First Ludum!

First Ludum!

What did you use to create the leaderboard?

@boxtrain Server/Client with C# LidgrenNetwork.

Nice game! Works well.

it's realy fun and the leaderboard is a great idea! (but it make my antivirus crazy :/)

Gameplay is simple but fun, clear and challenging. Good art and environment. Like it when see my game on leaderboard.

this was fun and it's actually addictive! very well done!

Best game ever. 11/10 IGN. Game of the year, hope it goes on steam and sells more copies than PUBG.

Ahem,
- I found it really fun and the leaderboard was a nice touch.
- Art was good and the game generally looks nice.
- Gameplay was good, the time attack mechanic really works well, and I feel like there is an element of strategy in the game already. You sort of have to plan your path and not take too many presents at a time, get the candies at the right moments to reach the highscore.
- It fits the theme very well. Your character literally loses mobility as you gather more presents.
- My only complaint is that the movement feels a bit jerky at times. Sometimes the character gets stuck if you press too many buttons.

My verdict: Very fun and pretty good looking game. Fun to play when you have a little time to burn, and the leaderboard mechanic makes you want to come back.

The art was fantastic. simplistic yet really nice. Also got quite a good score. But I think it was too easy. The sounds wasn*t anything special but at least present and fitting.

Great entry! I like a loto of the main menu and the cutcenes. you managed to set the story well. Great job!

Great little story at the beginning. That helped to really set the mood. However I ran into some issues giving Santa my presents. I seemed to miss the drop off point each time.

@tinykidtoo Hmm weird. Did you get close to santa and press Space?

The info say "D" to drop gift, perhaps it's the reason ?
Anyways, I didn't manage to outpass the 3rd level, but it's a good entry, their is a lot of work here !
Just one thing : "invisible" bonus don't seem to work (the reindeers followed me whatever I had the bonus or not).
But good job! It was fun to play. :)

Nice game, even if it's taskwise similar to ours, the graphic style and story is quite different. Also I liked the powerup, maybe we will add something like that too.
One thing , that confused me a bit in the beginning, were the hitboxes of the trees. I ran into the top a few times, thinking i can walk behind it.

Very well put together, great job!

Fun game and great graphics!

I really liked the mood of this game, music and all of that! And the challenge was hard but sooo nice

I made a 125875 points!
Fun game! The reindeer are super scary xD
To bad for the little collision problem they are a bit frustrating but otherwise the rest is great!
(I really love the winning music :D )

Well done!

Simple concept, fit the theme well!

really fun game! i love the art, camera effects, mechanics, music, etc. good work guys!

Fun game, nice implementation of a scoreboard. There are few things in life sweeter than finding four or five speed candies all in a row, allowing you to go to Sonic levels of speeds. I also like the juxtaposition of bright, cheery music on the title screen and that cold, desolate white noise during the game.

Seems a decent amount of depth with the difficulty increasing as the levels go on. Using the different powerups to strategically get the presents in time gives the game some scope. For me it seems I couldn't skip the intro on each attempt.

Good job. It's pretty difficult. The beasts are evil :) I love the intro.

Good job had a blast playing this one listenin to the amazing soundtrack like super sonic racing or tunuk tunuk yeah great game

Nice touch with the leaderboards. The game is also very well made and on theme.

Just one thing to note: the colliders make much more sense if you put them on the foot of objects, so your feet don't collide with the horns of elks etc.

Congrats for it, it is actually very good and your idea about weekly leaderboards is very cool too.

Cool Idea and fun gameplay!

Cool idea but I think slowing the player because of the theme is a bad idea. It makes the game less fun, I think a better choice would be to add something to the gameplay which makes it more difficult rather than punishing the player for playing the game.

NIce little game you have here. Superb job!

Come check out my game if you like!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected

Nice little game! Nice job guys and even awesome first LD entry!!

This game wisely used pressure relief valves - both in the form of dumping presents and getting candy - to prevent the player from becoming too slow. And it incorporates choices and strategy in the process. Well done.