Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Smarto Club
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | oh shit i'm dreaming again. | jam | 134 | 4.07 | 3.73 | 3.92 | 4.47 | 4.39 | 3.76 | 4.23 |
Took me a moment to get the hang of the mechanics but when I did it was a lot of fun! The camera movement made placing circles a bit frustrating some times but since you never need to be extremely fast it wasn't that bad.
The art style and character design is great, would be great to see this fleshed out more!
Nice take on theme, felt nice and was fun! Would be interesting though to have had some kind of enemy that would limit your movement on the loop (for example a wall-like enemy you would have to shoot to pass) because in the end I found the optimal strategy was to just hold a button and rotate forever while shooting towards the middle.
Very interesting to see a jam game with voice acting, nice work! Subtitles would have been great but definitely understandable to not have them since you only had a weekend. The implementation of the theme was great although the gameplay could have been a bit more fun, the optimal strategy for beating the dragon is just walking to it and spamming the mouse button.
Really love the idea although as many have mentioned you can usually nail the suspect on the first loop. Making the characters board game pieces was a smart decision, but the art definitely some nicer lighting and shading. I think it'd be pretty useful if each character had their name under their portrait although I guess figuring out everyone's names is part of the challenge.
Very good work! The shading on the character looks great but I think they don't mesh that well with the textures with background materials. The lighting is a bit odd too (mostly because the sky box is so bright but the level is dark) so improving that would help improve the general look of the game a lot.
Definitely one of the funnest games I've played so far! It seems simple of first but the systems interact in fun ways (for example, I'd try to serve a customer but then a new customer would suddenly appear and "steal" the food) and they have interesting twists that add strategy (the different length tentacles was a great decision). With clearer GUI and some better controls (having numbered shortcuts to choose a tentacle would be great) this could be a really addicting game.
Really great job for your first game in Unity! The take on the theme is interesting but could be made more explicit IMO. The gameplay gets stale after a while so as others have mentioned it'd be nice to have progression like different enemies or challenges.
@jvdwijk @nerdytopic Thank you so much for the feedback and bug reports, they should be fixed!