Tiny Dentist by JoshuaJumbles
Shadow of the Orthodontist!
A tiny little circus dentist performs tooth-yank-otomies on a giant head while leap-grabbing around his springy face!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5fqEzU5ioQ
https://joshuajumbles.itch.io/tiny-dentist
https://github.com/joshsafran/TinyDentist
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/tiny-dentist |
Ratings
| Overall | 211th | 3.458⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 111th | 3.625⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 47th | 3.875⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 183th | 3.625⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 149th | 3.75⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 407th | 1.636⭐ | 13🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 25th | 3.957⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 252th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 9🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
I could definitely seeing this being enjoyable with sfx and music that gets more intense as the countdown draws nearer to 0. I think some things I would add, given more time, would be a way to tell when the patient is about to bite. It wasn't always obvious when I needed to get out of the way or where the hitbox was. I think if there were more things you had to avoid that would make it pretty fun too. I really love the roll, and I wish I had more opportunities to use it!
Shame that the music from the trailer didn't make it into the final game! Also, you don't seem to have to replace the teeth to win? I'm guessing that they go towards your score, but surely removing the teeth is only half the job!
We also need a couple more votes to get our game up to the minimum score. ^^; Sorry to whore on your page, but do take a look if you get a minute! :P
Great game though, genuinely enjoyed it. Keep it up! ^^
-Skruffye
The art style is great, the giant makes me think of a sock puppet. :grin:
**What could be improved though**
- controls unfortunately are a bit too floaty/laggy for me to be precise. And I didn't manage to get to the golden tooth, no matter what I tried. Got the pulling teeth down in no time, but that jump to tooth, even when swinging from the moustache, was impossible for me. Keybinding unfortunately doesn't help, as somehow with keyboard only controls I always use right hand for movement ;)
- SFX - but that's a matter of further updates. Some hilarious SFX!
For now, this is an excellent compo game, really well done. Somehow it becomes intuitive how to proceed, so kudos for that - that's good design. And great art to match :)
Cheers!
The controls could be robuster. It's a bit hard to measure jumps, especially when clinging to the facial hair. Also sound effects and music would add a lot (but sound is a glass house where I really should not throw any stones).
The one thing that was missing for me is some music/sound effects. But the concept itself is great :) Also why the game ended when i pulled out all the teeth, I wanted to place the gold ones too :D