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Cinders

By nickc

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor193.76
Theme433.90
Audio673.41
Mood933.20
Overall963.35
Fun1183.05
Innovation1363.00
Graphics2052.95
Coolness86739

Comments

prettymuchbryce 2012-12-18 02:08

It looks fun, but you will get a lot more plays if you post a compiled version due to the sheer fact that not everyone is going to want to compile the source code to play.

nickc 2012-12-18 02:27

Packaging right now. I'll update it shortly :)

dremelofdeath 2012-12-18 08:28

love the idea (especially the Cinders graphic on the main menu) and how the difficulty ramps up. At first I was wondering what the challenge was, but then you added a timer and it started getting interesting

joncom 2012-12-19 03:46

That was awesome :)

blob 2012-12-21 07:25

Hehe fun idea.

grambler1 2012-12-21 09:29

The game is quite entertaining, but would benefit greatly by having mouse control for aiming the flamethrower.
The fire-spreading mechanic is the most redeeming factor in my opinion.

timtipgames 2012-12-21 10:37

This was sick. And fun. Loved the animations and the scream-sounds. Also liked how a burning tree could grow into a burning forest :) Well done!

lanoiadimuu 2012-12-21 10:48

Burning trees required a lot of patience and was a bit boring. Some screams were a bit too long and annoying buy burning people was fun.

xgor 2012-12-21 12:07

Really fun, very similar to a concept I've been working on but this is much more action packed

caranha 2012-12-21 12:55

This game taught me that trees burn up faster than humans! :-)

The screams! The screams with the tranquil song in the background! And is that the bear laughing that I hear? This game made me FEEL evil - I enjoyed the screams!

A few things that would have improved the game:
- A minimap?
- Some variation in the human sprites

A small bug:
- The game did not close when I clicked the "close window" button

Awesome game, made me laugh! Thanks :-)

caranha 2012-12-21 12:55

Running humans in flames would have been awesome too :-D

01101101 2012-12-21 13:02

Really fun ... burn burn burn ... but some controls are weird.

hume 2012-12-21 14:20

God, that bear is the worst thing I have laid eyes on this month.

Is that organ grinder music?

I don't think the fourth level can be completed. It seems like the trees don't burn long enough to damage the people they're surrounding.

I am so glad my formative years are over.

raincole 2012-12-21 17:15

The mechanism based on fire is good. I hope that I can make better use of mouse.

nickc 2012-12-21 23:51

We did have plans to make humans that evaded you, but we didn't quite get that far. Also, all levels can be beaten, you just have to light fires in the right places :)

cyboot 2012-12-22 17:35

nice game and really nice graphics and startscreen :D

The game itself is fun to play but gets a little boring after a few level (for example I almost quit after the second "introduction-level", because it was almost exactly the same thing as the first one).
One thing I learned about Ludumdare-games. Make them short and interesting in every level.

But nevertheless, good game.
Nice Job all of you!

psychopsam 2012-12-22 23:21

Perfect! Except it would have been nice to have some flow across from one tile to another. The first truly fun game I have played so far. I will come back to this one. I loved the bloody curdling screams. The timelapse was insightful too. Nice work.

csanyk 2012-12-22 23:44

Good, clean fun.