Beautiful blob by Hestrateja 2021-04-25T23:36:07Z
Good job balancing the movement physics so that the game felt reasonably tricky without the controls feeling frustrating or unresponsive.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → ksadov
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Ecotopia | jam | 721 | 3.54 | 3.20 | 3.25 | 3.81 | 3.72 | 3.78 | 3.07 | 3.22 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Mandelbrot Hunt | jam | 3.12 | 2.62 | 4.00 | 3.50 | 3.75 | ||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | DFA | compo | 2.33 | 2.16 | 2.33 | 2.08 | 4.25 | 2.33 | 3.50 |
Good job balancing the movement physics so that the game felt reasonably tricky without the controls feeling frustrating or unresponsive.
@hestrateja The fractal is generated on the fly and not a fixed .png, but the fixed size of floating point numbers means that zooming in too close produces a blocky image instead of revealing the Mandelbrot's actual infinite layers of complexity. There are interesting engineering tricks for getting around this with arbitrary precision arithmetic... something I'd like to look into for future projects :)
It's impressive how much character design you can do by varying the eyebrows on a floating pair of eyes. Despite their simplicity, the enemies have distinct personality.
The minimalist pixel portraits were charming, and the game's pace was excitingly hectic. It would have been nice to tie the concept together somehow with a little flavor text at the beginning: why do you need to guess whose missing before you drop to your doom? Maybe you're trying to figure out who put you in this predicament to begin with, so that you can give the computer system controlling the elevator their user credentials before you're toast? The photo clues are a great opportunity for wordless storytelling, and could have stretched a short text prompt into a complete tale.