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Dare Islands

By xmunkki

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD17Ever
Innovation14.4231100.099.2
Theme233.813187.973.2
Fun673.063166.342.2
Graphics1132.873142.224.7
Audio2
Humor1861.4054.51.0
Overall463.423177.357.3
Community353.651783.090.4
Coolness167

Ratings received

OverallCommunityFunGraphicsInnovationThemeAudioHumor
333353
344354
433344
53454
443443
21133
332144
332142
3344211
42455
43243
34345512
43445
3344531
334144
344355
343444
44354
444443
33343
555355
43254
33355
433355
343343
33255
342133
433542
2423421
33244
44455

Comments

nikedrasil

Wow, that's an awesome idea, and a neat piece of technology. Definitely one of the more creative games around. I ended up funneling all traffic into one small area and selectively built/destroyed a "gate" island to deflect the boats depending on the color.

increpare

Interesting, but I think I'd have enjoyed it more if it had a slightly faster pace

moaid_t4

Awesome, I love it!

glever

The mechanics are very cool, but the game doesn't have a lot of variety with time. Some variety in what you have to handle or check points to give a sense of accomplishment would've been nice.

tylerthedesigner

The simplicity in this game makes it worth it to me. You did a great job at implementing a small project scope and making it work.

fydo

Cool idea! 5 stars for innovation! :D

metiulekm

quoting fydo:
"Cool idea! 5 stars for innovation! :D"

jazzberrygames

Really, really cool! Needs some kind of balance for the gameplay. Great that you made an entire fluid simulation in a weekend.

onefifth

Simple and fun. I believe it has a lot of potential to become a full game if you add some variety to the gameplay. Congratulations.

jagger27

GREAT TECH!

Needs some audio, though. I'd also like to see some refinement in island placement. THIS IS PRETTY COOL.

entar

Cool tech, though a bit hard to actually play. This has potential, keep going on this one :)

sparky

Nifty idea! Leaves a lot of strategy options. It'd be interesting to see this built into a full fledged game.

groovemastercox

A bit slow to be fun, Good idea though.
For some reason the exe file didn't have any permissions which confused wine a bit.

kavehth

A great idea, proved a little difficult, but wow, such an amazing idea and gameplay mechanic, very innovative!

neromler

Very inventive gameplay, nicely thematic. Bonus points for being high-tech and using ML. :) The game's pretty hard. My best strategy was to write off mixed groups of boats and trap them in lagoons without killing them, though it was hard to predict when they'd become "stuck" and die. I think it would have been better if the two colors of boats had different physical properties so it was possible to separate groups, or somehow to regain lives, because otherwise the game is always getting into a higher-entropy state. But I guess it is a physics game. :)

Hi-score 60

nipplerider

Really neato fluid dynamics!

lukeallstar

Kinda like stimergy:
http://theinstructionlimit.com/?p=435

Pretty fun, I liked it.