Moody Golem

Nice idea! I included it in my GM48: Colors are Important compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/jmAfNqkuezc

I really liked this entry. It's simple and fun. :)

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Hey, nice idea to contxtualize the colors with fruit, and lovely little animations on the fruits and golem! A bit tricky to control the player with precision at times! Good job overall!

This game starts out deceptively simple, warms up quickly and suddenly you're fighting for your life to keep this hungry golem happy! :D

The work and polish put into the golem, and the art generally, is very well done. The shaking animation, the opening mouth, it all looks professional. I don't hold the player character against you. I assume that was just a time constraint thing. The gameplay is good too. It starts out slowly and gently rises to a boil!

I really missed some sounds though -- just a little bit of feedback when I toss the big lug a snack. Maybe a satisfied gulp when he eats it :)

It was also a bit unclear to me what color I should throw while the golem is shaking, so I generally avoided doing anything. Maybe if the 'incoming' color was fading in at the bottom instead of on the whole golem (assuming you continue throwing the old color).

My only other gripe is the hitbox for actually throwing the fruit. Many times I would try to run to a fruit and try to do a quick course change to the next fruit, but I would wind up just missing the first fruit, even though the character box overlapped the fruit. My guess is that that was to be more forgiving of accidentally throwing bad fruit. But I wonder if the hit box should have been made bigger and the player given a 'throw to golem' key? You might have already tried that though.

Or maybe holding down the attack button just destroys any fruit you touch, and not holding it down throws any fruit you touch.

Anyway, despite those minor things, this is really well made entry and I enjoyed my time with it! Well done!

I like the visual style and the overall mechanics. The graphics on the power-up fruits could be differentiated from the standard coloured ones, so a new player who hasn't read the instructions can tell they have unique purposes. Some form of glow or hovering affect would do the trick. The movement was a little bit off feeling, but I think this could be imroved with some pacing. I think it could get more difficult and still be fun. Really nice entry TobyMoby. The design on the golem itself is awesome, and your high-res sprites look great.

First of all the style of the Moody Golem is pretty cool. But I don´t like slow movement of the player. It could be a fast paced game but not with this movement. I would be nice if there is instead of a block a little person who kicks the fruits in the mouth of the golem, that would be pretty awesome. Overall it´s a nice game with for me a new play style (when I think about games with colours I have instantly games in mind where you have to line 3 or more same things in a row, boring).

To close this feedback I quote the harbor foreman of Ryu in Shenmue with "Keep up the good work" :D

I like the central idea here (and the bonus fruits), but this doesn't feel quite 'punchy' enough for an arcade-style game. The movement is a little floaty, and it doesn't feel like the tension builds fast enough (maybe have fruit start to spawn faster as it goes, or in waves?).

Additionally, it would have been helpful to have some indication in the main play area of which mood the golem was in (maybe change the character colour)? I found I was mainly losing because I hadn't realised there was a colour change, which I think is less fun than losing because you feel overwhelmed by how much is happening.

The animation and art were fantastic, though :) I would really like to learn how to create a similar 'painterly' style!

It was a really fun game! I really liked to play it, with all the fruits and the reaction of the golem. I would love to play an enhanced Version of this game, maybe with more stages, fruits and a reaction from the golem, when he eats a fruit? The Controls were good, but i needed some time to realise how it works. Also the speed of the player should be rethink, for me it was a little bit to slow.

But all in all, nice game!

This game was good, simple mechanic, but the golem gave the game its unique feeling. I liked it and the animations, not just static pictures. Also it was important that you have players heads up before golem changes or when new fruit falls. Player was bit too slippery. Too bad you didn't have time to make player animation or sounds.

A fun game! I was a little confused at first, even after reading the instructions, but the second time around I did a lot better. The fruits don't stick around long, so its definitely a pretty fast paced game, which is nice. With some more polish I could see this being a pretty addictive game!

Had so much fun playing this game! Also the graphics are awsome!

This game is addicting! Keep up the good work! Current high score is 1080 and can't stop playing.

Things to add: -pause button -if you die, play again by pressing space

really nice game :) i am waiting for an extended version of the game