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Pogo Planet

By excitemike

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Innovation274.09
Graphics763.97
Mood1713.17
Audio1763.12
Overall1933.39
Fun2813.09
Theme3663.16
Humor6701.75

Comments

skelethulu 2012-04-23 17:49

Really like when you jump through the planet. This would make a neat game, you should power through and make more of it!

excitemike 2012-04-23 22:23

oops. my last-minute changes to make it easier accidentally made it harder :(

jomomomo 2012-04-26 14:40

Brilliant!

strega 2012-04-26 14:46

Really unique idea! I liked the visual style a lot. There's a lot of nice feedback in the game. I think this could be a really addicting like rotation/orientation game on mobile devices.

monkeyarmada 2012-04-26 14:51

great concept! I've been bouncing for 5 minutes before noticing i didn't know what i was doing.
A hud would help to know if the player is on the right path.
This has tons of potential.
Oh, and an advice from a colorblind: if you plan to use colors as interactive items, try to add some texture too, just to make it easyer for us :D

danblack 2012-04-26 15:06

Nice game and some realy nice touches. Falling through the world is nice and I like the different effects of the different colours. I personally would like it if there was some way to fight back. Maybe a colour that you jumped on to turn you temporarily invincible so you could smash those pesky UFO's. Cool game though and with just a few tweaks it could be really nice.

homletmoo 2012-04-27 15:47

Wow. One of the best ideas I've seen yet. I particularly like the idea behind the cycles and the empty sections. One nitpick would be how abrupt the restarts are; sometimes I didn't even notice I'd died.

gremlin 2012-04-27 15:53

This is pretty awesome. At first it seemed really straightforward, and then the invisible/missing sections showed up, and the UFOs, and it became a lot more challenging.

I think there were a couple of times I managed to bounce off the 'missing' sections (on the face, not the sides). I think what happened was that I went through the first one and bounced off the second one.

schizofunky 2012-04-27 16:07

This is a really nice concept and you've use the sound in a really effective way :)

ifred_qc 2012-04-27 16:11

I read the other way around, so I was actually trying to hit the UFOs. Was wondering what was up with the reset LOL.

Good looking, but nothing much to do.

ess 2012-04-27 19:51

very cool

madflame991 2012-04-28 12:50

This has potential. I likes the "planet" and the trails, although the background trails were a bit distracting.

deepnight 2012-04-28 12:54

Very nice effects and ambient! The death should be more visible : right now, it's not "obvious" that you got hit.

jhelle 2012-04-28 12:57

Simply beautiful and simply simple. Loving it!

matthias_zarzecki 2012-05-03 17:48

Lovely idea! the environment is quite beautiful, and this could be greatly imporved by some sort of music-system.

elvis75k 2012-05-03 22:53

Fantastico!! Cool gameplay and great fx.

demonpants 2012-05-10 23:45

Nifty little game, certainly very pretty. Could use some more interesting mechanics, but is a off to a good start.

krisjet 2012-05-11 14:14

Very cool idea, but it would be great if it had an ending. I got pretty discouraged by resetting at checkpoints after one hit from enemies. I think this concept has a lot of promise.

keirua 2012-05-11 19:31

Really good ! That's very innovative. It's must have been a hell to developp. How did you came up with such an idea ? I have never seen anything that look like this, even by far !
That's a bit hard to play though, since for some sections the effect is not very clear. And i'm still not sure of what really happens.
I can't believe there are so few comments :/

kevinworkman 2012-05-11 19:50

This is a fun start, and I like the visuals. The ufos seemed a little too random to be fair, especially with no way to fight back. But I echo what everybody else said, great job!

oye-beto 2012-05-12 06:03

Interesting..!
I see potential for a rhythm game. Each ring could make a different note to make melodies.

jonathang 2012-05-12 07:43

Looks very nice, and a good mood while playing (helped by the music). It's an interesting idea for gameplay, but doesn't seem to go anywhere and doesn't really hold interest for that long.