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MakHappy

By josephgribbin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor153.80
Fun633.19
Graphics923.56
Mood1022.96
Overall1063.16
Innovation1452.81
Theme1502.88
Audio1752.07
Coolness1178

Comments

tifu 2012-04-23 13:54

Fun random puzzle solving, nice art style :D
You really need to post the controls though, I had to randomly press all the buttons on the keyboard before I figured out how to jump/pick up things :P

josephgribbin 2012-04-23 14:57

Ty!

Updated with the controls.

jaj 2012-04-24 17:50

It's fun figuring out what everyone wants. I got stuck on both of the poop guys for a while, I couldn't find the toilet and I didn't know what to give to the other one, until there was only one thing left. I managed to finish it though!

bonezoner 2012-04-24 19:00

I love the NES style/palette, feels like I just blew dust out of my cartridge if you know what I mean (wink wink nudge nudge). I also like how twisted the dialog text is, so.. good work on that?!

Make more of this and make sure you include the control scheme somewhere in the game, I was lost too until I read over your description again.

orangepascal 2012-04-24 21:07

looks awesome.. sadly I don't have Windows :(

csanyk 2012-04-26 17:10

Where's the source?

mooosh 2012-04-30 23:18

oh my god this is brilliant. lots of belly-related chortles and more charm than any one game has any right to posses.

shackhal 2012-05-02 00:07

Cool entry. Very fun xD

lukerissacher 2012-05-02 01:53

Awesome, enjoyed that. Wish the window were resizable or pixels were doubled - also had a GameMaker watermark on it. But really liked the story / humor / puzzle element, the art style, the feel of the controls, etc.

kylerhoades 2012-05-02 02:46

That was a fun little game. The little guys said some funny things. The controls could have been better and it was a shame about the game maker watermark. FYI, I use Game Maker 8.0 Lite instead of 8.1 Lite as it doesn't have that watermark. You can find it on Google still. Great work on your game. Loved it.

dr_soda 2012-05-02 03:48

You've got some really nice dialogue for some of these characters. I especially like what they say when you win. :)

The graphics and sound are pretty good, but I found the controls to be really hard to work with. Fortunately the game did not require any really fancy jumps or maneuvers in order to succeed.

chambers 2012-05-02 06:01

Very funny game, I loved the needle guy above all, lol.

The mechanic reminds me of Mario's Time Machine, an educational Mario game. BTW, was that him in steering the worlds? lol

chambers 2012-05-02 06:03

Oh, almost forgot, I think only one action button would be enough (for picking up and dropping items, depending if your have something in your hands or not)

zillix 2012-05-02 07:49

Adorable! Really neat feel. Loved the chat from the npcs.

tomalla 2012-05-02 10:00

Like people have said already - the window is too small, and the watermark is a little disturbing. If that happened to ever change - it would make the game ... perfect. Good job on making it! I rarely find myself smiling on a gameplay and these NPCs were adorable! Cheers, and yet another exclamation mark!

shifty 2012-05-02 12:51

Really cool stuff there! Art style is neat. I'm not sure I understood everything about the gameplay but still a cool experience. A bit of music would have make it better :) Good job!

shelby 2012-05-02 16:33

Loved this little thing, a few bugs here and there but what game here doesn't have any? I liked the concept of changing worlds.

alwaysgeeky 2012-05-02 19:10

Wow, this is a great little gem, love the puzzles, love the graphics. AWESOME! :)

Shadow 2012-05-03 03:12

Looked nice. I didn't like the controls though. It's a good entry though. quite fun and adorable graphics.

30dogs 2012-05-03 18:41

Awesome writing! I loved all the great one-liners. Once I got into it I really enjoyed it. The clues were not too obvious and not too difficult.

The only thing I didn't like was the controls scheme. When 'W' didn't make me jump, naturally I tried Space, which takes you to the world selection. This was sort of confusing. Also pick-up/drop could be the same button.

Overall, great game--fun to play.

ilo 2012-05-03 20:01

Very interesting game with amusing characters (both in the art and what they said). As I played it I wondered why you didn't choose to structure it more traditionally (i.e. you give an item to someone, who in turn gives you a new item which you can give to someone else) but in the end it worked quite nicely as I never got too stuck on one thing... although admittedly I solved some of it by accident.

knighty 2012-05-07 08:45

It was pretty difficult to get used to the controls. Strange how you don't let me use the arrow keys, and the jump/pickup/drop buttons were weird. The rest of the game was pretty good. Also there's a glitch where the toilet disappears if you try to pick up something else, I had to replay the game :)