Ladies and Gentlemen, Here is "Pimp my Rat", the story of a green rat whose only goal is to help a professor to create a new form of plant. He will have to try 3 different kinds of pills wich will change his own body and abilities to complete the professor's test sessions.
- Platform game - 5 levels - High challenge. ... Be careful ! This cage is full of traps !
Controls: - ARROWS : Move - Left SHIFT : Run - Space : Jump
We hope you will have fun playing our game. We will post soon our post-mortem with our impressions about our first Ludum Dare experience. Happy Gaming to everyone :)
The platforming was a bit frustrating, sadly :( Sometimes a key would get stuck until you pressed it again, but it wouldn't do the action then. Jumping over a pit without actually jumping isn't a good idea :D It also felt a bit jittery, especially when sprinting. Also sometimes it doesn't detect that you're eating a pill. And it crashed twice. Once the first time I died. And once during level 2 past the part where you get smaller. Everything but you vanished, a few seconds later everything came back, and then it crashed :(
It would crash here but it might be my system - still what I did play (3 levels worth) was really neat! Could use some tightening up but I'd love to see a more polished version of this.
Really like the "night vision" level too, really made me think of how to tackle the level. Good show!
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hamster_mk_429 Aug 2012, 05:09
The graphics are nice, but the game-play is frustrating. The blind drops on the second level were particularly frustrating.
Sometimes the world become all black (everything except the rat), specially over the light blue pill! By the way, i loved the graphic of the storyline!
Gameplay is a bit clunky, but the game is fun and the rat is cool. There still seems to be some bugs cause I got stuck on a black screen and then the game closed suddenly. Nice evolutive audio and nice loading title too
First off, why 87 Mb? Could the assets really not be compressed further?
The platforming was pretty bad and sluggish, the graphics were glitchy, the game kept jittering in an odd fashion and the level graphics weren't too polished, and kind of clashed with the rest of the style.
First of all, very long downloading. My speed was about 70 kb. Nice game. Sometimes, if you died with pressed shift, in next life you running fast, until shift doesn't pressed again.
Absolutely gorgeous art, however, very poor programming: it kept slowing down for no apparent reason in random places on pretty capable CPU, controls were clunky, objects meshed in a strange way.
Thanks for the feedback :) I got to say that it was my first game so the level design and the textures are really basic. I hope we'll do better next time.
I like the basic idea, but the game becomes kind of unplayable after a while (or too difficult). It also crashed somewhere just after the first blue pill.
Get stuck at the darkness stuff. I do like the graphics a lot. The music was good, too. It was very laggy at the darkness part (~3 FPS). Gameplay-wise: you do nothing really new, just alter the classical platformer.
Good use on the theme I think and I love the mouse and the plot-pictures. Music is good as well. I did find the controls a bit hard and I must agree with the 'blind jumps'. You have to guess what to do.
yay, Linux! Thank you. Worked out of the box here (Slackware Linux 13.37, 64bits) except for sound. It just said "Failed to load sound !" 5 times. I did, however, listen to the files in resources and I really liked them, so it's 5stars for sound anyway.
Sometimes a key would get stuck until you pressed it again, but it wouldn't do the action then. Jumping over a pit without actually jumping isn't a good idea :D
It also felt a bit jittery, especially when sprinting. Also sometimes it doesn't detect that you're eating a pill.
And it crashed twice. Once the first time I died. And once during level 2 past the part where you get smaller. Everything but you vanished, a few seconds later everything came back, and then it crashed :(
But the music and graphics are nice