Phaseolus Magicus by Dianouille
It was my first compo, so, even if my game isn't really good, it's finish, so I'm pretty proud of that.
2 cards will appear on screen. If they are the same, use RIGHT, if thy are different, use LEFT. If your right, your beanstalk will grow. If not, you lose a life.
2 cards will appear on screen. If they are the same, use RIGHT, if thy are different, use LEFT. If your right, your beanstalk will grow. If not, you lose a life.
Ratings
| Coolness | 63% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.06 | 632 |
| Fun | 2.71 | 763 |
| Graphics | 3.47 | 289 |
| Innovation | 2.94 | 610 |
| Mood | 2.70 | 672 |
| Theme | 3.68 | 523 |
and get only white screen
I like the graphics but I can't say I understood what I was doing.
Simple but fun game! The graphics were minimal but the symbols and the bean stalk were very abstract (loved it!) and looked well polished. Good job on finishing your first ludum dare, be sure to enter again and make another abstract game! :-)
Simple concept, but well realized.
I liked the way you see your shape growing, also they are really well designed !
Good job :)
It's pretty solid gameplay and great use of the themes.
There is one thing that annoyed me a bit: I can't really look at the beanstalk and the cards at the same time, so I can't appreciate the beauty of it as it grows without fearing to loose a life. It would be really cool if after you failed you could see the growing of your beanstalk like a replay or something. Because it really looks awesome.
Another thing, which is not negative in my opinion but maybe something for you to think about for further games is the ratio of how many times I have to choose right and how many times I have to choose left. Because for like 75% (felt, I didn't create an actual statistic about it ;) ) of the time I could just press left, because it just is so much more likely thet two different cards will come up. Changing this ratio might affect the gameplay heavily, so depending on what you want to achieve you might consider things like this.
All in all a very well done entry.
I hope to see more from you the next LD.
I like how you can develop a strategy to get better at this (for me it was to stare at the center shapes for a match to start with).
To make it more minimalistic - I think it should start off built a little bit and then you can get rid of the lives completely since the base of the tower would be your lives.
congrats on finishing... I had a hard time once again.