Eden Island

Category	Rank	Score
Theme	21	3.82
Graphics	40	3.61
Audio	51	3.11
Innovation	58	3.24
Overall	73	3.08
Humor	81	2.45
Coolness	102	7
Fun	107	2.68
Community	156	1.58

Ashkin

It's interesting and I like the atmosphere, but the gameplay is lacking.

fydo

This is a very pretty toy, but I don't see how this is a game? Is it possible to win or lose?

smn

Stunning visuals, atmospheric audio! It's like a Zen garden with dark music in the background!

mattdev

Very cool, the art is great. I wasn't quite sure what I had to do when the pirates arrived, though! They seemed to just slaughter all the island-monkeys?

Hempuli

Great graphics and interesting gameplay! I'd love to see more plants and animals, though.

Entar

Cool little game. At one point I stopped being able to place plants and monkeys though :(

ickylevel

The idea is pretty interesting. Develop it more and it could be a fantastic game. Yet now its lacking (but I've seen worse in this compo).

Nice graphics and sound, interesting concept... but as others have said, it's not really a game. Which is fine, since you said you hadn't finished.

Also, they may have changed the rules, but last I knew, part of the point of Ludum Dare was that you had to do it alone - no teams.

increpare

I was never sure what the restrictions were on planting plants. Atmosphere was good. Loved when the ships arrived.

(also, just so you know, ludum dare is meant to be a solo competition, and source code is supposed to be submitted. No biggie, though : ))

arielsan

Lacks of gameplay a bit, but graphics and audio are great. I like it.

zez

First off, hi cai! I gave you a 2 in community despite you not having any posts on LD, largely due to how awesome you are in the flixel community (If I was just rating that you would have gotten a 5 fo shizzle.) This is zez, btw.

Allright, stuff.
The Good - Its pretttttyyyyy. The atmosphere was awesome, sound was great. I really dug how you used collide to generate islands, and the reflection effect on the water was an awesome touch. I also dug how plants grew when they got wet, really nicely done.
The Bad - well... this wasn't really a game, now was it? It would have been pretty awesome as background stuff in a game, you could use it to randomly generate the levels and have them mutate over time due to weather effects. That would have been tight. There really is a lot of potential here, it just isnt reached.
The Ugly - You really should have set the bounding box on the trees better. I know its tricky to do when you are using scale, but currently its possible to make trees that float in mid air, and that totally ruins the feel of this game.
Still, all in all, it was pretty rad, despite not being a game.

sfernald

Really clever and interesting game. Too bad it is unfinished. You should definitely finish the game!

refrag

I love it. This is my favourite entry so far. Glad I stuck around long enough to see the pirates. I'd love to see this expanded on so I can watch my Island evolve and survive through other scenerios.

But yeah.. LD is a solo competition. Though it looks like this FAQ didn't transfer over to LD17: http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ld16:faq
(I only dinged you under "Community" for not following the solo rule.)

xeon06

Very cool, not much to do though, and my monkeys would just die (or sleep?) but still neat. Keep on working on that!

allen

I knocked points off graphics and sound because you didn't do them. Ludum Dare has been solo from the beginning, why would this be changed?

pwnmonkey

really really cool, as stated before, it would be tons better with more gameplay elements

SonnyBone

OOH. This will be so rad if you keep working on it. (please keep working on it)

That sucks about the rule mishap, though.

Stoney

It's an interesting and nice game and I love sandbox games in general.
Bummer, you didn't make graphics and sounds/music yourself, so I didn't give you as much stars there as I would have.

Endurion

Lovely toy box :)
And then the pirates came and killed all my monkeys. I let there be monkey rain and they perished. Muahahaha...
Keep on working on this, I wanna see where this is heading.

shawn42

I had to mark your graphics down because you didn't create them. Ludum Dare is a known solo competition. It wasn't explicitly forbidden in the LD17 rules, but was in the LD16 rules: http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ld16:rules / rant aside this is a fun toy that I'd like to play when it gets more interactions.

the31

The LD17 page is marked as a draft, and in that case I think you should have seen this in the LD16 rules:

"Overview
Ludum Dare is a solo, from scratch competition."

This describes the Ludum Dare, and is integral to the compo. It was obviously just a careless omission. (Unless it was a way to fight against the ToJam people, in which case I think we would have been told about this significant rule change.) I understand that you probably didn't notice this, but it's not in the spirit of the Ludum Dare to do this as a team.

Anyway, the game. Sound and graphics were great. The reflections looked pretty good, and the spriting was very enjoyable to look at. Music had a good feel to it. There was a z-ordering issue, but I don't know how you can handle that with flixel (I take my Flash raw). But for a three-person team, I would have expected more gameplay, or at least a clearer reason why I couldn't place down more palm trees. It was fun at first, but after I realized I had already hit the end-game, I was a little disappointed.