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Expander

By iossif

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness281
Theme3393.76
Innovation3443.40
Overall4273.29
Fun4583.09
Audio4922.80
Graphics5123.09
Humor7142.00
Mood7672.67

Comments

iossif 2013-04-28 01:58

i forgot to add the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Aaf6jn4bQ

jijaweb 2013-04-28 19:21

Original gameplay. Good work.

tonic 2013-04-30 14:18

Pretty nicely done & fits theme well. Could get faster a bit faster (eh eh).

split82 2013-04-30 14:22

Interesting.

thatwhichis 2013-04-30 14:23

This music. Makes me want to bust phat poetry.

Fun, simple play! I cannot express how many A's I want to add to "expaaaaand!"

awennor 2013-04-30 14:24

The music was great, the sounds a bit annoying but did their job, the mechanic was really good and felt unique, spot on! I think this could be quite a hit as a mobile game. Best Overall game so far!

smilingcat 2013-04-30 14:33

Very interesting concept, simple, yet engaging. This was a lot of fun to play.

haversack 2013-04-30 15:42

Great Fun! Would make an excellent iPad game with a little adjustment and polish!

justinmullin 2013-04-30 15:43

Nice execution, difficulty ramps comfortably. I wasn't sure how the concept of fitting to frame affected overall score. Overall fun. Thanks!

avrec 2013-04-30 15:45

Quite liked it! Definitely nailed the minimalism feel; and the difficulty curve makes it very easy to get in to, yet very satisfying once you've lasted for a while.

gravel 2013-04-30 15:46

Nice realisation, I like the camera and the graphic design, it pushes me to play.
Then the gameplay is interesting and engaging.
Good work!

garethjenkins 2013-05-02 16:27

Great -- would like more ramping in difficulty or just quick/faster in general.

badlydrawnrod 2013-05-03 20:45

Simple, yet very effective. Good work.

yokcos700 2013-05-03 20:46

While the music was repetitive, the unique and simple gameplay had me coming back for more several times. Good job!

zkenshin 2013-05-03 22:41

Pretty fun for such simple game play. Good work. :)

garygreen 2013-05-03 22:44

I really liked the quirky 3d camera angle and music.

seconddimension 2013-05-03 22:50

Really nice coherent game, good risk/reward for the multiplier

sylvain-p 2013-05-03 23:13

I like the expand mechanics, good idea in this kind of game.

tuxedofish 2013-05-04 19:28

really addictive and fun it was really enjoyable and had the nice contracting and expanding thing which really made it a whole lot more enjoyable because you were so busy with that and not dodging the thing ;). really nice game. Although i feel the jump could have been improved.

cosinep 2013-05-06 02:04

You lucky gun got cached by Google.

minionstudios 2013-05-06 15:59

Awesome entry! The expanding takes time to get used to... but is really fun. Love the music too.

juaxix 2013-05-10 23:08

It's funny and requires skills to go further, well done creating this game,...have you thought in expanding it adding some features like shape morphing, add short term goals with some kind of little puzzles and so on?

iossif 2013-05-11 09:55

i played with morphing in the last days but i ran into problems with the controls.
i also work on it at the moment since i want to ship it to mobile asap. on the toucharcade forums i started a thread to report about my progress.

benjamin-soule 2013-05-11 16:06

Rather unusual gameplay. If you can hold jump to stay in the air I would call the action "fly" it would make the action more unerstandable for the new player. Changing colors for up and down level is a good idea it really make the level more readable. For the expand and shrink part I was a bit confused at first but it's playble. At first I was thinking that I had to fly and expand max then I realise the multiplier was not incrementing.

rezzish 2013-05-16 23:00

That was a really wonderful short little game

kazukishida 2013-05-18 14:31

Deceptively simple, yet lots of fun! I didn't expect the gameplay to be addicting. The color based on whether the block was up or down was a really nice touch as well. The expansion and contraction concept is good, but the incentive of a higher multiplier (from what I understood) for expanding isn't too visual -- perhaps change the way it works?

Nonetheless, this got me hooked! Add in some more catchy music, and possibly an online leaderboard, and you've got quite a game. :D

iossif 2013-05-18 16:28

check this thread of toucharcade if you like it: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=187987

i post my progress there. worked for 2 weeks on the game now and it soon will be ready for mobile and maybe more platforms later!

ataxkt 2013-05-19 19:14

Cool idea! Not seen this one before!