Around The Jungle by Makbeard
As an explorer deep in the jungle, you get snared by plants; you must struggle to escape your bondage.
Hint: Try traveling counter-clockwise
| Youtube | https://makbeard.itch.io/around-the-jungle |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/around-the-jungle |
Ratings
| Overall | 1432th | 2.972⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1163th | 3.028⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 604th | 3.5⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1480th | 2.75⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1440th | 2.5⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 756th | 3.194⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 902th | 2.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1488th | 2.389⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
Needs better visual/audio feedback for player's actions, like showing the aiming power/direction.
I also agree that some feedback on where you were aiming would be nice.
Good mechanic, just needs work on fleshing out the rest of the game I think!
I think you should give better guidance on where you need to go next to end the loop (either by having arrow signs or by showing the whole stage at the beginning so that the player knows roughly what they should do, or even better to have a larger field of view with smaller stages and some implicit guidance based on intuitive level design). I think you should also have a UI to show where the force will be applied while you drag the mouse (I kind of expected the ball to follow the mouse when you click and when you release a force to be applied towards the vector from the ball to the anchor). The use of mushrooms was also a bit confusing.
Overall, great job!
There seems to be an agreement on some changes we should implement once the voting period is over. ^_^