Platform Of Love by Scott Steffes

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made by Scott Steffes for LD 41 (COMPO)

A platformer dating-sim where you have to woo the platforms to advance.

Features 5 interactive platforms with 91 lines of strikingly stupid dialog.

You can restart conversations by moving far enough away from the platform and coming back.

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Ratings

Overall 194th 3.625⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Fun 259th 3.419⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 227th 3.597⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Theme 156th 3.953⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 104th 3.891⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 8th 4.227⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 206th 3.339⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 43🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

SuperTibbles
23. Apr 2018 · 04:10 UTC
this is great! its fun, and the only advice that comes to mind is to make a part2!
Fanttum
23. Apr 2018 · 04:25 UTC
What a cute game! Love the art and the writing was great. I ket picking the wrong options (because I'm bad) to see what they would say!
The wall jumping has no right to feel so good in a game like this haha great work!
Hello1423
23. Apr 2018 · 04:26 UTC
The baby platform to the left is a nice touch.
TimeLoad
23. Apr 2018 · 05:54 UTC
Fun little game you have here, would've loved it if the chat was dynamic and you implemented some kind of AI for the platforms but for what it is, it's a pretty good game :) well done!
BenPeterson
23. Apr 2018 · 07:13 UTC
I've been laughing out loud for like ten minutes playing this thing the writing is great and there's so much character i love it
Noa Calice
23. Apr 2018 · 10:55 UTC
That was cool :) ! My favorite part was the platform asking whether I liked the game, that felt very meta !
ccglp
23. Apr 2018 · 13:43 UTC
All this platforms had a rough day huh? xDD
So fun! I lost it with the platform asking "Why the rush?"
Mathiouza
23. Apr 2018 · 14:32 UTC
Cool game, interesting concept ! But I have other Ludum Dare games to rate :smirk: ^^
Keep coding ^^
mrspeaker
23. Apr 2018 · 14:57 UTC
Perfect graphics: that's the best dressed pixel I've ever seen. There was no theme song, so I sung my own ditty in my head as I played. No more Mr Sad Platform for me!
RustyMonky
23. Apr 2018 · 20:58 UTC
Ha, the dialogue is hilarious! The artwork is great as well, and the death states are smooth (I also really liked "Distracted" and "Infected"). It was a tad confusing just diving in and figuring out the wall jumps for myself, though.

Overall, solid job and great creativity in your theme combination!
Blinkenlights
23. Apr 2018 · 23:23 UTC
Who'd have thought of that? It's not a dating platform, but a platform dater! Genius. Love that 4th-wall breakage near the end.
blubberquark
24. Apr 2018 · 07:26 UTC
Surprisingly many dating sims here. I like your hand-drawn aesthetic, but the platformer level design really was only so-so. I died a lot on purpose until I found out I can walk away and start again.
sndr
24. Apr 2018 · 21:48 UTC
Such a clever idea. You made me care of those platforms as soon as I saw I could make them smile! The artwork and the dialogues did it for me. Great, great job. Thanks for this!
Call_me_Nutty
25. Apr 2018 · 16:20 UTC
Adorable little game. Not sure how I feel about the game asking me whether the game was good or bad as a toll :p
Shellfish Games
25. Apr 2018 · 16:56 UTC
Ooooh I love this. Hilarious concept, the dialogue started well and only got better. Hairy guy is such a weirdo. Also it's always nice to have a complete game which you can play through in such little time and yet experience so much. Finally a developer who understands the great struggle that is testing ALL the games! Also, the gameplay itself was surprisingly smooth, quite unlike the majority of ludum dare platformers.
GhostRunners25
25. Apr 2018 · 19:02 UTC
I found this game very fun to play. I love the whole art style of the game the fact that its black and white is quite nice not needing to look at too many colours also i think the character in the game is pretty cool. I like the whole game play. There just may be a small thing to polish on like small details (for example : On the edge of some blocks the box collider could be smoothened out. since your using unity i would suggest a 2d polygon collider). Well done. This game was great and fun to play.
neowhoru
28. Apr 2018 · 11:47 UTC
Really funny game - did it until the end :) and then jump to die lol
You should really add some sound effects and a music.
silkworm_sweatshop
28. Apr 2018 · 16:03 UTC
Cute game, I like the art. The premise sold it to me.
amras0000
30. Apr 2018 · 20:22 UTC
Most of what should be said seems to have been said already, and you seem to value hasty comments so I won't stick around too long.

- I would have liked to have the second platform be one you had to depress/offend/make leave, since it was set up to look like you should remove a blockade rather than jump over it, and having that variety might have added a lot of extra depth to the game.
- Some checkpoints/acknowledgement of progress would have been nice, rather than starting from the start after every mistake
- the lack of music really detracts from the cute mood here. Even a quick recording of you humming a tune would have helped a lot.