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Dragon Drop

By brighterorange

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor64.15
Coolness279
Innovation384.06
Mood1443.50
Graphics1513.77
Theme1534.00
Overall1673.64
Fun1983.44
Audio10881.13

Comments

zinfandel 2013-04-29 12:24

Is there something else besides solitaire?

tonic 2013-04-29 12:26

Haha, funny thing with the interface. :D

lrdkzrth 2013-04-29 12:39

Very good ;)

brighterorange 2013-04-29 13:35

Yes.

terra 2013-04-29 17:06

Oh wow this is so great! I love it

optimality 2013-04-29 17:23

Very nice :).

niallm 2013-04-29 17:29

Took me a while to figure it out, but this is fantastic. Really really cool :D

shohs 2013-04-30 01:06

That was pretty clever with the interface.

aneeslol 2013-05-01 02:48

Hilarious and nostalgic!

messiano 2013-05-01 23:14

Cool!! :)

anjack 2013-05-01 23:19

It took me a minute, but this is awesome! Very well done!

sparkleswirl 2013-05-01 23:27

Brilliant. What looks like a crappy solitaire rip off is actually an ingenious puzzle game wrapped in nostalgia. Nicely done!

meta87 2013-05-02 00:58

Thanks for checking out my game! Hehe I had fun with your game nice job :) That's a lot of work from scratch

dalbinblue 2013-05-02 03:52

Okay. I almost rated you low for a simple port solitaire; then I thought, well this may be the persons first game and was learning a tool so I went back and looked at whether or not you had done LD before and saw a bunch of games and realized some thing is not right here. You gave some really subtle clues I missed the first time, and some good misdirection in the comments. Well played sir.

stqn 2013-05-02 05:16

Every mouse action blocks for a couple seconds which makes this game painful to use. (Tried on Firefox 20 and Midori, same result.)

dbralir 2013-05-02 06:01

Very interesting, although the mouse is super laggy. It's still playable, though, nice job!

brighterorange 2013-05-02 13:00

Thanks for sticking with it, those that did; I hope it was rewarding!

It does need a fast computer or a fast browser, sorry. :)

stqn 2013-05-02 16:01

3.2 GHz dual core Core i3 isn't fast enough? What do we need to play your game?

brighterorange 2013-05-02 21:45

I don't know, it may depend on the browser. It works ok for me on my Air in Safari or Chrome.

ragzouken 2013-05-02 22:34

Nice take on the theme. A very interesting puzzle!

radmars 2013-05-02 23:20

Yeah the performance issues seem more browser dependent - for me (i7, so presumably no hardware issues, heh), Firefox is almost unplayable since the screen hardly ever updates while dragging - on the other hand Chrome is perfectly fine.

norgg 2013-05-03 00:04

Despite having realised that it wasn't the point I had to go complete the solitaire game anyway. So awesome.

l 2013-05-03 08:28

I love the secret way to cheat at the game. It's the most beautiful, simple "cheat" I've seen in a videogame in a long time. Six stars.

ncgames 2013-05-03 17:30

ha. fantastic

glbs 2013-05-03 22:36

You made my LD, it was really an experience! (and I almost gave up to the first game as I didn't understand the point, when a lucky move of the mouse sent me in a different space)

lidfrid 2013-05-04 08:49

Humor in this! :) I like that the card has no image :D

tifu 2013-05-04 13:17

My mind was blown. Great idea!
Not sure how to progress further, or if I can, and don't want to post spoilers to find out :P

fabienporee 2013-05-04 16:10

This is wonderful :3

ilo 2013-05-05 02:16

Very clever. The subtlety and delivery of hints were spot on I thought.

jod 2013-05-05 13:12

Haha, this was really funny. Took me a while to figure out, loved it. Very clever.

kevinzuhn 2013-05-05 15:12

This really blew me away with its hidden layers! I'm also glad there are plenty of ways to goof off in addition to solving the main problem. Excellent use of theme, and generally a super charming experience!

andrewshouldice 2013-05-05 18:17

9999 out of 5 for Innovation and Theme.

aeveis 2013-05-05 18:52

Not sure if I can figure out the actual ending but very interesting interactions. :)

juniorus 2013-05-05 21:12

You make me smile :D

euwaku 2013-05-06 02:57

Nice inception!

[SPOILER]
Any clue for how to beat the game? I think the trick is to close everything exploiting a bug. So far I could duplicate many icons but not really make them disappear. Maybe gathering all the icons in one window you could close would do the trick but I couldn't manage to do that...

brighterorange 2013-05-06 12:26

There's some help within the game if you need it.

tifu 2013-05-06 23:01

ooh! Solved it :D

misaelk 2013-05-07 05:20

Took me a while to understand what goes where, very clever.

cakencode 2013-05-08 06:40

Really cool! I didn't notice that you could min the window. :) The solitaire was tricky and it was an interesting take on the minimalism theme. Great work!

taro 2013-05-09 05:11

I'm not sure I found the right way to win this game (e.g. clean the desktop), but it was nostalgic while it lasted.

lizengland 2013-05-13 19:42

I normally skip the comments and go right to the game - I am so glad I came back to read them. I loved this and that sense of discovery (especially when it comes to breaking the 4th wall).

johnnysix 2013-05-15 20:48

Loved the nostalgia, the content so rich too. Five stars for Innovation and theme. :D

lu3mm3l 2013-05-15 21:48

So much to explore...nice entry!

superdisk 2013-05-15 22:49

I won! Ending sucked though.

Still, great recreation of Windows 3.1 and the initial surprise of closing Dragondrop.

johnfn 2013-05-15 23:20

What a cute game. I beat all the games before realizing that didn't really help me achieve my end goal, heh.

The ending was very minimalistic ;-)

minionstudios 2013-05-15 23:45

Perfect! full interface!

snoringfrog 2013-05-16 09:28

Haha, very nice! Almost didn't catch what I needed to do at first.

martin_monosys 2013-05-16 18:20

Hey that's great, very good work for the short time given...

spiridion 2013-05-19 21:29

For those complaining about lag, it's most likely your browser. Same computer, ran it in Firefox and it was painfully slow. Ran in Chrome, was smooth as it should be. This mimics my experience with other Javascript games (both in compo and my own). Javascript/HTML5 just isn't very consistent yet...

Very interesting take on the theme :P Not much for replayability, but it was interesting and nostalgic.

klianc09 2013-05-19 21:56

Well done, really risky doing something like this, but innovation knows no boundaries^^
PS.: my screen is now only black, did I win?

ashdnazg 2013-05-20 08:36

Well done!

thepsc1997 2013-05-20 13:32

Woooow! "Windows 7 for Workgroups"! Love it! ;>
Very good job ;-)