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Hey everyone! I'm back for my third Ludum Dare! I created an on-rails style game where you use items from chests - but each item can only be used once!
It's pretty similar to Star Fox in theory - you are going on a set path, but by interacting with the environment you can change the course. There's even a map at the end to show you all the areas you've uncovered.
I got my artistic inspiration from a recent obsession with low poly models using realistic lighting. Of course I had my limitations (was mostly baking 512 textures), but I think the results speak for themselves! You'll notice I've been playing a lot of Ocarina of Time lately - all of the items ended up being Zelda-inspired purely out of coincidence.
Like the idea, but the pacing felt prohibitively slow, and starting a level over after a mistake felt really punishing given the slow movement speed. A dash/accelerate feature would be useful here to progress through solved puzzles.
Love the low-poly style and rail moving. Nice work!
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X-0r16 Dec 2013, 03:55
Nice graphics! Was there anything I missed during the bossfight? The loops I was going through didn't seem to contain any items (something I didn't try... keep the bomb, and be hit by the boss, then toss the bomb against the environment :P)
For the boss: If you hit the boss 5 times, he'll die. I'd recommend face-tanking the boulders and healing with the potions, then throwing the bomb as you pass him.
Boss fight is a bit sloppy, my head was swimming at that point from lack of sleep :S
The game took a long long time to load, I left it open while I played some other games. On my first run through I died at the first jump because I missed the jump powerup. Nice music and art style.
I find myself re-aligning the cursor to the center every time I move the camera, so maybe use the RMB for that instead? I dunno, maybe it's just a personal preference. Also, I love me some low-poly <3
I came for the nice low-poly style and stayed for the fun gameplay. It's sometimes difficult to figure out how to aim, and once you get the hang of it the forward motion is a little slow, but I still had a lot of fun. The bad tree at the end was awesome! A note on the audio, I think you're supposed to compose the audio yourself within the time limit.
very nice gameplay. Not very difficult, but still fun. The only thing I din't really like was the boss didn't require any skill or speed to beat, only the health potions from the beginning of the level. Also, loved the audio
Love the art-style! I'm currently obsessing over the same sort of thing myself, so this game goes straight to the reference folder! Fun game, and very well polished, great work!
The only thing on my mind was "How on earth did you guys make this in 72 hours!?" If I could complain about anything, that would be the mouse sensitivity is a bit low, making it hard at times.
I love the plain surface 3D style. It reminds me of starfox or virtua racing sega game :) The control was strange to handle for me : I was alaways trying to click before using space when I see unexpected obstacle like boulders coming at me.
On the moutain level if you can grab chest from the right path because you can see through the moutain.
On boss level I would have love to see his deah animation instead of having this ending panel in the way :)
Great ambience ( with music change ) on each level, that's an huge ammount of work for 48h compo. Thanks on giving me this strange 3D immersion feeling I had when I was playing first 3D Aracade back in the 90's.
I found it interesting to explore for chest and keep looking ahead at the same time. Great job on the music, they are various and all of quality (what software did you used ?)
Such a pleasure for eyes. Such an ejoy for player. ++ for hidden roads and fun with different run i took. But you really could do something about irritating mouse (maybe hide and highlight center point of screen for targeting?).
Throwing bombs required some accuracy, and jumping also did sometimes. It didn't feel fun to miss something. Also, I would like some kind of level select. It's repetitive to play all the levels once more if you want to use another path.
Anyway, great game. Well, everybody says that, you know.
You obviously know how to work your art tools and I think this could become a really addictive game, but I found the combination of too unforgiving mouse-clicking-while-looking-navigation and the slow pace made me not want to retry more than two three times before giving up. So my suggestion would be to add a run-option and maybe to think some on the possibility of improving the mouse-steering. I guess this especially applies to the web-player were the mouse doesn't get centered on the screen, but stuck somewhere close to where it happened to enter.
I liked your take on the graphics! That "low-poly" scenario came out quite nice! But controls were a little tough... Aiming the bomb was somewhat difficult, at times, and that first jump on the crystal cave made me quit... >_<
I'll come back to this later and take the normal route! xD
Really excellent entry - I'd love to see this idea turned into something more. Maybe even without the "one use per item" restriction. I'd love to play a fantasy themed House of the Dead/Time Crisis type game
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Good job!
Boss fight is a bit sloppy, my head was swimming at that point from lack of sleep :S
The art is spectacular! I reckon it could do with a bad-ass logo though! ;)
Very fun, very pretty!
If I could complain about anything, that would be the mouse sensitivity is a bit low, making it hard at times.
On the moutain level if you can grab chest from the right path because you can see through the moutain.
On boss level I would have love to see his deah animation instead of having this ending panel in the way :)
Great ambience ( with music change ) on each level, that's an huge ammount of work for 48h compo. Thanks on giving me this strange 3D immersion feeling I had when I was playing first 3D Aracade back in the 90's.
Great job on the music, they are various and all of quality (what software did you used ?)
Also, I would like some kind of level select. It's repetitive to play all the levels once more if you want to use another path.
Anyway, great game. Well, everybody says that, you know.
But controls were a little tough... Aiming the bomb was somewhat difficult, at times, and that first jump on the crystal cave made me quit... >_<
I'll come back to this later and take the normal route! xD