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The particle swarm

By dick_claus

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Overall343.88
Audio363.89
Innovation523.75
Fun683.56
Mood1003.54
Theme1553.61
Graphics2023.49
Humor3661.75

Comments

tiago-ling 2013-04-29 17:16

Amazing game! Simple yet challenging puzzle, love the audio, totally sets the mood for the game! Congratulations!

lizzip 2013-04-29 17:19

very nice. Level 3 defeated me D:

tonic 2013-04-29 17:57

Quite nice! It could be a little bit more forgiving, now it wants me to get all of the thingies to their goal.

dick_claus 2013-04-29 19:03

Some levels are hard. That's why we made all levels available.

pyrosneak 2013-04-29 19:35

pretty good game, really got me thinking about how to do each level. but you could make it so most have to reach the goal not all :)

mrexcessive 2013-04-29 19:44

Great fun to play with the bouncing bits... Need to be very precise to avoid losing too many

rialgar 2013-04-29 20:00

Interesting concept, but maybe a slower learning curve would be nice. Also I seem to need to place every corner pixel perfect, which can get quite annoying ( played until level 7, looked at the rest though, but level 7 killed my mood ). I like the music.

thatwhichis 2013-04-29 21:42

Great concept and execution!

zerebruin 2013-04-29 21:48

Very well done. This would work great as a mobile game.

michaelhaii 2013-04-29 22:06

I really like this game, reminds me of the game Enigma.

milktoast 2013-04-30 02:48

I could play this game for hours. Very relaxing.

ilovepixel 2013-04-30 05:23

Great idea! very original

chrstphrschulte 2013-04-30 07:15

The audio was great and the soft colors really made this an enjoyable experience. Such a simple concept of getting something in a hole develops into some pretty devious puzzles. The space background is nice for the theme as it complements the puzzle design in showing an example of when there can be so much to explore with so little actually there compared to a vacuum.

ryusui 2013-04-30 08:28

Amazing job for a weekend's work - very professional-looking (and sounding!)

mrhalfman 2013-04-30 13:34

Nice game, polished an enjoying. Good work.

qaterknan 2013-04-30 13:35

Great game. As known, there is no way you could have to many particles in a game, and this is just great. Congratulations!

holofire 2013-04-30 13:39

Love this game. Makes the play think outside the box and create weird polygonal shapes. Love it.

degtyarev 2013-04-30 13:42

interesting to play. good job.

stromchin 2013-04-30 13:43

Very polished.

demurgos 2013-04-30 14:11

Level 6 buged when I launched the particles. (It become empty, with only the background and buttons left)

fuzzywuzzie 2013-04-30 15:32

This is a lovely little puzzle game! The music makes adds a lot. I would love to see this is a mobile game!

dick_claus 2013-04-30 17:32

We have fixed the bug on level 6

anatolat 2013-04-30 17:48

Good idea and nice game!

gokuhd 2013-04-30 18:57

Great game! Have you thought about porting it to touchscreen mobile devices? I think it fits those devices :).

seconddimension 2013-04-30 21:28

Very good idea and really simple, fit's the theme really well.

kgs0142 2013-05-02 09:43

Great work!
I enjoyed solving the puzzles, challenging levels!

dapierce 2013-05-03 06:44

Awesome level of polish and great idea, this was a lot of fun! Nice relaxing music too, this is a great game to unwind with coming home from work.

psenfilip 2013-05-03 16:16

Clever design.
Interesting levels. Some of them are pretty challenging!
Sound is good, despite being too short. It would be even better if it was a seamless loop instead.

tentontoon 2013-05-04 06:41

Very interesting concept and fitting use of the theme. Too bad I suck at it! XD

I found it difficult to visualize both the right orientation of the obstacle to redirect the particles, prior to drawing it, and the very action of putting the vertices down. Maybe with a little visual aid, like drawing a line from the vertex to the mouse position, drawing the obstacle would become much more intuitive.

But that's just a limitation of mine. The concept is very cool. Congratulations! :D

bereuge 2013-05-06 08:46

Great puzzle game! It's hard to predict where the particles will go and that makes it interesting for me

shiprib 2013-05-06 09:00

Nice mechanics, I got till level 7 before the difficulty topped me. I found it a little fiddly, especially on level 3 - maybe upping the gravity a bit on the black holes? Also a couple of times on my many attempts at level 3 I found that one dot got stuck in a stable orbit and I had to restart the level myself.

tobbez 2013-05-06 09:53

Would have been nice if every launch was deterministic, since as it is now you can launch once and fail, and then launch again (without changing anything) and succeed.

zappi 2013-05-07 16:48

Guys, I highly advise you not to drop this little game and make it to the App Store, it'll certainly find it's audience and will earn some bucks for you :)

kill0u 2013-05-07 21:51

Really nice!

Jeremias 2013-05-08 16:13

Awesome! Didn't expect that I play this more than 20 minutes... just wow. A button is missing where I can reset the level without deleting all my drawings, but that's a minor critic...

bobiniki 2013-05-09 12:46

Well executed nice graphics nice idea, but it was little harder then what it should be. Probably work on better level design. But overall good game and considering the time limitations good job.

dick_claus 2013-05-10 03:01

2 Jeremias
After you push launch it would change to stop button. This is what you are looking for.

Jeremias 2013-05-12 19:21

Oh, okay... sorry :)

omaha 2013-05-15 05:32

Really excellent execution. Lots of polish. Great game.

spiridion 2013-05-18 05:55

Nice graphics and audio. Wonderful puzzle mechanic. I stopped playing at level 6 mainly because I've been rating puzzle games all night. :P Yours is the best I've played tonight though.

wallmasterr 2013-05-19 13:34

Nice, but i dont get how the repell holes work , got to lvl 10 then couldnt compleate it

wallmasterr 2013-05-19 13:42

Dam lvl10 I might have brok it https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1993209/come%20on%20little%20balls.PNG the eventualy ended up at the bottom corner :(

hnjslater 2013-05-20 00:43

wow great game!