Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Selenephy
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Bad Cultist | jam | 527 | 3.75 | 3.57 | 3.61 | 3.61 | 3.85 | 3.40 | 3.32 | 3.43 |
Really nice game! I liked the fact that the bats give you 999 points, gives the score a bit more variation with little effort!
Only downsides I see is what some already said about restarting with a button (space or enter maybe). Otherwise, it's a cute little game that could be improved just by adding some simple stuff like a collectible or additional enemies if you plan on continuing.
Also, Thanks for playing my game on your stream @kitty-mama !
The controls on this one are really tight, I love it. It feels like a great game for speedruning, except for one thing: In the places where you have to go up, if you go too fast the camera falls behind and you can't see what's right in front of you. There's not many places where you need to go up, but when I was trying to beat time scores I ran into this a few times (Eventually I memorized the enemy placements and so, but still worth noting)
A solid 5 from me
Really nice theme! ;)
The game is actually really good, I enjoyed it a lot. The graphics are cool and the music was really catchy, it's sad that your composer couldn't do music for this game, I bet it would have been even better.
Just a few things I would change:
- Adding a way to set the starting position of your units ("Painting" them or something?) - Improving a bit the gunner's aim - Try to make the priests and wizzards not cast their spells all at the same place (Like, sometimes you have multiple wizzards but you only see one fire wheel)
Overall a really good job!
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The game is amazing and I really love the idea of mixing a tactics game with a roguelike, you did a really good job! The art is great as expected from you and the game is a fun concept, but the controls are a bit rough (the camera panning could be faster and sometimes its hard to select units) and there's some bugs with the pathfinding of the enemies sometimes, but overall a really nice job in just 48H!
Really fun game! I really liked it a lot! I only have a comment, I sometimes had a hard time finding the new submarine when it appeared in an already lit place (specially in the darker levels) because my brain assumed I already clicked it. Besides that, it's a really good and cute game!
My highscore: (Almost nice) image_2021-04-29_183115.png
Also, thank you @simpathey for playing my game on your stream!
Really nice concept, however I found some problems.
- The enemy hitbox isn't accurate, it feels like you can only shoot the body itself and not the arms or legs - The accuracy also feels a bit off, I found it hard to "run & gun" because I had to stop everytime I needed to shoot - The enemy detection range is a bit too large, and they detect you through the red walls (and start chasing you without you seeing them coming)
All of this was minor problems and didn't affect the enjoyment of the game. Except this:
- For some reason it's too easy to get stuck on a ledge of a platform if you run off of it instead of jumping
I had to restart the game several times because of this, and I was determined to get to the end until this started happening. Its just really lame when it happens.
Solid 5 game on every aspect.
Also, where can I get myself a Luis?
Really interesting and original idea! I really liked it but I found some problems, like getting stuck in a square platform like @fl said, I guess a place where you are supposed to get with a button that activates a bridge, but you can also get from above. If it's the bridge, I'd put also a button in the square itself (Like on the platform with lots of nests and some upgrades) also that after getting the super gun with lots of shots I accidentally picked up a lvl 3 gun and lost the upgrade. I don't know if that's intended, but it sure was disappointing to lose the good gun.
Thank you all for the nice comments!
@simex: That idea is actually really good, and I've already talked about it, thanks!
@lucas-viana and @metalfox-dioxymore : Different cultists were supposed to have different appearances but we didn't have time for that (We also planned more cultist types but ended using 2 with some variants, followers and non followers, and wanderers vs statics, mixed up between them)
@chtimy: I'm not sure I understood the question, but cultists who follow you will jump if you are above them (Higher Y position basically).
@thisismatt & @diabolical-sloth : The "Gotcha" timer, overall player speed and movement and some other mechanics needed a bit more of "beta testing" and balancing, but we left them like that because we thought it was good enough for a 3 day game xD But we plan to change everything a bit if we continue with the game