Cloudfall by Diego Escalante

Clouds never made the most stable platforms. How high can you go?
Although the game has no true ending due to time constraints, if you get to 500 points you can consider yourself a winner and the Top Crow!
Additionally, I understand that people want to play and rate as many games as possible during the jam. So if you don't want to put in the time and effort to climb very high, you can watch the quick gameplay video that is linked on this page to see how the game progresses as you go up. But make sure to try the game out for yourself first!
| Link | https://diego-escalante.itch.io/cloudfall |
| Link | https://github.com/diego-escalante/LD49-Cloudfall |
| Timelapse | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U1FRULyq5U |
| Gameplay Video (Spoilers!) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBvbEpF4oYs |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/cloudfall |
Ratings
| Overall | 173th | 3.683⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 145th | 3.692⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 447th | 2.843⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 373th | 3.279⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 239th | 3.529⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 73th | 3.779⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 254th | 2.778⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 239th | 3.306⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 37🗳️ | 46🗨️ |
i also like the effect when you slow down time, however i found it kind of hard to actually use it (like the person above haha). its quite a shame since the feeling of it is quite well done
also i think that its a little rng based considering sometimes clouds are already going off the screen by the time i reach them o3o i know more clouds could pop up after it drifts offscreen but well thats the reason for like 90% of my deaths :p
great work!!
First of all, thanks for reviewing my game! I tried this one for a good 10 minutes yet I had problems getting past 150! At first I was thinking that the constant drum beat was a bit annoying but when I realized that the music starts to pick up when you get higher, the song was starting to turn out really good! The graphics are also cute, and I like that you can still see the cube that the crow stands on on top of the clouds haha. All in all, fun & addicting little platformer, and I hope you the best of the luck in ratings!
I which there was another button for the bullet time tho' because it's not very useful right now I feel.
The disappearing clouds are genius! However, it would have been nice to have more RNG involved in when clouds disappear.
Overall, Great Job!
Controls are simple and functional, which makes the experience even better.
Good job!
Great game! Thank you for making it!
Not sure if that's considered high haha.
Thought I wouldn't need the timeshift mechanic at first, but once the clouds started getting faster, I really found myself using it a lot.
I also wonder if this would work well as a 1 button mobile game, where you only jump and depend on the cloud movement to keep you centered.
Overall a very cool game!
That being said, having a very simple and easy-to-understand control system is admirable and my minor nitpicks are drastically outweighed by the insane quality that went into everything else about the game. Very well done!
The music sounds really good and the little bird is adorable. Being the terrible gamer that I am, I started this game and for some reason the bird just kept running right, and I was pretty sure it wasn't supposed to do that. I was about to comment that I ran into a bug, when I remembered I used my controller for a different game earlier in the night and it was sitting there, giving me input haha.
SO once I tried the game without the bird constantly running right, it was 1000x easier haha, and pretty fun. But i'm still bad at the actual jumping, so I couldn't really get past 150 ish.
Overall, really well done :3
The time shift mechanic looks amazing but doesn't seems very usefull to me, as everything is slowed down. I would love to be able to slow down only the bird, or only the cloud, but both at the same time doesn't really create new opportunities.
This was one of my favorite entries this LD!