Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Nordwolf
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Mo | |
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| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Wind Garden | jam | 124 | 4.09 | 3.56 | 4.15 | 3.95 | 4.59 | 4.14 | 4.39 |
Interesting idea but lacks gameplay motivation for me. A way to speed up gameplay would be good (eg. using your mouse instead of a character or Actually being able to dash around) thus making the motivation to go further to have faster and more frantic gameplay. If expanding on this concept I think someone running around a scrapyard making "orders" or specific parts could be an interesting take on this, but that would be a different game.
@abi-code16 Always a great joy to read such comments! Thank you ))
@lisek-gagatek Thanks for the feedback! Camera work was a little tricky and I didn't have time to implement a nice way to move with a mouse. I think I will add a way to "pan" to the side with a mouse, in a look-ahead kind of way to see your plants. Or perhaps just a zoom out to see all the plants you already had.
New plants and biomes are actually really easy to add, so I will do that for sure for a post-jam version. Maya has drawn quite a few more plants that didn't make it to the game. I think there is a lot of room for different plants that help you in different biomes. Plants growing on rocks, a bee attracting plant that makes bees pick up seeds and move them forward etc.
@skelleroznik Thank you for the feedback! The idea is that seeds are carried by the wind, so it's a little random each time, I'm not really sure how I can make it more predictable without giving up the random-ish more natural movement.
@nico-drake Thank you so much! Technically it's a Jam entry, so 72 hours, but we didn't have all 3 days of work because the weather was too good )
@austin-sierra Thank you for the feedback! There are a lot of things that could be added for it to be less boring, I think just better gameplay dynamic/progression would make it work much better in general, but also more biomes/hazards/plants and general problem solving apart from just trying to go as high or far!
@trexxak Thanks a lot! We are really glad you liked it :)
Very simple mechanic so you had time to polish the game. Well done for the 3 days that we had! Fun theme, gameplay could be good for something you play on the phone while commuting.
One of the games that I would want to play more and more if there were more levels! Good puzzle design and being able to solve it multiple ways doesn't hurt it and helps the gameplay instead! Good balance between challenging and relaxing.
The only thing is I would have loved mouse/touch interface to just click or hold drag where the character is going, being locked into 45 degrees was a bit frustrating at times.
Very nice game for a compo! Quite a simple concept well executed in such a time frame, has lots of potential for improving feel/visuals/balance if you want to work on it after jam.