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TOOM

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics14.85
Mood134.13
Overall483.79
Humor543.37
Fun1963.09
Audio2393.00
Innovation3002.88
Theme3073.17
Coolness177526

Comments

travischen 2013-04-30 03:11

Holy TOOM. This game is a beauty.

hayawi 2013-04-30 03:27

I laughed with some stuff, but other stuff were just unbearably boring. Its a nice game when it works though

musket 2013-04-30 03:31

Very engrossing game! I played all the way through. Great atmosphere and visuals.

sestren 2013-04-30 03:38

Amazing artwork and the mood and theme were both pretty good. The pace was way too slow and the connections between objects was pretty loose at times, though.

metadept 2013-04-30 03:39

Very satisfying little adventure with GREAT visual presentation. Some of the action combinations don't make much sense, but in that regard it's very much in the vein of the classic point and clicks. Thanks for this wonderful little game!

krahe 2013-04-30 03:42

The atmosphere is perfect, and thievery aside the music compliments it very well. The art is gorgeous too. Downsides: extremely short and nonsensical.

pamvllo 2013-04-30 03:42

I don't know what to do, but the game is really amazing! like it!

nxsverigmail-com 2013-04-30 03:46

Beautiful game, had no idea what was going on. Wasn't as fun, but definitely great mood and art.

saampahlavan 2013-04-30 03:49

I got the cooked meat, soda, and head. WHAT DO I DO?! The game looks fantastic and I love the camera work I wanna keep playing but I'm stuck.

captainkraft 2013-04-30 03:49

That was a lot of fun. Someday I want to make art like this.

Good work

cyberyeti 2013-04-30 03:54

Not entirely sure what I do after i get the key. However, the game is enjoyable and the mood along with the graphics make it superb. i also really enjoyed the minimalist controls and the humor, all in all it was really good.

udo 2013-04-30 03:59

I loved this! Great work!

cappagames 2013-04-30 04:02

It's amazing how well polished this is.

prelucid 2013-04-30 04:03

This is very cool.

vdogamez 2013-04-30 04:08

The art for this game is the best I've seen so far, and it's well animated too. I can see why you were so insistent on using the audio, too. The series of events you're supposed to do to progress is a bit nonsensical at times, so you kind of just need to use everything with everything then. There's a lot more stuff in the room than what was used, so I'm looking forward to the post-competition release. The interactions with stuff that there were were very nice details, so it would be nice to see that kind of stuff with more of the objects. The ending was rather silly and certainly not what I was expecting.

dna-yarn 2013-04-30 04:11

Lovely pixels...

Can you do anything with stuff you pick up?

irock 2013-04-30 04:17

The graphics are fantastic.

cherrynukacola 2013-04-30 05:06

Lovely, made me nostalgic for all those great 90's point'n'click adventure games. I thought the end kind ruined the mood, though.

olkeencole 2013-04-30 05:08

Excellent art. Even if you didn't make the music, sometimes it's good knowing what you have that will fit the atmosphere. Fun gameplay. I was sad that it was so short. I really wanted to see other environments you might have made. Great job guys!

loren 2013-04-30 06:24

really cool atmosphere, loved the palette :)

georgebroussard 2013-04-30 07:12

Great art, mood and polish. Wish the puzzles had made more sense. I fell back on the old LucasArts trick when I was stuck. Use every item with every item. Would pay good money for a real game with this style. Make it :) You have the a lot of the system work done here.

angelk 2013-04-30 07:56

Holy crap those graphics. I know you said downvote the audio but I'm glad you used it; it really makes the mood and feel of the game. I had some significant difficulty trying to figure out what to do next, but the art and scenery was just so interesting I was having a great time just hanging out and walking around. Way to go!

adventureloop 2013-04-30 12:07

WOW, this is an amazing entry. The audio is awesome, I can see why you just **HAD** to use it in the game. The mood blows me away.

Can't wait for a directors cut to come out, I might be able to get anywhere in the game at a later point.

Well Done PoV and Derek Laufman

sonnybone 2013-04-30 12:31

UGH! I thought it was some kind of teleportation device. WTF. It's a toilet... HA! Yeah this game makes 0 sense but the art makes all the sense.

zappi 2013-04-30 13:49

I do not know what to say! Very cool!

rxi 2013-04-30 16:00

Absolutely loved the artwork and visuals. I was intrigued by the images you posted during the competition, and, looking forward to playing it, sought it out after the competition. It turns out I wasn't at all disappointed.

The game felt fairly complete and all the components (the music, sound, visuals) worked well together to set a distinct tone. I loved the abstractness and the discoveries you would make as you played, surprising and shocking little things that would jump out at you. As required for any point & click adventure, some parts were frustrating, and the movement speed felt a tad too slow.

Overall good work!

tonic 2013-04-30 17:41

I don't think I figured all there is to do. But this is seriously cool looking and works very well. Excellent work1

ahm99 2013-04-30 20:05

This...Is...AWESOMEEEEE! Very good job.

khaotom 2013-04-30 22:12

Beautiful graphics and mood. I need a walkthrough though.

shinestrength 2013-04-30 23:09

So much backstory suggested with so few elements. Fantastic work.

purplemoustache 2013-05-01 00:29

Amazing graphics!

aaronmueller 2013-05-01 01:12

Awesome!
Although the thing with the head is not very intuitive ... had to look at the source :D

kevinzuhn 2013-05-01 04:32

Definitely hoping for a director's cut.
Mood, style, and graphics kept me going through the arduous task of rubbing a severed head on every piece of furniture in the room.

grimfang4 2013-05-01 13:32

That was a neat game. Finding the Floppy Disk was where I got stuck for a while.

derosa 2013-05-01 13:35

I didn't find much sense in the connection of objects, but overall is a great entry. Thanks!

robotality 2013-05-01 14:29

Awesome visuals and the mood is nice. A strange experience it was :) Great work!

puzzlem00n 2013-05-01 23:33

Man, it's such a shame that you couldn't put in everything you wanted to, I really want to see where this was going. I beat it, though. Great art.

mildmojo 2013-05-02 02:20

Beautiful art & music. I like that you added so many clickable things, but I sort of attacked it with the click-everything-with-everything strategy @VDOgamez mentioned.

The ending didn't really fit the tone of the rest of the game.

kirby_freak 2013-05-02 05:01

Was a bit random, but the artwork was very very pretty. It made me jealous :P Great mood though, even if the items were random. No clue what the head was for, aside from making funny noises in the [redacted].

_rilem 2013-05-02 16:56

I love the look of this game. I tried random stuff, found out what I could do with the head, meat and soda. I just couldn't figure out what to do next.
But again it looks amazing and also beautiful animation work :D

cakencode 2013-05-02 19:17

Great looking game, and the little things i found were entertaining. The pacing is slow though, and I got a little clicking on everything and hoping for things to happen.

hgouveia 2013-05-02 19:34

Omg the art of this game is amazing! , is a shame that you didn't share the source code :(

reverso13 2013-05-03 11:40

Very original game! 5/5

MattHartley 2013-05-03 12:39

If you turned this into a full game, I would buy it

amodo 2013-05-03 20:24

Impressive visual and technical implementation, great mood. Love those crazy riddles.. while I'm not exactly sure what happened all the time :D

tinytouchtales 2013-05-03 22:12

Wow lovely, you can feel the joy of making it!

seconddimension 2013-05-04 00:09

Oh man it looks so lovely, the whole atmosphere was amazing. I completed it, and frankly was left with more questions than answers. I want to know why my guy was stuck in his little apartment above the trees.

dotteri 2013-05-04 16:09

The end is funny XD. An outstanding game.

bender 2013-05-05 13:55

I'm impressed by the visual style of this game. Finished it, was worth playing. A little short.

zyxer 2013-05-05 20:18

Great work :D would have liked for the game to go on.

komiga 2013-05-05 21:45

The game getting stuck in pause mode (under Chromium 25.0.1364.172 on Ubuntu 12.04) is preventing me from writing my notes.

I like the atmosphere, but I'll wait for a fix before I vote.

brighterorange 2013-05-06 01:42

I love the graphics. They're perfect. The game was hard to follow... I didn't understand why objects went together and it just became an n^2 hunt. I thought it was going to be that the hyper tube is a cloning machine and you kill and eat your clone and save his head for later! THAT WOULD BE DARK

euwaku 2013-05-06 02:12

Great mood, great graphics, great music. But...

[SPOILER]

So the minimalism was the end? Hummmm that totally broke the global atmosphere :D

minionstudios 2013-05-07 21:57

Honestly, this is polished and wonderful. This is what games are all about. Please do a huge full game based on this storyline alone. So freakin rad.

rezoner 2013-05-08 13:51

Why so short! Awesome mood ruined by the cliche farting-humour in the end. Reminds me of Dreamweb (dos/amiga). Five stars everywhere - except humour (:

aquilicoco 2013-05-08 14:31

Love the pixel art style.
Good work!

degtyarev 2013-05-08 16:23

Beautiful game!

turbodindon 2013-05-09 07:12

Great graphics and atmosphere! I really like it.

beldarak 2013-05-09 21:10

Loved the ambiance and graphics

8bitpimp 2013-05-09 21:52

A whole bunch of awesome!!

jonnopon3000 2013-05-11 13:52

Great visuals, and the atmosphere you've pulled off is impressive for a short-form project like this. Very nice indeed!

lasergans 2013-05-12 09:53

Great art and idea. The ending was lame, I'm looking forward to your post compo ;)

sheep 2013-05-13 17:58

Oooookay... The puzzles were very frustrating due to their nonsese, but the ending is satisfying.

lorancou 2013-05-13 21:07

Great game ... I want more :-)

angerus 2013-05-14 09:44

Nice little humanarium, amused by some animations, actions or discoveries but at the end, it was a bit boring :/. Still, there is some good vibe coming from it!

ahm99 2013-05-15 02:59

2 words...FULL GAME!

atraxgames 2013-05-15 12:41

Cool graphics, mood and sound, the end is well...I hope the post-compo version has a more computed story :|

xanjos 2013-05-16 20:39

Kinda enjoyed this game. Loved the visual style and the humour was alright even though the story/puzzles were a bit nonsensical.

spiridion 2013-05-16 21:13

Been wanting to play this since I saw the preview posts during the compo, but only just now got to it. It was both a bit slow and a bit short. The slowness was mainly due to the randomness of how things went together. The shortness, I suspect, is exactly why my game is short (darn time constraints). BTW, in Firefox, if the browser window is too small and you scroll a bit too see, the mouse detection is off. Fun point&click overall though.

stqn 2013-05-17 02:49

Great graphics and nice audio (although not looping), but I didn't understand what to do apart from cooking a couple things... Does clicking on inventory objects do something? Not really fun clicking on stuff everywhere and not seeing anything happen. Works very well in Firefox 21 though.

bloatedhippo 2013-05-17 03:26

I dig it!!

misaelk 2013-05-17 04:02

Almost as nonsensical as pretty.

mortus 2013-05-17 06:22

At first I was like: WOAH, cool graphics! Then I was like: meh, what a boring game. And then I finished it and laughed like 10 minutes straight! Great job guys!

atkinssj 2013-05-17 09:41

You're right, the puzzles were nonsensical. But I still love this. The graphics are perfect, especially with the parallax thing you have going on. Perfectly slow and atmospheric. :)

avidgamernino 2013-05-17 20:38

I love it. The art and animations are so awesome.

pereubu 2013-05-18 22:08

Having seen the ending, I can just make a minimal comment :
Wow

purplescape 2013-05-20 21:48

Beautiful graphics and atmosphere you created here, excellent work!

mes 2013-05-22 13:51

excellent graphics and nice music choice (which has gone completely uncredited???). i feel like you could have had a nice small story here instead of just random object interactions...