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epacse

By marach

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall34.17
Innovation44.33
Fun183.72
Graphics324.06
Coolness876
Theme963.50
Community1492.93
Humor1572.22
Audio2452.17

Comments

markengley 2011-08-22 12:02

Very nice implementation. I got stuck tho

lattyware 2011-08-22 17:44

Really well done. Needs some more coaching. The puzzles are quite hard to solve if you don't get the mechanics, and some introductory levels teaching them (see portal for this done at it's best) would help a lot.

naxum 2011-08-22 17:44

Very very cool! This is totally sweet.

mpc174 2011-08-22 20:06

Absolutely fantastic! The puzzles were a great deal of fun, and not impossibly hard. I recalled Limbo, for some reason. Managed to epacse.

pvaiun 2011-08-22 22:46

Wow, really fun, it gets a bit frustrating later on, but definitely in my top games from the compo.

n0_named_guy 2011-08-23 15:31

Works nicely on Linux! But I think the cavernous areas are WAY too dim so see... A little more brightness wouldn't hurt =) Love the light effects made by the particles. Very interesting game. I also gave up on it, on frustration... =X

jonnopon3000 2011-08-23 18:58

I really liked this game, for the innovation. The puzzles were interesting and hard to complete (not in a bad way) and it was definitely fun. Good job!

Monastery 2011-08-23 20:27

really nice game, one of the few thats actually fun playing til the end ... although some puzzles are kindoff an endurance test - it's still great

burnzez 2011-08-23 20:49

The puzzles were a little tedious, but ingeniously designed. Gameplay was pretty good as well. The only problem is that the game's resolution may be too large for some people's monitors. That can be fixed by changing SCREEN_ZOOM in settings.conf
It works in multiples of 200x150

Just for anyone that has this issue.

mikolalysenko 2011-08-24 05:12

Fantastic!

rudy 2011-08-24 11:38

Very fun and nicely done. Although I would have gone towards large element volume physics and less pixel-perfect building.

trancelucid 2011-08-26 04:39

One of my favourite entries! Such a COOL game. Lemmings-look-alike character that escaped from a cryo tube of sorts. Particle simulation physics fun with lovely lighting/shadowing. Good level design and the right level of challenging.

The water level was maybe a bit too tedious however. Jumping on sinking dirt while being in water is a difficult task. The sounds were annoying so I had to mute it.

The ending was rather disappointing, so I tried twice to see if I could jump over it, to no avail. Then I read there was a secret ending... Hmm, I just had to find out! Only by looking at the source code did I figure out where the trick was. The secret level (not so much of an ending?) was pretty sweet.

summaky 2011-08-27 17:42

All I can see is a black window :'(

marach 2011-08-27 20:49

What's your graphics card? Do you have the latest drivers? Is there any text in the console window?

nuria 2011-08-29 15:54

This engine is pretty impressive, I liked the main idea. Some puzzles are a bit tedious but still tolerable. I think adding better control when you blast particles would help, or some cursor that indicates the direction, as it's not easy to tell what direction you are gonna blast them towards otherwise. Good idea, solid implementation!

uuav 2011-09-04 11:24

I really love how the graphics are simple and complex at the same time, nice level design! really great game !

benjamin-soule 2011-09-13 15:55

First time I see a sandgame with a real gameplay. The level were great, some of them have a kind of "Another World" ambience !

mcc 2011-09-15 06:29

Looked this up, went "wow, this looked cool, I should port it to mac so I can play it!". Ported it to mac. By the time I was done kosinus had already ported it to mac ^_^; oh well.

However it looks like Kosinus's mac port currently only works on Lion, whereas this version should (?) work as far back as 10.4 (Intel only), so I'm posting it anyway:
Game: http://vote.grumpybumpers.com/j/ld/etc/epacse-mac.zip
Source: https://bitbucket.org/runhello/epacse_temp

It also has an icon :D

Now I'm going to go play this.

ganymede2981 2011-09-18 06:57

Registered with this site for the sole purpose of saying how much I enjoyed this game. Fantastic. Would love to see additional levels--finished these in around 20 minutes. Couldn't get the Linux version to run (Ubuntu 11.04 with GeForce 9500 GT graphics card), but rather than tinker with it I just ran the Windows version under Wine 1.2.2. Works a treat that way. Thanks a heap!

brighterorange 2011-09-18 22:55

I liked this one a lot, though some of the levels were fairly fiddly. Very creative. I found the secret level with the help of the source (it's the coolest looking one), but eventually gave up.

clowerweb 2011-10-25 20:19

Is there a mirror for this? My ISP (Time Warner) blocks .tk domains :(

I'm looking for the Windows version and source.

marach 2011-10-25 20:57

It's not actually your ISP, my server is down :(
I'm going to contact my webhost as soon as possible, but I don't have backups for the binaries; if they're lost forever, I'll rebuild the game from source.

clowerweb 2011-10-25 21:06

Awesome, thanks!

marach 2011-10-29 08:28

The Windows version is up on an emergency server.

marach 2011-10-30 08:20

First Mac version is up too.

marach 2011-11-23 20:44

Linux version and source recompiled and uploaded! Everything is up again on a new, reliable webhost.

BigDaddyXD 2011-12-28 07:54

I have epacsed ^^

Hate9 2018-05-03 18:52

I wish I could still download this...