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Great fish eat up the small

By aardvark

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor1182.40
Theme1752.58
Innovation1812.50
Mood2301.70
Overall2442.08
Fun2511.67
Graphics2591.50
Coolness98022

Comments

telluse 2012-04-24 21:39

Aside from the few graphical glitches and odd hitboxes, I liked the premise of basically being a Reaver, Galactus and the Silver Surfer - all wrapped up in one - and answering to a moody version of Trollface :P

You might want to note that any manual runners will need not only Ruby, but also gosu (which can easily be installed if you install ruby gems as well).

tinco 2012-04-24 22:03

Hi I liked the story. I didn't enjoy the game very much because the screen flashes everytime you eat a planet or a spiral thingy and that made it hard to see which things I should eat and which I shouldn't. I did not feel I was really in control of the game.

aardvark 2012-04-25 11:03

First of all, thanks for the feedback! It's my first time using Gosu, but I thought using bundler would pack all the gems in the vendor-folder in the game directory. I'll have a look at this, thanks for telling me.

@Tinco: The flash should indicate that you move from the Galaxy view (with Big Boss in the middle) to a solarsystem (a Sun and Planets you can eat). The spiral thingy is the way back to Galaxy view. Maybe I should have

aardvark 2012-04-25 11:03

*clarified this.

khaotom 2012-04-28 04:39

Interesting concept.

menderslan 2012-04-30 23:28

Bosses are always so angry. D: I was a little bit unsure about what eating certain things would do, and was pretty much always unable to make my boss happy (I'm wondering if this was the point of the game, or if I was just really bad at it?) Pretty fun entry, though!

aardvark 2012-05-03 22:15

Sorry, the balance is just shitty.

grimfang4 2012-05-04 02:37

I've installed Ruby before on Linux and run a game a long while ago, but I'm still not sure how to get this one working... Cannot load such file bundler/setup? Am I supposed to run it like: `ruby1.9.3 Main.rb`?

robcozzens 2012-05-05 05:44

I would try it if there was a Web or OSX version.

aardvark 2012-05-09 09:46

That's strange, but running "gem install bundler" should fix this. And yes, Ruby 1.9.3 is required. Sorry, I'll add that.

asfdfdfd 2012-05-10 16:20

It's soooo strange.

maxman43 2012-05-13 05:15

I would play this if there was a web version.