Tall Grass by Lipedal
Tall Grass - In which you get only one monster and you're totally fine with that.
You live in a world full of cute wild animals, ready to be encaged in high-tech pocket balls after a good beating. You gotta catch them all, says the TV, you gotta be a duel master!
But your personal urges are different. You just want to have one true good friend. Someone to play ball with and adventure into the forest.
Tall Grass is a tiny fable of cute monsters, friendship and football.
This is our first Ludum Dare entry! We tried to make something simple and tell a short story, using the PuzzleScript engine. We had some problems along the way, had to start again on Sunday night, but we managed to finish a game and have fun :)
This is also a little personal homage to Pokemon, our old childhood friend. Hope you like it, and please leave your feedback!
(also, feel free to hack it, improve it and add your own levels :D)
You live in a world full of cute wild animals, ready to be encaged in high-tech pocket balls after a good beating. You gotta catch them all, says the TV, you gotta be a duel master!
But your personal urges are different. You just want to have one true good friend. Someone to play ball with and adventure into the forest.
Tall Grass is a tiny fable of cute monsters, friendship and football.
This is our first Ludum Dare entry! We tried to make something simple and tell a short story, using the PuzzleScript engine. We had some problems along the way, had to start again on Sunday night, but we managed to finish a game and have fun :)
This is also a little personal homage to Pokemon, our old childhood friend. Hope you like it, and please leave your feedback!
(also, feel free to hack it, improve it and add your own levels :D)
| Web (English) | http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=7998287 |
| Web (Brazilian Portuguese) | http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=7998125 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=29565 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 60% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.68 | 67 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.55 | 351 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.63 | 52 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.97 | 106 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.26 | 85 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.48 | 68 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.33 | 130 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.02 | 194 |
Congrats, and welcome to the world of Ludum Dare \o/
I was defeated in some levels, but I continued and managed to lead it to know Mom. Gotta Catch 'Em All!
My first impressions on the game :) Had a little trouble to get it to run on firefox, ended up using chrome instead.
I loved the graphics though.
Also, I checked out the Luderia trailer - it looks fun and a bit hilarious! (Ballet?)
Daniel, sad to hear Tall Grass didn't work on Firefox! Anybody else had the same problem?
The gameplay was interesting, though not challenging. But again, it's not a puzzle.
Graphics were cool, too. I guess you spent a lot of time on it. It doesn't even look tiley!
The objective of the last level was not obvious. What is that thing? A repel? Nope, it's a ball. Why does it look like that? And where do I have to place it?
We wanted to explore Teen Pewee in a fourth type of level though, where he must reach the 'ball' first (an item canister like those of Pokemon), and bring it back to the kid. It should be the most challenging kind of level, but you have the advantage of controlling only one character (harder to die that way), and after getting the ball you can use it to navigate through the monsters.
I think that idea should have been introduced earlier, in order to work well. We'll write a post mortem later, and put that as one of the things that we did wrong (:
The game was also moody, in that you create a relationship between the player and the creature...
Nicely done! =D
The puzzles are great, the art and music really fits one another.
Nice job!
Abraços do amigo brasileiro! Muito bom! :)
Neat game :)