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TheCrawlyCrab

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall372.3923
Innovation382.7423
Fun441.5723
Graphics283.2223
Polish312.5223
Theme432.2223
Humor222.1316
Audio262.9122
Technical312.8222
Journal153.6316
Effort323.2322
Food2

Comments

Papper

Didn't get much out of this, sorry :/

sol_hsa

The controls are broken, at least in a 2-monitor setup.

SteelGolem

argh i always lose most of my crabs to THE PLAGUE before i get them even halfway down the corridor! controls are frustrating too. speed them crabs up dammit! ^_^

Sophie Houlden

well its not really my thing, and my laptop had difficulty with larger numbers of crabs, but I DID enjoy drawing in crowds of crabs killing them :D

chaotikZA

What Hamumu said - the controls were even worse for me in the updated version.

Hamumu

There's something totally broken in the controls here... I don't know if it's just on my computer, but the controls just don't respond 2/3 of the time, it's all clunky and broken. It's very weird. On top of that, the killer cone doesn't really seem able to hit guys. It's on me, and I can't overlap the crabs, so I somehow killed one with it, but then followed another around constantly attacking to no effect.

So I guess what I'm saying is the gameplay doesn't work at all (I also think the crabs are slow moving and hard to herd, but I'm not sure because I just couldn't move myself enough to really see). Too bad because it sounds good, and everything looks good.

gimblll

Very frustrating, I couldn't complete the first level even with many many tries. The herding mechanics just didn't work too well and it had too difficult controls. But anyway, bonus points for the effort, 3D and all. :)

negativegeforce

the crabs get too sick too fast, i couldn't save even 1 crab. I had to give it a bad score because I couldn't even being playing before it was over. The graphics looked ok though. The game just needed something playable =(

fydo

Controls are very hard to use
Fullscreen by default is a no-no, imo

SethR

(using new build from 22nd) It runs fine but herding crabs is too damn tedious and slow. I mean, I thought cows were bad. I liked killing them though.

mjau

The controls in the compo version made it completely unplayable, so I tried the latest version you posted (c, 21. dec) .. which I guess I shouldn't use for voting purposes since you added features so far after the deadline, but I wanted to see what the game was like. Still didn't really like the controls, but at least I could move around.. herding crabs felt like herding cats though, just scattering all over the place in stead of going where I wanted them to. So I didn't have much fun, sorry.

Nice title music though.

TenjouUtena

I couldn't get this to run upon my initial try

Deepflame

Interesting game concept, but I found the end result was a bit boring to play. It was also very hard to kill the yellow crabs.

The chain reaction doesn't really come into play unless you have infected crabs either.

drZool

Laser and explosives are needed.

wicked

Controls were fine for me, except the crabs were far too unresponsive and the crabs got sick a bit too fast. Good effort anyway.

Nice music, but I think it would be better with the music in the game instead of on the title screen. I did not notice the music before reading these comments.

midwinter

i didn't really find this one fun, but interesting idea. maybe if you speed up the speed of the crabs, it would be more fun and challening?

Wiering

The mouse control is awful! And the game is very slow. I could easily complete the first level though by pressing Alt+Tab and coming back later. When I did the same with level 2, all crabs were gone, but it said that there were still 4 left.

greencow

a bug in the controls lol