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LudwigLantern by chimadan

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made by chimadan for LD 39 (JAM)

Ludwig Lantern - Ludum Dare 39

You help Ludwig on the path of self-realization by seeing things in a new light.

My first game, LD entry and c# language app. I most likely had more fun scripting this than you might playing it ;D.

Any feedback, negative or positive is appreciated.

Controls

WASD / arrowkeys

Tools

Unity 5.6

Visual Studio 2017

Assets

Floor

TRaK2 Texture set By Georges "TRaK" Grondin

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Enemy, Ludwig

http://www.gameart2d.com/freebies

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Fuel

https://www.gamedeveloperstudio.com/

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

sounds

http://freesound.org/

Potion Shop (Garageband remake) by kylethe8ctopus

HTML5 (web) https://chimadan.itch.io/ludwiglantern
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/ludwiglantern

Ratings

Overall 768th 2.778⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 811th 2.333⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 718th 2.5⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 537th 3.333⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 381th 2.48⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

🎤 chimadan
29. Jul 2017 · 03:10 UTC
ok cool
vizitas
31. Jul 2017 · 19:03 UTC
You need to publish the game on itch.io before people can play it. Check it in private browsing.
Kaban
31. Jul 2017 · 19:33 UTC
Nice game for the first experience!
Quemagalletas
31. Jul 2017 · 19:38 UTC
For a first experience is good, but you need to add things like a pause and main menu to make it more polished.

Some animations to the main controller could be cool too ^^

And a little bright to the fuel could help too :D
karreg
31. Jul 2017 · 19:44 UTC
Expiring light is frustrating XD But cool anyway, as the music !
Also, the delay before the next pack of energy badly surprised me, because I had the time to explore some part of the room, thinking that the pack allready popped. So I didn't looked again in this part of the room. Sadly, the pack popped up in, after I came :p
(sorry for the bad english)
schizoid2k
31. Jul 2017 · 20:00 UTC
Nice use of lighting effect. Congrats on your first entry... very nice!

"The cake is a lie"
ledez
01. Aug 2017 · 05:28 UTC
Nice game. Like the music.
joemag
01. Aug 2017 · 08:16 UTC
Not really clear what the objective is. Felt a little bit like Snake trying to find all the things. Maybe could have helped if each orb made the light just a touch brighter so you could see the room. I do think you leaned too hard on pre-existing assets, good you credited them but doesn't show a lot of effort went into your submission.
Badosz
01. Aug 2017 · 09:10 UTC
Looks very nice ! Like it very much
Alien
01. Aug 2017 · 09:15 UTC
Really nice job on your first entry.The lighting was good.
prettylucky
01. Aug 2017 · 16:22 UTC
Try animating a few things next time, it can add a lot of life to a game! Scale the difficulty differently. It becomes random whether I'll be able to continue since (after a few seconds) I can't see anything or influence the game at all. Why not stretch the playtime a bit? or add more enemies over time?

Character was cute and a little odd, try something with him another time!:)
Shezard
01. Aug 2017 · 23:24 UTC
It's a nice begining! Next step improving level design, good luck and nice job!
Don Fouts
02. Aug 2017 · 00:56 UTC
Nice start, I agree with @prettylucky that just a little bit of animation can add a lot to a game! It took me a few tries but I was finally able to make it past 2 fuel!
DarkXolotl
02. Aug 2017 · 01:52 UTC
I never really could read the text above the player because it disappeared too quickly which was kind of annoying. I really liked the "cake is a lie joke" and the "42" in the corner. Overall, it's a good game for a first try. It suited the theme. Glad you had fun scripting, that's the important part.
Jesper Fyhr Knudsen
02. Aug 2017 · 14:42 UTC
Nice music and a good first entry, it is hard to figure out what the objective is though. Good job.
JohnDunaske
03. Aug 2017 · 15:40 UTC
I recommend some animation, but other than that its a good game!
Pedro Romero
08. Aug 2017 · 20:33 UTC
Being your first game, I'm going to obviate the "no animation", "few mechanics" and move to the gameplay.

The game controls well, but the "light stones" appear too scarcely. Usually, you expend more light to find one that the light they give. A more forgiving spawn rate would improve the game a lot.
bmacintosh
14. Aug 2017 · 19:48 UTC
It's pretty smooth and controls well. I needed a lot more time to read the instruction text that appears at the beginning (refreshed the page 3 times). It also seemed very difficult to go for long, since as the light gets smaller your chances of actually finding another pickup drop dramatically. It might be interesting to have a few more enemies, but always show the player where the next pickup is.