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Dino Wrangler

By maskedpixel

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor823.29
Graphics2033.42
Theme2363.40
Audio2452.95
Innovation2533.31
Overall2803.23
Fun3083.04
Mood3662.76
Coolness65148

Comments

maskedpixel 2012-04-23 00:42

I needed to edit this but can't figure out how...
Some of the planets are large enough that you will need to slingshot yourself from them to reach escape velocity.

The difficulty curve is steeper than I would like, but in the timeframe allotted it's ok...

Save the Dinosaurs!

matthias_zarzecki 2012-04-23 11:18

Jumping from planet to planet is fun, and the music fits beautifully. It's a bit hard, though.

jvanbaarsen 2012-04-23 12:37

Im missing the source of your game? So i wont rate it this time.. But when you add the source, ill rate it.

mess110 2012-04-23 12:43

coolo

smvilar 2012-04-23 12:51

Nice mechanic!!

davidllanos22 2012-04-23 12:51

Fly dino, flyyyyyyy! nice game, I love the music and the art!

endurion 2012-04-23 12:52

Nice idea. Took me a while to figure out how to control the angle of the dinosaur. Weird, but gets repetetive in the long run.
Very polished!

chinchang 2012-04-23 18:35

nice luk and feel...gameplay was tough though.

gormio 2012-04-23 18:55

This was great fun!

sos 2012-04-23 19:18

Gravity is tricky! But launching dinos is totally fun!

redwater 2012-04-25 12:36

Nice entry, apparently there should be music. It didn't load for me, so i voted audio n/a. If you now how it can be fixed drop me a message and i'll adjust the vote ;)
The dino launching mechanic is pretty fun, but the controls of the guy are awkward when walking around the planet.

Sorry to mention it here, but do you have by chance an intel graphics adapter? My game didn't run on my machine and i'm trying to figure the reason. Would be nice if you could contact me via twitter.com/wzl_ or @wzl in the #ludumdare chat. ty =]

Shadow 2012-04-26 01:08

Interesting entry. Didn't hear music, only sfx, so I'm not rating that (from the comments I guess I should be hearing something though). Nice entry overall. Liked it.

jwolf 2012-04-27 20:57

Pretty fun concept!

Minor bug:
The rocket sound effect keeps playing if it's on when you switch levels.

crazyheckman 2012-04-27 21:02

Hilarious and awesome. Difficulty was really up there but it was a lot of fun watching the dinosaurs just swing around planets.

ad-edge 2012-04-28 10:16

I get the feeling this will probably be in my top 4 games of LD23, really nice work!

I loved jumping around, the way it worked was very intuitive and it was a lot of fun to play. I found myself not just rushing to get though it so I could get onto other entries, but actually playing it for the enjoyment. Satisfying, those rare times when you time a jump perfectly to intersept and kick an Dino flying around in orbit around one of the planets.

Pity theres no music however, even if you didnt make it, it would have added to the game nicely.

My only main suggestion would be to make it so the camera zooms out when you go off screen, that way you can still see where you are + any dinos out in a far orbit youd want to chase down. Plus I was expecting some black holes being thrown in there as well or some other objects that repel the player, just to mix things up (Im not sure if I made it to the last level though, so I might be wrong if those kinds of things are in there)

draknek 2012-04-28 16:31

First level was way trickier than it should have been

Took me a while to find the "hit dinosaur" button.

Controls are awkward but I got used to them.

dokidoki 2012-04-30 04:01

Nice to see a gravity mechanic where you have to launch other items. It was fun, I played to the end.