Flobe by Skinny Jean Death

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made by Skinny Jean Death for LD34 (JAM)
*GAMEPAD ONLY*

Forever Humble PDX via Skinny Jean Death Studios in collaboration with Porcelin Labs, presents FLOBE, an unique game with an emphasis on quick pick & play action and casually intense gameplay!

Use both analog sticks to control the blue line's position and length! Collect the blue characters in order to fill your multiplier for a higher score! Missing them will break your multiplier. Watch out for the green bastards, red bastards and those god damn bombs, if they pierce your bar it's Game Over!

Lose yourself in the FLOBE!

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.18 651
Audio(Jam) 3.16 439
Fun(Jam) 3.11 557
Graphics(Jam) 3.38 555
Innovation(Jam) 3.17 497
Mood(Jam) 3.00 679
Theme(Jam) 3.00 924

Feedback

James McVitty
15. Dec 2015 路 10:15 UTC
Pretty fun to play. :)
bobismijnnaam
15. Dec 2015 路 10:16 UTC
The game does not seem to support keyboard, which is sad, because I think the game would've worked quite well with just wasd and arrow keys combined, but that's just, my opinion, man.

Besides the fact that I didn't really get to play the game, it looked pretty good because the animations were nice and the characters were cute. I liked the idea of the concept, and I think it would've been pretty fun to play. The music didn't add much more to the atmosphere than the visuals did but kudos for putting a soundtrack in.
vegapomme27
15. Dec 2015 路 10:17 UTC
No keyboard input?
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
15. Dec 2015 路 10:18 UTC
@bobismijnnaam
Clearly says you have to use both analog sticks to play.
Sorry it has no keyboard controls
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
15. Dec 2015 路 10:21 UTC
Flobe ONLY uses gamepad. There are no keyboard controls.
PlasterPhantom
15. Dec 2015 路 10:24 UTC
I really want to play this game, but I don't have a controller.
jsmars
15. Dec 2015 路 10:26 UTC
Really fun gameplay mechanic and overall presentation, nice work! Got 566!
Slashee the Cow
15. Dec 2015 路 10:27 UTC
I'm not a huge fan of having to pull out a 360 pad to play a PC game. Still, nice idea. Calming music. Got a little repetitive, maybe you could have different kinds of good/bad guys or powerups or something?
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
15. Dec 2015 路 10:30 UTC
@Slashee the Cow
There are 3 enemy types, but you have to get a multiplier up to around 15x to start seeing them
timeshapers
15. Dec 2015 路 10:30 UTC
I'm not big controllers, but this was pretty fun.
LostTrainDude
15. Dec 2015 路 10:39 UTC
I really think that the mood ties the gameplay together really well: great soundtrack :D

The gameplay felt nice, even if sometimes I would get confused trying to figure out the exact rotation of the bar. I don't know if additional visual feedback (i.e. two different colors for the left and right edges) could have helped me.

Still, great little game! Congratulations!
bodsey
15. Dec 2015 路 10:44 UTC
Well it's solid, fun, and charming, great work
NirabazGAMES
15. Dec 2015 路 10:49 UTC
Good work ,graphics on level and nice idea,we need web version)
gene-z
15. Dec 2015 路 10:58 UTC
Nice game, too much fun
Ayaya33
15. Dec 2015 路 11:34 UTC
I really liked this, the controls were very different but still a lot of fun to use.

I think it would have been better if it has gotten harder faster, because it seemed like it went at the same pace the entire time, though it may have been increasing very slightly and I didn't notice (I got to 2666 points, or something like that)
RadStar
15. Dec 2015 路 11:42 UTC
Nice game but your choice to limit to game pad control will really limit the number of player who can play it :/

It was fun to play but I was a bit frustrated to not be able to do a full rotation x)

Nice graphics and calm music, good.

I'm not sure it fits the theme though. On a keyboard the game would have needed height button, that's why you choose to limit to gamepad joystick, right ?
Joystick are like thousands button in a circle, I don't think it should count as only two buttons .
That's the only bad point i see though, the game was fun anyway !

good job.
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
15. Dec 2015 路 15:22 UTC
@Ayaya33
the difficulty really begins around the 15x multiplier, it just keeps increasing from there. We will keep working on it. The next level of difficulty is a two colored bar, where you have to collect the correct color on the correct side.
@RadStar
The definition for 2 buttons was vague, some would say that technically the directional pad is a button, some would not....but no, there is no intention to use the keyboard and never was, we realize that limits some players, but controllers are the bees knees baby! You intentionally can't flip the bar, we tried it, but it became confusing to the player to remember which ends were controlled.
@Everyone one else...
Thanks so much for playing!
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
15. Dec 2015 路 15:25 UTC
We made a 2nd game also. Please check it out here.
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=48290
We had to upload it from 2 different accounts, so I haven't had the chance to log into that one yet to play and rate games for the coolness factor....I'll be doing that when I get home from school.
powerkraut_
15. Dec 2015 路 17:19 UTC
Really like your background and music, they seem to create a really relaxed mood together.
Dooskington
15. Dec 2015 路 17:41 UTC
Gamepad only :(
Why no keyboard input? That's ridiculous.
elliottd
15. Dec 2015 路 17:48 UTC
I couldn't get the game to start with a ps4 controller on a mac. could be a the controller axes are different. left trigger also exited the game, or crashed it
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
15. Dec 2015 路 17:53 UTC
@elliottd
PS4?
Even PS3 controllers are a headache for MAC, especially when trying to program both controller styles to operate. They make it so ridiculous to map them between Xbox and PS. Xbox works on the MAC though
kebabskal
15. Dec 2015 路 17:58 UTC
Tried with PS4 gamepad on Windows but the game crashes whenever I press anything :/ From what I can tell, graphics are pretty cool!
sorle
15. Dec 2015 路 18:04 UTC
wow really fun game and somehow addiction :D

The olny thing I didn麓t like was, that you cant rotate the line all 360. first i got stuck and feelt like i couldn't move at all.

but only a small downer. i've had a fun time playing our game.
good job!
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
15. Dec 2015 路 18:20 UTC
PS4 Controllers do not work on most PC games.
PS3 do but even then you have better odds with a 3rd party controller.
Default is almost always...sadly...xbox controllers on PC
jachepe
15. Dec 2015 路 20:04 UTC
I don麓t have any gamepad but the graphics are cool!!
jigalx
15. Dec 2015 路 20:13 UTC
Fun!
pcmaster
15. Dec 2015 路 20:15 UTC
Not very accessible for people without a controller. Had to dig one up to play this. Pretty cool. But two sticks isn't two buttons (3/5) :P Good job though!
zguerrero
15. Dec 2015 路 20:19 UTC
Great game! totally addictive and relaxing, liked the sounds and music to!
daveh
15. Dec 2015 路 21:38 UTC
Nice concept. It's quite zen once you get going. There is a bug where if you make the rod perfectly vertical and as small as it can go then you can no longer move either end, but otherwise it works nicely. I can't imagine this being fun without analogue stick controls, so you're right to not have any keyboard controls IMHO.
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
16. Dec 2015 路 13:28 UTC
@daveh
Yeah, we never for a second intended to have keyboard controls. as for the bug...we just didn't have time to fix that for the jam. We are still working on it though.
Sink
16. Dec 2015 路 23:08 UTC
nice flobe! I had a fun time i liked the goofy characters you collect. I ran out of flobe and died but i liked flobe a lot
herniewise
17. Dec 2015 路 16:31 UTC
Fun fun fun. Congrats!
BubuIIC
17. Dec 2015 路 16:39 UTC
No Linux version unfortunately :-(. Game looks interesting though.
tantumgames
17. Dec 2015 路 16:57 UTC
Beautiful and fun game delayed until the end. Good job.
Rex Peppers
17. Dec 2015 路 17:02 UTC
Ugh no keyboard?
VascoF
17. Dec 2015 路 17:23 UTC
Very nice concept, well done!
YinYin
18. Dec 2015 路 20:28 UTC
Well ... the controller available to me right now only has a dpad, so I could only turn and stretch the left end while the right remained stationary.

I don't quite know why you wouldn't simply keep wasd + arrow keys in there for alternate controls (one game here uses 8! analogue sticks and two buttons - but you can still use number keys instead, because who has 4 xbox controllers lying around ...).

At some point during both runs I did the bar got stuck and I couldn't move it any more ...
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
18. Dec 2015 路 20:37 UTC
@YinYin
Well that was silly for you to even try if your controller doesn't have 2 analog sticks, as the directions clearly state use 2 analog sticks. Sorry you didn't get the chance to really play it. As far as keys, well it's simple...I'm going to be making the game for console...not to mention it's nowhere near as fun to play on a keyboard. It's a gamepad only game by design choice....it's only intended to be controlled by twin stick function. Plain and simple.
Again really sorry you couln't really give it a go.
nunesbarbosa
19. Dec 2015 路 03:01 UTC
Liked the graphics. Got stuck for a while and I discovered it is gamepad only.

This is a Unity 3D game and there is no excuse not to accept keyboard input.
馃帳 Skinny Jean Death
19. Dec 2015 路 03:32 UTC
@nunesbarbosa
Of course there is an excuse. THERE IS ZERO INTENTION OF THE GAME EVER USING THE KEYBOARD. IT IS FOR GAMEPAD ONLY!!
It was not an accident....the game will NEVER support keyboard input.
Did it for the Lulz!