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Cricket in a Bottle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme133.86
Graphics244.21
Mood553.36
Audio763.25
Overall1462.93
Innovation1772.57
Fun1792.50
Coolness1178

Comments

funkydelpueblo 2012-04-23 19:37

Nice graphics, I especially liked looking at the lab area in the background. I was a little confused as to what my goal with the bubbles is: does something happen when I pop them all? If so, then there are a few that I found to be unpoppable...

darkfrost 2012-04-23 19:42

Looks good! That's one hell of a bottle :p
FYI, I wasn't able to pick up this orby thing: http://i.imgur.com/nHwvY.jpg (Ontop of the mushroom near the next of the bottle), jumping into it did nothing :) Nice work though!

barcode 2012-04-24 02:10

Thanks for checking this out FunkyDelPueblo and Darkfrost. I had a lot of fun making it. Also I was able to fix the bug you found Dark before submitting the final version.

I focused too much on the level art and didn't have time to add a win condition so currently there is no real point to catching/popping all the bubbles. I plan to make a slightly more polished version this week with some of those more basic gameplay features once I figure out the necessary scripts to make it work.

machinas 2012-04-24 06:27

i'm impressed you made that whole background scene. good environment and a nice game for kids. would be great with some feedback on collection progress, goal, etc. Nice job

kato9 2012-04-25 16:22

Nice game, it had a very relaxing, peaceful feel to it. The mouse look was very jumpy for me but I was still able to play. It was fun to explore around - and I even met another grasshoppper!

It seems like you used a lot of outside resources for this game - since it's a jam entry I suppose that's ok, but next LD I hope you'll try use more original work!

olkeencole 2012-04-25 21:36

The artwork looks great. I'm jealous! I liked how the game starts in the confines of the bottleneck looking out over the lush garden. When you are in the garden, the world becomes much bigger than you at first imagine, not only with the garden but also looking out into the lab as well. It was fun just jumping and looking around. I look forward to a fuller development of this project.

shigor 2012-05-05 20:22

Visually looks very good (well, using finished assets saves a lot of time :), but it's put together nicely and with music it creates nice mood (about the only thing I disliked was ugly grasshopper's antenaes, because of the contrast with very nice looking level.
Not much of a game, but interesting experience.

christinaneofotistou 2012-05-12 22:15

Why are the graphics so awesome!!!!! :) You hit the nail on the head with the theme and graphics, never mind that there's no real goal :)

codexus 2012-05-13 09:34

Very nice graphics and mood.