Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → kulmajaba
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Minecart Madness | jam | 520 | 3.62 | 3.84 | 3.02 | 3.22 | 3.70 | 3.72 | 2.58 | 3.46 |
Tricky to play, especially with multiple enemies in different directions, but a fun challenge to overcome. I also really liked the damage mechanics for the PC being knocked back instead of losing health, makes the recoveries much more doable from a bad situation.
I think I cleared wave 7 before I got into a death spiral. Overall good concept, really liked the polish of the game (especially the enemy death FX was very satisfying), but a few tweaks might be required to make it more enjoyable.
Besides the coupling of damage and your ability to prevent further damage, the delay of turrets coming online made switching defenses during a wave difficult, which I thought otherwise was one of the real innovations in this game.
Simple but fun, well balanced in terms of movement, attack cooldown/effect and enemy spawning. Great art style for the characters!
Solid shooter, proving that all you need for an enjoyable experience is good movement and shooting mechanics. The day/night cycle is very nice and the effects to go along with it work well.
I think I got lucky because I found the evac point after just one cycle, so the current gameplay might be a bit on the RNG side of things and giving some sort of clues to the player would be welcome (with the right balancing).
328 points, mostly by swinging rocks at enemies.
Overall a fun concept and interesting challenge in how you interweave drawing the shapes among avoiding damage, but maybe letters aren't the best shapes for this mechanic (although I do realize they are probably the easiest).
Art style, sound and music were definitely well matched.
Loved the art style, the music and the story, but the gameplay wasn't quite as smooth as I'd have hoped. The movement is a bit cumbersome and I didn't get far into the game.
Perhaps the items I collected would have allowed me better movement but I played myself into a corner in the first level by placing one of the tiles too far, and had to restart, so I was scared to try it again :D I'd really like to see a more polished version of this because I feel like the game has a lot of potential.