Is Your Refrigerator Running? by urbanhelsing

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made by urbanhelsing for LD 39 (JAM)

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Yes, your refrigerator is running... and jumping... above the clouds, trying to reach the top.

But what does it mean to be on top?

Find out in this new thrilling game, brought to you by the creators of Big Foot in Small Town and Rummet

Controls:

WASD for Movement

Space to Jump

Credits:

Graphics and Design - Emil Hallin

Programmer - Fredrik Schön

Music - Fredrik Hallin

Funny Guy and Thinker - Erik Hallin

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Ratings

Overall 346th 3.48⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 273th 3.385⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 452th 3⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 293th 3.692⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 545th 3.192⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 111th 3.769⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 7th 4.423⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 238th 3.56⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 35🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

Rancoud
05. Aug 2017 · 18:20 UTC
Well done!
Funny game over screen!
Voice is perfect!
Object unsual!

Just controller is for me a little hard to master
YuuK
07. Aug 2017 · 08:54 UTC
This was such a funny game, and the voice makes a lot ! It was hard to finish the level, but I did it \o/
Kubenexion
07. Aug 2017 · 11:03 UTC
Funny game, the physic on moving platform seems strange (the velocity of the platform is not transmitted to the refrigerator) but make the game harder, it's that a choice or a bug ? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Audio and death quotes are really cool!
Maakep
07. Aug 2017 · 13:00 UTC
Thanks for the comments everyone!

@kubenexion A choice not to fix the bug, thus making it a feature! We concluded that the gameplay was more fun and active if you need to follow the platform. :smile:
SaraMartins
07. Aug 2017 · 20:16 UTC
Interesting game but too difficult with the bug that turned into a feature. After falling so many times because the movement of the refrigerator did not accompany the platform, I felt bored and could not keep playing. Which is sad because the game looked to have potential and humour, with a groovy beat. Hope to see a post jam version in which you maybe try to fix the bug ;)
Meanderthal
07. Aug 2017 · 20:52 UTC
Oh man the music, THAT MUSIC. I wanted to keep struggling through the gameplay just to hear more of it. Is there a download of it somewhere? It's gold!

Sadly the gameplay was just not fun. For me it was a combination of level design, clunky controls and the static camera (which made it difficult to judge distance). But I do hate platformers, so I might just be me.

The concept and humour were almost as good as the music. I happily read and grinned through the intro, quotes and was eager to hear the narrator :smile: . The level art was lacking but it was top notch for the chilled mechanical brother.
vkmicro
07. Aug 2017 · 21:01 UTC
**Overall game impression:** Awesome voice acting. Not something you see often or a lot in LD Games, always fun to play a game with lots of voicing. Really fun to play, straight forward and simple game. Smooth movements. Good background music and the voicing is quite funny xD good job. Pretty fun and enjoyable game. 4/5 from me.

**Suggestions and comments on improvement:** Camera rotation to follow player from the back always would help I think. Some platforms when they were like behind the player and you had to jump towards the camera was a little hard to do to me, hard to judge the distance. Nothing else

p.s. you need to go play other peoples games and leave a comment for them and get some more people to play your game :D this game deserves more comments and ratings. Also make a post and ask people to play your game! Good luck!!!
Maakep
08. Aug 2017 · 07:40 UTC
@meanderthal The music will be uploaded shortly by the creator. A majority of the team is on vacation at the moment, thank you for your patience! :smile:
paulMotion
08. Aug 2017 · 21:05 UTC
Hello peeps, this is the music used for the game!
https://soundcloud.com/paulmotion/sets/is-your-refrigerator-running
player2point0
08. Aug 2017 · 22:32 UTC
A really funny game and I love the narration. But unfortunately I couldn't jump onto the first platform, the jump height was too low. Is this a bug? If so did you put the jump code in FixedUpdate?
Meanderthal
09. Aug 2017 · 20:38 UTC
> Hello peeps, this is the music used for the game!

Whoop! Thanks mate!

Such an awesome song and a game with some great ideas. Good luck in the voting :)
LeReveur
10. Aug 2017 · 20:28 UTC
What have I just played?! My, I've played many characters in many games, but this is the first time ever I play as a refrigerator. Appart of that (and hilarious comments above amazingly motivating music), this is a very classic plateformer, with decent difficulty and gameplay, even if it takes me few minutes to get the good movment technique. I didn't make it to the end, but this is because of my poor performance in that kind of games, nothing to do with the game itself. ;) Great job, very well done, it was fun to play. :)
Veak
13. Aug 2017 · 01:59 UTC
Really hard game! The sounds and words made me laugh so much :joy:

Good job!
mintarcade
13. Aug 2017 · 07:06 UTC
This is really fun game, voice-over is off the chart fun. Too bad I'm so bad at jumping games :) Someone, please, make a lets play :D
kpded
13. Aug 2017 · 14:12 UTC
Sound effects, especially voice, and music of this game are awesome

I like the idea of the game

Unfortunately I failed jump on even the very first platform, it seems like jump's height is not enough
Valphera
13. Aug 2017 · 14:30 UTC
SO FUN! Incredible entry, the voice overs are great, the concept is great, the music is great... really good job :)
CTTFOW
13. Aug 2017 · 15:15 UTC
Heya! Game looks really interesting, mind making a web link as well?
abductedPlatypus
13. Aug 2017 · 15:40 UTC
The humor alone is great enough to motivate me to go up!
I would have loved some stickier platforms though and cloudier clouds.
The production value on this game is great!
hungare
13. Aug 2017 · 15:50 UTC
@maakep @urbanhelsing Probably the funniest game I have played this Ludum Dare!

I liked:

The Humor: It was hilarious. The backstory, the voice over, and I loved the quotes after you die. In fact, I did know refrigerators were on of the only objects that could float on top of clouds...for some reason.

The Gameplay: I liked that it was a challenging platformer. I re-tried a bunch because there were a lot of hard jumps and timings, but it was fun.

I didn't like:

The Art: Although I really enjoyed the game and thought the fridge model was good, the world and objects felt to plain. The clouds were just textured cubes and the skybox appeared to be the default Unity one. I would have liked to have seen something pop in the art.

Overall, very solid game. You will definitely place high in humor at least :) Good luck!
Antiwrapper
13. Aug 2017 · 15:54 UTC
Really liked the humor the game had. The controls did feel a little awkard though. Precision jumping when you are not able to control that much in mid air is not so much fun. Not moving along with moving platforms were also a bit weird. Other than that though it was fun and the narrator added much to the game. Good work!
simonhutchinson
13. Aug 2017 · 16:39 UTC
Great looking (and sounding) game!

Man, do I hate 3D platforming, though. It's not you, it's me.

I really wanted to play more to hear more of the voice. There's a lot of nice, compelling stuff in this game. Great work!
peremily
13. Aug 2017 · 18:17 UTC
I hate parkour challenges because i'm terrible at them, however I really like the humour! One problem is perhaps the camera, it was a little hard to judge distance, a solution may be allow the player to position the camera?
SimplePotential
13. Aug 2017 · 18:40 UTC
Not a bad game. I loved the humor, the quotes on GameOver were a nice touch. Controls were a bit difficult for me to get use to, but pretty responsive once I did. I couldn't get past the first check point, because I'd run out of power and the battery that comes a couple platforms after the checkpoint didn't seem to get picked up when I'd collide with it. Sounds was pretty good too.

Thanks for rating my game!
Piotrek
13. Aug 2017 · 18:56 UTC
Cool gameplay although I think that more advanced camera movement would make it easier and less frustrating. I really liked the narration and music. Good work.
PNghasemi
14. Aug 2017 · 00:33 UTC
Had fun playing it. So hardcore and so difficult to reach checkpoints. and it was cool.
gonutz
16. Aug 2017 · 16:14 UTC
Unfortunately I cannot play your Windows 64 bit game on my 32 bit machine, could you add another build?