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I Dream Of Circles

By spacebears

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness361
Humor1952.47
Mood2023.16
Audio3032.81
Theme3043.18
Innovation3762.62
Overall4382.71
Fun4822.26
Graphics4922.32

Comments

longcatlover 2013-04-28 21:38

What language was this made in?

spacebears 2013-04-28 23:02

We programmed it in java using greenfoot.

ym 2013-04-29 13:04

I'm not sure if falling through the blocks more and more as the game goes on was intentional, but it stopped me progressing beyond the first screen of circcledom :(

spacebears 2013-04-29 19:19

haha yeah that was sort of the point with the story... if u can get by that the story and game gets much better u r close to the end of tyhe game

spacebears 2013-04-29 19:26

U have to continuosly jump to get thru those block

spacebears 2013-04-29 20:31

Sorry about the last few comments. That is a glitch that we were not able to fix. To get past the glitch, you must just jump repeatedly on the moving blocks.

lerc 2013-04-29 23:00

Wow, The story elevates this well beyond your average platformer. The end sequence got me in the feels.

spacebears 2013-04-30 11:36

Thanks for your support!

fishbrain 2013-04-30 12:45

Really nice work! (falling through blocks can be a little frustrating) The music and text give a great atmosphere.

theawesomeprogrammer 2013-04-30 12:49

The collision is a little off, but it is a fun game ;D

davidpeter 2013-04-30 12:51

Congrats on finishing your first LD on your first try! The controls were a bit frustrating. It felt like a lot of pixel-perfect jumping. Also, dat ending.

albertosm 2013-04-30 12:51

This game is confusing sometimes...I couldn't pay much attention to the text while playing.Also the level design is not mixed well with the main mechanics (when theres a gap between you and another platform on a higher level, its hard to reach it). Nice work though.

wulotmp 2013-04-30 12:52

Great idea, but really hard :P

onlyslightly 2013-04-30 12:54

Loved the story. The controls and collision detection might be a bit frustrating though

madball 2013-04-30 12:55

The game is too little. Even the story is too little. I think you need to put it other way. Played it twice to make sure I understand the story.
Controls were awful. It seems that falling into blocks is on purpose, but flying through the half of the block didn't look any good.

ithildin 2013-04-30 15:39

Congratulations for finishing =)

As others have mentioned, you should work a bit more on controls and, specially, collisions. It's one thing to have a challenging platformer where you need to calculate jumps to the pixel, and another to see objects overlapping most of the time.

spacebears 2013-04-30 20:10

Thanks for your support! Yeah we need to work that out... we unfortunately could not figure out how to work around the current collision issues in the time given but we are still working on them now!

killedbyapixel 2013-05-01 23:33

Cool graphics style. Double jump feels good. I made it all the way through. There is a some rendering glitches causing pixel to show on the edges of some textures like the spikes. Maybe try using the wrap or border color render states. Frame rate seemed to drop when a lot of stuff was on screen.

killedbyapixel 2013-05-01 23:38

Oops, disregard my previous comment that was meant for another game!

I really like your idea of evolving into a circle but I had to give up because the collision detection was too hard to deal with. Good music and I like the visuals but it's too hard to play. Also maybe the player could jump a bit higher.

pvwradtke 2013-05-02 00:31

Nice, but found it hard to get through because of the collision glitch. Try to do a post-compo fix, this would improve a lot the play value.

bvanschooten 2013-05-02 19:57

Some of the jumps are impossible! I don't advice having the player fall through invisible holes.

cheezey 2013-05-11 13:23

The physics are awful. The game is almost unplayable.

zappi 2013-05-11 13:30

Brilliant little story, cool atmospehere and minimalistic sound and graphics – I'm loving it! Even frustrating collision detection doesn't irritate too much :)

benjamin-soule 2013-05-11 16:02

Nice story, the platform engine is messy but you still managed to build a very good game by adding a good plot and music.

garethiw 2013-05-15 12:42

Frustrating collision detection, but I liked the idea and story :)

my-milked-eek 2013-05-15 14:01

I laughed at the ending. ++

But as others said, too frustrating.
Also, the download size is too big for what it is. I'm sure it's GreenFoot that jacks up the size, but still...

stqn 2013-05-17 01:52

The Linux link points to some photo web site...