Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → noahw
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | you are dead | compo | 176 | 3.67 | 3.53 | 3.39 | 3.27 | 3.77 | 3.46 | 3.91 | |
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Lemuria | jam | 3.25 | 2.70 | 3.44 | 1.94 | 4.34 | 2.60 | 3.40 |
Very fun to create a slime! Love how the slime changes with stats. Very nice aesthetics. The actual game was a bit chaotic and confusing - it was hard to tell what was going on, if I was attacking or not.
Loved the concept and and the design, and the Capitalist Fireman is a cute lil guy. It rarely felt like there were enough fires going on that I had to decide who to save though. Maybe if instead of a time limit, you had a limited amount of gas in your fire extinguisher?
Had hard time navigating the UI, the buttons seemed to all be disabled? And the instructions were covered by the health/money bars. Loved the concept and the cowbell though. Using Chrome on OSX.
Beautiful game. I didn't cry at all, I swear.
Couple notes, though: it's sometimes a bit unclear which character is speaking, and some of the pacing of the conversations feels a bit odd (the kid in the graveyard said something too long to read before it faded).
Also, there's a permissions issue with the OS X build. If you're on OS X, open a terminal and run "chmod +x <path to download>/Empathy-Mac.app/Contents/MacOS/Empath-Mac" in order to run the game.
Love the artwork, and the sacrifice mechanics are fun to play with. I the game gave a little more feedback about what's going on, it's a bit confusing that there's no visual indicator when characters take damage.
Super cute! And the Douglas Adams references :laughing:
I like the layout, with the stats at the center- feels unique, and gives you a nice sense of progress. The warping around corners effect is well done too!
Clever little game, really enjoyed it. The skeletons piling up is a fun mechanic
Really enjoyed this! Instilled a sense of dystopia AND learned some fun facts about bagels and gerrymandering, everything you could ask for from a game. Enjoyed the writing and the artwork was pleasing. Impressed at your ability to do hands. But yeah, I think I only knew what to do with the dough because I've made bagels before too
Wholesome ending
Love the concept, and the aesthetics are really well done! Reminds a little of Boss Monster (the card game). It would be nice if it was faster to switch between items in build mode, though.
Really nice game! I had a lot of fun playing, and the character animations have a good bounce to them. I might turn down the saturation on the grass color though- it's a little aggressive compared to the character sprites
Really neat idea, and nice work! Definitely difficult, but also fun. Agree with @meek-bits, I was having flashbacks to playing KSP whispering "we're coming to get you, bud" under my breath :)
Really fun game. The frenzied mashing of mouse buttons is a good mechanic. Got me some shiny dudes.
Nice work! Cute aesthetics, although it's a little hard to make out enemy projectiles. Love how the particles communicate your ship's speed slowly increasing, although it took me a while to pick up on that. The little musical loop is pretty creative and really fits the mood.
Trapping enemies in a loop is super satisfying, and so is the little roll they do when moving along your trail. Dying when you touch the walls can be frustrating--it would've been nice if the game had a contrasting border. Overall though, really neat idea and incredibly fun to play!
Nice work! I like the stuffed animal graphics. Sorry I let half your high school friends die before I figured out I was supposed to kill the narwhals :P
Really fun and challenging, looks and sounds great too. The increasing level size made for a really nice difficulty ramp for me. It did get old after a little though- maybe adding optional pickups that require more complicated routes would keep it interesting?
Very nice graphics and animations! The music really fits the mood. One note- it seems like the gun shoots a little off- you have to aim just below where you want to shoot.
Love the mechanic and aesthetics of the game! Was a little confused about the people standing around though- are you supposed to interact with them?
@xasey thanks! Really appreciate the positive feedback
@tomeks Glad you like it! really dug into a "less is more" philosophy with the design. Ironically all the graphics processing required to achieve a retro aesthetic in Unity means this would definitely not be able to run on on an Amstrad CPC lol.
@dusho thank you! Lol, probably should've spent more time testing for exploits
Thanks to everybody for the kind words! I've really been enjoying all your wonderful games as well :)
Very neat idea--nice use of color, sound, and shape to communicate mechanics. Lovely little game :)
Really neat idea, could actually be useful for ear training :)
When you hit a wrong note and the loop replays, the first note of the loop harmonizes with the wrong note, which can make it tricky to get the first note.
Congrats on learning to code again, this is really fun! Really nice minimal design, and the graphics are fun--the little cloud particles are a nice touch.
I love it! Very thoughtful, challenging mechanic. Some really solid character animation and decent music too. Only thing I would like to see is a little more progression in difficulty. Would definitely play a larger game built out of this.
Loved the concept and the ASCII aesthetics! Would be nice if it gave more feedback about what happens on each turn--maybe graphically highlighting changed stats or something similar
The character and jump noise are super cute! I like the floaty jump too. Really good cute/sinister vibe.
Really unique and striking visuals, very enjoyable game. One small note- holding down LMB to ping continuously is a bit of a chore, I would have preferred it to be automatic.
The intro screen is really pretty!
Nice work! Very polished aesthetics and audio. Love the music and the platforms made of scrolling bytes.
The linear up/down motion of jumping feels really hard to control though- most platformers gradually decrease upwards speed, so you hang at the top a little and can better place your jump.
Music slaps. The controls are a little challenging, but in a fun way, and the jump mechanic feels good. Nice idea to place the rings so you have to jump to get them. It's really hard to judge the depth of objects, though.
Nice work, doing a game jam in Rust is super impressive! The game is pretty fun too, even as bare-bones as it is.
Heads up, though, trying to open the app on macOS 10.14 pops up an error: "The application requires macOS 10.15 or later." I ran the binary directly though from the console and it worked fine:
``` $ ./ld47_keep_inside.app/Contents/MacOS/ld47_keep_inside ``` (Also, the download links for Mac/Linux are mixed up.)