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Caluminator

By therayman94

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor1983.03
Theme2023.57
Mood3862.74
Fun3932.79
Overall4412.83
Audio4892.00
Graphics5072.57
Innovation5792.41
Coolness67049

Comments

falkreon 2012-12-17 04:46

Clubbing seals straightaway was a good touch. Then kicking puppies. Definitely fits the theme, and the game has some nice enemy ambushes too. I think more time needs to be put into solidifying basic mechanics - the attacks feel slow, and to fight seals I just held the button down. The puppies seemed impossible to kill, didn't really feel like testing that. A valiant effort for 48h.

jomomomo 2012-12-17 04:54

Nice job on the theme...

surpy 2012-12-17 04:55

It is pretty fun, until you die and you have to start over really? Let's just say I didn't complete it, but it was fun. I would like some epic background music, but it was nice regardless. I don't know if it is a bug but you can kill the shark you need to ride? I did that and had to restart. I liked it.

mrevilguy 2012-12-17 05:34

God damn dogs. Killed me twice in a row. I guess I suck. I tried jumping too! I found it funny however that I could basically hop along on the dogs as they ran under me! :D

selectricsimian 2012-12-17 05:35

I have never felt worse in my life than clubbing those baby seals, because the sad truth is that it's kind of fun...

loren 2012-12-17 06:15

Them seals are sneaky

parapup 2012-12-17 15:12

Oh gosh the seals x.x

birchmountain 2012-12-17 17:36

Great idea, loved the clubbing seal part, true evil! A little buggy though, once i was floating in the air and taking tons of damage. But over all a fun and enjoyable game.

joekinley 2012-12-17 20:44

Oh man. This Java thing on MacOS is a PITA.
But the game seems nice. Though it seems a bit too slow. Clubbing seals was fun. Jumping on them seemed to help too. But then there were like a looot of seals and they killed me. Everytime :(

Nice game, good take on the theme.

stryphe 2012-12-18 04:54

Nice game! I liked jumping the shark.

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-18 11:24

Very villain like indeed

lashiz121 2012-12-18 13:14

My first reaction was "OOO, a club" then "OOO a seal can I hit it" and then "OMG seals from the sky" so yeah this game is great!!!

lucky-luddite 2012-12-18 17:48

More games should have seals raining down.

alwaysinbeta 2012-12-18 18:39

Fun. I thought the story was great and gfx charming. Wish I could run past seals without having to finish them all off!

grifdail 2012-12-18 20:59

Nice job !
The graphic style is prety. Howevers, I disliked the sound that came from nowhere.

cakencode 2012-12-18 22:05

An interesting integration of the theme on many levels!

When I first picked up the club and swung it I thought it was going to be a delayed attack (because of the animation taking forever to swing) so when I encountered the seals the first time I tried to swing early and let the forward club frame of the animation be when I tried to charge the seals... only to discover it hit immediately after a key press and not like the animation shows. A bit confusing.

Also, running past the seals you can go off-camera where most seals won't follow, and those that do eventually stop going right after you.

Despite that, it was enjoyable. Good job!

brant 2012-12-18 22:44

Nice game! Prety fun.

but as surpy said, playing everything again after death feels really bad.. And it happened a lot to me.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-27 14:54

Seal-clubbing, eh? Now that's evil!