Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → starduster
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | GOLD DUST | jam | 729 | 2.85 | 2.66 | 2.91 | 3.41 | 2.68 | 2.79 |
Fantastic! The premise is great, the game is really fun until you 'win' where you outscale the enemies so hard it's not a threat. At that point I went to round 75 where the game was just too laggy from all the powerups I had stacked. I think having a "you killed the entire server" cap somewhere would be good and funny. If there is such a cap my cpu couldn't reach it.
The island is still fun to explore even if its built out of unity store assets.
Great game! The boss music was fantastic. Fishing up the notes and the fish sandwich was great. I wish there was a collection screen so I could see what fish and incriminating items I fished up.
The concept and the art are very funny. I love the cheesiness. The audio of 5 overlapping pigeons and later obstacles made me smile, I'm glad I kept playing. Probably want to use mouse for angle, or two other keys with the right hand like ',' and '.'.
Cool idea, I would love to see it finished.
Lmao, pushed into alcoholism by parents nagging me too much. I feel I don't have the mouseclick speed to make it past 30 though.
Dug 5 empty soda cans up. Pretty accurate simulation of the real deal :) I love the concept. I'd prefer if there were two speeds to running around with the metal detector out though: the slowness is needed for pinpointing the soda cans but could do a broad search fast.
Great game. Controls were weird but unique. I really enjoyed the item descriptions. I wish there was a way to slow down other than coast though. Stick the oars in the water and brake that way.
A fun puzzle game. I like the art and the monster descriptions a lot too. Lack of WASD controls + esc and z was painful. I wish there was a way to withdraw just one monster though. Near the end if I placed the wrong monster it was oops time to withdraw my fleet and try again.
The picture spoke to me... very comfy forest, though I could only find 12 logs then spent the rest of the time wandering the forest and not finding logs. File size is too huge though, 1 gig unzipped. And I had to install a visual c++ runtime. 300 megs of just UnrealEngine.exe or something like that
I believe the game doesn't work on linux. The WASD controls were very buggy and just zoomed out and out and I watched the city get raptured from afar slowly as if watching a cutscene.
@wo-ri-gou-le Yeah, it worked the second time I tried it. This time a tornado spawned and I got to slurp up the city before getting yelled at. I was just thinking it was #linux related.
It has some nice graphics, but I was surprised by the minigames for actually collecting the souls. I felt they detracted from the atmosphere the game had. I did enjoy reading the causes of death though.
I too couldn't click next level. My mouse disappears when I click on the game window. So some bug with mousegrab.
Anyway fun game. The early 3D jank vibes are peak. Jumping around on glitchy geometry is fun and having a game all about that is kinda hilarious.
@gaverion I'm using firefox ESR 128.8 on debian
It's a neat game and the oxygen meter makes it tense! But because the camera is so zoomed in, I had trouble finding resources and finding my way back. Maybe a minimap could also help.
One of my favorites of LD58 so far! Good job on the moving platforms. Contrary to other commenters, imo the difficulty feels good.
Incredible, even more incredible as a compo game! I think you should polish this into a proper release after the competition.
One of my favorites this year! hackercat :) The keyword drag input took me a bit to figure out and didn't render correctly on my screen. Maybe clicking on keywords to fill in blanks would be better, since it's one at a time anyway?
I was wondering if hackercat would nuke the world though. Didn't expect eggs haha.
Took me a while to understand how the game works and I'm still not sure exactly how Action Points work, but it is satisfying and fun to click on rocks.
It appears the game only has a macos build.
Hey I don't think you uploaded the files correctly, it's missing an index.html file. You may have zipped the folder instead of its contents. Ping me if you can fix it and I'll check it out.
Hey the link is broken
Hey the embed is missing an index.html. It says you may have zipped the entire folder instead of the files.
Yeah, I went overboard on the difficulty, too easy to make a platformer difficult! Not enough time to make it balanced. I like NES Mario style character control, but here it's pretty evil with all the nasty jumps.
@sergs-workshop
Sorry about the dust not being visible! That's a bug with hi-dpi monitors where I mixed up physical resolution with logical resolution. The dust shader uses gl_FragCoord which is physical resolution but it's passed logical resolution.