it will be much better if the shot were on target and the aim were moved after that.
Simple concept, but solid enough. I've liked if there were some mechanic to get rid of the corpses, or to use them as a weapon. Good job.
Good entry. Feels complete and fills the theme. The music and the different faces of Teddy are a nice detail. If you want to continue the developing, a preview of the next arrows would be useful to get a faster pace, and a progressive difficulty with the black hole pressure would be nice too.
Good job!
@cary-stanley Thanks for the feedback! Since quick fixes are allowed after the submission, I've updated the web version with SPACE and E keys for rotation (besides the mouse).
@tom7 Thanks for your feedback. I've fixed the bug in the web version. Regarding the difficulty, it is supposed to ramp up with each level (harsher limits for the trucks, larger travelling times, more pieces per time, etc.) But I had not enough time to adjust it better.
Wow. I did not expected such feedback. Thank you very much everyone!
Although I fixed the small bug pointed by @tom7 and added SPACE and E keys as @cary-stanley suggested, I'll not add other things like more pieces or a button for switching off the music (sorry xD), at least for the Compo. I think this is the spirit of the Ludum Dare. Lessons learnt anyway!
@gaoyuan-chen You were so right about an additional piece. Maybe the 7 you mentioned, maybe an I shape of 3 squares. Mostly it was discarded due to lack of time for trying how it affected the gameplay.
@thepelranthean @hakro I definitely agree with you in the slow pace. If I was not so limited on time, I totally had spent more time tuning it for a little more difficulty, specially at the beggining.
@saoi-games Thank you for playing it! Pretty awesome to see how other people play your game, I quickly spotted some mistakes (of my design) just viewing how you played, for example the lack of difficulty at the beggining, the lack of clear notifications with level changes or how is not clear that you earn extra points for filling completely the trucks. Also, clicking in the indicators for sending the trucks is pretty obvious when you tried to do so, but I did not think of it during development.
@carvster I thought of some ways for letting the player return a piece to the conveyor belt, but I did not found a proper way to do it that did not end with the player repeteadly doing so each time he/she made a mistake, so I decided to keep it out. But probably there is a proper way to implement it.
@digitaldude555 I played and enjoyed your game and your originality at fitting the theme. If you have played some games like You Must Build a Boat or Puzzle Quest, you can guess that your base idea has a lot of potential. I encourage you to refine your game, I think is worth it.
I have written post a post-mortem in case some of you are curious of what problems I encountered during the development. You can find it [here](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/ludum-delivery/ludum-delivery-post-mortem). Thank you again for your feedback!
@cary-stanley Definitely there is a bug there. Maybe is the same one that @gaoyuan-chen reported earlier. Sadly I'm not been able to reproduce it consistently, although some times I've seen strange things with the grid :( I'll try to fix it in the next days
Sin título.png
@cary-stanley you nailed it! There was a fix in the RMB event that was bypassed when using the buttons. I updated the web version. Maybe there are more bugs, but I can play quite well now using SPACE key. Thanks!
Hello again! I've spent some hours this week updating this little game. I think it is much better now thanks to your feedback. New version has some nasty bugs fixed, including all grid bugs (I hope), better level progression, new animations, an extra piece as @gaoyuan-chen suggested, toggles for music and sfx, as @ilseroth suggested, better level progression (thanks @tom7 and others for pointing out) and some niceties here and there. I also implemented the possibility to switch a selected piece to another in the conveyor, but I did not like how it affected to the overall gameplay so I decided to left out.
Also, besides of the classic endless mode, I’ve included a secret 100 Trucks mode. It can be activated by clicking in the truck sprite in the main menu. The challenge is to send 100 trucks without losing. You can even try a perfect game if you send 100 perfect trucks (completely filled) :sunglasses:
@pennycook there was in fact some level progression, although not very polished, as you saw. I ran out of time and could play enough to polish it. Thank you for playing it!
@tattomoosa the imposibility of return the selected piece to the conveyor is indeed intended. I implemented the option to switch it with another piece in the conveyor, but it causes more harm than good (you end almost not using it, so I decided to eliminate the possibility, although you could try to re-enable in debug mode D+A keys during the game, in post-compo version).
@dumivid I'll figure out for the next jam, I promise :sweat_smile: In the meantime, I've added the possibility to switch on/off music and effects in the post compo version. If you like challenges, you could try the new 100-truck mode in post compo version. I think that you'll like it.
@sergem Thank you for the feedback. Indeed, one of the main issues of the game was definitely the difficulty ramp. I've worked this last week to adjust it better (more difficult at the beggining, more progressive curve, 10 difficulty levels with the last one being possible if you are concentrated)
@frittatenbank Thank you for your feedback! Regarding your question, when you drop a piece it is not possible to move it further. When levels progress, you don't have time to do it, so I decided to do this way. I think in this game as a puzzle game where you can make some mistakes due to the time constraints, and where you need to think twice before putting each piece. Regarding the graphics, the use of a consistent palette for all the graphics and the awesome Piskel do wonders here :D
@flaterectomy It is indeed, but you are right. It is not obvious at all. I've posted a new version where I've tried to make this fact much more noticeable by using some animations with each level change, and by using less levels but more progressive between them. Thank you for your feedback.
@neowhoru @jin9310 Glad you liked it!
Love it. It's not a new very innovative, but it is pretty polished, with nice controls and a relaxing atmosphere. When you progress into the game, the difficulty curve grows a little too much. Good job.
PD: If audio is indeed third party, you may remove it for the Compo version.