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Steve Can't Zen

By daanvanyperen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor84.12
Coolness1100
Graphics1753.73
Overall2073.56
Fun2173.40
Mood2473.28
Innovation4053.31
Theme5333.56
Audio6902.47

Comments

lizzip 2013-04-29 16:41

Oh, Steve. Nice, strange game. Though it did crash/close itself after a while

walnoot 2013-04-29 18:09

Had a lot of fun playing this!

hybridmind 2013-04-30 00:57

Hilarious! Got 206,700 points by the end. I'm glad I stuck with it (and didn't break my 'e' key!)

ataxkt 2013-04-30 01:05

Ahah, oh Steve! I love how the rapidfire controls aid the narrative! Well executed. Also, FIREFLY REFERENCE!

neight 2013-04-30 01:06

If only he had left the pie alone. Steve has no use for pie.

berjah 2013-04-30 01:08

Cool game! Steve can indeed zen! Good work.

ilo 2013-04-30 01:09

Brilliant! Loved the humour and the setups for the jokes, and how Steve answer to everything was to fight it. :D

jwolf 2013-04-30 01:16

Very entertaining! A new browser window also works for those of us without a second monitor ;)

victorgrunn 2013-04-30 01:22

Hahaha. Excellent. Loved the humor. Especially the deer. You had fun with this, clearly.

bleating 2013-04-30 01:51

I'm glad I saw that through to the end.

entity2d 2013-04-30 02:31

Cool game, some very nice humour in there.

hardycore 2013-04-30 03:27

Weird game but I liked it. Like ur graphical style!

dustystylus 2013-04-30 12:38

Magnificent. After a few seconds of playing I was like... hmm... and then a few seconds later... waaaaaargh!

wolfadex 2013-04-30 13:08

Great game!

yoni 2013-04-30 13:11

Wonderful game. Only thing that annoyed me was the meditation sound which was pretty annoying

edocentrique 2013-04-30 13:11

Very funny

dertom 2013-04-30 13:57

Hilarious! Good job! 211975 Points and spellt lots of poor Bambi-Blood :p Really enjoyed the game!

timtipgames 2013-04-30 15:37

Awesome. This is one of the games that I will show friends when they ask me if there were notable games in the compo :)

syawqy 2013-04-30 15:39

I can't feel my finger

zappi 2013-04-30 15:45

Very fun! Steve it's great

thatwhichis 2013-04-30 15:46

213325; I think, that, my 'E' key might be broken. lol

daanvanyperen 2013-04-30 16:24

That's a great compliment timtipgames. Thanks for the kind words everyone!

minionstudios 2013-04-30 19:54

Great stuff. Steve can zen. Loved the deer...very funny!

martijn 2013-04-30 21:10

Funny game

multitude 2013-04-30 21:13

the game is fun. you should be able to do more than spamming the e button though. the fight are cool ;)

crashbanito 2013-04-30 21:15

This was pretty fun/funny. Very clever in it's simplicity.

flashrocks 2013-04-30 21:25

This is not the most engaging, or longest LD game ever. But it makes up for it with sheer fun and humor. Who doesn't like humping deer? ;D

xanjos 2013-04-30 21:29

Absolutely loved the humor of the game. Would have rated Audio and Mood higher if there was some appropriate zen-like music playing in the background though.

psychomonster 2013-04-30 23:14

Yeahhh this is so cool!

rodrigomotta 2013-05-01 02:30

Hahahhaa nice man! Congrats. I love the graphics (and the game). So, please, play and rate my game. When you visited the link was broken, now is fixed. Thank you.

adroitboss 2013-05-01 03:05

Super nice seems so cool. Great play through.

madlee 2013-05-01 03:13

Very nice. simple controls, and good humor :)

guardian_bob 2013-05-01 03:39

207275, my e key still works

cosmicadventuresquad 2013-05-01 04:27

I laughed out loud in sheer WTF-ness throughout this game. So bizarre. Great game, so glad I played it all the way through.

-Rosypenguin
(This is a team account)

crazi456 2013-05-01 06:27

That was very amusing!!

ddionisio 2013-05-01 06:42

Good use of game mechanics to convey story telling! I had a good laugh!

vaelzan 2013-05-01 07:21

Nice game and quite funny too! I would have loved the ending to have been Steve passing out from blood loss but all in all I had a pretty good time playing this and loved what you did with the theme.

honcho 2013-05-01 07:51

This is hillarious! Love it.

samoojamies 2013-05-01 08:22

210250pts. Great stuff!

juaxix 2013-05-01 10:09

Our friend Steve is a commonly called demon...dont kill! no-zen at all in this game XD
so violent omg, but fun, an entertainment

patrik 2013-05-01 11:00

Great take on the theme

nilstastic 2013-05-01 12:36

Pros: Nice graphics!
Cons:

udrian 2013-05-01 13:16

There is no greater enemy to the philosophy of Zen than nature. And pie.

Hilarious game, nice Lucasarts/Sierra-ish graphics, animation, writing and font :). Can't find a fault except my e-pressing arm is a bit sore. Good game!

Jeremias 2013-05-01 13:22

As I killed the birds I really laughed. Such a strange change in the way the game felt up to that :D really enjoyed it.

misfit 2013-05-01 13:27

Weird and hilarious little game. Nice retro feeling. Great job!

bytegrove 2013-05-01 13:37

Poor Steve.
One of the best interpretations of the theme I've seen so far. Nice work! :)

gungnir 2013-05-01 14:00

Ah, some ultra-violent catharsis. The PERFECT remedy for all this minimalist cube wrangling!

greenpixeldev 2013-05-01 14:12

Awesome work! Love the art style and I enjoyed punching that pie :D Very funny story, too! The sounds and controls felt like playing on an old Atari and I loved it :D

morgawr 2013-05-01 14:47

This game was really good, gave me an overall nice feeling. I mashed E like crazy too, haha

elektron 2013-05-01 14:50

This was excellent. I never knew before how much I wanted to see a zen master fight a bunch of cute animals.

mesene 2013-05-01 14:58

My arm hurts! nice entry :D!

brotherst 2013-05-01 15:26

Haha really fun and really funny. Hurt my arm pressing the button though, but on the funny bits it only made it funnier.

pplo 2013-05-01 15:38

I liked the humour. Poor Steve, the entire forest try to distract him.

robotality 2013-05-01 15:45

funny little strange game :)

caranha 2013-05-01 15:57

Heh, the game is pretty funny, and the audio and visuals come well together. There was a bit too much button mashing for my tastes, but I know this is what you were going for.

Thanks for the game!

cogcomp 2013-05-01 16:08

I had great fun playing this game!

casino-jack 2013-05-01 16:16

That was the first game to literally make me laugh out loud. Brilliant.

mikel 2013-05-01 17:15

:-D a bit strange but funny

zatyka 2013-05-01 17:52

I don't really know what I just played, but I loved it. Great job!

ithildin 2013-05-01 18:18

This is one of the funniest games I've found so far. Congratulations! :D

zombierockparty 2013-05-01 18:24

Sweet, bizarre, and worth completing!

cinnamonmelonpig 2013-05-01 18:30

nice entry! well done!

dualtagh 2013-05-01 19:22

That escalated quickly! Great game, and cool timelapse!

berkano 2013-05-01 20:02

Literally crying with laughter while playing it. The idea of a meditation-themed button masher really got to me. Ended up bullied by an invincible deer and had to give up.

bradleysmith 2013-05-01 22:10

Love the pixel art and animations! :D

alanzucconi 2013-05-01 23:52

I'm in love with the pixel art you made for this game! *_*

bahamutzaero 2013-05-02 03:18

This has got to be one of my favorite things I have seen come out of this jam. 5 stars, all around! AWESOME work!!

lightnarcissus 2013-05-02 03:44

What a ridiculously fun game. Solid humor and I liked the art too.

pansapiens 2013-05-02 04:36

I love how I had no idea what was going to happen next. The low res pixel art is also very pretty.

Not sure if it was just the WebGL build, but key repeat made it very easy to meditate since no tapping was required.

messiano 2013-05-02 04:58

Brillant! Just loved everything about this. Great art and humor.

danblack 2013-05-02 07:22

Nice graphics, good theme and story. Nice touch with the graphics becoming lower res as he achieves zen :)

lotusgame 2013-05-02 07:47

Very novel story, game well executed, but i don't know why i expected more. Very good work !

meta87 2013-05-02 07:49

so funny perfect graphics great job :D

colapsydo 2013-05-02 08:39

Ah, Nature is so relaxing sometimes.
Steve is in harmony with Nature.

whitetigle 2013-05-02 08:56

oups.. Can't download...

shigor 2013-05-02 09:03

Button smashing was a bit annoying, but great game. One of the few I gave something for humor, the only where I gave 5 stars :) "censored" made my laugh you, which was nasty since it made my ribs hurt :/

mrvanderpants 2013-05-02 09:15

really cool game. Simple yet addictive.

maxszlagor 2013-05-02 15:11

Lol. Clever. Well matched to the theme and entertaining all around.

kyyninen 2013-05-02 16:55

Still running it after two hours to see if anything else happens...

rafaelsales 2013-05-02 18:57

Fun and funny game. I finished it. Congratz!

mrexcessive 2013-05-02 20:51

Cool pixel art. Shame about my broken "e"

badlydrawnrod 2013-05-02 21:21

Very, very funny. I kept playing to see what would happen next and eventually achieved enlightenment. Love the art style.

deepnight 2013-05-02 21:24

Excellent :) Lots of fun and really funny :) The art is great, you did a lot of things in this game for a 48h entry!
Great job.

prelucid 2013-05-02 23:12

Hey this was pretty funny, especially the part with the birds. I can't imagine if this happened to people in real life.

endesga 2013-05-02 23:32

very interesting :)

jellycakes 2013-05-03 00:20

That was really fun. pretty hilarious too. Nice job, glad steve can zen.

beldarak 2013-05-03 01:35

Funny game. Steve charmed me ;)

kurrik 2013-05-03 07:18

This is like a weird wonderful hybrid of Leisure Suit Larry and God of War.

patrickward 2013-05-03 13:50

Fun, twisted game. I loved the way it played, but the fight sequences seemed a little long at times. Great humor. Graphics and audio matched nicely. Well done!

mekuri 2013-05-03 16:30

This game is just epic! A very nice use of the theme, and awesome way to tell the story. I enjoyed myself through the entire game (Though the amount of animals / time spent was a tad too much) All in all a very very good game!!

sonnybone 2013-05-03 20:18

GENIUS!!!

sampotasz 2013-05-03 20:26

This was amazing.

boiuna 2013-05-04 00:36

Hahahaha, very funny and cool game. It was completely unexpected.

smilingcat 2013-05-04 13:23

I lol'd so hard while playing this. Pretty much a button masher, but oh man, sheesh, and with the deer, and...

orni 2013-05-04 13:26

took me some time to understand how to play it - but great game indeed!

the art style is consistent and pure 8-bit awesomeness

very well done :)

madball 2013-05-04 14:38

Hahaha. The funniest game so far. I liked that you can't really lose (or can you?)

mikeware 2013-05-04 14:40

Pretty amazing execution for 48 Hours. A lot went into this. It looks great. Can you actually lose though? It seems like enemies will bloody me up, but other than that, I just have to mash buttons.

jhrrsn 2013-05-04 17:53

Haha, cool idea, and pretty funny. The mob sections are a bit over-long, but other than that it's an entertaining little game!

spiridion 2013-05-04 20:09

Would have preferred two-handed controls, as moving and attacking simultaneously was awkward. Steve's animation reminded me of Little Computer People on the C64.

pabloalexandre31 2013-05-04 20:26

Haha' I almost broke my 'e' key. Good Job!

zccc 2013-05-04 23:37

Ahaha very humorous story! I really liked how it felt like a game within a story. I think you could change the sound of meditating to a more peacefull sound, as it doesn't feel like it with that annoying sound when you press 'e'!!

euwaku 2013-05-05 08:39

Ahah I loved this game, great humor :D

binary_girl 2013-05-05 15:45

ahah ...good stuff :)

GreyShock 2013-05-05 15:46

Great humor, made me laught several times, hahaha. Strange concept and mechanics, and that's good :D

gatechgrad 2013-05-06 00:40

Really cute and nice storytelling. Why won't they just let Steve Zen?

rujomarco 2013-05-06 10:39

funny game, i love the graphic style

atraxgames 2013-05-06 18:22

This is absolutely hilarious, i waited until the end of the credits to read all the gags. Compliments!

rongon 2013-05-06 22:46

Haha, loving this weird/funny games. Steve is the boss :)

uhfgood 2013-05-06 23:54

Hilarious. I did kind of wonder what happened behind the censored sign.

tentontoon 2013-05-07 06:38

Cool entry! I like the craftsmanship of the graphics and the way Steve's sprite changes over time. It's quite fitting of the theme, too, as much of the action is reduced to press (or rather, mash) the 'E' key. Although it doesn't seem to be the optimal choice for the action key when you use WASD to move around.

But the best part, by far, is the writing. The ending is funny as hell!

Not much gameplay in there, though, but a great one-time experience. And an awesome introduction to a character that I'd love to see in other games.

Best score: 207400

Congratulations!

brookman 2013-05-07 15:12

Very nice game with cool ideas. The graphics are well done. The first time, the game crashed, when a bird landed on my head and I pressed Q...

udrian 2013-05-07 18:53

This was really funny ^^

nimblegorilla 2013-05-08 03:32

I like the storyline and over the top pixelated violence.

dector 2013-05-08 08:37

Very nice graphics. And game is a little bit... bloody? :)

aquilicoco 2013-05-08 14:37

Nice game.

brant 2013-05-09 14:36

Funny, varied and unexpected! Cool! The only thing is the meditation mechanic don't feel like really meditation because you're not calmly focusing but angryly mashing a button, but other than that, awesome and congratulations!

tcstyle 2013-05-09 20:08

Game looks great. Had to laugh. Kills my 'E' key ;).

martin_monosys 2013-05-10 19:34

Hmmm... I'm not so sure why cruelty against animals is always concidered great fun at these LDs... :(

daanvanyperen 2013-05-10 23:48

Steve would never hurt actual animals. These are but a manifestation of Steve's inner turmoil!

martin_monosys 2013-05-11 16:03

Yeah, I guess it's something like that, you're right! :) I don't know why I dislike cruelty against animals so much in videogames, as I don't really mind cruelty against people in videogames... Strange! XD

daanvanyperen 2013-05-11 18:39

Time for a game where you beat up Steve for beating up animals!

redpandawastaken 2013-05-12 19:10

Sick animal-beating action and hot deer on deer action, 10/10. Also, props on the creative ending.

ethankennerly 2013-05-12 21:48

Mashing a button to meditate interested me. If you continue to develop this, I was not sure how to leave the first screen.

pacifistgames 2013-05-13 13:51

That was weird.
I didn't like it too much, but I tend to feel that way about games which force me to have my character do things that I wouldn't want them to do...
The part with the -CENSORED- was pretty funny.
Good job!

shawn42 2013-05-18 03:01

Button mashing FTW! Lots of fun!

brassawiking 2013-05-18 13:27

Liked how the dialog was interupted all the time.

jesse111 2013-05-21 00:51

That was amazing. Time's running out and this might be the last game I have a chance to rate before the voting deadline, and it was a great one to end it on!
Very, very high marks.
Also, I've vastly overestimated the gestation period of deer.
Great work!
5/5 across the board!