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Colorlies

By songman

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio44.17
Coolness281
Mood313.56
Theme893.00
Overall1003.22
Graphics1153.33
Innovation1232.90
Fun1682.66
Humor2121.43

Comments

pierrec 2012-08-27 21:31

As you said, the game would have been better with an actual objective, but it's t already great and very relaxing.

Insanitus 2012-08-27 22:32

The environment itself is fascinating, I found myself wondering about the constant change and evolution of the cells and losing the game in process *laughs*. The gameplay itself isn't as appealing as the environment, however I found this piece really refreshing and interesting. It surely has some potential in it!

keenblaze 2012-08-27 23:04

Absolutely beautiful music and mood! Process is interesting, but it's difficult to control everything that happens. Anyway cute game!
P.S. Soundtrack goes to my ipod :)

ragzouken 2012-08-28 12:01

Interesting game :) It feels like you start off with the movement too sluggish though. I liked the goal to keep colours balanced - it's the opposite of my game where you must eradicate the others!

deykoweec 2012-08-28 12:11

kinda chaotic. but i like the originality of this game. nice soundtrack too.

Seneca 2012-08-28 13:50

Soundtrack is amazing, if it's your own piece, you, man, have some talent! Game alone is kinda strange and feels more like a sim, but it's cool one.

songman 2012-08-28 15:39

Sountrack is my own piece :-) I'm glad you like it :-)

davidemo89 2012-08-28 16:18

I like it, really relaxing game =D

seconddimension 2012-08-28 16:39

Nice atmosphere and music, i wanted more time to watch the cells interact and evolve. Was quite realxing

tupperwarespoon 2012-08-29 09:48

Reminded of Everyday shooter with the cool music and zoning out while you play it.
Nice and relaxing, and I didn't care to mux about the lack of a goal.

benjamin-soule 2012-08-29 12:19

Great music and ambient. The percent are too small and I think that 3 colored ( or just one with 3 parts ) would make a better job for showing player the color balance. I spent good time on your game thanks !

smirnov48 2012-08-29 18:10

Music is awesome!

daydalus 2012-08-30 16:28

Very relaxing and colorful experience. Not so much of a game with an objective, but neat to see how the colors evolve. Great music as well.

zatyka 2012-08-31 00:43

Great music and visuals. Gets kind of boring after a while.

karel 2012-08-31 08:08

Interesting game. Difficult to figure out what to re-balance, but I like it! Especially the music! The music is really awesome.

cipher 2012-09-01 04:25

Sound track was my favourite thing about the game

jplur 2012-09-01 17:57

great music and visuals, very polished for what it is.

fadobo 2012-09-01 18:08

Cool visuals, GREAT music and a fun and soothing gameplay mechanic. Well done!

kyyrma 2012-09-02 13:58

Really cool visuals and audio. Nice work.

csanyk 2012-09-02 23:45

Unfortunately, won't run on Win7 x64. After the start screen I hit space bar and then it crashes.

songman 2012-09-03 17:26

to csanyk: That is strange. I run Win7 x64 too and there is no problem. Check if you have latest .net and xna redists installed.

goerp 2012-09-03 19:39

This I could score on mood. It was certainly submittable. Best soundtrack I have heard by far! Graphics were good and simple. Just needed a bit more gameplay (but you got more than my game anyway :))

gabriel 2012-09-14 19:10

Wonderful aesthetics and mood! It reminds me of Flow, or maybe Spore's first evolutionary stage (although in that particular case it's about survival of one cell).
Here's an idea: maybe you could add some rules a la Conway's Game of Life. If actual structures actually start forming as the music slowly evolves, I think it would have a wonderful aesthetic effect, of 'seeing life growing'. Great submission, loved it!

thewiseguy99 2012-09-14 22:56

Definitely relaxing. Love the music!!!

rawbits 2012-09-16 08:00

Momentum based movement sucks! It makes the game uncontrollable when implemented by inexperienced people...

Anyway I like the idea and those coooloooors! 8) Trippy trippy. Music is very good. Not sure how the catastrophe works though.

jonathang 2012-09-17 17:39

I love the music in this! As for the actual game, it feels like there are some clever things going on that I don't understand, or that I'm not aware of. I'm not really sure what effect I'm having on things beyond causing catastrophies to reduce the population of a particular colour. Otherwise it's a nice ambient game :)