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Escape

By chrismcr

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Mood203.65
Coolness368
Theme353.64
Fun563.28
Overall773.33
Audio833.19
Innovation963.17
Graphics1353.19
Humor1662.00

Comments

refreshcreations 2012-04-24 20:09

Ohhh, a slightly more sinister entry! Made me feel like I was stuck in a B-Movie with the approaching wall of death! Think I lost something in the readme though as it didn't seem to harvest anything i drove over although that oculd just be me. Good effort, nice to see something a bit dark :D

thegamingproject 2012-04-24 22:41

That was very interesting, I liked the shrinking mechanic. Fun game play, good work.

fredericrp 2012-04-25 12:42

Can you provide it for Mac ?

chrismcr 2012-04-25 13:06

@FredericRP sure - hopefully in the next couple of days!

free_napalm 2012-04-25 13:29

Game was quite good, challenging even. Of all games I have played yet, this has the best mood. In its darkness and depression it nearly matches the final minutes of Tetris :P

joshua 2012-04-25 13:34

I like it :P
Good work!

jwolf 2012-04-25 19:12

The game's pretty fun, and I really like the feel / mood to it. The only thing I'd strongly recommend is to make the game window re-sizable, if you do anything further with it or make another entry in the future. Assuming that's possible / easy with the engine you used. It didn't interfere with game play, but bits of the screen went out on my end.

jeroenimooo 2012-04-25 20:26

Awesome idea! i ost first two couple of times D:

moop 2012-04-25 20:37

Fun if somewhat short. Clever concept.

chrismcr 2012-04-25 23:28

Thanks all. @jwolf - that's a good idea, I hadn't realised until tonight that the window is slightly taller than my laptop screen.. annoying!

rynti 2012-04-26 12:21

Cool game! Did however get stuck at the base and it took a while until I figured out you're able to drive backwards ;) Graphics could be improved, audio on the other hand totally fit the atmosphere =) Good work!

jiddo 2012-04-26 21:20

Wow, what was actually a really good, but short, game. Reminded me of a game I used to play a while back. The game works flawlessly on Linux under Wine.

fredericrp 2012-04-27 07:07

Pretty good game, I would have chosen the arrows instead of the mouse to drive the harvester, but that would have been too easy, right ? Interesting way to limit the world.

scoopsy 2012-04-28 20:20

Would have loved arrow keys to drive instead of mouse, but otherwise solid!

someone 2012-04-28 21:25

Didn't get the Linux version to work, but the windows version worked in Wine. The speed was broken though, the car moved impossibly fast unless you held the mouse really close to it, and also the time bars when mining disappeared long before the mineral was extracted, leading to a lot of confusion.
I would suggest moving to cancel, rather than clicking on the item.
Also crashing into stuff was not obviously a bad thing.

cyboot 2012-04-28 21:35

fun game!
mouse instead of arrowkeys a little strange, but you get used to it.
good graphics, nice world, theme fits

A good job!

skyboy49707 2012-04-28 22:09

Really nice! It took me a while to figure it out, but once I did it was really fun.

thegreystudios 2012-04-29 14:04

Cool atmosphere, really enjoyed the music and sfx. Worked well together in creating a dark vibe.

Controls felt a bit tedious though, got stuck a few times which doesn't help in a game where time is essential ;)

But the game had me captivated for a few minutes. Well done! :)

vigrid 2012-04-30 22:28

Fun little game - would be great for touch controls - tablets, phones, and the like.

vilcans 2012-05-03 18:24

Can't run it on Linux:

./escape: error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Probably because it's a 32 bit binary.

chrismcr 2012-05-06 17:44

@Martin Vilcans - I've uploaded a new archive for Linux which contains two statically-linked binaries for 32- and 64-bit - give it a go if you get chance please!

supersoul 2012-05-07 20:37

Nice audio. The game had a disturbing feel to it. Liked the intro screen. Nice work.

gregdevice 2012-05-09 05:47

Good work on the sound! Controlling the rover is tricky at times but the gameplay is challenging and fun overall.