Panic at the Museum by James Beninger

YOU'RE THE CURATOR OF THE HOTTEST MUSEUM IN TOWN, AND YOU NEED TO SAVE THE ART BEFORE THE PLACE BURNS DOWN. WHAT DO YOU SAVE? WHO CARES! ART IS PAIN!
Instructions
- Move: WASD / Arrow Keys / Gamepad
- Grab & Drop: Spacebar / J / Gamepad Button / Mouse Click
Restart: R
Collect paintings and return them to the ARTS truck
- Find a fire extinguisher and drop it to reduce your danger level and clear out some flames
- If you get hit, you'll respawn at the last art dropoff point
* Known Issues *
- It's rare, but you can get stuck in the walls if you hit at the wrong angle. Press R to restart, sorry!
- Performance drops off a bit near the end when the fires are out of control. Chrome has better performance than Firefox if that helps
- If the game doesn't fix your screen, click the Full Screen button at the lower-right of the game frame and it will scale to fit your screen!
| HTML5 | https://reneantunes.itch.io/panic-at-the-museum |
| Link | https://www.dropbox.com/s/ov5jx9dfmocy8fq/LD50-Grabart.zip?dl=1 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/panic-at-the-museum |
Ratings
| Overall | 488th | 3.675⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 414th | 3.625⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 601th | 3.4⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 555th | 3.775⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 340th | 4.075⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 576th | 3.375⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 546th | 3.157⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 780th | 3.408⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 51🗳️ | 63🗨️ |
The art is so charming and enjoyable, the colour scheme adds to the whole whimsical panic. The fact that I am just a hand is so fun. Lots of great decisions. The masterpieces are truly worthy of the illustrious museum.
If I had to be critical, I'd say it needs more than just paintings and fire extinguishers. More power-ups, more kinds of things to collect. I can imagine a full game where you're traversing a large gallery and going to different exhibits to save different pieces that form collections, more valuable together than by themselves. As it stands, the primary loop is fun and engaging, but it does get old relatively quickly.
I'm glad I played it, really cool game!
Thank you!
Suggestions:
You could maybe add a minimap with only the paintings and extenguishers to make the game a bit easier
Also you could think about adding teleporters to the farther parts of the map to make it possible to do more than just 4 or 5 paintings in a run - i could be a noob but a really just couldn't get more in one run.
I really like the game dynamics it is a fast paced, well thought out game.
Was happy to play it:)
Had to say sometimes I felt kinda odd that it seems I've died without really hitting anything - just too close to it I guess, so I had to play more "defensive".
But I liked the idea, and the fire spreading in a pattern that makes sense and advances with time was also a nice touch. Well done!
Lots of urgency from the great soundtrack and very pleasing visuals.
Overall very fun and wonderful take on the theme!
What a beautiful game! I loved the art work and the concept of it!
This is the kind of game that I would easily play again.
It goes too fast, and I felt like I could do nothing about it (theme totally achieved).
Congratulations, you made a very polish and a totally solid game.
However, if you do not operate it carefully ...
It's a good game!
The character moves a little bit too fast that it's hard to control precisely.
But still, very well done!
The music and the effects of the flames were really cool, especially when we get close to the fire and the noise increases.
The art of the paintings are also very tasteful.
Congratulations!
Nice game nonetheless.
I wasn't sure if the fire extinguisher did anything to reduce my Danger Level, but it was certainly helpful for getting around some hazards.
I really liked this, it gave off like a gameboy colour vibe
- make it a bit easier and forgiving so we can get accustomed to it.
other than that pretty solid entry very well made :thumbsup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpGJ6htKlQ
Got to 5 arts off the camera