Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Water Duck
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | The Summonee | jam | 278 | 3.85 | 3.65 | 2.90 | 4.10 | 4.35 | 4.09 | 3.54 | 4.03 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Unstabadome | jam | 1154 | 3.21 | 3.10 | 3.15 | 3.52 | 3.44 | 3.57 | 3.15 | 3.12 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Devil Diver | jam | 1490 | 3.17 | 2.89 | 3.09 | 3.04 | 3.25 | 3.31 | 2.90 | 3.06 |
Water Duck leaves an average of 3.0 feedback comments each event.
I wasn't too sure how this fit into the theme, I mean I can see it, but it wasn't very clear. Physics are always fun, a lot of music, which is impressive. Some small variations in the sound of the boxes bumping around would be sweet. Interesting and fun idea, can get a bit repetetive, but enjoyed my stay for 6 game days! Solid entry though, it stuck out.
I had fun dodging projectiles. A bit hard to follow the story, graphics are cool. Some upgrades to your spaceship, even if just a different kind of projectile would be nice. Also some better sense of the fact that you're actually progressing somewhere, going deeper and deeper. Still, good job, keep going! :)
Everything fits together quite well, nice music and audio. Continuously giving advice with a voice over could probably get a bit tedious, but I feel you get away with it, because the game isn't very long after all.
I enjoyed the gameplay, but I feel you had to wait around quite a bit before the last two whales get enough water, which doesn't really add much to the challenge anyway, I get that you can make the water go faster by optimizing how you dig the path, but even when I had the number going really fast it still took a while. It definitely would be more interesting to experiment with different ways to get the water to the whale, rather than how to do it as efficiently as possible.
As for the theme, you can only dig so deep. It's more about digging a trench, making it longer and longer, not deeper and deeper.
Everything else that I haven't mentioned is great, very solid entry all in all!
That soundtrack slaps! It's a fun little arcady-game! (: The presentation really helps elevate it (or de-elevate, beacause, deeper and deeper)
Relaxing game! A bit of nitpicking is perhaps redundant walking and as has been mentioned, the 50/50 puzzles. Loved the interactions though, they're satisfying even if they're easy, so as an introduction to the game's systems it's great.
LD49 — Unstable (1)
Project S.L.I.M.E. by Dioinecail 2021-10-08T12:19:28Z ♥ 2
Likes others I weren't sure of what exactly to do at the start, but I figured it out quickly enough.
I do wish I would've had some more feedback for the players and enemies hitting eachother, at x1 speed nothing seems to be happening at all, increasing the speed makes it apparent that stuff is going on though, so I do appreciate that it's there, maybe the base speed should just be overall faster.
Interesting concept, there's definitely room for more simplied strategy games like this one. I assume the theme is due to the experiment being unstable, but aside from perhaps the narrative, I don't feel that big of a connection to the theme.
Alas, nice work and cool game! Keep making them! (: