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Space Bear

By madflame991

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor223.80
Coolness1100
Mood2263.06
Graphics3263.10
Fun4812.71
Overall5152.83
Innovation5972.58
Audio7291.35
Theme7572.31

Comments

toast 2012-04-23 15:48

Simple game, but I like the whole mood.

cambrian_era 2012-04-23 15:50

... and here I'd thought I'd made the only entry that was a shooter that had rainbows and bears.

I dig the graphics. Plus bears.

sanguine 2012-04-23 15:52

I love the graphics, the game is a bit hard though.

ergo 2012-04-23 16:21

What a story! :D

Running out of oxygen gets kinda frustrating, coming across space-trees is really random. I guess that's the challenge of the game though. Maybe you should have had a closest tree indicator and reduced the oxygen to keep the challenge?

The graphics are interesting lol. Flying around a bear-head with 6 stars trailing behind it is quite a sight.

The lack of sounds (mainly music) kinda sucks. D:

Overall a pretty nice game though! :D

pacifistgames 2012-04-23 20:46

I thought the game was hilarious, primarily due to the story and graphics. I didn't realize the need to find oxygen, even after I died once. The game would be really cool with some silly sound effects, but overall I enjoyed it. :)

samoojamies 2012-04-24 06:35

urls do not work

madflame991 2012-04-24 07:08

I've hosted my game on GameJolt and it seems to be dead now :(
Anyways, I've managed to upload the game to my blog (and the sources too (as it is written in JavaScript/HTML5))

mrho 2012-04-24 11:39

Collecting the cosmic stars was pretty entertaining :)

proch 2012-04-24 11:44

i loved that fuckin nonsense XD

kutuup1989 2012-04-24 16:07

lol how do people come up with this stuff! Not a bad game at all, quite hard and could use some sound though!

transmit 2012-04-24 16:47

Bears! In space!

darien 2012-04-24 20:55

It's a bit frustrating not having any idea where the trees are; the core gameplay is pretty fun, but it seems relatively random whether or not you'll survive long enough to get all the stars.

jhelle 2012-04-24 21:08

I'm sure not what I just played but I think I liked it? good job?

callidus 2012-04-25 07:54

go space bear, go! your our only hope!

badlydrawnrod 2012-04-25 19:30

Very funny.

omaha 2012-04-26 05:09

pretty funny. were there more wolf attackers coming if i waited longer? they were my favorite part.

leafo 2012-04-26 05:14

Cool game, takes forever to find the stars. Needs audio to keep things interesting

dagothig 2012-04-26 05:23

Was funny to play, though the oxygen thing got frustrating and the whole thing felt fairly long after a little while (sometimes the stars would be very far apart from each other)

tentontoon 2012-04-26 11:43

Cool exploration game, with an awesome sense of humor! I agree that the stars feel a little bit too far away from each other, mainly because there's not a lot of action other than the initial pack of (space) wolves.

"The eruption was so awesome that the volcano itself blew up [...] After several decades humanity decided to send a giant bear head in space"
Where did that came from?? XD

Congratulations!

murrayl 2012-04-26 16:35

What is this I don't even

ishisoft 2012-04-26 20:25

I didn't notice the oxygen either until I died once and looked at the comments. I did spend most of the game just staring at the distance value, but enjoyed noticing the surreal stuff floating around space. Bonus points for rainbow stars. :)

lukerissacher 2012-04-26 23:44

Cool - seems like an accurate scientific prediction of how the next 50 years are going to unfold. And nice to see something original come out of the now-cliche bear-head-in-space genre. We've played enough of those I think.

omarshehta 2012-04-27 21:08

Ok I must say, this game is hilarious!

My only suggestion is I think you should have made the game tell me which direction the next star is instead of just numbers. Makes it easier.

crazyheckman 2012-04-27 21:11

Awesome, really simple and a bear head for some reason. Would be nice to have a map so I could see where trees are. I got 4 stars and was frantically searching for air, but couldn't find any. But a really good game anyway.

jwolf 2012-04-28 20:00

Nice sense of humour! I couldn't figure out what was supposed to be oxygen, however (or it wasn't picking it up correctly).

Jeremias 2012-04-28 20:01

Very funny theme/story, but the gameplay lacks of fun - if you fly to one star, nothing happens :(
Just add some faster enemies or obstacles.

Space Bear!

oye-beto 2012-04-28 21:09

Maybe you could add arrows pointing to the nearest star to improve the game flow.
It was fun to kill the evil wolves and I was expecting to see more enemies but they did't appear.

nornagon 2012-04-29 09:05

Awesome mood :P

ryana 2012-04-29 09:14

How many drugs were you taking?

fredericrp 2012-04-30 14:30

The story is.. completely ****** ** ! (in a good way) The game wasn't so hard after finding that you've got to come across space trees to regain oxygen, but it misses music and something to do between the star chase 0_o

summaky 2012-05-03 12:43

Very funny story :-D

allusion 2012-05-03 12:44

I'm am sure in Pompeii when the volcano erupted the Romans screamed "Quick, get the bear head!!!!". But alas it was too late.

Nice humor and game play. I had fun with this, thanks. I wish it had audio and a way to take the stars back.

It took a while to realize I had to find trees in space for O2. Cause, you know, I didn't think to look for trees in space.

levelbylevel 2012-05-03 13:08

I had fun :) Didn't manage to find a cosmic star, but then it took a while for me to notice the "distance from star" mechanic :p

jfransham 2012-05-03 13:48

I don't even. The gameplay wasn't something I'd really write home about but the surrealism of the whole thing earns you a bunch'a points in my book

kevinworkman 2012-05-04 00:12

I love ridiculous games like this. My only critique is that there weren't enough flying wolf heads floating in space, and I'm only saying that critique because I'll never get the chance to say it again. Great job.

namuol 2012-05-04 06:23

I have chosen to replace all punctuation in this post with BEARS in honor of BearsBEARS

I have failed the people of EarthBEARS a few timesBEARS Sound and stuff could make this a semiBEARScultBEARShitBEARS

Silly games always get extra pointsBEARS so that was a wise design choiceBEARS I thinkBEARS

andrew-2 2012-05-04 11:42

My biggest issue with the game is that wolf heads should be smaller than bear heads.

catman 2012-05-04 12:39

Weird! The introductive story was funny :)

angrygeometry 2012-05-04 18:13

i liked it. finding the stars became long and tedious but the graphics were great. i loved the way the stars bounced around behind you. nice work.

ratboy2713 2012-05-06 05:12

If you are going to go silly, you better go whole hog. Loved it.

shelby 2012-05-11 04:42

I loved the hot-cold mechanic.

krisjet 2012-05-11 14:35

I love how bizarre it is, but the game design could use some work. Running out of oxygen after hunting stars for long time is VERY frustrating, especially considering how much time you spend just traveling around. The rest is just super weird, in a good way :)

keirua 2012-05-11 19:25

Haha, it looks like whe had a very similar idea; however your game is much better than what I did, and the story is much more crazy :D

tcstyle 2012-05-12 07:39

Funny story. Finding the stars via the distance works well but flying around becomes tedious after a while.