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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | He Needs Healing | compo | 710 | 3.24 | 3.30 | 3.33 | 3.80 | 3.19 | 2.90 | 2.39 | 2.92 |
This game is very cool. I like the main idea, never thought about the level-up system this way. Controlls are smooth, shooting is fun. However, I would make enemies' projectiles brighter to make them more distinct from the background. Overall, enjoyed your game very much, cool for a Compo submission. I'll add yours to my list https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Awesome little game. Graphics, sound and controlls feedback is great. For me it feels really inspiring.
Included your game in my list) https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Included your game in my list) https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Nice aestetics, but some assets don't really match each other. The game is very similar to Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and I think it's good. We need more cooperative games of this type when you controll some ship together.
This game is very cool. Like the graphics and gameplay. Good concept for endless game. Included your game in my list https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Cool game. Visuals are neat, gameplay has an interesting twist. I'll add your game to my list) https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Sorry, but I don't understand what to do. I connect two monsters and enter does not start food transportation. Can't get why it is so. However, graphics are nice and music is atmospheric.
Interesting and cute game. Liked the graphics a lot, idea is very funny.
Awesome game. Can't say anything bad about this. I enjoyed it a lot, especially because I once had a similar idea of managing many devices to keep running, but never made a complete game out of this. Good job)
Very fun game and nice visuals. Simple, but enjoyable. Also, reminds me of my current project.
Nice concept, I guess a good simple game can be made out of it. Also, paralax effect when flying is cool. However, for some reason when I press W or A my cursor appears and the ship doesn't move. Also, settings button is for some reason is not functional. I don't know if it is only my problem. I tried using Google Chrome and Opera browsers. P.S. Saw your controlls hint and I guess you are using AZERTY layout. I thing you should make an option to change controlls for QWERTY or AZERTY layouts. People are a bit confused by ZQSD movement.
The game looks good, like that kind of artstyle. Sounds feel nice, but shooting gets repetative. Theme interpetation is interesting.
Included your game in my list) https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Interesting theme interpretation, very funny. However, I think the game lacks some slingshot polishing. To feel the speed and acceleration. Also, fish is flying with more or less the same speed and stops slowly. This particular slingshot mechanic is very well executed in this game https://uppon-hill.itch.io/remember-apollo I guess you can look for ideas there. Overall, good game, I enjoyed it.
Very cool artstyle, I like it and dynamic gameplay that makes you engaged. Music is nice. By the way agree with posts above about "doot" sound going too loud and repetative. I would make the sound softer.
Interesting concept with good execution, also liked the graphics and animations. Good take on the theme. I added your game to my list https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
The game look very polished. Graphics are mezmerizing, sounds are good and the game is actually fun to play. Good job)
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Very cute game. Funny theme interpretation, enjoyed the levels a lot. I'll add this to my personal list https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
The game is good and well balanced. Love the arts and situations, though yes-no buttons are a bit small for mobile.
Great little game. That was funny, I guess the game needs more events, effects and maybe extra challenge. Like the humor.
Amazing graphics, very interesting concept. Sounds and music are really good. The story is touching, one of the best games I've seen so far on this challenge. Impressive work for one man.
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Looks nice, feels good and responsive. Good decision to mark where enemies spawn before they do it. Wonder if you finish it in future.
Cute artstyle, upgrade system is good as it adds new fire modes rather than just bigger numbers of splash or damage. Visual effects feel good. Sounds get a little annoying after some time. Would be nice to improve impact when shooting enemies, add animations, make controlls more familiar like shop to Tab button.
@martin183 Wonder why I see your comment right after watching "Leon" movie. Huh. Actually, never thought about that, but this jam is 99% Leon-proof with all those plant saving simulators
The game is very impressive for your age. Appreciate that) Maybe you can add wells to refill water to make the game a bit more diverse. Probably, some more particles that emit from plants when you water them for some impact.
Concept is nice, if you add more impact and some gameplay mechanics to improve combat it would be really good. Visuals are good, though they lack some little details and better sprites overall, love the glow. The character runs very fast even without boost, so it's hard to control him. Maybe it's how it was intended, but I think that controlls should be more precise. All in all, good job for 48 hours.
Great game, good visuals. However running and jumping felt a bit off on slopes, checkpoints would be nice, step's sounds in my opinion are strange, they are too loud and sharp. Apart from that, good game, hope you will complete it.
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Fun game. The game was very intence when playing with Lunatic track by Static-X with all that screen shake and rythmic clicking experience. Talking without joking this is a nice roguelike-like. Screenshake makes combat satisfying, but maybe it's too hard like there's an earthquake. Some particles and sounds would make it significantly better. Now I'll go and check out the post LD version.
I've just finished upgraded version. This time with It's not too late - A killer's confession in the background. Post LD update is good. That two-sided sword strike animation is really funny when you swing it all around you. Knockback is a nice idea, makes the game a little more fair and...smart I guess. Actually, I finished your game, for some reason it got me and I was engaged. By the way, when the character runs diagonally he is a lot faster, is that a Quake reference?
Hey there! I thought like, what if I speedrun your game. And I tried to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxc8TF4DCY
@convg As you can see I really enjoyed killing enemies all around and knocking them back. For that reason, if you would like to, you could make some combat mechanics for big numbers of enemies with some crowd control abilities. Guess that it would be really fun to mess around with tons of enemies slashing them.
@convg Don't understand the thing with the second point of the update, but I want to say that circle attack makes the game too easy and I think, that if I make another speedrun I will improve my result by another 30 seconds.
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@pvg Choice of keys is not for difficulty, but for comfort. Like if you put your fingers of left arm on a keyboard they can be pretty nicely be laid on D,F,G keys with index finger lying on F. I thought it's better. @jojo-the-clown And yeah, guess "slain" is correct). Thanks for all the feedback.
Aaand I guess my Source crashes Godot editor because I am using 3.1.1 for it, not 3.2. It can be the case. Not really sure.
@matt-lewis @sunnray I guess I can make some update later. Actually, a good idea to call spells, not buttons. And they get faster over time, as well as enemies' spawning.
@morriekken The idea with breaks is good, the game can get really intense at some point, at which you get tired. The thing that you felt overwhelmed means that my purpose to make player feel busy all the time is accomplished. I wanted to make a feeling that you always can't keep up with the pace.
By the way, personally I didn't feel like the game was too tough. Maybe it's because I had a lot of practice while developing) It gets a lot easier if you play several runs in a row.
@room606 It's endless, because you never do what that warrior did. He went on a fight with high-level boss, luckily he had a high-level cleric friend who heals him, so this battle will basically never end. I guess that I will make start a bit easier. Thanks for feedback)
@convg Check out this game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dino-spin This one is my absolute favourite for this jam.
@god-colo Holy god! You really tried it hard. 5475 is impressive. Thanks for your comment, I see that you actually liked the game.
@ldd I added this today, but as I don't have Mac myself I can't check if it is working properly, so there's nothing written about the update. Didn't want to announce what is not working
@miltonnh25 If I add more things to keep track of layer's mind will be absolutely fried)
@douwe-ravers Good idea, never thought about that
@rodrigo-denubila Actually, this is what the game does, so if you consider beginning difficult, you don't even know how it is after about 2K points. Maybe I will lower the curve a bit in the beginning, no problem
@sokette There are a lot of suggestions from good people of the commentaries. I'll add them after LD is finished. Readability is one of them. Thanks for playing!
@emperor-eagle @alaah Thanks for quality feedback. Yeah, I thought a lot about DFG decision after finishing the development. I decided that I am smarter than traditions and made a different layout. It's like AZERTY keyboards, maybe they suit typing better, but they are not familiar for 99% of people, so their advantages are washed away by traditions. I'll change the controls later.
@alaah And thanks for playing my game till 30K. You seem to really like it, if you got to this score.
Visuals are neat, but I think there's too much red color and objects become a mess on a screen. Not very readable when playing and it's what you want your game to be readable when developing a dynamic shoot'em'up. Also, gameplay is not well balanced, because you actually can't properly bite people because you stuck in them and there are too many of them. Your minions die very fast and you can't last very long which is not particularly fun experience. However, concept is good and just needs balance, polishing, better and more UI elements and then I guess it's going to be a really nice fast paced game. Dodge people, bite them, make your army to fight another incoming army, sounds fun if made properly)
Cute game. Sounds are nice, screen shake makes a bit of an impact, particles do the same. However, controlls are not really intuitive, it would be nice to mark what bar is for HP and XP and experience orbs in my case spawned very rarely. I think you can make a neat mobile game out of this.
The game is actually fun to play and it's well balanced. Good visuals, music which does not kill you ears, nice polished look overall. Well done)
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Nice puzzle game. Simple, but fancy graphics and good levels. However, I still don't get how movement actually works. Maybe it's buggy or I just didn't understand.
@lazzydev72 I mean I didn't get how the direction is chosen. I can't understand why it slides in a particular direction. The camera is not that intuitive
@lazzydev72 I guess I can describe in details. It's a bit of a problem because level restarts really slowly, transitions are too long and you don't want to experiment a lot. Also, the robot uses a battery when running in a wall, that's not good. Controlls for some reason sometimes don't work from first key press. Like when I press W and the robot stands still. It leads to situations in which you press a key multiple times and the robot runs twice and uses batteries when you don't want. And about movement direction. It's hard to understand at first where the robot goes when I press the keys. Maybe you can make some kind of marks on the robot or a little hint in the corner that shows which key does top-right, top-left and so on movement. Because of isometric view it's not obvious. And menus don't response to button pressing from first try.
@lazzydev72 Actually, I run the game in Ultra settings, so there can be an issue of other type. About transitions, I think you can make an update with loading bar to make it clear that the game has not loaded completely yet. By the way, I looked at your source and maybe input problem is behind if-else system. There's a lot of stuff going on in the movement code, so it can be laggy or miss some true-false condition. It does not set a variable to True properly and movement doesn't happen. Maybe it's the case. I make that assumption, because in my currently developed game I had a problem with movement for this particular reason. If-else can have those problems, I would check it.
@lazzydev72 Hey, man! I stumbled upon a cool game which has the same movement mechanics as yours. Maybe you'll find some inspiration in it. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/adrena-line
@lazzydev72 Actually, we can connect with Discord or something alike and discuss things if you're not against that) I posted a comment on your itch account.
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Very fun game. Good runner, looks and sounds nice. I also included your game on my list https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Nothing special about gameplay, but the game is very solid and looks good. Very well made, love the graphics and controlls. P.S. Played the last version. It's much cooler. Enjoyed it a lot.
This game is very fun and I laughed for some reason which I cannot explain. Good take on the theme, pretty smart level design and it's actually interesing that your game is very similar to https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dino-spin Which I consider nice, because Dino Spin is my favourite game of the jam for now. I have a few suggestions. Maybe make hitbox of purple thing! a few pixels smaller than the actual sprite for invisible comfort improvement and feelings like "NOOOOO...okay it's fine, I caught it". Also some coyote time for better jumping. You can make some dynamic action levels where you need to run without stops. Overall, enjoyed the game a lot. Included this in my list https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
Nice game. For some reason got very engaged in it. Pixel-art is neat. Lacks some better UI and little visual stuff to make it feel better.
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The idea is nice and visuals are pretty, however the balance is not that great. Health is never a problem in this game and you dodge 90% of projectiles by simply running around the arena and if you need to take a pickup, you just tank all damage while shooting enemies and that's it. Also, I think the game need more impact and particles to feel great.
Very fun game. Good visuals, sound and music. Has some nice impact when shooting. My first attempt was 169.18 seconds. I guess it's not bad. Enjoyed it. Cool for 7-hour work) I included your game in my list https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me