Lemming Apocalypto by 10WonXero10
Lemming Apocalypto is about a lemming that has to run somewhere very fast in order to save the lemming princess before something bad happens to her. Evil lemmings will try to prevent you from reaching her, jump over them and conserve your momentum to succeed. Choose your jumps wisely.
| Windows | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74965361/LD48-23_LemmingsApocalypto_Release.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=12014 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 2.38 | 782 |
| Audio | 2.70 | 342 |
| Fun | 2.24 | 732 |
| Graphics | 2.66 | 556 |
| Humor | 2.53 | 287 |
| Innovation | 2.19 | 749 |
| Mood | 2.23 | 701 |
| Theme | 2.26 | 777 |
-Found the player slow-down a bit frustrating. Would perhaps be more fun if player could get more speed up, but not jump so far, to make it easier to control.
-No option to restart game when time runs out?
Sometimes i got stuck sort of ontop of characters, not being able to jump away :s
I tried putting a reset option and multiple levels but I was learning the basecode framework on the fly and things started getting quite crashy and buggy, so I chickened out and left it as single level.
I had massive plans for this one (guns, knives, bad guys that hurt you, mario-style platforming. But yeah, none of that happened. :)
Anyway thanks for playing and rating!!!
Also if anyone finds the secret message at the end, let me know.
The getting stuck on other characters is like they are trying to hold you back so that you can't save her.
kinda frustrating I know, maybe I should have added some kind of effects to let the player know it's intentional.
Could use a bit more variety in the backgrounds/levels. Momentum seemed weird though, he runs like he's skating on ice but jumps like he's swimming through tar.
10WonXero10 says ... "I experimented..." (Submitter)
sdwil2k5 says ... "I tried putting a reset option..." (???)
When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.
Please consider making a browser game next time.
One problem I ran into is that on the bit where the evil lemmings were one on top of another, the second one stood on top of my head so I couldn't even jump out of the crowd. I don't know if this was intentional or not? Either way, it was a bit annoying.
The speed is really fun though and I like the idea of having to time my jumps. Good job.
LOL, I love hearing about things like that. I used an unseeded rand() function for placing the bad guys, so each player gets different attack waves. I got the double-up guys a few times while testing and I thought it was cool, didn't think about the possibility that one could step on your head and stay there.
This game really has a life of it's own.
I really like this idea!
It is a very fun game and I'll be really happy to see a sequel for it :-)
+ I found the secret message!
Controls were frustrating though as it just felt like I couldn't do anything to get out of the stickiness. I also had no indicator of how far I still needed to get, therefore no measurement of how well I did.
However, I like the simplicity of the idea, just the implementation is lacking a tad :)
A nice idea, near hopelessly killed by the controls. It's really annoying getting far and then getting stuck without any chance to get out.