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Alone in the city

By tamat

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme743.58
Graphics773.63
Mood843.32
Innovation1682.95
Overall2162.96
Coolness33837
Fun3472.35
Humor3721.73
Community5192.00
Audio5941.00

Comments

davidwparker 2011-12-19 16:52

Interesting game... it would be nice to have some instructions in game. Graphics are cool. Kind of confused of what the point is though.

gaeel 2011-12-19 18:12

Amazing style, and best use of the theme so far...
Shame there was no sound, that would have really added to an otherwise excellent game

finalmirage 2011-12-19 20:01

Neat game, really enjoyed the atmosphere and art.

beeglebug 2011-12-19 21:17

This is almost exactly the same idea I had, only much much better executed! I ran into the same problem of not really having much in the way of gameplay. Brilliant submission though.

marudziik 2011-12-19 23:51

Graphics and whole atmosphere are awesome, but seeing in your journal that you've had help, you haven't shared your framework before the compo, etc. - you should have submitted this as a jam entry, especially since you say you've been preparing for LD event for some time (and should have read the rules first).

Don't get me wrong. The game's pretty good, and this is definitely a great entry. Although the gameplay feels kinda lacking, I really love the mood and your postmortem is really nice to read - I'd just prefer to rate it as a jam entry, where it belongs. Oh well, maybe next time.

tamat 2011-12-20 00:35

Marudziik, you are right, I should had read the rules first. About my framework, I have to say it is just a couple of classes on top of flixel, nothing fancy, really, I made it time ago to clarify some obscure flixel parts.

When I said "preparing the whole month" I meant psycologically, not a single line of code was written nor graphic was created till the start (I took the 48hs seriously).

But yes, I had help on the graphics, which let me focus on the coding (although I was supervising the graphics all the time).

Thanks for your comments, next time I will try to make it just by myself.

bzizi 2011-12-20 08:54

Love the art!

cryptix 2011-12-20 21:46

Surely this can't be accepted for the Competition, because all content must be created yourself.

kato9 2011-12-21 04:15

Really loved the visuals in this game. Obviously there is not much to the gameplay, but I was totally happy to just walk around take in the sights. It was a little weird when I died of loneliness very abruptly, but overall I really enjoyed the experience.

It does seem like this should be a jam entry though - maybe it would be possible to have it be changed by an admin?

tamat 2011-12-21 12:15

yep, I tryed but I cant from the entry page.

the-jack 2011-12-22 04:32

Really awesome jam entry. Hope PoV or whomever can get it transferred into that category.

benjamin-soule 2011-12-22 22:15

that's an awesome sum of work even if the entry is transferred to jam ! Very nice graphics, and the loneliness bar is a very nice idea.

shigor 2011-12-26 12:54

Get admins to move it to jam, I'll rate it then...

As for my thoughts about game - very good pixel art which alone sets nice mood (which would be really improved with just a simple audio background). Compo version is too unfinished gameplay-wise, but shows promise. (Tried post compo version too, it works a bit better, still a lot of place for improvement, wouldn't mind playing post-post compo version :)