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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | 2011 | 21 | Escape | Stratus | compo | Graphics | 4.81 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Dino Chef | compo | 267 | 3.16 | 3.26 | 2.61 | 2.33 | 4.37 | 3.26 | 3.33 | 3.35 | 14 | ||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | An Imperative Journey | compo | 231 | 3.32 | 2.68 | 2.57 | 3.89 | 4.17 | 3.19 | 2.37 | 3.51 | 22 | ||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Circle | compo | 170 | 3.06 | 2.69 | 2.44 | 3.63 | 3.63 | 3.40 | 1.36 | 3.44 | 1.91 | ||
| 2011 | 21 | Escape | Stratus | compo | 9 | 4.01 | 3.50 | 3.50 | 3.38 | 4.81 | 3.14 | 2.08 | 2.81 | 18 |
really fun! great feel to the platforming, I think the only thing I'd like to add is checkpoints so if you die you don't have to restart the entire thing. after 3 goes getting quite far (I think) I gave up when I died again
enjoyed this a lot! I think it's a great plan to have a very simple game mechanic and spend your effort creating a big and diverse play area like this to explore. the silouette gives you enough of an idea about the level and what things are, but it's nice and easy to create too. very clever
Good times! I wondered if the music came from a royalty free site but no you made it too.. really impressive (and a good length despite the cuts!). well played
PS, I like how it felt melancholic, but still gave me an uplifting feeling at the end
there's an enemy ship in the picture! i played for a bit and all I did was float around space. how do you find enemies
I think mixing health and checkpoints like that is a bit weird. health should refil when respawning- I don't know why I should get a game over when running out of hearts vs just respawning for falling off a building.. it makes falling off preferable to being hit, which I think is the wrong way round. anyway, it was pretty good fun :)
oh, on a small note: I think putting a hole right after the speedup powerup is pretty cruel!
great concept, a little frustrating to play (i just wanted to reach into the screen and strangle the damn fish as it swims the wrong way).. great music. Overall despite the frustration very enjoyable to beat
on of the best art styles in the compo.. really friggin cool to look at. My only gripe is sometimes telling the difference in a hurry between mines and switches is tricky (and you really don't want to make that mistake!). I'd have made switches bright green or something
good fun! I found it really difficult though, especially with the thruster damage mechanic. I couldn't escape!
the damage is a great idea, I just wish it didn't cripple you *as* much, since I'm really clumsy and impatient I hit a lot of stuff :D
I think you should try and find out if you can be allowed to add a restart button to your entry. They've stated I believe that you can address big completely game-breaking bugs, as long as you don't alter any features. and you can argue no respawn is quite game breaking. Please find out if you can add it, it would make a huge difference!
phew. i was determined to finish but damn I think you made some mean level designs! to the point where managing to finish often felt way more luck-based than when I actively tried to be skilful or tactical. I did better just rushing over and over and hoping for the best :). but anyway despite all that it's a great achievement, full points for innovation. I never managed to read the end text though because I get killed so quick, which is a shame
kinda fun little real-time roguelike! I had no idea I was being timed though so losing because of that was a bit of a shock
loads of potential here, I just didn't have a clue how to beat the game! barigorokarl: I was doing that but the attackers pound the ship so much it just got to a state where engineers were keeping me alive but I couldn't fix sensors or engines so was dead in the water
I definitely think you should continue developing this btw- make the first level way way easier, and balance the game a bit more, but I loved the hell out of the idea
em, i got to 'open space' and some fire rained down from the sky, then the background went black and I kept flying. Did I escape? what about his wife and kids?? PS I gave you an extra community point 'cos your name is great. hope you never get in a fight with someone called RCP90
hehe sorry I thought it was a n64 goldeneye reference :) the klobb is the worst gun in the game, RCP-90 is one of the best
I noticed your text after I posted, sorry- I just went straight for the game :) anyway great effort, the ending doesn't really matter if the game's fun to play!
pretty fun! I really question the fact that if you jump against a wall in level 1 you get sent flying backwards :) likewise in 2, it's quite random if you make it or fall into a hole and wait for the beam to catch up. finally in level 3, if I didn't accidentally find out about the wall-push I don't think I could complete it. despite these gripes, I had a good bit of fun :). level 1 was the most fun, sliding about and jumping to avoid obstacles
this game is awesome, particularly 'fly mode' which I almost missed! my only crit would be to add the velocity of the vehicle onto the bullet, cos if you get really fast you can almost outrun your own bullets! anyway, one of my favourites so far!
hehe, funny but blatantly unrealistic! there was no-where near that many police about! ;)
I had a hard time phasing back into areas the same height as the character, I think the phasing back in should have been more generous in that respect, but I also really enjoyed it- very nice mood and music
really really charming experience. I struggled with the controls a little, but overall I loved it particularly the character design
simple but fun :) I would have liked some quick indication of where the bullets were coming from at the top of the screen, just to aid dodging
it was great, I was really hoping for aliens rather than ghosts mind :]. But great atmosphere, well done!
game looks great :) I think it's a little inaccessible to jump straight into and start playing, there's a lot of elements presented all at once. I actually think streamlining it to just guiding light and electricity might have made it easier to make and easier to get into to play. still, well done for the complexity in there!
i got the 'didn't find out what happened' ending, was there any more?
aw, I was looking forward to figuring out how to free them.. seems like maybe you didn't get to finish the ending? I really enjoyed the conversations though :)
great idea, i just couldn't play it very well :) would be good to polish up the gameplay
awesome game, just a little too difficult (or actually as others have stated, its just too long inbetween respawn points. the difficulty is fine apart from that) the only other thing I found frustrating is how you can go so much faster than the screen scroll rate.. I guess I understand it's so you can get out of a scrape, but I also would have liked to build up a bit of a gap between me and the fire if I could move fast enough, which gives a little bit of a safety net for when you mess up.
all in all a fun and cool game tho!
it took me a few goes to realise I could kill people, I generally shot them a few times and when nothing much happened I kept running :). but eventually I got it :). pretty clever!
fantastic game, really fun and I loved the art! very stylish :). I got stuck on level 14 tho, after 6 tries I ended up giving up, sorry :/. There seems to be a jump which requires a leap of faith and missing it is instakill. At first I was really pleased to see the water was not instant death, and you could recover- however more and more in the later levels it does become instant death. I love that you even coded a bonus level!
cool game- i just would have liked some kind of indication how far the guards can see
great fun, the music is friggin ace, megaman flashbacks
hehe pretty fun! I'm not quite sure how escape works, it sounds like I'm running to work right? am I escaping my sanity??
hi, for me nothing happens when I click run.bat. a command window flickers up then closes real quick
thanks for commenting! yeah I guess a consequence of focusing on atmosphere and art, the game length and mechanics suffered somewhat.. I think this would have been better for a week long project, but I really wanted to try it anyway :). cr, I'm really sorry that's a terrible bug :(. the first thing you're supposed to do is click on the medicine cabinet- does nothing happen when you try that?
blown away by the comments, thanks so much guys :) taking all the crits on board too, I totally agree the icons could be clearer. I'm not so keen on text (i quite like making my games multi-language, without need for translation) but things could be made more obvious through other means. As for expanding the game.. I'm in two minds! well, of course I'd love to, but I'm already working on a game called Pineapple Smash Crew . Hmmm!
16 iirc! if you want a tip, their firing timer gets reset if they get hit (i know, there's no feedback for this at all) so if you feel there's others about to shoot you, spray a few bullets in their direction and then go back to your main target.
thanks tcstyle! As soon as I'm able to I want to follow it up :). For now if you're looking for more complex gameplay I'm working on a game called Pineapple Smash Crew: http://www.richmakegame.com/?p=371
pretty fun! but, I'm sad that this is the second 'stuck on a desert island' game I've played this compo where you can eat dodgy mushrooms, and there's no trippy visuals. Son I am dissapoint :P anyway apart from that well done :)
yes, please add an executable. I don't even know what platform the game is for?
hmm, same I got some error about something AddToStreamEx- sorry
those are some pretty tough sheep!
loved it!
not sure I understand how to download the game!
It's a great achievement to finish a game in the time, but I do think you could have stretched yourself a bit more with the originality.. I mean, it's pacman but with less going on :P. and it's a closed maze you can't escape from!
well anyway, congrats for finishing :D
I kinda think you should not have included a web version, since rage quitting means just closing the browser! I admit at first I really did not like this game because I felt like it was a case of designer mocking player, but since then I've thought about it more and it's clever enough to win me back around :). great art and music too
Tell me about it! There's actually a ton of code for different puzzle plates which I wrote and never had time to implement :( also there was two more areas and another music track which got thrown out... I really misjudged what I could finish! I might upload the music track for anyone curious
is it? I did a search for 'ludum dare freesound.org' and you get a lot of posts of people declaring freesound.org as a sound resource, I figured it'd be ok. I don't have any way to record birds and I needed some birds tweeting.
I removed the bird sound just in case.
the music is by me. I had some birds tweeting in the background from freesound, which I've removed
thanks guys! I'm going to try get a web export up. This was my first time using unity and I left it till the very last minute to figure out publish settings so I only got the windows one out. Apologies for the wonky movement! It was probably a bad idea, but I decided to try make my own movement instead of using the unity default. It works nice on my machine but I think it's not correctly accounting for framerate maybe. Or some other issue, not sure yet
web is up! it seems to be a much smaller download, so go for that I guess :). Not tested on mac, hope it works ok
if movement seems too slow, it's possible the 2nd version might help... The Web link lets you play either version
sorry! it's not so obvious from the first task- basically for milk follow the white line (then to the hedgehog), water the blue (then to the flower),(then upstairs), leaf the green (then to the stand-alone green plant)
Hi, for folks struggling with controls, could you give me some feedback what's wrong? I'm not entirely sure it's behaving the same on all computers
Thanks sudorossy- It's difficult to tell if the framerate is choppy in game or just the video. If it's the game, using the alternate forward render version will probably make it easier. If it does run smoothly, then it might just be my bad controls :) sorry about that!