Untitled Caterpillar Game by karln 2020-04-22T17:10:52Z
Nice level design and cute graphics! I found the jumping mechanics a little odd (something about momentum), but I imagine that's a pain to polish in a weekend!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → TomW
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Snowball's Day In | jam | 662 | 3.73 | 3.67 | 3.83 | 4.30 | 3.62 | 3.65 | 3.86 | 3.65 |
Nice level design and cute graphics! I found the jumping mechanics a little odd (something about momentum), but I imagine that's a pain to polish in a weekend!
This baffled me but I loved it. I think the choice of simple colours and graphics - but with lots on the screen and everything wiggling - was great! The piano music is excellent too, though perhaps a bit repetitive on a long game. I also like that there's very little in the way of instructions (I died almost immediately on first play), but you can work it out if you try. Nice work! The main thing I think you could improve is longevity / challenge e.g. you could add more news items, or some additional external effects over time to raise the stakes (e.g. you could temporarily go blind, and have to make decisions without seeing their consequences for the bubble). Or you could simply make the effect of each news item more significant over time.
Gosh that took a while to work out, but it's very pretty and fun/addictive once you're going :) It's also hard! I know the game state kept changing, but I could really work out what had change and what I needed to do in response.
Awesome visual style! I liked the level design too. It felt difficult / unforgiving, which I think is partly due to the platforming mechanics (as @bmacintosh has pointed out), and I fell from the end of level 3 back to the start, but I continued to the end anyway. Really nice!
@raphaeltan - oh interesting, and thanks for the feedback. We actually increased the movement speed just before final submission (it used to be even slower!), but there might be room to go even faster - I'm not sure what a sensible limit is!
Wow! Totally mad audio and graphics, but I love them. And the concept too. The gameplay is quite simple though, and as you've noted, there are some controls issues with ladders and sliding while repairing!
It's cute! I like the feeling with birdsong too. It took me one play-through to actually figure out the goal, but it was nice experience! (I got a little stuck with the controls - the tree grew off the top of the screen - but that might have been my error)
I like the visuals! But I found the game / controls hard!
Gosh this is hard (especially the low spinner), but it is satisfying. I kind of want to be able to dash horizontally for the ball if it's too far away.
I love it. The game is simple but fun, and the graphics and audio are brilliant. It does slightly give me motionsickness, and the spinning into split-screen conveyor belts is mad.