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Escape the Minimalism

By klianc09

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun253.82
Coolness1100
Mood533.74
Overall593.73
Theme643.93
Humor1112.92
Audio1153.46
Innovation1383.38
Graphics1813.59

Comments

lasergans 2013-04-29 22:08

Good job! Very cool mechanic and good use of the theme. I had fun playing :)

sboerwinkle 2013-04-29 22:19

Great game; kept me playing for a while. Took me a bit to set up java 7, but worth it.

hockeygoalie5 2013-04-29 23:18

Great use of the theme! I found it difficult myself, but fun nonetheless!

ryebread761 2013-04-30 00:03

Neat but hard

dax 2013-04-30 00:07

My reaction after taking my first star http://i.imgur.com/IBpzrwS.gif
Cool game

thechris 2013-04-30 09:37

I was gonna stop playing, then I picked up a star and it got like 1000 times better.

kefir 2013-04-30 11:53

Best mood! :)

spierek 2013-04-30 12:11

Great play on the theme. I love the moment when you grab that star and the entire world is like WHOA.

untitledq 2013-04-30 12:14

Best "I'll smack the topic in the face!" submission I've seen yet. Great fun!

eshredder 2013-04-30 12:16

The game looks pretty dull and OH MY GOD COLOURS AND MUSIC!

This game was amazing. Just amazing. The music was fitting well and the game paces really well. The fade out effect of the star power was a really nice touch.

I did find one issue though. The landing seemed a bit dodgy, visually. It did not affect the gameplay as far as I noticed.

ashdnazg 2013-04-30 12:18

Wonderful game!
Challenging and addicting!

klianc09 2013-04-30 13:24

Thank you for all your wonderful feedback ^^ wasn't expecting that people could actually like it.
I also didn't expect it to be too hard. And I nearly made the mistake and made the "intro" too long ... I hope it doesn't stop too much people from getting into the game.

@UntitledQ: that's exactly what I was aiming for.
@eShredder: that's because I added a wall slide animation to it last minute (hour) and it seems sometimes when you land fast enough you are inside the floor for one frame and then it triggers the wall slide animation, haven't gotten to fix it yet.

pplo 2013-04-30 18:57

Nice plateformer! I was really surprised when the dull world transform itself in a rainbowy world for the first time! Good work. And thank you for having a "configure" option (WASD movements + AZERTY keyboard = broken wrists).
However, I had musical glitches : music plays for 1 sec with a very distorted sound, then stop, then play for 1 millisec when I hit a balloon ... strange.
I also liked how you put the potato in your game :)

kernel_panic 2013-04-30 20:54

Monochrome... Monochrome... AAHHH! MUSICAL RAINBOWS!!!
Nice platformer. The jelly fish parts were tricky.

purplescape 2013-04-30 22:15

I love this game so much! It's awesome! Great concept and execution, it's fun.

naufr4g0 2013-05-01 01:05

Nice mechanic and really good use of colors! :D
Levels are really hard further.

smilingrob 2013-05-01 03:02

Nice way to rebel against the theme, but still apply it. Great job making it feel much better in the non-minimal world. Even though I didn't mind the theme, the minimal world in your game is much worse.

goerp 2013-05-01 19:30

Hey, don't feel bad about using the music. It was great and was indeed adding greatly to the vibe of the game!
I loved this!

pixelfan 2013-05-02 12:20

Epic game! i love it

joshua 2013-05-02 12:31

Really good entry! Everything seemed to work nicely together :)

killedbyapixel 2013-05-03 17:01

Way trippy! Solid platforming mechanics, good level design. It seems like you give the star at the very beginning of most of these levels, maybe it would be better if there was more down time to experience the minimalism.

HelkeGames 2013-05-04 14:28

Nice game i liked the graphic great job ! ;)

clavus 2013-05-04 14:50

Great game, the powerup mechanic is really cool.

tuxedofish 2013-05-04 19:56

the beginning was so cool and i was like oo an intresting story maybe and then the music started and it just became fast paced and it was just so fun to play although i rage quit on like the 4th or 5th level with the octapus because i died so much ;p nice difficulty curve though

granada 2013-05-04 20:17

Loved this game! Really nice! Good thing the animation against the wall. Good job!

tainted_code 2013-05-04 20:20

Hahaha! "Here is your potato, happy?" made me laugh xD GREAT game!

megabrutal 2013-05-04 21:53

Good idea! It gets quite frustrating; at a certain point I gave it up - maybe on the 2nd or 3rd test level. I had fun regardless, and I really liked the mechanics. :)

The sound stuttered, but it's supposedly my local problem. :(

klianc09 2013-05-05 18:00

@PPLo & MegaBrutal: I never got to explain it, but the music starts to fade out/slow down continuously and you have to keep collecting stuff so it won't stop.

@KilledByAPixel: Yeah, I eventually forgot about that, the minimalistic world gets too short. I also skimped on the story.

@Everyone: Sorry if it made you rage-quit, I simply tend to make games too hard. But it seems that most people enjoy to have a challenge. :)

tifu 2013-05-05 21:43

I like the use of theme, was pretty fun and challenging!

eatenalive3 2013-05-06 00:31

Awesome! The sound didn't work the first time, so after I beat it, I restarted the application.. and played through it again because the music and sound are awesome!

scriptorum 2013-05-08 19:49

Dammit. I couldn't escape the minimalism!

eggdestroyer 2013-05-11 11:09

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this that much, as I'm usually not fond of "random platformers". But you managed to put a very strong atmosphere, really. I also felt like some color-addict who wanted more drugs. I disliked the theme and I love the way you used it backwards. Excellent work, really, I like it !! Too bad the controls are so stiff, a smoother jump could've been better as your game is already quite hard.
Also, this "random volume shifting" may be a bug but I enjoyed it a lot :D And I appreciate your note about music !

maple 2013-05-11 12:55

I want to try this but for some reason the site is timing out when I try to load it...?
"The connection has timed out
The server at www.klianc09.bplaced.net is taking too long to respond."
I guess I'll try again later.

maple 2013-05-13 12:14

Ah, I was able to play it.
Pretty cool concept. It's a shame that the audio wasn't stable. Also, I felt like it was a little too hard to control at times, like going over the balloons in the air. I did manage to get to the end with the potato though. Pretty good entry.

xaychru04 2013-05-18 11:19

Great concept, pretty minimalist game, I liked the rainbow walls, that fits well with the music. Good job ;)
(And by the way, I discovered an amazing chipstep artist)

diningphilosopher 2013-05-19 10:50

Very nice game! I like the music you have chosen, and the funky rainbow colors. ^^
By the way, the first time I failed a level, I didn't know how to restart, since 'Press SPACE to retry' was in white letters on a white background.

klianc09 2013-05-19 19:13

@EggDestroyer: Yes, jump height depending on the duration you hold down the jump key comes in the post-jam version ALSO why would you enjoy random volume shifting?

@Xaychru04: I really like to spread the word, since I think Kubbi doesn't get the recognition he deserves doing such great stuff (and for free)

@Dining Philosopher: yeah... I knew about the problem with the white font on white walls since very long, but I always forgot to fix it...