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SSSS : Super Simple Smart Shooter

By nekith

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness369
Theme5453.55
Fun5722.97
Graphics6152.95
Overall6903.05
Mood7322.71
Innovation8512.74
Audio8532.19

Comments

matthias_zarzecki 2013-04-29 10:38

Nice ammo-mechanic! Making the enemies drop it periodically is a great move.

sebastian 2013-04-29 10:38

I really like the colour scheme, controls are a tad sensitive in my opinion though.

san 2013-04-29 10:40

Remembers me Osmos.

tiffi 2013-04-29 10:42

good game + destroyable level? --> great!

indieretro 2013-04-29 16:43

Not bad! :)

comrad_gremlin 2013-04-29 17:27

Neat. Interesting ammo / life picking stuff :) I also liked that you can move freely through the field.

alvaroh 2013-04-29 17:57

Simply but funny game!

bastiandantilus 2013-04-29 17:59

Ha, pretty great. I wish you could get more than one shot per ammo, though... and the ammo disappearing right before I grabbed it a few times made it that much more frustrating.

thesambassador 2013-04-29 18:00

Got a score of 87 on my first try. Nice game! Fun and the entire "pick up too much ammo and you'll get slowed down" is a good take on "minimalism". That said, you really don't get slowed down much, and I found myself mostly sitting on 2-3 ammo with no problems.

cogcomp 2013-04-29 18:02

Really smooth game experience. Though I would really have liked a HUD showing my current score. When one of the enemies aimed straight at me and took several shots to kill I was happily surprised, but a bit disapointed with only receiving 1 bonus-thingy for it. :-)

nekith 2013-04-29 18:59

Thank all of you :)

I understand that some choices were "false good" ones and pretty much agreed with all you've written.

Maybe I'll try to write a "post mortem" telling why I make some of these choices. Not sure though.

Anyway, thanks again ! A lot. Will review your games back, of course.

yokcos700 2013-05-02 13:23

Scored 68 first try.
I like the concept of a game wherein collecting ammo also holds a penalty, and (although it wasn't obvious at first) where the number of lives is clearly on display.
Also, the graphics are just complex enough for one to differentiate between objects; the very definition of minimalism.

gungnir 2013-05-03 02:52

I enjoyed playing it and you made some interesting design choices with the ammo and firing. Cool.

smilingcat 2013-05-06 17:13

Pretty cool, liked the ammo mechanic at first, though after the first 30 seconds I felt like I was always out of ammo, and couldn't make any headway against the increasing number of enemies. Maybe boosting number of ammo given by pickups?

realyuniquename 2013-05-06 17:30

While i like the game overall, i don't like to be small - it's hard to collect ammo in this state.