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Northern Spy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation223.52
Graphics93.85
Audio372.78
Overall433.12
Humor522.38
Fun702.50
Theme822.96
Coolness863
Community882.29

Comments

crackerblocks

lovely game

doohan

I really like the season changes, and the sound effects are pretty amusing.
Controls are a bit tricky at first though.
Cool game!

C418

Yeah, the season changes are really cool.
The collision detection is a bit confusing. But I guess he's just too fat.

AtkinsSJ

Very poetic.

SonnyBone

He starved to death trying to chop down 50 trees just to eat a few apples. Maybe if the guy wasn't so fat, he'd be able to walk AROUND THEM. lol

This is a neat little game with some cool features. The changing seasons, falling trees, and growing plants are rad.

localcoder

This has a strong idea and the season changing effect is very compelling and fits in with the theme.

The controls are awkward; I found turning and moving difficult and I couldn't tell what I could and couldn't pass through. This distracted me from the setting and the message of the game. I think that improving the controls would make it easier for people to the other parts of the game (which are really good).

(on playing again, I see that there are shadows around the trees that show the collision circles. The first time I played, the trees were close together and I didn't notice these.)

jplur

Love the details, especially the apple seeds sprouting. This makes me want to take a second look at Processing.

Risko

Beautiful graphics, i like both -- the trees and the pixelized norwegian, various seasons are a great bonus -- the colours in all seasons are just suiting well.
And the gameplay reminded me of 'the good old times' by playing warcraft 1 and 2, where we created maps half-full of trees, so we had to chop through it, to get to the enemy (or at least that is, how i remember it ;) )
The biggest problem i had with the game is, that it is lagging a lot, so all the sounds played to late and so on. But i had to play it even under such circumstances to see the other season variatons ;)

Entar

Cool effects and sounds and all, but I found the game itself a little weird. I walked around, chopped down some trees, ate some apples, and eventually died. Is there a goal?

TenjouUtena

Controls akward and spongy. I didn't have any trees I could get too before he died.

dock

The controls are a little strange, but the graphics are great :)

Hempuli

Really interesting idea! I'd love to see more!

dertom

Nice,...especially the first game in processing...nice

matrin

Wonderful and hard game.

sinoth

Visually stunning. Great audio as well. The gameplay is a bit lacking in that there is little reward for playing well (other than seasons changing, which looks excellent). Maybe you didn't have time for the ending? The engine is a bit laggy.. I hope Processing doesn't end up restricting your ideas due to slowness. The end fade seems a bit too long. Despite all of this the entry feels very solid... good job!