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Trivial Escape from Minimalist Island

By mjau

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall24.1324
Fun33.8324
Theme54.4624
Innovation392.8324
Graphics24.5424
Polish34.1324
Audio163.0022
Humor212.758
Timelapse24.3517
Food34.1421
Journal153.6020
Technical282.7924

Comments

saluk

Pretty. Easy. Short. Minimal. :)

pekuja

Easy and short. The graphics are nice. The moving mechanic was confusing. Made me miss the lighthouse for a long time. The sound effects seem out of place to me a little.

SethR

I escaped!

fydo

Wow, I absolutely loved this.

doofer

Nice. Reminded me of something, I can't remember what.

jhauberg

I really like it. The graphics are lovely.

Also, big thumbs up for making an adventure game and for making an adventure game that keeps with the minimal theme! :)

sol_hsa

Minimalistic Manhole, maybe Myst.. =)

HybridMind

Minimyst.. ;) Art style was great, theme adherence was awesome. Took me a long time to notice where one of the final objects was so I almost quit in frustration before I discovered it.. great job!

jovoc

This was really fun. Lots of atmosphere. The essence of the adventure game genre. It could have been a little tricker, puzzle wise, but overall it felt like a complete game and was fun and interesting.

mikeware

Nice Adventure, like the style. Took a little while to figure out about turning though.

keeyai

Awesome game. Took me forever to find that last important thing... I loved the art style.

I really enjoyed the music in your timelapse -- was that the song you wrote for the game and didn't put in?

dgriff

The captain decided it best to tear down the tree and bind together a raft. We left at dawn. Four days in, hard waters hit and they threw us onto the shoals. We ate one of the crew -- mostly out of frustration. As death approached, the captain finally decided it best to signal for help, even though he'd be using his roaming minutes.

Devon

The sound effects did it for me. Nice art and mechanic. Simple, polished, minimal, fun, briefly frustrating (as it should be).

drZool

Lovely style. Solid game.

Hamumu

Yeah, what they said. This contest theme has resulted in no lasting hits for the future, but more than one bit of ephemeral art to inspire and enjoy. Besides this bit of scratchboard myst, Pansapien's Mondrian game really stands out, and Mrfun's Mini-Portal, and a bunch of others I'm not thinking of right now. I think the theme was a triumph of style over substance, and while I wouldn't go for that regularly, it is kind of fun that we did it this once.

phren

Quite nice, actually made me want to finish. The graphics have a nice style. Maybe turning to the side could've been a bit more obvious, but mostly it felt intuitive. Short though. :/

pansapiens

Good gfx, good fun. I could see myself playing a longer version of something along these lines.

jolle

Yay, a mini-myst, except less weird and better looking. Really like it, good job.

philhassey

Great graphics. I got a bit stuck on one puzzle, but your tip helped me out. The only improvement I can see is adding some subtle music.

DrPetter

Yay, graphical adventure! Doing it all in black and white does reduce the graphics burden I guess, otherwise that's the main killer with these games. So intensely time-consuming to draw tons of environments that will only be glanced in a jiffy while clicking away at some keypoints.
Reminded me more than a little of Lost... Trapped on an island, locked up control room, password codes, mysterious button, hatch. Intentional references or coincidence?

negativegeforce

although very short, the game was quite fun. it brought back my will for discovery, but only for a minute :p. artwork, food, timelapse are good