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3 Arrows

By laubori

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics1283.71
Theme1333.61
Overall2923.20
Mood3332.83
Fun4552.76
Humor4802.13
Audio5552.16
Innovation6402.50

Comments

dem0 2012-04-23 16:17

Very nice game! Graphics were great and the gameplay smooth. Only cons were the shortness of the game and lack of music which flattened the athmosphere a little.

jeroenimooo 2012-04-23 16:22

The start is a lttle bit to hard, or at least i couldn't get past it D: though the graphics look reeaaaaaal good. good job on that

davidllanos22 2012-04-23 16:33

Great game, I love the graphics a lot :3

ace 2012-04-23 16:43

The start is quite hard, although I attribute that mostly to the fact that you can't see down the ledges. You just have to jump and hope there's not a bug there to ruin your day.
Nice graphics and gameplay though.

the8donut 2012-04-23 16:48

Yup it's really hard, but good job on the graphics :)

nuprahtor 2012-04-23 16:50

I'm not pussy anymore!

character 2012-04-23 17:05

Really liked the limited ammo and the fact that you can retrieve your arrows. Really like the art style. Lack of music or some ambient sound took away from the mood. No real reason to pick up the gold. Why is it there? I ignored it after a few deaths.

rik 2012-04-23 17:21

Some odd design flaws, like not even being able to see the first enemy before potentially falling into it, but still pretty fun, and definitely very charming.

lifenoodles 2012-04-23 18:17

Really nice graphics and art style, respawning at start each time was a bit irritating.

thotor 2012-04-23 18:19

I have to agree to first encounter seems rather hard but once you died a few time, it become easier :)

lasseastrup 2012-04-23 18:23

Fun game with great graphics. Good job :) I agree with the above comments on the difficulty at the start, but each time i died I could only blame myself and not some bug so I just had to try one more time until i finally got it.

cadin 2012-04-23 18:34

This looks adorable! Love the artwork. Unfortunately I can't play (Mac), but I watched your video. Great work.

laubori 2012-04-23 18:42

Thanks to everyone for the replies! I'm glad most of them are positive :)

@character You are right, there is actually no reason to pick up gold but just see it as kind of score^^

unicornpooping 2012-04-23 19:20

A bit unforgiving at times and super short. But this is the start of something cool I do believe. Great graphics.

alwaysgeeky 2012-04-23 19:26

Good use of the tiny world theme :)

vigrid 2012-04-23 19:36

Really nice - fun to play, well balanced, even though unforgiving at first. Once you get a handle of the controls, it's easy. I just kept A pressed and played. I wish there was something to spend the gold on.

laubori 2012-04-23 19:47

@vigrid Thank you! I planned to add a store where you can buy things for gold but there wasn't enough time :(

mikolalysenko 2012-04-23 20:23

The graphics look cool, shame it doesn't have a linux version.

graytest 2012-04-23 20:28

I really liked it! Too difficult though with only the three hours and the fast moving bugs. Especially when having to jump to a lower level without seeing the bugs down there. Graphics look great!

skullsoft 2012-04-24 04:15

I like the double meaning of the title!

One bug: If u stand right next to a wall and fire point blank, it's BYE BYE ARROW.

Also maybe an apple to play William Tell with in the beginning? :D

I quite like the graphics. It was also quite satisfying to kill 3 beetles at once.

One more peeve: Too damm hard! That spike pit really sucked after i managed to survive the bugs. Especially the second time.

raptor85 2012-04-24 11:33

I beat it without using the arrows at all :P

daz 2012-04-24 17:15

If you stand next to a wall and shoot, your arrows are lost. Some times things are off the screen so you can't really tell what they are (e.g. spikes) or where they are until it's too late.

laubori 2012-04-24 19:12

Thanks for the bug report, i fixed it.

blob 2012-04-25 08:01

Ok so I did the whole game as a pacifist... Hmm because the arrows went through the beetles I thought those guys were somehow immune to it ( and that later ennemies would need arrows, except there's no later ennemies)
Hurray for animal protection !

I would have loved that the arrows dont just go straight but have nice arrow trajectory requiring some aiming. Nice job however, its cute.

omarshehta 2012-04-25 10:43

I really like the idea of only having three arrows and I like the art and everything, but it seemed the arrows weren't working for me. I fired one arrow at a bug, it kept walking, fired another, it kept walking, so I assumed the arrows weren't actually effective against bugs, so I stopped firing, and that made the game pretty hard.

I think the bugs should take one hit to kill or at least give some kind of feedback when they get hit. Otherwise awesome game. Just needs music as well.

laubori 2012-04-25 11:34

@4urentertainment @blob huh? there is a feedback when they get hurt (a hit sound)! Hit them 3 times and they get killed, they aren't immune.

laubori 2012-04-25 11:42

okay then thanks, i added blood :)

daandruff 2012-04-25 14:14

Nice game and nice graphics. Not much to complain about but the music ;)

angelde98 2012-04-25 16:52

Isn't modifiing games outside of compo time not allowed ? Otherwise , as of the most good games this deserves some more people to play .

raptor85 2012-04-25 16:53

you should split off the modified version as a post-compo version, you're not allowed to do additions after the time is up.

omaha 2012-04-25 17:31

Very cool. I couldn't play it on my linux machine, but the gameplay video tells a great story. nicely done.

jhelle 2012-04-25 20:07

Great job on the graphics, nice game. Was hard at the the start though and somepoint hard to see where you would fall.

laubori 2012-04-25 21:38

@Raptor85 and @AngelDE98 I'm very sorry for that! I thought small changes were allowed. So there are now 2 versions. I will continue working on the extended one.

hume 2012-04-25 22:17

Wish I could play this on my Mac. Looks great!

adventureislands 2012-04-26 18:37

Pretty hard because the bugs take lots of arrows to die, but I soon found out it's quite easy to just rush and jump through the game. Nice graphics.

jaj 2012-04-29 15:57

I don't think there was enough contrast between background objects and objects you can walk on. I kept jumping on those acorns only to fall through them.

dr-pingu 2012-05-03 12:04

yeay! nice graphics.
a little bit hard at the first try

good game :)