For an embarrassingly long time a collaborative team of Mammoth developers have been slaving away over hot computers cooking up our first game; it’s a foolish little number called ‘The Island of Funk.’ It’s sort of a dancing/fighting sea creatures-type game, it’s a tired genre we know, but we thought we’d give it a go.
Anyway the game is nearly finished and what we need now is for people to have a play of it and to give us some feedback. To sound professional we are calling this an ‘open beta’ and we would love you to participate.
We are mostly interested in getting answers to these questions:
1.) How is the difficulty? Is it too easy? Too hard? Too easy THEN too hard?
2.) What sorts of scores were you averaging? How many fish were you earning per-round?
3.) Was the tutorial clear and easy to follow? Did the game mechanics reveal themselves at a digestible rate?
4.) How did it run for you?
5.) What blew up? What bugs and general weirdness did you find? (Don’t worry about the pelican, he is meant to blow up).
Feel free to chuck your feedback in the thread or a PM would be great. Be honest but not mean, we are sensitive Mammoths and the game is still far from finished.
PLEASE BE AWARE:
Player data will not persist between play-sessions, i.e. if you play for 20 minutes, go through the tutorial, buy some clothes for your character and then close the game, the next time you play you will be starting from scratch
You cannot buy music yet
The game will take a little while to load in the browser but it’s worth the wait…it has afros.
I have no idea what am I doing How to fend off those pesky animals? I don’t know where is the tutorial, cant find it. Plaster big “TUTORIAL” button somewhere between plays.
And maybe do better shaders for characters if it’s not for mobile. And bake some shadows on this.
What do you recommend in terms of shaders? How do you feel the look of the characters could be improved? Feedback from anyone would be appreciated on this issue…
I think the more cartoony flat shaders for the characters works well, but it would look better with some baked shadows I would imagine. Maybe(unless I missed this part of the tut) if it said explicitly to click on the animals it would help, or some sort of highlight/prompt on them on the first playthrough. Just that if you don’t know what’s happening it can be intimidating.
But, overall, looking good!
This was a nice game. It ran fine. The graphics are good, the animation/gameplay is smooth and fluid.
I thought doing the dance moves were too easy, think maybe it would have been more challenging to have to hit a combination of keys or match keys to onscreen keys to do dance movies. The tutorial was clear and easy to follow though.
It’s good work, a really original and creative concept
