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The Game Without Controls

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation134.20
Coolness288
Graphics424.17
Humor963.42
Theme1424.03
Mood3983.10
Overall4163.30
Audio6532.53
Fun10722.37

Comments

jim3wg 2013-04-29 00:16

Looks beautiful !!!

zekyon 2013-04-29 10:24

Is very frustrating not knowing which key to press. But hey, it was fun bang the keyboard.

PD: You owe me a new keyboard >:(.

beshr 2013-04-29 10:24

The graphics look great! But can't rate because I'm on a mac :/

ludipe 2013-04-29 10:28

Took me a bit to learn the mechanics. Very original and the graphics are beautiful. Good job! :)

dissonance 2013-04-29 10:29

Great game! Love it! Wonderful use of the whole minimalism. Reminds me of that one game that you'd run and minimize to the tray and it'd just do its own thing. Good job!

panda313 2013-04-29 10:30

AWESOME ! Graphics are great and the gameplay is really ... well, you'll see. Good job

zerebruin 2013-04-29 11:00

Beautiful graphics and fitting sound. Not fun to play at all, because it's so frustrating.

roguenoodle 2013-04-29 12:30

I'm really intrigued by this game - hoping I remember to try it when I get back to my PC. The art is great.

tinytouchtales 2013-04-29 12:30

one for later ...

alvaroh 2013-04-29 13:41

Good graphics!!

sheep 2013-04-29 18:26

I guess I lost, from what I can tell it behaves randomly and I really don't have several hours of waiting for it to get the right sequence of jumps. As an artistic statement it's fine, as a game it's not very fun.

fuzzywuzzie 2013-04-29 18:28

Interesting concept, but incredibly frustrating :(

meep 2013-04-29 18:29

Very appealing visuals. The game play was... something.

tijmentio 2013-04-29 18:29

The graphics are really nice :)
But how do you play it!?
It has something to do with the time I'm sure, too bad I just couldn't figure it out :(

jimmylord 2013-04-29 18:39

Wow, that wasn't fun :) Original though, nice graphics, didn't understand the ending, but, oh well.

sonnybone 2013-04-29 19:18

I BEAT IT! HILARIOUS ENDING! HAHA!
Genius gameplay, nice graphics, perfect use of theme... Very awesome!

sonnybone 2013-04-29 19:20

For those that are stuck... you CAN control it. It's not a random chance sort of thing.

lerc 2013-04-29 23:43

Now that's an end game reward.

bushmango3 2013-04-30 00:00

Is there any way to reset it? I'd like to play again to show someone else :)

kevinzuhn 2013-04-30 00:27

Haven't managed to beat it yet, though I did figure out the trick to it.
The method of control took me too long to use effectively in game, as hazards were simply too close together for me to have a second jump ready. I wound up getting frustrated/impatient and quit. Maybe there's an easier way, or maybe my computer isn't set up right for it.
Either way, it's the most interesting idea I've seen so far, and I hope to beat it later.

niun 2013-04-30 10:37

DOH! I really want to play this. :(
Damn my Mac!

potentialing 2013-05-01 02:21

Absolutely hilarious game mechanic, very innovative and followed the theme. Unfortunately, the game was not fun to play, difficult to control, and had little to no audio. Nice job with the graphics and mood, though!

axelhein 2013-05-01 09:13

Interesting idea. Super frustrating. Graphics are very pretty. Not very fun, but an interesting idea.

stqn 2013-05-02 01:18

Funny idea but controlling the game seems rather difficult and prone to break my other software, so I couldn’t go past the first screen. Nice graphics. (Tried under Wine/Linux.)

mcc 2013-05-02 02:24

Wait, is this actually Windows only? It looks like just a flash projector.

bneutral 2013-05-03 05:10

Best use of theme and sub-theme.
One could even say it's a puzzle game as you have to figure out how to make it work.

kefir 2013-05-04 21:37

Well. At least I can give 5/5 in Innovation to this game :) And graphics is really cool. And yeah.. Humor 5/5 also :)

dohan 2013-05-04 21:57

Interesting (lack of) controls. I like how the game is a puzzle just by itself, it took me a while to figure it out.

itszn 2013-05-04 22:01

Nice control idea, a little hard to use however....

pvwradtke 2013-05-04 22:21

Well, I can say that the control scheme is as minimalistic as it gets, although a bit frustrating at times because it seems we can't get the character to do what we want ;). Loved the large pixel graphics, very stylish.

SuperlevelSebastian 2013-05-05 14:40

How can I re-play it? I finished it once and wanted to show it to someone else, but I wasn't able to find a "New game"-thingy.

Great work btw!

psenfilip 2013-05-05 15:52

This game is very intriguing. Absolutely loved the controls, even though I couldn't really play it properly (too much of a hassle).
Quite hilarious and innovative!

ragzouken 2013-05-06 22:24

Insane idea. Difficult and thankfully very short :p

jellycakes 2013-05-06 23:23

Was a pretty interesting game to play, shame my system clock got beat as a result of winning. Oh well, nice job anyway.

hayawi 2013-05-06 23:23

Definitely a must play for anyone wanting a challenge -.-

brighterorange 2013-05-07 00:06

OMG, I love it. It reminds me of my favorite episode of MacGyver ("Hell Week") and it was a joy to figure out.

phocker 2013-05-07 04:16

quirky -- loved the style tho -- great job!

ethankennerly 2013-05-07 05:38

Really cute and enticing. Wish I could figure a quicker way to change my system's time.

casimps1 2013-05-08 14:42

I WON! Gorgeous pixel art and very clever theme. Wish I hadn't read the comments first since they spoiled figuring out the basic mechanic.

minionstudios 2013-05-10 03:45

awesome awesome awesome!

benjamin-soule 2013-05-18 06:03

Nice ending screen, but I have no idea of what time it is now... :)

deepnight 2013-05-19 19:10

Ah ah ah, excellent twist on the theme :)

SPOILER WARNING !!




I really hated you on the double jump sequence.

gfm 2013-05-20 20:49

This is amazing!
I had never played anything like this before!

jesse111 2013-05-20 23:27

Oh my goodness, I actually did it.
Devious game mechanic!
I think I might have to carve off a point for minimalism for having one of the most roundabout methods of victory ever, but I might have to add it back on again for not technically existing "within the game"
Very nice work (and the graphics are beautifully done!
High scores ahead!