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Ancient Ruins

By cappagames

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun343.52
Overall693.37
Theme763.14
Graphics1003.48
Mood1532.58
Innovation1572.67
Humor1801.85
Audio2161.25

Comments

robotic 2012-08-28 16:47

I like bullet hell shooters, so I liked the gameplay and the graphics were great overall. I think it needs a bit more feedback and also, the choice of keys was weird, why the arrow keys and enter in the menu ? Other than that, good job !

tomsik68 2012-08-28 16:56

Great game. It's a bit shame it doesn't have any sfx. Some quick clicking in sfxr would sure solve this. :)

haette 2012-08-28 17:18

Aww yiss, LD bullet hells! Good difficulty level and very nice work overall, my only complaint is that the cursor is really easy to lose track of.

foxfiesta 2012-08-28 17:36

Cool gameplay, and good difficulty ! I like !

cappagames 2012-08-28 17:36

Thanks for the feedback guys!
Robotic: good point, we should fix that.

tomsik68: yea it was unfortuante, we had all the sound effects done, we simply ran out of time to put them in.

Haette: I agree, I often find myself losing the cursor. We'll make sure to fix that in the post compo version.

raroadkill 2012-08-28 19:02

Very enjoyable. some sound would be great.

gidaio 2012-08-28 19:25

Hmm... couldn't get it to work. The process would start, but no window would pop up. Running 64-bit Win7, and the folder was on the Desktop.

aarongordon 2012-08-28 19:27

Really like the gameplay and the general feel of it. Fits the theme well and was fun to play. No audio tho and it's a bit annoying that you have to start all the way from the beginning when you die. Good work guys!

blundis 2012-08-28 19:30

I suck at bullet hell shooters, but I liked this one a lot. Cool graphics, loved the different modes of the flower. If you add some sound and visual feedback I can see myself playing this a lot :)

jaj 2012-08-28 19:55

Great! The second stage surprised me with the creepy tentacles.

tastive 2012-08-28 22:49

Great game! Would be awesome with a little polish and audio. Cheers! Best game I've reviewed so far!

qualityassurance 2012-08-29 00:27

Sound effects would do a lot for this game, as well as a faster character. Overall, good game.

daydalus 2012-08-29 02:48

Pretty solid shooter. I liked the growing plant monster the best, cool pixel art style. Would have liked to have more indication I was shooting the boss and if I got damaged. Had to glance over to the health numbers to tell. Also, couldn't really tell what the various powerups did. Nice work on this one though, since its XNA you should polish it up and release it on XBox!

bneutral 2012-08-29 04:57

For next time: Put health bars next to the player/enemies, not on the side of the screen.

jfroco 2012-08-29 15:00

Fun and hard!! Needs desperately bgm and sfx

maple 2012-08-29 15:51

Nice graphics and gameplay. There isn't much I can call you out on, here. Hmm. I guess the main thing is actually that there was no full screen or screen resizing, because my screen isn't big enough and cuts off a few pixels at the bottom. (Oh and obviously, some sound would do justice.) Otherwise this is a nice entry. Great job!

kumquat 2012-08-29 17:07

Nice SHMUP. In the beginning I didn't understand if I had to water the plant or kill it XD

devwouter 2012-08-29 17:24

Some audio feedback (about hits and impacts) would have been nice.

killerbug 2012-08-29 18:40

It was so fun! It'd be perfect if it had music. One of the best ones I've played so far :)

aceria 2012-08-29 18:43

Awesome game! As the rest of the people have said, it really needs some sfx and some music to get the adrenaline flowing.

I would also recommend making the powerups last a bit longer, because the movement is already so slow it takes ages to move from one side to the other. It's rather frustrating to move there and not even get the powerup because it just disappeared.

adventureislands 2012-08-29 18:45

Considering that this was a Jam game, you could perhaps had time to get or make some sounds or music, but this was pretty good, nice bullet hell.

bvanschooten 2012-08-29 20:04

Cannot play the game. The exe simply doesn't start.

x-0ut 2012-08-29 20:11

Missing a dll. Once its fixed let me know and I shall rate it.

phocker 2012-08-30 04:17

this was one of the more fun games i played this week -- nice effort

porpentine 2012-08-30 17:38

i like the core premise--faster movement would improve this (power-ups disappear before you can reach them and dodging bullets is very difficult). the plant itself is great, i like seeing what evolves next, a very fun enemy.

flyingbear 2012-08-30 22:47

YEAH! Took him down! That was a good challenge, and nice progression between the different stages. Just a few sounds would work wonders, and having the tentacles flash depending on which ones were hit would be a nice touch.

tastyorange 2012-09-01 01:37

It was very fun. And the graphics were my cup of tea. Definitely needs sounds. It seems to suffer from the same thing I found in my game: holding down the left mouse button can get really boring really fast. The one thing I couldn't stand was having the vitals all the way on the other side of the screen; I felt like I had to look half way around the world just to see my health, and it didn't help my performance. I didn't beat it because, gah, I'm terrible at these types of games, but nice job nevertheless.

ggiraldez 2012-09-01 15:57

This is very good! It was fun to play even though I'm not a fan of the bullet hell genre. Difficulty was fair. It's only missing some sound effects.

infernet89 2012-09-04 09:38

Too bad it's all mute.. Nice game!