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Tiny Oblique World

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness366
Innovation953.73
Humor2112.73
Audio2163.00
Theme3043.27
Mood3872.74
Graphics4532.84
Overall5492.78
Fun7052.30

Comments

dramble 2012-04-23 20:55

Pretty cool technically, but didn't really have the control or balance to make it fun.

shephiroth 2012-04-23 20:56

The idea seems good, but the time flow is too fast.

Cant manage to survive first day. If send them to get water, cant build house in time.

danvil 2012-04-23 21:35

Nice idea with indirect control, but game is to fast to figure out all the steps to survive.

naouak 2012-04-23 21:44

I didn't understood much of what was going on on the screen. The concept is fun.

fysx 2012-04-24 06:46

I really like the idea and the music is just uber-awesome! It is very hard though and did not manage to build a house, yet.

joshua 2012-04-24 09:32

Great game, but there's very little explanation on how to play and the time before you need a house to survive is very small.

davidllanos22 2012-04-24 09:47

Pretty interesting, I've died 1 minute after start the game :c I'll try to play later and try to understend what's going on! Good job! :)

cherrynukacola 2012-04-24 09:50

Love the concept, but unfortunately I couldn't actually execute any commands, it just kept printing Hello World over and over again - also started to experience massive slowdown after having open for a couple minutes - it was apparently using up %50 of my CPU :( Too bad, as the game was fun just watching what would happen ^_^ . Maybe you could add some way for the player to know what everything on the screen is?

graytest 2012-04-24 12:20

Difficult. I wrote scripts but didn't feel that my minions executed it very well (or I'm doing something wrong). Good idea though!

invaderjim 2012-04-27 02:18

Fantastic idea. I made extensive use of "make love." Incidentally, there was genocide.

namuol 2012-04-27 03:29

Nice idea. Liked the visuals and sound, although it was very difficult for me to maintain population for more than a few minutes.

It would be nice to program multiple/all people at once, and to add multiple instructions or simple conditional loops/branches. Also, you should just get rid of the need to command your people to drink water...

rynti 2012-04-27 22:44

The idea is great, however the implementation is not so well :(

sfx 2012-04-27 23:10

I love the idea, I just wish it was easier to program the people.

muhiz 2012-04-28 00:50

Great idea. Wasn't always sure if people were doing what I told'em to do. Just like real life. :)

minism 2012-04-28 01:30

Awesome concept but really hard, i always die fast

chrismcr 2012-05-07 09:50

Gonna say much the same I think - love the idea, but found it way too hard.

egerlach 2012-05-12 20:45

I loved the idea of the game, but it was just too hard. Don't have Love, so couldn't try the Jam version.

lucars83 2012-05-12 21:21

The concept is cool, but I couldn't tell if my people were doing what I told them or not. Then they died.

tomhunt 2012-05-13 03:28

a game centered around programming needs good text editing capability. lack of text editing accelerators, copy/paste, home/end, etc is frustrating to me as a programmer.

you could also make this less programmer-centric by doing the programming via icons. i think this would make the game a lot more accessible and easy/fun to play.

interesting concept, though.