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Garm

By lizzip

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness365
Mood6392.79
Audio6412.55
Humor7142.00
Theme9563.09
Innovation10682.34
Overall11322.56
Fun11412.26
Graphics11592.20

Comments

ashdnazg 2013-04-29 12:14

After a 120 seconds or so I ate all the food, and there was nothing left to interact with. The timer said I have 100 seconds to wait, so I just quit :S

lizzip 2013-04-29 13:18

That's annoying, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Food spawns in sets of 10, when you eat all 10 the next 10 appear and its infinite until time runs out. There's also a bug where "Him" is no longer drawn after ~150 seconds survived or so. I shall fix these and update later today

cheshyr 2013-04-29 16:29

It would have been nice to have some indicator between positive food and negative food. Fun idea though.

cirrial 2013-04-29 17:22

I agree with the previous comments on the lack of distinction between rotten and okay food.

sampotasz 2013-04-29 18:46

I kind of like the lack of distinction esp. as a minimalist meditation on the pointlesness of feedback, videogames, life, love, etc.

lizzip 2013-04-29 19:35

The two bugs mentioned above are fixed/poor workaround. If you cannot find the last food item of a set of 10 (i.e you've found 9 but cannot find the 10th, 19 but cannot find the 20th) press 'R' to spawn 10 new food items and remove the missing one.

In the context of this game it wouldn't make sense to make the good/bad food items distinguishable as this game is based on randomness. If you only got the good stuff you would have infinite time and wouldn't have respawning food. In this game it's your choice to eat the food in the hopes of elongating your time. But I do agree, in a more fleshed out game based on skill instead of randomness then food should be noticeably good or bad

goulding57 2013-04-29 20:05

Can't play, don't have windows :(

lizzip 2013-04-29 20:55

Sorry :( My next LD submission will hopefully be on web to stop OS dependencies

egan 2013-04-30 02:18

Very interesting game. Enjoyed the mechanic that you can't see the world around you. Would have preferred a WASD control scheme than point and click but that is just me.

Great effort.

crneumre 2013-04-30 19:44

Good game,had fun playing it.
Awesome mood.

gremlin 2013-05-04 14:52

Interesting. It seems like you were going for a survival or horror/suspense feel?

I didn't feel like I had too much control over planning my survival--my survival depended more on my ability to keep running. It's skill in execution rather than skill in strategy. I could see that part getting pushed a little further. If the running around was fine-tuned some more it could be a bleak little survival horror game.

The enemy/scary threat in the darkness is a little too arbitrary to be really scary. There are probably a bunch of different ways to help with that...maybe have the time-stealing happen after a moment, so the player has a split second to get further away? Probably lots of ways to do it.

minionstudios 2013-05-04 18:42

I survived and missed item spawn three times! Interesting game!

hd408 2013-05-06 00:50

Tense feeling, and nice work with audio.

After you restart the game, it feels like you just continue the game with new time.

rawbits 2013-05-17 18:41

Minimalistic indeed.

I can't understand why one "food" gives 20 and others take away 10. And why that thing appears that take away seconds and how to counter.

Also never ever use installers for small games and the ones people only plays once! Very annoying!