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All Galactic Creatures

By somethingbeautiful

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Innovation1412.98
Graphics1443.31
Humor1562.64
Audio1592.81
Mood2272.58
Overall2332.74
Theme2512.74
Fun2532.37

Comments

koredozo 2012-12-19 09:47

Your download link makes this pop up for me:

"Access to the web page was blocked by ESET Smart Security.
The web page is on the list of websites with potentially dangerous content."

bensonance 2012-12-19 10:21

Get an error saying the drive or network the application refers to is unnavailable. It's a shame because this looks great.

somethingbeautiful 2012-12-19 10:24

contain:
-.exe (GameMaker 8.1) +
-.ogg extension (Caster dlls)
-.ogg files

somethingbeautiful 2012-12-19 12:22

Sorry!,
I have placed a wrong file!
Now everything's repaired and fixed.
I welcome everybody to play and rate my game :)

faust 2012-12-19 13:03

The graphics are so good, really impressive for a jam project.

digiraze 2012-12-19 13:06

Where are my storm troopers? I only played the 5-in-a-row game, which is fun. First time I didn't realize I was playing match 5 in a row. I thought I was playing "Go". Second time I managed to get 5 in a row. But why does my darth vader light sabre crosses =) and napoleon's knots sometime dissappear? What is the reason behind that?

strong99 2012-12-19 13:16

The rules don't seems clear to me, I only got the Turn based part working I think? Got the xxxxx ;) Got some points but it kept continueing. The normal map didn't show anything useful. Help?

jomomomo 2012-12-19 13:45

Can't play windows games...

maiev 2012-12-19 18:36

Amazing graphics and animation. Really surprised these graphics were all made within 48 hours. However the game itself is really confusing; I couldn't really figure out how to play.

prealpha 2012-12-19 18:47

Took me a while to figure out how to capture the french pieces ('surround' as in reversi but only works against two pieces) but it was fun after that. I'm guessing you didn't have time to implement the multi-board stuff.

The presentation is excellent, although the thinking drums get kind of annoying after a while.

nathanj439 2012-12-19 23:11

The graphics on the RTS side are really nice. This seems like it would be fun once it is completed.

alexrose 2012-12-20 00:45

I don't understand at all what the town screen has to do with anything, or what the ABCD buttons were for, and it was extremely annoying that I had to wait for 10 seconds of drums between every single move. I didn't really understand the point either, I don't think it was very well explained.

The town graphics were nice, but pretty irrelevant.

myachin 2012-12-20 11:27

i like this variant of renju

crowbeak 2012-12-20 13:45

I feel like it moves too slow. I don't know if AI turns take so long so the sounds can play or if there are so many sounds because the AI takes a while, but the pace was kinda detrimental.

somethingbeautiful 2012-12-20 16:52

The AI decides on its movement in a fraction of a second. In this time the Ai will also manage its army on the RTS map, that is why it takes more waiting time.

peping 2012-12-20 16:56

I cannot run this, I get an error: Fatal error in caster extension: Error in initialization

dagamesta 2012-12-20 18:30

Bwahaha, I'll give you that. Interesting game, though the instructions could be clearer. Like, in game instructions. Though, now that I look at it, it seems this is supposed to be a half-rts game according to the directions you posted... I thought it was just connect-5. Conveyance is key, my friend. Everything else was great, though.

nicealexanderas 2012-12-24 15:22

The graphics are so cool,and i also like strategy games, cool idea of the game :D nice work!

zathalos 2012-12-25 05:39

Interesting idea. I didn't understand how pente related to the RTS part. The AI was pretty easy to win again. Nice grahpics on the RTS part and the sounds were kinda funny.

firestorm713 2012-12-30 13:14

Looks promising, but it seems a lot of time was spent on art, and not quite enough on code. Interesting, but unclear what you were supposed to do...

maikeroppi 2012-12-31 18:43

A very interesting concept, although does seem like you ran out of time. A few notes:
-The graphics were quite nice on the RTS screen.
-Darth Vader playing Pente against Napolean. You definitely get points for originality!
-As a few people commented, it seems the RTS and the buttons are not completely working.
-The AI Napolean puts up a good struggle, but takes a pretty long time to move.
-The sound is funny, but I had to mute it due to the sound that plays when AI Napolean is playing his turn. It almost seems as if his turn length is connected to this sound, like it waits for it to finish playing before moving?
-It would be handy to have arrow keys or something to move around the map. The default scroll speed is pretty slow.
-I managed to win once, and it stopped and went immediately back to the start screen without showing my winning move like it does for the AI. Possibly a bug?

Seems like an interesting concept with some potential that could be fleshed out with some more development time. Well done!

saisaith 2013-01-03 06:01

Nice work!

jmoraguiard 2013-01-03 07:03

Really nice that we play Imperial forces against Napoleon! I found it really funny! At the beginning I did not understand the game (gosh and such easy rules :(). But then I started to figure out how it worked. Really nice that you have music while machine is playing! Nice entry for the Jam! Looking forward for a finished version of this game! :D

eli 2013-01-03 14:13

This is ... immense. Obviously there is much more here than I can appreciate, being a work in progress. I enjoyed playing the board game against the competent AI. The voice sounds were excellent (more Vader clips needed!). The game was extremely confusing at first, because of the mix between board game and RTS. But then I figured out who was against who and it went smoother.

Loved the graphics and sounds, the concept is solid. Wish you had gone for something a little less ambitious (and completed it!), but it's good to dream. Hope to see a finished version of this some day.

ddionisio 2013-01-04 04:13

The turn-based part is fun. There's some pretty decent graphics. Definitely a game worth polishing to completion! Als, great Napoleon voice-over! :)

msquirrel 2013-01-05 00:57

The gameplay was quite confusing, but it looked nice, graphics were amazing for the time

loggiant 2013-01-05 18:53

I really liked the RTS graphics. I think some sort of tutorial would help out immensely, as I had a hard time figuring out what I was doing. But whatever I WAS doing, I enjoyed it.