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Tiny Adventures In SPACE

By jacic

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor2222.71
Audio6301.92
Theme7232.40
Mood7822.04
Fun8121.95
Overall8282.21
Graphics8721.75
Innovation8921.60

Comments

hume 2012-04-23 22:01

Okay, let's run down the experience.

1. That was a pop tart? I wasn't imagining things?
2. Those dirt balls have eerily accurate aim.
3. AWWW ending.

I am a sucker for this kind of game and I had fun playing yours. Thanks!

tompudding 2012-04-23 22:01

Would have been cool to do more stuff, like shoot at the obstacles.

dr_soda 2012-04-23 22:32

Nice ending. :)

de10ter 2012-04-23 22:38

Errr, pretty...basic.
The ending was... in fitting with the theme I guess.
It was just too slow and too easy I'm afraid.

jaj 2012-04-23 22:40

There were some very funny elements to this, for example the weird objects floating through space and the fact that the protagonist completely missed that enormous purple planet the first time he passed it. I liked it.

cakencode 2012-04-23 22:43

Cute game. It felt like it started off a litte slow, but I loved seeing all of the food-stuff you added into the game. Especially the pop tarts. :)

rybar 2012-04-23 23:08

The pacing is way too slow.. not enough to do while traveling. I didn't even make it to the first planet.

jacic 2012-04-23 23:10

Whoa, sudden comments!

Thank you all for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Hume: Yes, poptart. ;)

tompudding: Their planet is a peaceful one. Plus, this is the first time any of them have gone into space.

Everyone who mentioned the ending: Did you see that coming? ;)

amodo 2012-04-24 07:22

After this crazy weekend, playing this was really good for my nerves. A bit like a slow old movie, relaxing.

zamando 2012-04-24 21:29

This game was waaay too easy.

schizofunky 2012-04-24 21:47

I like the theme! Maybe needed more obstacles tho or maybe speed increases as it was easy to dodge!

hatscat 2012-04-24 21:49

I like the end, but not enough challenges

darien 2012-04-24 21:56

The ending got a laugh, I'll admit. It's a decent start, but could do with a bit more challenge; increasing the spawn rate on the obstacles wouldn't be a bad idea by itself.

jacic 2012-04-24 22:01

Thanks for all the comments! Yes, it is an easy game. I plan to increase the rate at which obstacles appear. Maybe new kinds of obstacles too!

aquasheep 2012-04-25 00:25

Entertaining! +1

Thoughts:

1) A boost function would be nice because some asteroids were a little impossible to dodge at the slow speeds.

2) SPACE BACON!!!

3) Good start! Keep it up!

shigor 2012-04-25 00:50

All right, ending was a plus. The only one. This was pretty boring, with gameplay mostly consisting of staring blankly at the screen and occasionally dodging or picking stuff. Try to do something more engaging next time (I almost quit before the end, started to tell myself to forget about this after third planet).

jacic 2012-04-25 01:46

aquasheep: Thank you. :) I actually like the idea of boosting.

Shigor: Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorta continuing work on this, so I'll see what I can do.

castor 2012-04-25 19:23

Cool game. Who doesn't wanna eat various foodstuffs in space?

suese 2012-04-26 02:47

It was not very much fun to play. It needed a lot more. Music, sound effects, flow, speed, better graphics. Nice try though.

Thanks for this.

robbiehunt 2012-04-28 21:46

Why did it take so long for me to rate this game? I swear I played it like 5 times, you linked it so much in IRC :P

Good ending, and the gameplay works. Just needs more challenge and perhaps more variety of gameplay.

What's here is a solid foundation, build up some more!

philhassey 2012-04-29 20:47

I wasn't always sure what I was supposed to pick up vs avoid. The game could maybe have gotten a bit more challenging :) I liked the the little bit of a story the game started out with. Anyway, had fun!

jacic 2012-04-30 22:08

robbiehunt: I didn't link it /that/ many times. ;) Thanks for the feedback!

philhassey: I'll see what I can do about pickups. Thank you!

jeffalisk 2012-04-30 22:30

I liked the ending!

vigrid 2012-04-30 22:38

Well, if I could collide with the stars when I flew through space, the game would be a challenge. The ending was a bit of disappointment - flying through this huge galaxy, just to <spoiler> be squashed by a giant foot </spoiler>

benjamin-soule 2012-04-30 22:40

Fun entry, the game is too easy, I was waying to myself that I will soon quit, but the fun dialogs between planets made me want to try next level each time. And the ending is fun :)

To pass the time ( the travels are long ) I used to avoid stars, which was playable and fun. I think you should add a "hard" mode with stars collision !

andrew-2 2012-05-01 00:33

Unfortunately it was a bit too slow paced for me. Bonus points for mouth sounds though.

jacic 2012-05-01 02:55

vigrid, Benjamin: I love the colliding with star idea! That'll definitely be in a future version!

marudziik 2012-05-08 07:50

Ending is great and funny. That being said, there are some flaws - most of them already pointed out here. The main problem for me is that there's no challenge aside from asteroids in brownish colour, which made it hard to spot them on black background.

citelao 2012-05-08 23:29

Got to second planet but wasn't sure what to do at that point. The chomp-chomp sound was funny.

summaky 2012-05-09 12:33

I didn't reach the end because I was too bored to continue, frankly. Everything moves too slow and most of the time I have to "play catch-up with the stars" in order to amuse me. Only from time to time I have to dodge a slow-moving object towards me.

The idea is good, but if only the game had a 5x speed-up, it would make it a lot more fun. More so with some fast-beat music!

voxel 2012-05-12 04:15

was nice to play a side scrolling space game where i didnt have to shoot anything. Really liked the overall mood and humour of this one. good job

jellyfame 2012-05-12 23:37

Too slow, otherwise good.

sodaware 2012-05-13 11:00

The flying was a little too slow for me. It would have been nice to have something to do on the planets, and maybe some more obstacles to dodge. The concept is good though, and I really liked the ending :)

make-a-game 2012-05-13 23:43

I was expecting to land on a planet with a crashed scissor cargo ship.