Sir, the China! by Cpttritium
Sir, the China! is a game about catching falling plates, and dodging falling cutlery. But waiter beware! The more plates you catch, the more unstable they become...
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ax2ow8k6bquvub/sirthechina.zip?dl=0 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/sir-the-china |
Ratings
| Given | 7🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
I thought that the art was appropriate, and the controls worked well. This doesn't hurt your rating, but I think using "A" and "D" along with the arrow keys would be great.
The only thing I saw the could have used work were the way the plates let you know how unstable they were. It wasn't easy to see, as they piled up, how much of a risk I was running on dropping them. It wasn't until I tried to spill the pile did I start seeing the wobbling, then it just went overboard. My only recommendation would be to make the scale of instability more known to the player.
I think it can be improved if you had some music, some old-timey stuff.
I didn't actually know you could destabilize the stack of plates. Maybe I didn't get the stack high enough, but I had to try to get them to fall off.
Yeah, it's a bit clunky, and certainly underbaked. I did not put near as much time as I could have into this, and kind of did it on a whim. Not excusing, explaining.
I appreciate the critiques! As far as movement being stuttery, there are conditions (being hit by a knife, stepping on broken plates) that cause the character to be stunned, but I don't think I conveyed that well.