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Minimality

By nightshadow0

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Humor3501.85
Audio6352.56
Innovation9412.59
Graphics7702.75
Mood4792.19
Theme12292.65
Overall10182.71
Fun10482.41

Comments

jolle 2013-04-29 20:46

Music is very, very loud.

Takes a while before there's any challenge. Being able to shoot would probably be more fun, but not as minimal, I agree.

psychomonster 2013-04-29 20:46

Needs a little bit more speed... but i like the pacifistic gameplay...

jolle 2013-04-29 20:46

Music is very, very loud.

Takes a while before there's any challenge. Being able to shoot would probably be more fun, but not as minimal I guess.

toastyabraham 2013-04-29 20:47

Great spaceship graphics

norritt42 2013-04-29 20:49

I like it but the mouse for movement would have been better. Since that would make it easier to move. And there is no way to shoot right? But over all i like it and the sound is grate.

cosmologicon 2013-04-29 20:49

Clever mechanic, it really made me hate how big my ship was. It was fun getting the hang of shrinking down and maneuvering around obstacles. I wish it were a bit faster, is all. It took a long time for it to really get going, I felt.

jolle 2013-04-29 20:50

Sorry for the comment spam, wasn't meant to be two comments to start with, and I can't edit them apparently, and I need to say that the music thing was my flash player being really silly. Volume is fine!

finefin 2013-04-29 21:11

the asteroid looks like gollum!

thevideogamemechanic 2013-04-29 22:12

No sound in space, except for thumping dance-techno.

nightshadow0 2013-04-30 09:03

Thank you all for the comments!
I agree that the game takes too long to take off, will tweak that after the compo.
And i thought everyone knew that stars radiate techno music :)

ataxkt 2013-04-30 13:10

No sound in space, but there's a techno soundtrack? ;) Takes a while to get hard, which is a shame, I like the core idea.

yacodo 2013-04-30 15:55

Can tell I it slow or if my computer can't run it ? Really slow :/

qdowngames 2013-04-30 21:57

Well it's very slow to start, wish there was a tad more feedback to the player and "feel" to the game. I can see what you were getting at though!

hypnohustla 2013-04-30 22:07

Good effort going on here :)

someguy22 2013-04-30 22:15

Fun but slow and graphics could use animation

adventureislands 2013-05-01 11:30

There is no sound in space. Except for very loud techno.
Pretty well done game. It could be a lot faster though. The shrinking effect was done well, but there could have been a bit more situations to use it for instead of just the blue walls.

garethiw 2013-05-03 19:04

A little slow to get started, but not bad thereafter!

sekaru 2013-05-03 19:07

Liked the concept but yeah definitely needed to be a bit faster-paced.

pvwradtke 2013-05-05 02:24

Shrinking the space ship, now that's something different as far as shmups go. I also like the humor to justify the lack of sound effects. The background and asteroids need some work, but the ships designs are well done for a 48 hour effort.

nightshadow0 2013-05-05 18:25

Thank you all!
I should clarify that the ships and asteroids aren't mine, i got them off OpenGameArt.

thesarcastic 2013-05-05 19:59

Isn't weird that once I let go of the spacebar my bar still goes down?

nightshadow0 2013-05-06 20:34

The Hold bar is how long you'll stay shrunk and is always decreasing, basically the more you shrink the less time you'll stay that way.

milo 2013-05-06 22:26

I like that the theme in this game is a tool available (or further, essential) to the player. I'd love to see it developed further (since at the moment, I only have to use it with the beam obstacles and it'd be cool if there were more challenging uses of it that were necessary), but it's a fairly solid game as it is.

rawbits 2013-05-17 20:53

Boring - action comes very late.

The music is nice but isn't fitting the slow paced action.

The shrinking mechanism is a pretty good idea but the implementation could use some more thinking. I can't put my finger on it though, sorry.