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Fire in time by leggy

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made by leggy for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

Help Flammy lighting up the campfires in this hot-headed quest. Hurry! The fire won't burn for too long without his touch.

  • Hold left mouse button and release it to create a wall. Bouncing on a wall increases Flammy's speed.

  • Press spacebar (or double click - or double tap, on mobile) to empower Flammy, incresing his size for a short duration.

  • Everytime Flammy exits the screen will slow down.

There shouldn't be many bugs, hopefully :)

Update (2020/10/08): we are currently working on fixing major gameplay bugs issued during your kind review phase. Android build will also be released soon! Keep in touch!

Update (2020/10/12): released 0.2.0 with fixes to major bugs, android and web build. flammy.jpg

Youtube https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NL7EC1r65R5fHvwmFVp8iQ2nBijuYF7Q/view?usp=sharing
Youtube https://drive.google.com/file/d/17o03u57U55zaXZD15_cn3xfAq92mHNfJ/view?usp=sharing
Youtube https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_BndtkZXH-1lG4I-4658aDkZ3Jx9fAMX/view?usp=sharing
Youtube https://leggy7.itch.io/fire-in-time
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/fire-in-time

Ratings

Overall 1015th 3.357⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 986th 3.191⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 836th 3.3⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1369th 2.941⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1325th 2.897⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Audio 886th 2.955⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1108th 2.214⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1334th 2.803⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 59🗳️ 43🗨️

Feedback

Conneli
06. Oct 2020 · 00:27 UTC
Simple, self explanatory, and a fun little time killer. It was great to mess around with.
LouieJams
06. Oct 2020 · 10:05 UTC
Fun little physics fire game, was nice to play around with the fire without the worry of a timer, my aim wasnt great but i did get there eventually haha!
WitekWitek
06. Oct 2020 · 11:55 UTC
Intresting Idea! I liked you game but here are some of my complaints.

1. Is the Text supposed to be small? If not, Make the UI Scale with the Screen Size
2. The Back button wasn't working
3. I don't really see the Impact the spacebar is doing.
4. I would recomend you putting a cooldown on the "Flammy Impact"

Fun Idea, but it could use a little bit more work :)
The Missing Bracket
06. Oct 2020 · 12:12 UTC
cool and all, but sometimes drawing lines fails can get a little bit frustrating
🎤 leggy
06. Oct 2020 · 12:54 UTC
@witekwitek
Thank you for your feedback. We are glad that you enjoyed this prototype.
Your complaints are more or less expected:
1. indeed it should scale but we fought against time untill the very last 2 minutes :sweat_smile:
2. we will investigate. could you provide info about the resolution you played with?
3. do you see Flammy enlarge (also a sound should be played)?
4. agreed, we should display more indicators

Thank you again, we will soon survey your submission :smiley:
🎤 leggy
06. Oct 2020 · 12:55 UTC
@the-missing-bracket
I do understand. We will improve the experience as soon as possible!
WitekWitek
06. Oct 2020 · 13:08 UTC
@leggy Hey there! Here are some things that i am going to say about your game

1.I can understand rushing and finishing it but usually i dosen't really give a good effect on your game.
2.I think it was 1800x900? I don't think that it shows what Reolution you are playing on
3.Yes, I did see it but what i meant by are the effects of the "Flammy Impact" (ex. The duration of the fire wasn't really that diffrent)
🎤 leggy
06. Oct 2020 · 14:07 UTC
@witekwitek the effect is slight: by enlarging Flammy can cover a larger area while moving. So if you have an almost precise direction towards 1 or more log piles chances are that by enlarging you could not need to adjust your direction.
ryzy27
06. Oct 2020 · 15:34 UTC
It's much harder to control the ball than I thought.

Quite challenging game with 5+ targets. I enjoyed it a lot.

Often line would get disabled when I was drawing it leading to frustration. Not sure why it happened close to screen edge.
Zepapa
06. Oct 2020 · 16:19 UTC
The game get's challenging when the speed picks up and there are 4+ firepits. I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. It made me quickly think of how to get the fireball to multiple firepits. I found that not being able to drag a line to the edge made it frustrating on occasion as others have also said. That would be a good fix. The sound effects were great as well as the graphics. Good work!
axelrinaldo
06. Oct 2020 · 22:54 UTC
Fun little game, though I am absolutely terrible at it. :D The placement of the walls was a bit wonky at times but nothing too game breaking.
Shortbread
07. Oct 2020 · 07:24 UTC
Simple and fun game, though I feel it needed some more elements to it such as obstacles or water.
🎤 leggy
07. Oct 2020 · 07:32 UTC
@shortbread
Indeed, you're right! We'll love to add new features in the future. At the moment we're just working on fixing gameplay issues. Thank you for your feedback
Skvader_418
07. Oct 2020 · 19:09 UTC
the game is simple and fun
Baran
07. Oct 2020 · 21:32 UTC
Nice game, I enjoyed playing it! This game would do really nice on mobile I think.
Matt Jones
08. Oct 2020 · 04:26 UTC
Seems really quite fun! My only suggestion here really is to add some background music. I know you have the background sound effects, but I think a bubbly backing track would really help this feel like a complete package. :)
🎤 leggy
08. Oct 2020 · 06:45 UTC
@matt-jones thank you for your feedback and suggestions. Maybe you didn't notice sound of nature playing in the background? Or maybe audio broke for some reason? I know it may be not the best fit as a background track but at least there is one now. We always love to receive feedback on possible improvements. Thank you again :smile:
🎤 leggy
08. Oct 2020 · 07:07 UTC
@baran Hi! Thank you. We are glad for your apreciation. Indeed a mobile version will be our major priority after fixing major bugs.
DavidPeterWorks
08. Oct 2020 · 08:39 UTC
It a nice idea. I can quit from the game.(It is missing most of the desktop jam games) :D You built a menu that's good. I can imagine this as a mobile game. It was satisfying to burn more campfire without direction changing.
Sayuri
08. Oct 2020 · 17:32 UTC
This game would be pretty fun to play in a touch screen. Needs just a little bit juice like some effects when you release the lmb.
jk5000
08. Oct 2020 · 18:27 UTC
A super simple, and fun little game. I overall like the game idea. I would perhaps have liked a more contend. The visuals is fine, without being something super special. Overall a fun little jam game. Well done.
🎤 leggy
09. Oct 2020 · 22:24 UTC
@jk5000 Hello and thank you for your feedback. Indeed a little bit more feature are planned for the future. Due to the lack of time the game was as you played it. In the short time we will release some major bugfix and mobile portability. Stay tuned :smile:
Merpui
10. Oct 2020 · 21:08 UTC
Neat game :)
It was already mentioned before, but this game would work well with touchscreen controls, e.g. as a mobile game :)
Anya_Voinova
10. Oct 2020 · 21:16 UTC
Nice gameplay)
🎤 leggy
11. Oct 2020 · 23:35 UTC
Released new version with major bugfixes and android release!
🎤 leggy
12. Oct 2020 · 07:45 UTC
@the-missing-bracket @ryzy27 @zepapa @axelrinaldo
Thanking you for your feedback, I'd like to inform you that we fixed major bugs related to walls creation.

@baran @davidpeterworks @sayuri @merpui
A first shy android version has been released. Thank you for your support!
Super Hadoken
12. Oct 2020 · 08:41 UTC
This is a fun game. The mouse pointer could be changed to something more obvious. I occasionally lost track of the pointer when keeping an eye on the flame, especially when the pointer is on the far right of the screen. The spacebar ability didn't seem very useful, perhaps a larger radius would help. Good entry, I enjoyed this a lot.
Teto
15. Oct 2020 · 23:29 UTC
Nice concept here and level progression was well paced. Ngl, I was a little disappointed that Flammy didn't have a face in the actual gameplay :( Even if he had little eyes, that would have satisfied me haha! The animation was good and audio feedback was satisying so I knew exactly what was happening. The detail of adding flame animation to the start menu was a really nice touch too and it's always nice to see small things like that as it makes the whole game feel much more polished! Awesome job and well done!
ColeSlaughter
18. Oct 2020 · 23:21 UTC
[We played this on stream last night!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/773934372?t=00h27m24s) Sorry we went on some pretty *deep* tangents while we were playing. Hopefully the footage of your game is still enjoyable. :pray:

I actually really enjoyed this one. :slight_smile: The premise was simple to understand and execute on. I do wish that I had a better idea of where the fireball was going to bounce off to, as I made a lot of miscalculations in my trajectories. I also never really saw a need to use the "empowering" effect too often. Still, I had more than enough fun just trying to bounce the fireball all around the screen. Very nice job here!
🎤 leggy
22. Oct 2020 · 22:41 UTC
@coleslaughter
Hey, nice stream. it was the very first time I saw someone playing a my creation. It has been somewhat exciting. I saw you got better during the stream, later on you placed some very god walls in a row :)

Thanks for playing it and enjoying it!
EvanGreenwood
27. Oct 2020 · 11:37 UTC
Went up to level 7 and thoroughly enjoyed playing your submission, well done!