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The Twist

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation214.00
Coolness1100
Audio393.59
Humor413.70
Overall1013.53
Mood1233.29
Fun1543.30
Theme2453.47
Graphics2833.14

Comments

suese 2012-12-17 07:38

Wouldn't detect the latest version of Flash.

salt 2012-12-17 07:39

Just delightful!
The visual effect of the moustache stretching out is really well done (although occasionally briefly glitches out). Took me a while to realise you need to make quite rapid movements to actually catch the coins, but that adds to the feel of rapid moustache twirling.

fishbrain 2012-12-17 07:47

lol!.... the best!
I KNEW a moustache had to feature in this LD (my first post is a crude villainous sketch with the word 'moustache' underlined beside it)

aeveis 2012-12-17 07:53

Not sure how clear it is when the police catch me, but very nice and clean and cool looking. Very interesting take on the theme. :)

jhrrsn 2012-12-17 07:57

Ace, really ace. Sweet aesthetic, I really like the title screen. Found it a little challenging on a trackpad to control the moustache so switched to mouse. But yeah, good stuff!

aa 2012-12-17 08:09

Thanks for all the comments chaps and chapettes!

Suese: Sorry to hear that, you're running 11.5? What Browser might that be? Might knock up a standalone if I can.

I also might tweak the loop-circle size as well. You really need to loop in tight, small circles to catch the coins.

Hope you're all enjoying it! There are some great games out there in the collective!

bemmu 2012-12-17 08:14

Best take on the theme so far and an interesting twirl on the old box-filling game.

skyshifter 2012-12-17 09:05

One of the most extraordinarily good ideas in LD I've ever entered

(Note: this my first entry :P)

mvt 2012-12-17 09:11

Hilarious game, even if there is some bugs. I hope you'll improve it. :)

joeprogram 2012-12-17 09:11

What a cool concept! I think the system you've got here is much more fun than its predecessors like Qix, as the reduced penalty lets me play with the mechanic much more. The logic behind which coins are considered captured and which aren't seems flakey.

crimsoneer 2012-12-17 10:06

This is shockingly awesome. Simple and to the point, and ran perfectly on my HTC One S. Also, that is some catchy tune.

birchmountain 2012-12-17 10:13

You can't not like this game! Hilarious!

drakfyre 2012-12-17 11:08

Fun game! Did you compose the music?

prelucid 2012-12-17 12:29

Not completely sure why the moustache loops or doesn't loop at times, but I see the potential

meep 2012-12-17 12:59

Very awesome take on the theme. :P I loved it.

munchor 2012-12-17 14:08

Doesn't detect flash...

mutuware 2012-12-17 14:35

Great dastardly music!

uuav 2012-12-17 14:50

Can't be sure how did you got this idea of grabbing money from moustaches but cool game XD

tsjost 2012-12-17 17:36

"Get Adobe Flash player"
Linux running Firefox 17.0.1 with Flash 11.2.202.258-1.

ilo 2012-12-17 23:59

Spiffing! Great take on the theme. Only issue was not knowing why some loops worked while others didn't, but I was going so quickly it didn't matter too much.

aa 2012-12-18 01:23

drakefyre: The music is written in Jesokla's Buzz, using a free VST piano instrument I found somewhere, and is pretty heavily influenced by various Ragtime/Honkytonk tunes I found scattered around the internets.

ilo: Yeah, I need to tweak that, at the moment it's based on segments in the circle, but I think it needs to be based on area of the polygon instead.

iostream: Requires Flash 11.5 :)

enfyrneaux 2012-12-18 01:51

Hrmmm...SMASHING

sclark39 2012-12-18 02:12

It was very hard to "connect" the mustache. Love the integration of the theme though.

georgebroussard 2012-12-18 02:37

I like the idea with the old time villain and the moustache. Good visuals and music. I had real trouble drawing and getting the moustache to complete. Seems like more work is needed there.

parapup 2012-12-18 03:25

It's different but I like it :3

kgs0142 2012-12-18 06:29

The idea is fun, but a little hard to control.
Still a good job!

ayce 2012-12-18 06:56

Addicting game! Just the idea - brilliant! And very much fun, once I found out how to collect multiple coins efficiently. 29 is my record :)

ayce 2012-12-18 14:46

I came back and made 59 :D

thomastc 2012-12-18 17:58

Most splendid, my dear fellow! Lovely, consistent style and solid gameplay. I particularly like the exclamations and the face changes :)

aa 2012-12-18 22:23

Nice AyCe!
My brother's girlfriend got 97 last night. 97!

greenpixeldev 2012-12-19 00:03

The music goes perfectly! :D Very unique game and I'm sure it would do well on touch devices!

zenmumbler 2012-12-19 01:22

The evil moustache comes alive! And of course it wants money. Loved the little epithets and general empire-ness of it all. Is that ragtime music?

rosypenguin 2012-12-19 04:10

Haha! Very unique mechanic, and I like the crisp, clean aesthetic. The moustache pulling and cutting effects were superbly done.

I'm not sure if it is a bug or not, but sometimes when I pull a moustache out a mirrored moustache would appear from the same hair? Also, I can't really tell what size a loop would need to be in order to capture a coin.

Overall, very innovative, clean, and solid gameplay.

ayce 2012-12-19 06:01

Wohoo!! 115! :D And btw, forgot to tell you: The music is just so BRILLIANT and fits so PERFECTLY!!

ddionisio 2012-12-19 06:07

The music and sound really fits the theme! I was mostly distracted by twirling the moustache around. :P Took me a while to figure out how to capture those coins, but once I did, that's when it got fun. Really awesome game!

starspell 2012-12-19 12:05

What a cute little game ^^ I like this interpretation of the theme.

I found the circling mechanic hard to use at times - especially with larger circles. But on the whole it's a solid fun little game.

ayce 2012-12-19 19:09

I don't know why I keep coming back to this ^^ I got 123 now as a record. What I forgot to tell you all the time: Graphical glitches occur often (the black areas become strange - luckily, this does not affect cutting)

ayce 2012-12-19 19:22

Sorry for spamming, but this is my current record now: http://imgur.com/tVqj2

aa 2012-12-20 03:38

ahah! that is an awesome score! Congratulations!

cwilloughby 2012-12-20 08:59

Cool. Concept is neat. Had a hard time controlling and getting it to do what I want. Graphics are fun.

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-20 13:58

Diabolical!

arakade 2012-12-20 15:49

Spiffing, simply villainously spiffing! Highest ratings I've given so far :-) I love that you can multi-loop and that there appear to appear more coppers as you do better :-) Also loved the Android version (so nice to be able to rate some games from the tablet :-) )
P.s. cheeky but I've fixed my game since your review and built an Android version too :-D

aa 2012-12-20 20:46

The more Android the better! Be Cheeky!

Thanks for all the great comments everyone! Jolly good.

niavlys 2012-12-21 12:22

I'm impressed! This is very fun and addictive! Good music and sounds, cool villain face too :) Played on Android (Samsung Galaxy S2), sometimes I had trouble catching the moustache, it could be improved there, but this is great already!

huchickut 2012-12-28 22:56

Sorry AyCe :P
http://imgur.com/A3rTW
Awesome game, very addicting!

voidstar69 2013-01-03 20:48

Interesting idea. I had difficulty controlling the moustache on my Android phone. This game shows lots of promise.

matthias_zarzecki 2013-01-05 15:13

This is great :D

Love the eatehtic, especially in the menu-screen. Too bad the silent-film-black&white doesn't extend into the game.

It was also a bit hard to firue out what actually to do and how to control the mustache.

The ragtime-piano makes it awesome. Which tools did you use to compose it?

azurenimbus 2013-01-06 00:23

Haha what a wonderful idea :) Great fun.

Love the music, too!

evan-greenwood 2013-01-08 00:04

Cops hate moustaches, true story. Really fun.