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The Rise and Fall of Professor Moriarty

By professormoriarty

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall103.95
Innovation74.08
Mood243.70
Fun313.59
Audio363.63
Graphics673.90
Theme1003.59
Humor2222.17
Coolness67049

Comments

the-jack 2012-12-18 02:34

Very impressive. You'd think this was made by people who actually knew what they were doing :)

sestren 2012-12-18 02:38

Very nicely done. The graphics, though simple, are extremely clean and serve the mood well. The music was great, as well. Winning the game seems relatively easy and straightforward, but apart from that, really nice job!

supersausagedog 2012-12-18 02:53

I really like the concept, and the fact that scores are kept low is cool.
The first half of the round seemed promising, and was a lot of fun, but once I'd gotten all the immediately gettable gold, the rest of the game just seemed to be spamming lairs in a tight network to max my score, and it was easy to get 23 this way. Not sure if maybe that was the intended method of play? Also, it does seem to end with a bit of a whimper rather than a bang, as your gold runs out but nothing actually takes you down.
Anyway, still fun and great music and art.

christinaneofotistou 2012-12-18 04:39

Love it! Love the style, the music, the idea, the theme and the world of goo blob style! Made me feel spider-like. And the right kind of emotions were triggered, because at the sight of the holmes head, I felt very antagonistic.

Needs mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
A little hard to lose, I feel, but maybe it's because you didn't have time to iterate

Also, what is the logic under which some assets wither and die, even if well connected?

Kudos all around guys!

ddionisio 2012-12-18 05:45

Nice game. Good visual ques on what each icon does (I didn't read the instructions before playing the game). I didn't know you can drag each node.

professormoriarty 2012-12-18 19:25

Current high score is 26 points. Can anyone beat it? Appreciate all the comments!
https://twitter.com/Ralkarin/status/280874748085420033/photo/1

bach 2012-12-18 23:04

Loved it. Great design went into this one. Kept me entertained for a long time. Inspired!

recursor 2012-12-18 23:04

This is very interesting, and very well done. Add a few more mechanics and maybe more levels and I could see this selling nicely on an app store or two.

oborux 2012-12-19 00:14

Really nice entry, clean presentation. Enjoyed building a criminal network. Good Job!

pixel_3 2012-12-19 04:01

Best game I've played yet. Fits the theme perfectly, the graphics where simple but clean, the music was fitting, and I could've played for hours. My one and only complaint is that it's sometimes difficult to select a unit. I realized later you had to hold the mouse button down but still had occasional difficulty with it.

~AlucardX60

udrian 2012-12-19 08:09

Fun and simple strategy game, I really like simplicity in it. However it greatly lacks in challenge and this should be expanded upon. Visually it looks really great and the music is very good.

monxcleyrproductions 2012-12-19 08:19

Fantastic concept, art, and music.
The gameplay was surprisingly complex and tense, although it suffers from a couple issues. Both have been mentioned before, but it was very easy to simply spam lairs early on to net a high score, and this game would benefit greatly from a zoom in/out option.

ripx 2012-12-19 09:56

Really nice game, enjoyed the simple mechanics.

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-19 11:17

I want to play again! Die Holmes!

jackspinoza 2012-12-19 12:49

Well that was super, very strategic and I really got into it. Nice work.

dustystylus 2012-12-20 22:30

This is a very nice concept and very skillfully and professionally put together! You guys should continue to work on this and consider putting this on the market! Would make a very nice iPad app, in fact.

eni 2012-12-21 05:38

Really smooth experience, well polished and good fun. Though possibly a bit too abstract to really feel like you're an evil mastermind, but that might just be me. :P

pierrec 2012-12-21 09:29

This is an excellent RTS, I love the "scorched earth policy" feel! I agree with Eniko, the theme is a bit slight because it could have been anything else, but the colors and mood helps!

lidfrid 2012-12-21 20:49

So polished, really good experience.
I agree with eniko's comment, in the first time i didn't feel like i was the "bad guy".

arhpositive 2012-12-22 20:27

A really well made game with excellent, clean graphics and audio. An interesting game mechanic aswell. :)

michax 2012-12-27 17:20

Wow, I'm impressed. Great concept for strategy game. Loved it! Also enjoyed simply drag and drop based UI. Great entry!

parhelion 2012-12-28 08:41

Greate game. Best from all for me. One comment: I need the option to dismount the boundary castles from network.

brant 2012-12-28 23:31

VERY GOOD! Shows how much ambition is great by itself, even if you're gonna fall anyway. Had lots of fun with this, thanks.

goerp 2012-12-29 15:04

What a lovely looking game. I like that it has a icon-feel to it, although it makes it a bit hard to understand what is happening.
Music is very good and fits the game.

matthias_zarzecki 2013-01-06 00:22

Fun game! Love the music, and the style is great.

Didn't like so much that I had no idea what's going on, and controls were a lot of trial+error too.

kalumis 2013-01-07 23:39

Best game ever!!!