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Somso

By niavlys

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness362
Innovation2293.16
Fun2593.07
Audio3852.35
Mood4982.54
Overall5052.74
Graphics6402.17
Humor6551.68
Theme7601.56

Comments

agamgad 2012-12-17 16:10

Niavlys ! Great game just like I said before, I love how the movement feels.

pierrec 2012-12-17 17:44

Haha! This is surprisingly very fun! It's only a sphere and some dots on a screen and still...I can't stop playing! (can't beat level 7 though...)

Those mechanics are really funny, I can't even understand how it works ^^

supermaximo93 2012-12-17 19:29

Fun toy! I could feel my laptop getting warmer and warmer as the game progressed :P

nitramgc 2012-12-17 22:08

Nice!

The louder sounds work great.

I love the weird gameplay. My favorite combo is to start by moving the mouse slowly to have a great control, and as the time is running out I increase the speed of the cursor, trying to control that thing :)

niavlys 2012-12-18 14:07

@supermaximo93 : Yes, I guess it needs to be optimized… Glad you had fun with it!

niavlys 2012-12-18 14:27

@Agamgad : Thanks, I'm happy I started over with this idea, I was totally disliking the previous one.

@Pierrec : Thanks! The mechanics are conceptually very simple, but very hard to master, it seems! :)

@nitramgc : Glad you liked the audio and gameplay. I hope I won't get too many bad ratings in Audio because it can't be heard in Firefox (or other browsers)...
Thanks for your playing tips!

lanoiadimuu 2012-12-18 14:55

Interesting concept.
I got to phase 9 by just swinging mouse around at random, then (after 10-12 tries) I wasn't able to get past phase 9.
Probably it was because I didn't understand how the ball movement actually worked.

mrspeaker 2012-12-18 14:56

I'm a sucker for anything with spring mechanics!

mutuwarejam 2012-12-18 17:48

I got up to 233! Then my laptop started stuttering :)

niavlys 2012-12-18 17:48

@Muu? (lanoiadimuu) : The mechanics were pretty simple to program. In fact, it's the first thing I came up with, I wanted to change it and actually couldn't make anything better, so it became the difficulty of the game: mastering the controls. The nervosity of the ball movement can also add to its "vilainous" aspect.

@mrspeaker : It's meant to be incontrollable! If it were too easy you would get to level 20 without any effort and your computer would crash.

tau7153 2012-12-18 19:29

A rather different idea!

mava 2012-12-18 19:43

Addictive and simple, once I got the hang of it I came back for more. Well done :)

kill0u 2012-12-19 11:58

Weird, but fun :)
It's a little hard to master the ball movements, but still fun.

Btw, I temporarily voted n/a for audio, 'cause I can't play with sound on atm. But I'll definitely play again tonight and re-vote ;)

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-20 18:26

Nice flinging-mechanic!

ltyrosine 2012-12-22 19:02

This is a real angry red ball. Nice game!

niavlys 2012-12-22 19:16

@LTyrosine: I'm glad you found the theme in my game. Thanks! :)

coffeeonimal 2012-12-23 12:33

"Four lives and a fucking flamethrower."

Fantastic.

coffeeonimal 2012-12-23 13:05

Oops, that comment was meant for a different game.. Move along, nothing to see here...

coffeeonimal 2012-12-23 13:10

Now for the real comment..
Neat little physics toy here, hard to see a game in it yet, but it just needs some goals or scoring added.

aare 2012-12-26 14:22

Made it to the level 7 :)

h-attila 2013-01-04 14:40

The controls are weird, I couldn't really get the hang of them and I think the game is too simple.

azurenimbus 2013-01-05 06:00

Nicely done, challenging and rewarding experience. :) Love the mechanics.