5 Little People by Lixels

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made by Lixels for LD22 (COMPO)
You play as five people simultaneously, try and get one of them to the end. First ever Ludum Dare entry. I think I need a day or two off life.

Ratings

Coolness 14% 605
Overall 2.00 605
Audio 1.46 493
Fun 1.50 651
Graphics 1.60 657
Humor 1.78 346
Innovation 2.57 294
Mood 1.56 601
Theme 2.18 505

Feedback

Gornova
18. Dec 2011 · 20:35 UTC
There is some strange noise, it's a bug ?
TaslemGuy
19. Dec 2011 · 19:10 UTC
How are you supposed to replay a level after losing all the people?
Orangy Tang
19. Dec 2011 · 22:29 UTC
Hmm, not sure I can rate this fairly - sometimes my guys die randomly, and sometimes I'd finish a level with one guy left only to have none appear on the next level. The death text is a nice idea but seems to flicker randomly and doesn't always match what's happend. Also it really, really needs 'restart level' button.

Nice idea, but too twitchy and buggy to have much fun with I'm afraid.
defiantburrito
20. Dec 2011 · 10:26 UTC
This is pretty buggy and hard to play. The sound hurts my ears. It seems like playing as 5 people at once is sort of the opposite of "Alone", so I can't even give you points for the theme. Not sure what else to say, better luck next time!
Daniel X. Moore
24. Dec 2011 · 03:30 UTC
The jumping and air control was pretty difficult. A good start!
🎤 Lixels
24. Dec 2011 · 14:41 UTC
Thanks for all the feedback guys!
The noise... I don't know what I was thinking with the noise... I played this again today and the noise was the WORST thing ever.
I didn't have any time to actually give it a proper play-through and still remember making drastic last minute changes to the base engine, so i could actually keep count of the players.
The jumping and air control were built to be difficult, people are supposed to die. In fact you can't finish the third level without killing off at least 2 people.
The 'Narrator' as I call it, is really buggy but it works.
I hope I do better next time! This was really fun!
Wompus
06. Jan 2012 · 14:39 UTC
That sound was like smooth butter to my ears
Make A Game
08. Jan 2012 · 16:23 UTC
Sorry, really hard to play with the graphic and sound bugs.