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Biodome

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio463.53
Graphics743.77
Overall813.30
Mood863.09
Fun1422.69
Humor1642.03
Innovation1832.48
Theme2322.18
Coolness80936

Comments

leafo 2012-04-24 00:59

cool art style

rybar 2012-04-24 02:17

Not a huge fan of "move the blocks" puzzles, but good platforming fun otherwise. setting blocks down was a little irritating, I don't feel I should have to jump to place one block on top of the other when visually, I'm more than clearing it.

jrasmussen24 2012-04-24 02:36

Lowered the overall score as I got stuck (I could not figure out how to control the taller male character/ switch characters). Otherwise everything else was great.

X-wing9 2012-04-24 03:03

@jrasmussen24, you need to press 1, 2 and 3 to switch characters. There's a small sign saying '2' on the second char's appearance, but we realized it looked too ambiguous only after uploading... D:

aaronflippo 2012-04-24 03:33

Pretty cool! Good job with the artwork and the gameplay.
Moving the blocks back and forth get a little tedious, but it's steal a neat experience.

seagaia 2012-04-24 05:36

I thought the block placing was a little bit annoying, but it looks nice for a first submission! Might want to think abou checkpoints with a block puzzle game? What were the watercolors in the beginning? I feel like I skipped them.

rate my game if you would (uid 7853)!

NacMacNeedle 2012-04-24 07:12

+ really nice graphics, especially the characters look good, not to mention the intro screens
+ the game mechanics work well

- the controls feel kind of weird and the action is incredibly slow - dunno if that's due to the university box here or if that's full-speed-as-meant-to

Alltogether it's great for a first game here :-)

madpew 2012-04-24 07:45

too bad I got stuck where the second character got introduced. I jumped up with the taller one to the fruitbasket but couldn't do a thing. Tried 5 minutes to figure it out then gave up :/ Nice work on the game, good art (gdx and audio), (more ambience-sounds wouldn't have hurt but thats just me) Well done!

martensms 2012-04-24 08:35

Very nice art. I mean, wow! The game is so full of details... and that in such a short amount of time. Well done guys, you definitely got my vote :)

caribou 2012-04-24 08:46

I didn't get the the puzzle with the blue man, but i liked the level design.

qaterknan 2012-04-24 09:33

Good graphics and between-level pictures. The game itself is standard platformer, but chaging characters makes it really intereseting. I enjoyed playing it.

garethjenkins 2012-04-24 10:51

Enjoyed the feel of the game, and the amount of content is great. Found it frustratingly slow & some of the blocks positions a little too far away (one of those solves the other I guess).

proch 2012-04-24 11:53

stunning graphics and nice gameplay! grats

daz 2012-04-24 17:38

Same situation as madpew. Maybe a little hint if it's not a bug? :)

r 2012-04-24 18:47

Pretty cool, mate. A little slow for my liking.

m3rlino 2012-04-24 20:39

I didn't post a game. A little slow for me too, but as the first game I liked the packaging and the puzzles idea. Keep on developing ;)

M3rlino
http://fourleafgames.altervista.org/

susanthecat 2012-04-24 21:30

I got stuck on the second screen by the "R" sign. :( Music and art were terrific.

thegamingproject 2012-04-24 21:56

Pretty cool game overall

woodpecker 2012-04-24 22:18

Mood was really great. I wasn't sure about what these beings were, but the atmosphere was so great it didn't matter. The puzzles became mundane almost immediately. I visually figured out a puzzle in 2 seconds, but I had to do more than 2 minutes of work to get to the result. Like asking someone what 2+2 is and then saying they have to spell out the answer with rice. The concept is great and I would love to play more. With the time constraint it's tough to design challenging and rewarding puzzles though ;)I got stuck on the first blue level with the fruit basket as well.

pixelulsar 2012-04-24 23:19

I liked the art and music, and some puzzles were quite good. A downside was it was a bit slow paced.

kato9 2012-04-24 23:22

Wow, very complete, solid game. Great music and artwork, and the switching players puzzle solving mechanic works very well.

I'm not sure if this was a bug or if I got the end, but the last screen I saw had these two strange house icons and I couldn't do anything.

Anyway, very good game, surprising amount of content for 3 days work!

X-wing9 2012-04-24 23:57

Thanks for the coments everyone! :D

Apparently, people said the game had a slow pace. Just curious about this statement: the gameplay itself felt too cumbersome or the actual game's FPS ran low? Because if the issue was FPS, it's mainly because of HTML5 (we made the game on it), which is not nicely supported by some browsers yet, at least when it comes to games. Most games made with Construct 2 *might* not run at full speed on some browsers/computers, and we're sorry for that.

But yeah, the gameplay itself was also somewhat slow-paced. We didn't plan that out very well. ^^'

mrnewt 2012-04-25 01:12

Graphics, and sounds were quite nice. Found the slopes a bit annoying. Over shot the well, stuck...

cakencode 2012-04-25 09:13

I really loved playing through this! It took me a second to figure out that the signs meant keys since 'w' wasn't listed and I could jump with it. Once that was out of the way I got down to the puzzle solving and it was fun despite the slow pacing. I wish the first character moved a little faster but that's personal preference.

Nice job!

gnx 2012-04-25 13:14

I liked the visuals and the music. Gameplay however wasn't very engaging and it is unintuitive to have to jump to place crates. Also I don't quite see how this fits within the theme of the Jam.

frederickk 2012-04-25 15:22

For the exception of the controls, move the blocks should be another button, loved everything about it.
I think you guys definitely should finish it.

supersoul 2012-04-25 22:15

Enjoyed the cutscenes. Impressive how much content you all got into the game in 72 hours. Nice work!

chambers 2012-04-26 02:29

Best music ever. Not to mention the art and character design. I find it interesting how the girl is the strong one, and the man is the agile one (unlike most videogames). I wish I could get to see the 3rd character but couldn't pass the sewer stage with many metal gates (I think the second stage with sewer pipes) I'll definitely try and play it again later though >_<

evilseanbot 2012-04-26 04:45

My computers not fast enough to run it, but the screen shots look great!

alink 2012-04-26 17:08

Impressive arts. The gameplay is sometimes a bit tedious and the block placing fiddly in some cases. Bot otherwise, nice job.

spooks 2012-04-26 17:54

Great design! I enjoyed the puzzles, the one small thing I would like is the movement to be a bit faster. Good work though! :o)

catman 2012-04-26 18:23

The start music reminds me a lot of the prelude from Final Fantasy ;)

The intro is really cool!

The game is solid, good job!

chronodk 2012-04-26 19:01

The art is very nice and the game play idea is great - I'm a huge fan of the three characters concept (you should check out Voodoo Friends on Chrome Webstore too - it's a game with three characters that I designed). I also found the music really pleasant to listen to - it certainly made me play longer. I did wish you had introduced the other characters earlier - that first part with the boxes felt longer than it should.

schattenkind-net 2012-04-27 12:40

A lot of levels and a nice graphic style. I wished the ingame graphics where also watercoloured.

rik 2012-04-28 12:17

Great art and music. I reeeally hated the controls. Still, a very beautiful game, well done!

strega 2012-04-28 16:47

Cool game! The intro stage was a bit annoying though, rather than picking up 4 blocks to advance I would have preferred with just one block and then slowly advancing. The art was fantastic! The characters sort of reminded me of pokemon. :)

gritfish 2012-04-29 04:00

Art was great, but I completely agree with rybar about the block mechanics.

brighterorange 2012-04-29 21:51

The mood and music and art are super. The gameplay was really frustrating for me, because most of the puzzles were tedious (obvious what I had to do but lots of back and forth to do it) and it's so hard to get blocks stacked in this game! Some more work on that and making restarting less punishing would have made it more fun. But it's a nice looking and sounding game!

evilsandwichstudios 2012-04-30 06:51

Nice mood with the sound and cutscenes. The controls however...
I also noticed that the game runs a different speeds in different browsers.

7soul 2012-04-30 18:58

Unfortunately, I made the bad decision of using physics to create the platforming, so the game got kinda cpu intensive, which creates that big gap between browsers

jimmypaulin 2012-05-06 17:11

Wonderful entry, the surprises kept on coming in terms of the controllable characters, the environments, the puzzles and the rewarding (and beautiful) watercolour cutscenes. Excellent music and presentation throughout. This is a very accomplished entry

wyzfen 2012-05-07 10:00

nice graphics and sound.
the multiple characters made me think of the lost vikings.
the music cuts out after a while on each level.
I got stuck just after getting the blue guy.

christinaneofotistou 2012-05-12 22:05

Love the audio, loved the puzzles!