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Minimum Score

By shatterhand

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness361
Humor3482.56
Audio7172.43
Theme8953.18
Innovation9412.59
Mood10032.40
Fun10252.44
Overall10972.62
Graphics11592.20

Comments

logiq121 2013-04-28 05:31

Love the concept. Damn those stupid hearts! :)

slamblasta 2013-04-29 23:52

Interesting concept and interpretation of the theme, but I found the controls really frustrating with the bouncing and deceleration.

mire 2013-04-29 23:52

Very hard to control well.

spiridion 2013-04-29 23:57

Loved it. Hard, crazy, didn't quite know what I was doing half the time.

ryebread761 2013-04-30 00:09

A tutorial or something would be nice

dax 2013-04-30 00:16

321870, I won isn't it!
I wasn't sure of what I was suposed to hit. But fun near the end when there is a lot of hearts attacking you.

shatterhand 2013-04-30 00:21

NO TUTORIAL. MINMALISM

shatterhand 2013-04-30 00:23

Move with arrows, shoot with control or space.

Every enemy destroyed gives you points. Grab hearts and you get points. Grab diamonds and you get points. Touch enemies and you lose points. Touch the explosions and you lose points. Touch the borders and you lose points.

It's possible to have negative scores. My worst score is around -30k points

shatterhand 2013-04-30 00:25

The thing is thinking about when and how to kill enemies. The more enemies you kill, more they spawn. The more damage you receive, less enemies are spawned. SHooting enemies gives you points, but it may be a good idea many times (even more against the heart-givers)

I shouldn't explain none of this. MINIMALISM

aestheticgamer 2013-04-30 18:32

Anti-score game, though really a score game as the goal is still to collect things, just the things you're collecting for score are typically bad things. Not bad, and the music was nice. Also, hearts everywhere.

infernet89 2013-05-01 22:05

Cant play that, it's just a main screen, i tried to press all the keyboard/mouse gestures but nothing happened.

shatterhand 2013-05-01 22:07

You just press enter

psenfilip 2013-05-02 04:37

This game is crazy. It seems to me that the less you do, the better. So yeah, I really tried to get the point of the game but I'm not sure. Would be cool if there was either more info or tutorials on there.
Nevertheless I had fun for a short period of time.

shatterhand 2013-05-02 05:21

MINIMALISM

infernet89 2013-05-02 06:35

Whops, sorry! I feel so idiot right now! Nice idea, dodging hearts and diamond never was so fun until now!

eatenalive3 2013-05-05 17:05

Haha! I loved it. I DON'T WANT YOUR LOVE! GET AWAY FROM ME, HEARTS!

My best (worst?) score was 12230. I just wall-hugged and tried to hit arrows occasionally :P

hissssssssss 2013-05-08 10:49

I had some graphical glitching, but was able to play the game anyway.
It can get tricky, and I love the trade-offs in the gameplay. Smoother controls would have been nice, I guess.

shatterhand 2013-05-13 17:51

I find it really funny, last LD I made a game with very smooth, rigid, precise controls and people said it would be more fun if the controls were more looose.

Now I make a game with looser controls, and people complain they should be more precise.

Guess you can never make everyone happy :)

I still think this game here benefits from the inertia and bouncing, it helps the whole "wtf" atmosphere, while my previous game demanded precise controls :D

avidgamernino 2013-05-14 04:54

At first I didn't know what I was doing. I kept pressing the WASD keys, then I press the arrow keys and got some action. I didn't like the mouse disappearing

shatterhand 2013-05-16 08:47

?? You don't need the mouse for anything in the game.