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Save the Potato, Save the world.

By johnnysix

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics114.41
Coolness293
Overall294.01
Audio323.95
Fun563.77
Humor623.60
Mood1523.49
Innovation5243.16
Theme10223.00

Comments

gilmore606 2013-04-28 23:38

Holy crap, great work. Really nice animation, very polished. And fun!

ace 2013-04-29 08:20

Really nicely done, I like the way the level appears around you while you play, leads to many interesting deaths.
The talking potatoes are a nice touch too.

loxo 2013-04-29 09:18

This is great! Incredible graphics and animations. And all the potatoes.

whiteravens 2013-04-29 19:09

Well created, and great graphics!

deige101 2013-04-29 20:18

very polished, very cool <3

masadow 2013-04-29 20:20

A bit hard, but crazy game ! 6 stars for the theme :D

pythong 2013-04-29 20:22

i love the music! what did you use to make that?

meep 2013-04-29 20:22

I really loved the art/animation of this! The environment appearing as you approach kind of reminds me of Bastion; a very nice touch! Great work! :)

johnnysix 2013-04-29 20:23

I dunno if the sound is working for non-windows people, but it has some custom music & sound too, thought it may not be to everyone's tastes, I was playing it on the train tonight and no-one really appreciated the glory of chiptune through my tinny mono phone speaker.

scriptorum 2013-04-29 20:25

I love the robot animation! Nice work.

andres-b-gonzalez 2013-04-29 21:31

Best game at the moment, i love the graphics.

andres-b-gonzalez 2013-04-29 21:34

Best game at the moment, i love the graphics. Very nice gameplay mechanics, cool music.

delfino 2013-04-29 22:24

Great audio and graphics! Good job

rezoner 2013-04-29 22:24

Epic graphics, I kind of don't like making jumps of faith, but great entry overall.

lioneljitro 2013-04-29 22:25

LOVE the graphics style, well all the styles all of them.

Great use of the should have been theme as well.

bloogloo 2013-04-29 22:26

lol, awesome graphics. I especially like the various jumping animations haha

alwaysinbeta 2013-04-29 22:26

Fantastic game. Loved the character animations. Will def come back to play this again :)

bloogloo 2013-04-29 22:27

Ah, no, the music doesn't work on my mac. It would really help!

theomnis 2013-04-29 22:29

The animation in this is great, especially the pickup anim.

psychomonster 2013-04-29 22:30

Nice game... love the pixel artwork. Great animation. In my personal Top 5 at the moment.

sonnybone 2013-04-29 22:31

AWESOME! Great animations, nice sprites, funky ass music, and hilarious taterz!

kunonooni 2013-04-29 22:35

I think I played this game on the NES back in the 80's! HAHA! What a great game, good mechanics, great use of theme and I really liked the music and how the level fades in as new part become accessible.

dem0 2013-04-30 00:21

Gfx and sfx are really cool. A really nice little platformer.

psenfilip 2013-04-30 05:33

You nailed the core platformer mechanics on there. Solid gameplay.
I think that the art side of things really pumped the overall aspect of the game. Very funny at various points as well. Good Job

roguenoodle 2013-04-30 09:10

Man, great entry - the visuals specifically really stood out (and even more specifically, the fading in and out of the level). Great stuff!

mathio 2013-04-30 11:02

Wow, terrific animation and music! Especially the picking up animation and the lose theme.

_rilem 2013-04-30 12:58

This game was hard as balls o.o

Very fun, nice graphics and audio. :)

zatyka 2013-04-30 13:39

Challenging, but very fun. Never got boring with such diverse level mechanics. Awesome graphics too!

saggiosoft 2013-04-30 18:48

Funny! It requires a lot of diligence...

hello23 2013-04-30 20:54

POTATOES ! I liked the graphics and the player animation. The music is nice. I liked that the far blocks disappear. A bit hard, I didn't manage to even get one potato to the sack. 5/5

morgawr 2013-05-01 08:05

Really good game, graphics were pleasant, audio catchy. Nice one!

yann 2013-05-01 10:10

Ok first minute: holy crap, what is that? where I go? what do I do with this rock potato taters.
After this first phase, few death and finally reaching the bag (oh you were there all along?)... I told myself "wow... those 4 taters? without dying?.... And then little by little, starting from the furthest away (most difficult) to avoid having to redo everything each time.

Overall nice idea and graphics. Discovered toward the end that you could wall jump ("ho... can be usefull").

And well done with the animation (:

dbralir 2013-05-01 22:41

Amazing game, I love the aesthetic. The rectangles that appear over blocks as you move around are awesome. The music is great, as well. Definitely one of the best games I've seen so far.

hamumu 2013-05-02 23:41

WHOA too hard for me. I did manage to save one tater. Maybe let me at least have 3 lives? The potato-pick-up animation is really double awesome. The super ultra insane jump height is less awesome.

tyro 2013-05-03 01:50

Wow. That's some fine pixel work, that there. I particularly enjoy how expressive the robot is while jumping. The premise was simple and fun, and who doesn't love seeing a giant, expressive "LOSE" when they fall to their death?

I give this one four spuds out of five. You might even say it's "tuber" great.

minionstudios 2013-05-03 02:56

This had some great animations and an amazing overall consistency!

aquilicoco 2013-05-03 06:48

Good work! i loved the graphics.

alucard-j 2013-05-04 12:30

This was fun but also a challenge. The animations look great and the sounds suited the whole look/feel. I really liked the field of view aspect. Well Done =]

lu3mm3l 2013-05-04 19:53

One of the best I've played so far! Love the art & music package.

ethankennerly 2013-05-04 21:59

The animations, ambient flickering tiles fascinated me. Clever platform puzzle. If you continue to develop this, it was not clear to me that orange blocks with a "?" question mark on them would be destroyed when I stepped on them. I quickly realized this, yet I was at first expecting some power up, like in Super Mario Bros. Similarly I didn't understand the blocks with the "!" exclamation mark.

bonezoner 2013-05-04 23:39

Great platforming, controls are tight and responsive! Level design is nice too, all around excellent job :)

nangie 2013-05-05 12:24

It's awesome, your graphics are so smooth *o* congrats !

seconddimension 2013-05-05 21:55

Whoa awesome music! The game itself I found a bit tough, but the overall visuals and atmosphere were pretty amazing. It was fun and coherent as a whole. Plus seriously, awesome music

onzephyr 2013-05-06 03:39

Absolutely love the art, great style and animation. Gameplay was fun and the difficulty and exploration seemed just right.

zccc 2013-05-06 16:04

Very nice, I loved it, but only saved 3 potatoes :( And there are a lot of effects on the screen and the character moves too fast, making it hard!

matthias_zarzecki 2013-05-08 19:11

Robotater is a great name. Solid game! Love the music

euwaku 2013-05-11 18:32

5 Stars for the retro music. Amazing graphics/visual effects and very fun game. Too bad it's so hard!!
Also... wrong theme? :D

tsuki_usagi 2013-05-13 03:29

only saved 4 potatos xD

but very nice and fun! and the music...*^*

just one thing:
I got stuck one time and a lot of potatoes appeared, is it normal? (and dying by themselves lol)

plop 2013-05-13 09:36

Wow, great game, incredible work!

plop 2013-05-13 09:37

Wow, great game! Audio, art and gameplay all polished

johnnysix 2013-05-13 20:13

I forgot to remove debug mode, so you can spawn potatoes with the secret key lol!

tater_hater 2013-05-13 22:55

wow, great game

heyzeus 2013-05-13 23:07

I like the retro style, awesome idea.

stqn 2013-05-15 13:15

Linux version doesn't work on Arch Linux 64 bit:
./robotater: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I played the web version. Great music and graphics! Even though the framerate was a bit low, the game reacted well to key presses. However I didn't understand what the "!" squares were for and abandonned after dying too many times on the spikes. Restarting from the last point were the character was touching the ground instead of restarting from the beginning would be nice!

johnnysix 2013-05-15 20:57

Hmm - maybe I can take the linux link down - it was just because the program I use had an exporter for node-webkit. I thought about the respawn thing, but the potatoes also die on the spikes, so it could get kinda complex trying to figure out balance.

xanjos 2013-05-17 00:26

Pretty fun game even though it was a bit short. Loved the animations and the music was very cool. Would definitely love to see some more levels.

madball 2013-05-17 11:22

Graphics and sounds were great, but the gameplay wasn`t.
Controls were a bit uncomfortable. Sometimes keys stick, which often leads to a loss.
I found about walljumps and action of "!" blocks only by the end of the game, and the game is completable without them. Write about each feature of the game, don`t make players figure out.
"X" blocks require you to be directly below it. If you jump from beneath, but you are under another block, it won`t destroy.
Blindness effect was unneeded. The screen is quiet small, so I wouldn`t see much anyway.
The level design was not good. You wanted me to plan ahead, but all taters can be delivered without planning at all.