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The Parasite

By jahlgren

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Overall304.00
Fun493.80
Graphics584.12
Mood1963.38
Innovation2403.54
Humor2842.68
Audio4072.96
Theme4983.59

Comments

orni 2013-04-29 08:48

very polished game - the controls are precise as well

I liked it, one of my favorites so far.

8bitpimp 2013-04-29 14:36

Gorgeous game, instantly very captivating.
Easily the best game I have seen so far.
Its also freakishly hard, or perhaps that is just me.
It would be nice to see a video of how it should be played.
Great game though.

kreischweide 2013-04-29 14:38

Very nice indeed. Only sounds could have been better (less agressive in tone) and some kind of music would help it alot.

chman 2013-04-29 14:40

Hard, but not frustrating. I died because of me, not because of the game, so it's "good" difficulty. Controls are spot-on and this whole hunger/stamina balance makes the game very interesting to play. Good work !

bushmango3 2013-04-29 14:41

I liked it but man is it annoying to have to start over from the beginning every time. Cute graphics :)

techmonkey 2013-04-29 15:11

One of the most playable games I've tested tonight.

The controls were rock solid and the game had a certain feeling of completeness.

deige101 2013-04-29 17:04

very cool! I loved it!

jahlgren 2013-04-30 00:21

I made a playthrough that i uploaded to youtube. http://youtu.be/Vx5XsO9myM4

liannethy 2013-04-30 06:06

This is very very well done. Audio and graphics are superb, and I really like the gameplay too. Great job :)

gremlin 2013-04-30 06:12

Love the feel of the controls.

Really hard, but in a fair way. I didn't feel frustrated by the system, I felt like I'd lost the game. That's the sign of a well designed feedback loop.

omaromeir 2013-04-30 06:15

Cool game, really difficult, but really polished too. I couldn't finish but I will come back for more later. Good luck :D.

ryusui 2013-04-30 06:22

Awesome game - this is something I'd probably pay $5 for on Steam. I just wish there were checkpoints of some kind, or a slightly more forgiving hunger/stamina system in play!

tahooey 2013-04-30 07:36

Very nice game, difficulty was a very good level, I like it :)

tainted_code 2013-04-30 07:39

Very good game-play. Similar feeling to the Super Meat Boy game. Job well done, nice graphics too!

lotusgame 2013-04-30 07:58

So hard ! Thanks to the video playthrough, i could watch what is after level 2 ^^ Your game seems very complete and huge. For a 48h entry, its incredible. Have you plan to make this game before theme has been announced ?

jokerden 2013-04-30 09:32

Cool game. Did you used Setcyl for it?

jubjub-2 2013-04-30 09:35

Really cute and the graphics are incredibly nice for such a short time period. Especially like the wall sliding animation, looks smooth!

acatcalledfrank 2013-04-30 09:38

Good fun and cute characters, but insanely hard! I'd have played for longer if there were checkpoints rather than starting from scratch every time I think.

tonic 2013-04-30 16:43

Pretty challenging. Nice style. :)

igrowbeards 2013-04-30 16:43

I liked this a lot - really fun, and super polished.

dedhedzed 2013-04-30 16:43

It's cool, but you could fix your steep difficulty curve by maybe saving the progress you make along the bottom when you die.

floatingghost 2013-04-30 16:44

Fantastic - it took me a while to figure out what I was doing but after that it was an amazing game.

hulahulahest 2013-04-30 16:46

Quite fun. I was annoyed when I died of starvation while in the middle of the "go through the exit" animation. Feels like I was cheated out of winning the level.

tinydrakkarstudio 2013-04-30 16:51

Very good game ! A little difficult at first, but it's fun and original and the gameplay are good.

smilingcat 2013-04-30 16:57

Liked the gameboy-style graphics. Well polished, though I must admit I didn't make it beyond level 3 at any point.

jahlgren 2013-04-30 18:16

@hulahulahest Dying in the middle of the "leaving room" animation is a bug. It should not happen, but it can if your hunger is full. I will fix it in a post compo edition

@JokerDen I made it with As3 using the Flashpunk framework

@lotusgame No plans. I actually made something different the first day. But it was not fun to play so i started over :). So this was actually made in one day.

I thought of making checkpoints.. But the game is so short that it would defeat the point of being hard.

ariake81 2013-05-01 22:33

Great little retro g

ariake81 2013-05-01 22:45

Great little retro game, with excellent graphics, animation and sound. The stamina system can at times feel overly harsh though. I seemed to be beaten a few times by impossible deadlines rather than my control (controls by the way are incredibly slick and tight). A great and complete game!!

saintheiser 2013-05-02 02:47

Excellent work!
Well made minimalistic fun game!
I impressed by game mechanic with hunger =)

georgebroussard 2013-05-02 08:14

Well done graphics and mechanics. Seems the hunger meter should start out slower as you are learning the game and get faster later?

mortus 2013-05-02 18:31

Great game, it was hard only first three levels, and then became challenging (which is good). Could be harder to be honest. ;D

alink 2013-05-04 11:41

Very good. The stamina/eating/digging mechanism and the semi-random levels are cool innovations.

granada 2013-05-05 12:34

Nice graphics and gameplay. Would love a windows version to play offline. Awesome jobe!

chaos_viper 2013-05-05 12:39

Very nice entry! The controls are perfect and the graphics is very cool! I like the idea of eating blocks to survive. Well done!!

norgg 2013-05-07 10:36

Nice game, really polished. The movement feels really satisfying and responsive.

realyuniquename 2013-05-08 12:17

it's great in all aspects except i need to start from the beginning after death :)

cakemonitor 2013-05-10 16:28

very nifty game, but tricky! great job :)

lasergans 2013-05-10 16:34

I really like your game :) Feels polished, the controls are very good. :)

kddekadenz 2013-05-10 16:48

Well-balanced and appealing graphics.. However, it does not motivate me to play for long.

mollymus 2013-05-10 17:17

Very cool game! Well polished and fun!:)

luck-of-the-day-games 2013-05-10 17:24

Great game, please continue developing this game it is one of the best games in the competion by far

sebastian 2013-05-10 18:04

This controls very nicely and is a TON of fun!

kill0u 2013-05-10 18:27

I hate you T_T This game is amazing, but insanely hard. But amazing. I down-voted "fun" a little because the hardness reduces the fun, but I gave you really good ratings anyway ;) Good job.

kvisle 2013-05-10 20:53

A bit unforgiving, I think - having to start from the beginning makes it a bit too hard for me.

Are the levels generated, or are they picked randomly from a pool?

The game is pretty, and the mechanics are solid.

angerus 2013-05-10 22:20

Excellent, just excellent! I only wish a more easy start but well, the die-retry system is a cool one!

someone 2013-05-10 22:25

Very nice. Good fun.

madlee 2013-05-11 01:26

Probably my favorite of the competition. Not ashamed to say that I played this for about and hour and a half before I finally beat it! Very impressive!

mildmojo 2013-05-11 06:20

Excellent controls, very much like Super Meat Boy. Much harder than SMB, though, with the hunger/stamina mechanic. I tried a bunch of times but could only get halfway through. Watching the playthrough, there are some good strategies for getting through some of those levels quicker.

Very complete; I don't know how you did that in a day. =)

zccc 2013-05-11 14:42

Really hard, but addictive!

madlee 2013-05-11 18:47

I've actually come back and played this game some more after beating it, just because I like it so much! Do you have any plans to expand on it after the competition period is over?

jahlgren 2013-05-11 21:08

Thanks for all the nice comments

@Kvisle, The levels are picked from a random pool. I wanted to have much more levels to choose from, but I did not have the time to design them.

@madlee, I do have plans to make this into a full game. Keep an eye on greenlight, it might pop up there :)

oskardevelopment 2013-05-12 09:58

Fun platformer with neat 2D art! :) Inspired from Meat boy?

finefin 2013-05-12 13:24

ooooh nice animations! the game is hard but the style makes up for that ;)

ethankennerly 2013-05-12 20:23

Eating blocks interested me. If you continue to develop this, at various screens I was not sure how to eat my way to the exit or what the timing was to jump and eat or if I was running out the ability to eat.

sheep 2013-05-13 17:45

Nice graphics, very tight controls, cool idea. Shame it's another platformer though, and I totally suck at keeping track of 5 different things at the same time (running, jumping, eating, stamina and shooting).

martin_monosys 2013-05-14 20:39

Interesting, but a bit hard...

michail 2013-05-15 19:39

Nice mechanics, I like the random level idea. Yeah, it is very hard, but it is OK for me.

cyberyeti 2013-05-20 06:24

One of the best entries I've played yet, the concept is brilliant and it's creates an incredibly fun and urgent mood. Great work!

roupette 2013-05-20 10:55

Nice ! Want to eat the world :p.

xanjos 2013-05-21 00:09

Loved the visual style whilst the general gameplay concept was actually pretty interesting and had quite a lot of depth and strategy to it.