Longbeard by Joe Williamson
Once again this was intended as a compo entry, solo and from scratch, but I ran out of time. I had pretty much all the art and music, but still needed a lot of work on the code. I gave up multiple times, then ended up throwing together this level in a frantic final two hours.
When your beard gets caught somewhere it shouldn't (it happens to all of us) you may need to restart.
[Plays best in Firefox rather than Chrome]
When your beard gets caught somewhere it shouldn't (it happens to all of us) you may need to restart.
[Plays best in Firefox rather than Chrome]
| Web (Flash) | http://joecreates.itch.io/longbeard |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=28182 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 78% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 4.17 | 30 |
| Audio(Jam) | 4.07 | 51 |
| Fun(Jam) | 4.06 | 29 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.80 | 6 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.93 | 52 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 4.24 | 12 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.93 | 81 |
| Theme(Jam) | 4.32 | 38 |
You're a Pixel God and you know I think that, and the idea for this game is really promising!
You should make it a full one, or other's will "have the same idea" haha.
You're a genius folk, congrats!
10/10
But you could've afforded to sacrifice some of that detail in favor of more content. LD is always a learning experience in time allocation.
I'd encourage you to develop this into a more full IP later if you get the chance. The idea is really novel.
A little bit of work teaching the player how to get the beard swinging would be good, but sharp level design isn't expected in such a limited timeframe.
Anyway, it was prettyyy cool!
I will love to see how you did the beard effect.
Very well done.
PS: you could've added in the 2 button theme as this only uses left right and jump.
:D
The concept is great, too bad it's so short :-P
+ Awesome graphics
+ Awesome music
+ Great gameplay idea and execution
- Short (understandable)
- No sound effects
What an amazing game that was made in the amount of time. I love the pixel art style. The liquidy physics beard is amazing and I have no idea how you made it looks so good in such a small amount of time and the music is amazing
And I'd love to see it worked on some more.
Not sure if I got my bear-based platforming craving satisfied. But I enjoyed the short little game!
Great job!
Good thing you decided to finish your game after all, because it really turned out well. Graphics, music and gameplay are very good! The presentation is nice, it's a really smooth experience overall.
The only negatives I can think of are the lack of SFX, and that it is so short.
Well done!
Clearly beard physics are the future. As always your pixel art is incredible (I would still happily kill to experiment with your pixel art in my game engine) but honestly I feel like it's your music here that's exceptional.
Congrats, and thanks for the entertaining streaming yesterday! :)
The music fits perfectly with the game but it would be great to have some SFX. Also the coins doesn't fit perfectly with the game's mood and the fact that the more you pick the more your beard growths, I think it would be much better with some kind of lotion or something like that instead of coins.
Anyway, the game is really polished, fun, innovative and the graphics are almost perfect. I hope you will continue the development and count me as a day one costumer if you release it.
Other than that, incredible in every aspect!
Great job!
the last switch is pretty tricky..
The music helped build up a nice atmosphere.
The look and feel was quite similar to your previous entry "Fathom".
Over all great work though well done buddy!
Really, the graphics, the mecanics are awesome, even the music is cool. Too sad the level is this short but it's part of the LD ...
Good job ;)
Too bad it's so short, would have loved more!
5 stars easy :)
But I probably miss something somewhere, because I'm stucked where the beard reached 2/3 on level 8, unable to touch the button, whatever I try to throw the beard under the half-opened door...
I'm pretty happy that you were able to finish something. Your games are always great, and I wanted to play it from the moment I saw the first pictures, on twitter! XD
The song was really fitting and the graphics were gorgeous! Even if with some rough spots... like the trees. XD It made for a nice contrast in the background!
The idea in this one is really solid! I could easily see this made into a full game, with mechanics like having to use your beard to swing to get to newer areas and stuff.
Great job!
First of all I can´t stop looking at this atonishing graphics and the controls are also awesome cause they respond really well.
Maybe the physics could be some better but they are good enough to not result unfair
The core mechanics are a bit shaky, using the bouncy beard as an extension of yourself, while sounding novel, is a bit frustrating in practice for anything other than really simplistic actions. I think maybe if you got more mechanics and variations in, like sticky beard or something, it might be interesting.
Who knows! But the platforming is solid as always. And gorgeous. So gorgeous :)
There's growing beard in your game.
And it's awesome!
Some sound effects and fighting I think could make it more fun, but the base game feels very solid, and the beard puzzles were clever :)
The only problem is that actually you can't grow your beard by paying to it =P
Only part that made me sad (and it's a minor point) was not having any sound when I collected the coins.
Good music, great art, great concept, everything fits together really well. Some sound effects would be nice, and a few of the buttons were difficult to press.
A pity that some features cost you too much time to put more content into this game. Hopefully there's a post-comp version coming?
And the beard gymnastics is incredibly creative! Awesome work!
I had some problems with the last button, possibly due to the framerate being a little low for me...
The lack of sound effects is a bummer, and the interactions feel a bit light (button seems to press itself behind the character instead of by his standing on it, the coin picking effects isn't great either,...) but when the main complain on a game is "it's too short" you know you didn't do that bad ;)
Good job!
Love it, I don't know what to say !
Cool music , beatiful graphics, interresting gameplay... Please make a full game out of it :)
I had some difficulty to activate the button on the roof, and my beard got stuck under a door and i could'nt open it. Except from that this game is perfect.
good job!
The beard seems glitchy indeed. It didn't get stuck for me (I made it stuck after), but physics are weird and unobvious. Works well, but not perfect.