Ramen: Beyond Two Balls by Emty

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made by Emty for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

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The people of Cringe-Marino lived in peace and enjoyed their doner until Lord Cathulhu unleashed war. They didn`t suspect that the doner cooks were traitors.

Destroy the Doners, summon the Ramen, and hope that the Flying Spaghetti Monster will come to the rescue.

— Book One: The Holy Book of Lasagna

It's Better If You Do's

It's Better If You Find A Thing You Are Good At It's Better If You Live in Harmony With the World It's Better If You Make Art It's Better If You Lead An Untethered Life It's Better If You Work Together

It's Better If You Don't's

It's Better If You Don't Put People In Cages It's Better If You Don't Work Too Much It's Better If You Don't Value Possessions It's Better If You Don't Hurt Others It's Better If You Don't Censor Things

Ratings

Overall 647th 3.5⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 263th 3.803⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 836th 3.091⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Theme 666th 3.576⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 641th 3.652⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Audio 72th 4.133⭐ 17🧑‍⚖️
Humor 8th 4.544⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Mood 405th 3.765⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 55🗨️

Feedback

🎤 Emty
16. Apr 2024 · 11:17 UTC
Initial Comment
LDJam user 301905
16. Apr 2024 · 11:37 UTC
Breathtaking finalle
mayrakissa
16. Apr 2024 · 11:45 UTC
amazing, music 6/5
Transkuja
16. Apr 2024 · 11:48 UTC
I hope the camera would show a bit more of the map because I can't see where I'm going :smile: Loved the setting
Human
16. Apr 2024 · 11:48 UTC
Creative artistic looking cover art. Game looks good but at start i could get the hang of the gameplay. I am running then someone throws knife from food joints. Not much feedback on that. IT took sometime to get the hang of it. Now dodging knives are fun. Dodging cat paws is also good. When knife hits the player thats where the feedback is needed other than that dodge is fun. Game looks very funny though. There is one bug when reaching close to the food joint one set of knives are still thrown at player when the camera has switched so its not visible some roofs are blocking the view.
Fenix131113
16. Apr 2024 · 11:51 UTC
An incredibly interesting game. Loving it
GRUZDID
16. Apr 2024 · 11:52 UTC
Good graphics. Cool dynamics at the beginning, but almost immediately lost.
But the level is too high and you can safely go beyond the map
AbominableScience
16. Apr 2024 · 11:52 UTC
Too simplistic, but you wear it perfectly from the start to be caught up in the game, even if it does not have enough game mechanics to work, it's fun and addictive and the pace and good. Thanks to you and keep going!
Melissa Stodolnik
16. Apr 2024 · 11:53 UTC
Very good dynamics at the beginning, which is lost a little later due to the slightly awkward camera and the length of the level.
HardyTryer
16. Apr 2024 · 12:01 UTC
![monster.png](///raw/b17/c1/z/63989.png)
I thought it will be great battle, but the cat was so coward, lol)

Very nice action with a little strange but nice and cool game mechanics. Music is very
dynamic and forced to play fast, but it would be awesome to have sound effects too.

With your cinematic I laughed my heart out! Thanks!

Congratulations on the completion of the jam! Good job!
Salanyel
16. Apr 2024 · 19:07 UTC
I was a bit lost to find all doner, but the beginning cinematic is very awesome!

Music is punchy and I need to eat ramen now
mayrakissa
16. Apr 2024 · 20:54 UTC
do you think i could get the soundtrack for personal use? it's really banging :)
MatheusCunegato
17. Apr 2024 · 01:48 UTC
Sometimes my legs won't work 10/10. Perfect intro, a true piece of art right there, congratulations on the game!
Jean-Francois
17. Apr 2024 · 18:01 UTC
I can't try it because I have macOS but I like 3D art and the mood of the presentation ^^ and it's made with Unreal Engine, relatively uncommon and not easy (in my opinion) in game jam so well done!
Momo_Hunter
17. Apr 2024 · 19:43 UTC
I loved it, very nice game, music fit perfectly and the random people just added to the mood. Also the jump animation was out of this world!

As some already have pointed out it was a little bit hard to look around and find the doner places, but I managed somehow.

5/7 perfect game
busisen
17. Apr 2024 · 23:09 UTC
I LOVE the setting, character, atmosphere and mood. One of my favs, congrats on finishing the jam :clap:
Wind1e
18. Apr 2024 · 02:30 UTC
I definitely had a silly ol time. Loved the music, a bit janky overall, but i had a fun time.
OddballDave
18. Apr 2024 · 10:47 UTC
That was nothing like I expected, although I'm not entirely sure what I expected. It was fun. A good length for a jam game. Pretty basic mechanics, which is a good thing. I understood what was going on. And it held my attention long enough for me to finish it. Good stuff :8ball:
VladLawrence
18. Apr 2024 · 15:09 UTC
@mayrakissa It's cc0 song, so yeah) We took it from here https://www.chosic.com/download-audio/24969/
Misoukun
18. Apr 2024 · 15:25 UTC
Sadly, that the first of this Jam, Win only, I cannot run with wine.
fhgaha
20. Apr 2024 · 08:26 UTC
top notch humor
Cal Clarke
20. Apr 2024 · 15:34 UTC
Keeps crashing on my Windows machine, but +1 for banging soundtrack, made me laugh!
Kevvy
21. Apr 2024 · 00:56 UTC
I really dig the stylized aesthetic and the chads in town. lol.

I found you can bypass the knife throws by approaching the Donner from behind, it will immediately go into summoning mode without the initial player translation. But its fine, I purposely did a couple of the knife throws so I could play it as intended.

There looks to be a bit of visual polish that would need to be done, but I can see the effort put into the gameplay itself. I liked the cat-paw telegraphing and the button mashing.

I really loved the cat and everything about it. That cat is a whole mood.
BoroBoro
21. Apr 2024 · 09:41 UTC
A cinematic masterpiece, we truly are not deserving of the spaghetti monsters blessing.
FreshD
22. Apr 2024 · 17:38 UTC
This was fun! The ending was clearly something else xD Runs even on my M2 Macbook via Whisky. Good job!
Melon_spirit
30. Apr 2024 · 21:46 UTC
This game was insane! Loved the intro, the concept, the art. I didn't understand at first that you had to spam press the space bar to summon and was just trying to press it once or long press, maybe this could be better worded? Anyways, good job!