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Islands: Through the Sweep of Stars

By morre

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD17Ever
Graphics154.053792.982.5
Innovation533.273773.358.0
Fun1042.703747.221.2
Theme1123.053743.726.8
Audio1461.0080.00.0
Humor692.612865.338.9
Overall653.143767.336.0
Community1062.582647.752.7
Coolness135310.91.1

Ratings received

OverallCommunityFunGraphicsHumorInnovationThemeAudio
3324333
424555
32343441
323443
231531
434434
2122222
33332421
223333
33443
33333
2131121
3335322
334212
3244432
334433
435343
42444531
4124143
3324233
54352541
434534
335344
44545
3343334
335335
34233321
3143223
4345443
22243211
3425344
4425243
3314233
213242
32351441
322333
3214323

Comments

hakankaraduman

Can't get past the Fear. Nice art!

demonpants

Woo! This is very cool. I couldn't get past the skull place (even though I figured out how to view the hints) but I love the style.

shrt

Very cool idea. Reminds me of the try2hack kinda games :)

Some of the riddles seemed impossible, but after a while they all became obvious :)

mooj23

Interesting idea and beautiful art!

increpare

Got stuck on fear. Will have to think about it!

gliniak

Loved the art style. Gameplay was great (except for when I had to cheat!) and enjoyed the sense of triumph when I finally got the right answer.

sparky

This has an interesting feeling to it. It's neat to see you trying something so different. I hope it was a fun experience for you.

funkyjive

That was entertaining, and some of the riddles were really witty. Fear was my favorite, peril took me far, far longer than it should have. Short and sweet, with great pictures. I'm quite fond of the source-comments-as-hints system.

fightingboredom

Got stuck on 'fear' as well, great graphics!

tenoch

That would have been nice, turned into a Pretentious Art Game, with some delicate music and a minimum of interactivity (moving a guy around to get clues?) The drawings have a pretty distinctive style, would have like more!

Most of the questions were far too tricky to be answered without cheating. Perhaps basing them only on clues in the images would have been more interesting.

It has some charm though.

tenjouutena

The graphics are very very nice. I especially liked the ending. The "gameplay" though is very simplistic, and the riddles were a bit arbitrary and didn't follow any pattern. I would love to see you do another series of these, or perhaps flesh it out into a graphic adventure.

hempuli

These are way too hard for me. Nice art!

fydo

Haha, this was fun and quite original. Took me a while to get the last one. Duh! :)

metiulekm

Nice!

draknek

Somewhat annoyingly, I found most of them too hard without the hint and then too easy with the hint.

Graphics are lovely; I wish there was some ambient music as well to create more atmosphere.

entar

Interesting. Nice riddles. Needs to be longer, though.

mushroomdude

Stuck on fear. Still don't understand the first island :(.

psysal

Love it! I got stuck on the island of peril. Beautiful artwork, great execution. I think maybe there should be a hint somewhere that you can look at the source code for a hint. I played this a couple times before and couldn't get past the first screen, so I didn't want to rate it. But the hints you have structured are really just that, hints. My fave was the Island of Fear.

sparky

I have no idea what to answer on the island of fear. Even with the hint.
Nice, quite different idea. But getting stuck is basically the end of the game.

jagger27

AH! I GET IT NOW!
You had some devilish little riddles in there.
The answer to FEAR was so awesome. Took me a while.

jovoc

Love the art. The riddles were mostly too oblique for me, I got some of them, some by guessing, but mostly had to cheat.

The final screen was great, love to see that on a t-shirt. :)

Nice twist on the theme, too.

mrpiglet

I love this, it was viscous, but clever enough for that to be forgiven, and seriously attractive. Really nice take on the genre... and really beautiful. Did I mention it looks great?