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In The Beginning

By benw

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio373.71
Theme1023.71
Graphics1833.49
Mood2083.09
Innovation3843.04
Overall4982.86
Humor5861.93
Fun7052.30

Comments

jeroenimooo 2012-04-23 15:22

I have ruind the world ;p http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16586106/Crap/houses.png
Was fun to play

jigxor 2012-04-23 16:09

The audio was really great! How many LD entries can say that they've got voice-acting!

I'm not sure if there was meant to be a 'message' behind this game, but I liked the way that I managed to get the world with only houses left.

Really nice work. I enjoyed it :)

benw 2012-04-23 16:29

There's no message behind it. I'm actually an atheist. I just thought that the creation story was a perfect match for the theme.

jeffz 2012-04-24 01:26

nice work, liked the music, gameplay could probably do with some progression... disaster or something

spacetoaster 2012-04-24 03:31

@jeroenimooo - HAHA same, the human in me just wan't to wipe everything out and put a house on it. Strange when you think about it. Could just as easily gone for all trees...

This is just BEGGING for some sort of mechanic. I hope you take this prototype and expand it!

themgames 2012-04-24 03:39

Interesting video toy but not really a game, too bad, it runs smoothly and is very niely put together, the audio especially!

vdogamez 2012-04-24 04:14

I couldn't really figure out any gameplay to it. What was the goal, exactly?

benw 2012-04-24 17:40

There's no real goal. It's honestly more of a toy than a game at this point(Will Wright would be proud). I'm thinking of expanding it and doing a post compo version.

kibertoad 2012-04-24 23:47

The game could certainly use some additional features and actual gameplay, but as it is, it's a nice and relaxing experience, even though not a very long-lasting one.

Post-compo edition would be great :)

heugamer 2012-04-25 01:14

I liked it. Wasn't a game althought, but still fun to mess around with.

omaha 2012-04-25 01:58

i listened to the music but couldn't get the game to run on my mac. soundtrack was excellent. wish i had something like that in my game.

uberneen 2012-04-25 01:58

Neat idea here, it has a lot of potential.

robcozzens 2012-04-25 03:26

I would have played it if there was a Web or OSX version.

umwgmc 2012-04-25 03:31

Interesting gameplay. I like how it's very sandboxy. It's unfortunate in my opinion that there aren't any game goals except to make your own planet. Could be a plus for some, but I personally need some kind of goal to fuel me.

cherrynukacola 2012-04-25 03:39

Definitely more of a toy than a game, but it looks to be a great basis for an interesting game. There's something very soothing about 'growing' items on the planet and it has a clean, fresh look to it. ^_^

dracir 2012-04-25 03:50

I like it :), it's fun.
I can see some potentials, it would be fun to have stuff that combines or life that used the world you created. Much much more :)

fireblend 2012-04-25 04:38

Really liked the concept! Even though it might be a toy right now, I could see it evolving into a pretty fun game. I liked the simplicity of it, and the music was indeed pretty relaxing. Good job!

envy3d 2012-04-25 05:25

Interesting demo. I took me a while to realize that there was no game to it. At least I got to enjoy the music!

jezzamon 2012-04-25 08:09

looks interesting... would've liked to play it except I have a mac. :C

vic 2012-04-25 09:04

Hey BenW, I like your game a lot! Ok, maybe there is no win/lose condition, but you did everything really great. From the intro building up to the game, to the music and the graphics. It is a very relaxing experience, definitely worth expanding!

triplefox 2012-04-26 05:20

Great presentation! I can imagine a few ways to add depth or strategy to this.

xpoint 2012-04-26 08:37

Good mood and sounds. Not very fun, but the concept is good.

rvmook 2012-04-26 11:30

I liked the concept to bad there isn't much more to it then this. It would've been cool to be able to combine different building blocks to create a new one.

bitslap 2012-04-26 20:52

Nice idea, no definit goal so i just played around and built as many houses as possible. =)

pighead10 2012-04-26 21:10

Shame there was no real gameplay. The audio and graphics were good.

bombergames 2012-04-26 22:26

It would be cooler if the world could expand and maybe have people on it, cool idea though!

lanoiadimuu 2012-04-27 19:35

The only bad note: no goal.
Otherwise good job. Clean graphics, charming audio (with nice voice acted intro) and the game is fun to toy with. :)

tcstyle 2012-04-28 16:04

It's a pity this game lacks a goal. The basic idea is very nice. So there is potential to make this a real game. The music is great.

deejorg 2012-05-04 15:27

Very enjoyable :)

chainedlupine 2012-05-14 00:19

Not really much of a game, but I agree, very nice audio and presentation values!