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Flood Tower by MrBamboo

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made by MrBamboo for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

FR

Franbec est un ancien marin qui joue de malchance. Après une vie mouvementée, il a décidé de prendre sa retraite prématurée sur une ile isolée pour se la couler douce. Mais encore une fois, le destin va intervenir ! Franbec va découvrir que le réchauffement climatique, ce n’est pas des fadaises ! Le niveau de l’eau monte dangereusement et va engloutir l’Ile ! Ce n’est plus le temps de niaiser ! Franbec enfile ses beaux brassards de combat ! Il n’a d’autre choix que de construire une tour avec N’IMPORTE quels objets à sa disposition ! S’en sortira-t-il ? Bien évidement que NON ! La réelle question est : Jusqu’où ira-t-il ? …Tin tin tin ! Suspens …

ENG

Franbec is an old sailor with bad luck. After a turbulent life, he decided to retire early to a isolate island to take it easy. But once again, fate will intervene! Franbec will discover that global warming is not a joke! The water level is rising dangerously and will swallow up the island! Now is not the time to fool around! Franbec puts on his beautiful combat armbands! He has no choice but to build a tower with ANY items at his disposal! Will he make it? Of course, NO! The real question is: How far will he go? …Tin tin tin Suspense …

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Thanks and Have Fun !

GitHub https://github.com/misterbamboo/ld50
HTML https://mrbamboo.itch.io/flood-tower
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/flood-tower

Ratings

Overall 1245th 3⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1341th 2.452⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 857th 3.143⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 764th 3.595⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 789th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 861th 2.762⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 587th 3.095⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1211th 2.881⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 31🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

Gravityflip
05. Apr 2022 · 15:56 UTC
The 2d assets are wonderful! Love that art style! The controls feel a bit frustrating some times, but I had fun building a tower with alpacas and rainbows :D I wish the game loop was a bit tighter so I could lose quicker and restart and get better each try. Good job!
Cryptomnesic
05. Apr 2022 · 15:57 UTC
Walked around a bit and fell into infinite space, very philosophical game!
LambBrainz
05. Apr 2022 · 15:58 UTC
I find it a little odd that I'm avoiding the flooding, but I'm supposed to swim around to get items. Like it never occurred to me for a while that I was able to go into the water without dying.

Other than that and a few bugs the game is good. The art is incredible; and I see that most of you are 3D artists so that makes sense lol. Great game! Can't wait to see more
LDJam user 279497
05. Apr 2022 · 15:59 UTC
Nice work! I appreciated the effort you put into make a nice in-game start screen and how-to screen before getting into the game. I like the concept (kind of has a katamari damacy feel). One suggestion I have is to put a retaining wall around the level; i wandered to far north and ended up falling off of the map :laughing:
digitaldude555
05. Apr 2022 · 16:02 UTC
Decent game, I like the music and character design but there wasnt much to the gameplay, it would be cool if the tower had physics. Good job.
Ryan Wine
05. Apr 2022 · 16:03 UTC
Concept seems fun, but you can go off the map. Collectible objects also dont disappear when they go off the map. The water level rises too slow at first, and i dont know if youre supposed to have a limited swim time? but if so its too long.
eggland_games
05. Apr 2022 · 16:03 UTC
The visual style of this game is really nice.
I think the gameplay could use some work. I did not really understand what I need to do or how I can win.
The controls felt a bit clumsy. I think that a 2D world might have been better to keep the controls simple and intuitive.

The music is great. it really fits in with the game.
Also the drawings at the beginning look amazing.
The sailor is a really nice, kind of funny character.
Bamuko
05. Apr 2022 · 16:11 UTC
Salut, thank you for your game. I really appreciate your work.:) However I wasn't sure what to do and what is the goal. Some kind of barrier at the edge of map or "game over" sign when you fall off the edge, would help.
Mopifish
05. Apr 2022 · 16:16 UTC
I love the tutorial art!
Climbing my tower was a bit difficult and annoying, but I liked the challenge of collecting objects and cobbling together to create my own little tower of babel.
I think a better item throwing system where I could aim would make this a ton more fun!
LDJam user 279546
05. Apr 2022 · 16:53 UTC
Very good looking game and the music fits with it. It reminded me of a cross between Katamari and Mounting your Friends. Very silly and enjoyable.
StupidHobbit
05. Apr 2022 · 17:36 UTC
Interesting idea and good implementation. I didn't realy figured out how to pick up more items. Also, I think that water level is a little bit too slow
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:26 UTC
@gravityflip thanks for you comment ! You're right about the game loop it's a bit long, we miss time to do enough play tests. We will improve that in future :)
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:29 UTC
@lambbrainz Totally right ! For sure it's to clear that it's possible to go in watter. We tought that we could possibily put a timer when you go in water (ex: 5 secs). It could give the urge to come back on something solid to walk on. Thanks for comments !
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:31 UTC
@eeldam thanks ! For sure we will add retaining wall around 🤣 It's to weird that the water as a end ... when it's a flood 🤣 hope you still enjoyed playing !
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:32 UTC
@digitaldude555 yeah ! Could be nice to have "slack" tower moving when to much weigth or something like that. For sure we have a lot of gameplay bugs du fix. Thanks to have tryed our game !
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:34 UTC
@ryan-wine thanks we found the concept funny haha. For sure we should adjust the swim time to be limited (actually it's not). thanks for this suggestion !
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:36 UTC
@eggland-games we clearly have more man/woman power for the design ! We miss time at the programming level for the gameplay, but we will improve the game in next days / weeks.

For the UI / HUD drawings a special thanks to @dream. It was is first real participation to a gamejam !
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:37 UTC
@bamuko Salut ! haha Merci d'avoir jouer à notre jeux !

We should definitly limit the map size, or swimming time to avoir going on the edges. Thanks for playing :)
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:39 UTC
@mopifish

We didin't had time to do it, but we imagine to be able to place "precisly" the next item with the mouse. Like a way of casting a shadowed version of the item before clicking. Like that you could create a more realistic way of climbing on the tower. Still some work to do on it !

Thanks for playing and for comments :)
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:40 UTC
@jzucc12 we had a awesome design team 2d and 3d. Yeah the feeling is a bit like Katamari ! Thanks for your comments !
🎤 MrBamboo
05. Apr 2022 · 23:42 UTC
@stupidhobbit you're right ! The water level is really slow at the begining and accelerate overtime. But it still too slow. We should figure out a way to make it feel right. Great comments :)