Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Logan Perkins
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Free Munchers | compo | 852 | 3.02 | 2.76 | 2.68 | 2.76 | 2.21 | 2.57 | 2.68 | 3.15 |
Not a bad idea, but the UI could use some work. That you need to click while the status bar is in the red zone for cooking is non-obvious, and the interaction points are non-obvious for some things.
I think you should pick either the timer or the healthbar, not both. I'd lean toward the healthbar and away from the timer, but make the healthbar much smaller. Good thieving requires timing and patience,which a timer discourages.
Kind of a neat idea... The pillow should not have been movable though. It's trivial to beat by hopping onto the pillow, then picking the pillow up and "flying" above the house all the way to the right.
The ships are *slow*, the scale seems a bit off... The cannons fly pretty slowly, and don't give a big enough trail or splash to see where they're hitting. The ship speed compared to the cannon reload time is... not right. Overall the idea is neat, but it turns into just spamming the fire button and hoping for the best.
Very well done. When I realized the mechanic, I didn't think I'd actually enjoy it, but there's quite a lot of room for optimization of strategy. The pacing is such that you can multitask, so that works out well.
It would be good if the long lasting tiles were net energy negative, so there would be more strategy than just taking one tile at a time starting at the top left...
It runs too fast. The balance is fine, but when the time taken to go from full to empty on a bar is measured in seconds, it makes for too frantic of input, where the key to surviving rests more on pixel perfect dragging than smart planning.
I did notice that on a less bright screen than I used to design it. I largely copied the color scheme from the 1990 8bit color version of the game, but some of them are not quite right. The levels are in random order.