Island Hopping

Category	Rank	Score	Count
Fun	7	3.83	48
Overall	7	3.92	48
Coolness	2	66
Innovation	51	3.30	47
Theme	59	3.52	48
Graphics	43	3.58	48
Audio	39	3.26	46
Humor	164	1.67	24
Community	44	3.55	29

AClockWorkLemon

fun concept, and really quite addicting. nice work!

smn

Fun concept indeed! The only problem I have with this game is interpreting the platforms as islands, but it works with some abstract thinking :3 Good stuff!

brian

Very nice graphically, very clear what you're meant to do, just incredibly buggering hard to do so! Good fun but too hard due to the controls.

kplbe

Very nice 3d graphics, very fun, a bit too hard. Good work for a 48 hours short time

madk

Way too hard to get into. The learning curve is a cliff.

You *really* gimped the jumping, and that's what killed the game for me. Not so much the aiming or timing, but the falling miserably short on every single platform I attempted... sad. My highest combo was a measly 4 islands.

Tenoch

Very nice looking albeit simple. Pretty hard, though, and the first straight line is maybe a bit long, since we die and start over every 3 islands :)
Music is clean but a bit repetitive. Overall quite well polished.

Cooshinator

Fun and addictive, but needed a smoother difficulty curve

Tyler

Madly addicting. If you continue this, I would consider allowing players to use their own music

tembac

Best game I tried so far. Really adictive!!!

eli

TONS of fun!!!!!!

The music really got me in the mood, but it got old quick.

Great idea, having the different difficulty settings. I was able to master "Easy" before moving on.

Excellent work.

pekuja

I played the original version, and while it was difficult, it was also a ton of fun. One of my favorite entries so far. The graphics are very simple, but they do their job very well. The music is repetitive but not annoying. What the game does sorely miss though is a high score table. Preferrably online high score table. I haven't played the double jump version yet, so maybe it's not that big of a deal there, but what I thought could had helped with the difficulty is if you had a minimap that you could refer to, especially for long jumps where you're staring at the sky. Frankly though, I think maybe you should limit the player's vision or just make looking up not do anything, because that's a bit of an annoying thing to have to do. My best score was 49700. I got close to that on other runs, but on that run I got a 4x multiplier followed by a decent combo, so I got lucky a bit.
Oh, I guess the game also really needs a tutorial. It's not obvious that you have to tilt your view to affect your jump height.
I hope you keep working on this. I'm going to download the double jump version now and play some more.

Pyrrhuloxia

Default mouse sensitivity is way too low.
I find the jump control based on look angle to be frustrating since I have to look really high as a default so I am punished for looking where I am going.
Sometimes the sounds for hitting a grey island seem more rewarding than those for a green island.
One time I booted the game and couldn't see anything for some reason, probably my fault.
The game's keyhandler doesn't like my key remapping system so I had to use two keyboards to play the game - one for the enter key and one for the space bar. I'd recommend just using the space key for everything that currently uses enter (good idea, Codexus).
This is really close to being an awesome robot unicorn in 3d sort of thing.

Entar

It's really fun, but I found it pretty hard, and I was playing on easy! Maybe start off with a slow tutorial level with instructions. Cool idea, would like to see this one continued.

Endurion

Nice idea. Some jumps are pretty hard since you have no control over the jump length.
Also, please do not use space for jump. Depending on the keyboard the press registers too late quite often.
And the music is annoying ;)

Spiridios

I like this game! It's neat that you can go for distance, score, or time. I was going for distance and made 408 meters on the original version before quitting for the night. I'll most likely play again later and possibly try out the "double-jump" version. I agree that a high-score feature is badly needed. Post-it notes stuck to the monitor with my last best distance doesn't seem to mesh graphically. Oh well. =p

Codexus

It looks like it could be good but to me that was just frustrating. I really liked the concept and graphics and if I could play like in your video it would have been more enjoyable but the best I managed to do was 7 hops when I got lucky once.

And if only you could restart the game by pressing jump again, it would be more addictive but pressing return is annoying when you have the left hand on space and the right one on the mouse. (maybe you're a lefty?)

I think it would have been better with designed levels of increasing difficulty rather than generated content.

EDIT: Actually the game was more enjoyable after a good night's rest than it was on a Friday evening. Though changing the mouse sensitivity to 3 was necessary to hope not to die right away. Still the easy mode should actually be the insane one.

EDIT #2: It's actually an awesome game once you really get into it, I just made 70000 points (exactly). It seems making a high score requires some luck though, you need a 4x bonus and a good series of green islands following it.

shaktool

Agreed that this game is way too hard, even after figuring out the jump behavior. However, it *is* inspiring. Maybe slow it down, crank up the default look sensitivity, and expand the field of view?

zdanielz

very hard, very nice game.

allen

So addicting. Arrrrrr. Every time I die I think to myself "ok..just one more try"

ends up making me spend my whole night on this thing!

jovoc

Excellent game and nice to see more use of OGRE.

A few things kept it from really working for me. Most importantly, I think a 3rd person view would have worked much better, so you can really see how close to the edge you are. Also a shadow blob would help with that too.

The graphics were not really taking advantage of the capabilities of the engine. The grids and bright colors didn't look very polished (tho the water looked nice), it looked like placeholder art. Just a few minutes on some textures would have really payed off.

But overall, great work and very fun and playable for a 48 hour game. Great way to use the theme in gameplay, too.