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Swimming Fool

By delahee

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics214.44
Audio353.90
Mood753.65
Humor793.14
Overall1263.53
Fun1943.10
Innovation2373.10
Theme4242.78
Coolness147144

Comments

tyro 2013-04-29 21:44

Would love to try it, but when I click the link I'm just met with a blank white page. Not sure what the problem is.

delahee 2013-04-29 21:53

Is there a precise error ? 404, page cannot finalize or anything ?
The game is running on stage 3d, some low end pc can have issues running it. You should ahve latest flash and latest video driver to enjoy ( a non intel gpu is a must too ) ...
thanks anyway, we hope you ll reach the game :)

delahee 2013-04-29 22:02

Hi tyro, found this, http://forums.adobe.com/message/4730337 it may indeed involve flash if not a web err. xoxo.

tavrox 2013-04-29 22:06

The game is really slow to start but it comes after a little time :) If there is a white screen it's the preloading taking some time ;)

waynetron 2013-04-29 22:17

Graphics are super pretty but I find for such a fast paced run the speech parts really slow the game down.

lioneljitro 2013-04-29 22:23

" Sorry! We could not find www.blackmagic.vg

It may be unavailable or may not exist. Try using the suggestions or related links below, or search again using our web search. "

themightycomp 2013-04-29 22:30

link doesn't work for me?

judasbenhur 2013-04-29 22:43

awesome game. The text dialogs were a bit too much and irrelevant imho. Art style reminded me of the story "the little prince". :)

flashrocks 2013-04-30 00:31

This is very nice game. Looks professional, and had me addicted. I couldn't stop (or even change the browser tab!) until I finished it. :)

delahee 2013-04-30 06:53

Apparently the DNS record is not propagated all over the world... We replaced the url by the IP based one. Sorry for the inconvenience !
Enjoy !

yakka 2013-04-30 07:55

Too hard for me, but very polished! I loved to play it.

realyuniquename 2013-04-30 08:48

Awesome art, awesom music, awesome everethyng except unscippable dialogs :) I carefully avoided all dialogs after the second one.

thotor 2013-04-30 10:11

Very nice game play. Both Music and Arts are awesome.
I also wished we could skip the dialogs.

delahee 2013-04-30 11:44

Thx dudes, it's moving to have some feedbacks, we will do something to skip the dials :)

tiago-ling 2013-04-30 12:28

Awesome animation and idea! The main character's trajectory was kind of erratic and not space-like though. Overall, very nice and polished, congrats!

demurgos 2013-04-30 12:57

That's strange because I felt that the game was rather slow (but people say it was fast).
It's sad that dialogs are not really linked together and the map is so small.
One last problem : why is it easier to go down instead of up... when there's no up or down in space ? It was really confusing.

About the good points, the graphics and music are good but I'm not sure if the music fit the content :/

masadow 2013-04-30 14:02

I'm stuck on a white screen :( Screenshots look good, I want to try :D

delahee 2013-04-30 14:34

@masadow have you tried to update flash and update video drivers ?

wonderwhy-er 2013-04-30 15:03

GRrr, not the dialogues... Too much retries too... No time to play it grr :D

Very nice graphics but damn, the waiting and retries kill the fun for me ;(

deusroffe 2013-04-30 15:24

Really nice graphics!
Controllers felt a litle off though
Overall nice game !

ayamflow 2013-04-30 18:45

Sick graphics, music, humor...But the gameplay is a bit hard/confusing, got stuck forever on a small jump.

multitude 2013-05-01 00:49

Fun game with awesome graphics and sound.

robotality 2013-05-01 14:17

Nice visual and sound. The screen was a little bit to big for my laptop resolution. ;)
I needed some time to get the hang of the controls but then it was fun.

delahee 2013-05-01 15:54

Aha yeah its an HD ready resolution 720p

tipyx 2013-05-01 16:46

Very nice, beautiful and fun to play ! Maybe a little repetitive and long when the people are speaking :)

Verazael 2013-05-01 21:27

I can't see where the hell I can download the source. Is there some hidden button or something?

arkadydracul 2013-05-01 23:26

Nice :D

delahee 2013-05-02 08:04

@Verazael : maybe the third link on the top of this page? :D

Verazael 2013-05-02 09:56

Haha, no shit! No, I meant, from there, I can see how to browse your project but the downloads section seems empty. Do I have to get all the files one by one or something?

delahee 2013-05-02 10:04

@Verazael
You have just to check out the project with SVN, u have a checkout button with all the information you need to proceed de checkout :)
https://code.google.com/p/blackmagic-ludumdare/source/checkout

whitetigle 2013-05-02 10:21

Well done! Easy to grasp yet sometimes frustrating... And I would agree with the slow dialogs. But I am speaking about the 'official release' here.
Anyway that's a good Job team! bravo les gars :)

delahee 2013-05-02 10:23

Merci Mec ! On t attends pour la post Ludum Beer

turbodindon 2013-05-02 12:41

Excellent entry! It's fun, coloured, animations are hilarious. Loved the intro, loved the art. Good to see so polished games in that competition.
5 stars of course.
Super bon taf, bravo !

delahee 2013-05-02 14:18

Thanks dudes :) and GG for Mustache Army ! Hilarious !

imagnity 2013-05-02 19:36

I don't know which portion wouldn't get 5 stars. It's just PERFECT!

_rilem 2013-05-02 21:20

Great visuals and audio, minimalist gameplay. I'd say a very nice entry for this theme! :) I found it a bit hard though, or I just suck, lol. So the checkpoints were much welcome. :D

matthias_zarzecki 2013-05-03 23:17

Lovely game! nice music and graphics. Too much talking, detracts from "game"-part

brotherst 2013-05-04 13:00

The game mechanic is really fun! Unfortunately there was a lot wrong with the dialogue which really slowed the game down, which you've already addressed :) but I've got to mark based on the compo version! Everything else was nice. Graphics, music etc. congrats!

0beah 2013-05-05 20:07

Takes a while to load. Really love the graphics. Controls are little odd, I had difficulty changing directions once I jumped.

axcho 2013-05-05 21:39

Looks great, but runs at about 2 fps for me. :/ There's no reason that a Flash game should have to depend on GPU-acceleration for this kind of art style...

killedbyapixel 2013-05-06 00:43

Great graphics and sound. It was hard to control, I couldn't predict which way I would go and got by mainly on trial and error. Maybe you can actually show the gravity wells somehow to better inform the player.

milo 2013-05-06 01:25

This is a beautiful game - it's so well-polished. Every bit of the exterior of the game - its graphics, its audio, its dialog, has a nice character. It was a satisfying story, although I wish there was more substantial gameplay outside the dialog.

shawn42 2013-05-06 03:07

Wow. Good work. I just had to finish this game. The mechanic was a lot of fun.. just a little off.. will try to time it up better.. jump / miss .. SOO close.. Fun.

minionstudios 2013-05-06 03:22

It's a great experience. Challenging.

delahee 2013-05-06 08:13

@axcho indeed we are pretty used to flash games ( see motion twin on google... ) but we can assure you it could not run without gpu accel being coded in 3 days (optimising for flash requires lot of work...). See ya :)

vilcans 2013-05-06 19:16

Looks nice, even with the notice that I have to upgrade video. But as aiming is hard and the game is slow it gets a bit frustrating.

lioneljitro 2013-05-07 06:43

Glad I came back to play this.

Really nice work. Great graphics and sounds.

acro 2013-05-07 22:45

Played the 72h version to rate, haven't looked at enhanced. It's really cool, and a really impressive amount of animation, content and style for 72 hours - it's very polished in appearance. The gameplay feels nice and fluid, with some challenging parts but seems to have less finesse than the graphics. My only slight moment of frustration was the trial-and-error aspect of when moving planets disappear.
Only things I'd have wanted improved for enhanced version were: I had really no idea what the captions were supposed to be saying, they didn't make much sense. And the loading time for that amount of graphics/sound was just ridiculous.

lasergans 2013-05-10 12:25

Nice graphics and music. :)

ataxkt 2013-05-10 12:28

Looks and sounds amazing! The text took forever to scroll though, which was annoying, and I expected planetary gravity rather than the floaty jump as is. Nice fun.

mungoman1 2013-05-10 15:55

All around great game, well done! The art is fantastic, love the animations and music, could see this being very popular on the app store & google play. One recommendation is to use less dialogue to tell your story.

martin_monosys 2013-05-10 18:31

Great stuff, I guess you're all professionals in the games/web industries, ain't you ? :)

zombierockparty 2013-05-10 23:11

Brilliant, loved it!

gatechgrad 2013-05-11 00:41

Nice graphics. The difficulty curve seems to be a little steep, as I could not get past the first checkpoint with the three suns. Leaves very little room for error.

stqn 2013-05-11 22:06

Very nice, great graphics and music/sound. Unfortunately with firefox / intel hd graphics the game also has very low FPS and it was sometimes hard to choose the correct direction for a jump.
I would have liked to restart from the latest asteroid after a death instead of restarting from some checkpoint far away.

ethankennerly 2013-05-12 21:15

Jumping between asteroids interested me. If you continue to develop this, it was hard for me to predict what the arc would be. I wasn't sure what the influence was from asteroids if any on the trajectory.

sheep 2013-05-13 17:36

The unskippable, cheezy dialogues ruin the mood. Not sure what affects the path. Otherwise a nice "planet jumping" game.

taro 2013-05-14 03:45

I'm experiencing some really bad lag playing this game. It was difficult play.

codexus 2013-05-20 21:14

Very pretty, nice character animation. I gave up quickly though as I couldn't figure out how to make a jump.