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Potato The Destroyer

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness356
Graphics594.11
Audio1283.49
Humor2012.92
Overall3443.39
Fun3513.21
Mood3533.15
Theme11582.77
Innovation12452.03

Comments

torcado194 2013-04-29 03:49

Great graphics and level design! POTATO4LIYF

mscottmcbee 2013-04-29 04:21

Love the art style, a bit hard, though.

sparkleswirl 2013-04-29 05:26

Found your game from the Stencyl forums! I love the potato graphics. They're so adorable.

adventureislands 2013-04-29 07:35

Nice work! Hard as hell though. Perhaps the carrots could have shot little less frequently. The boss battle was epic though and made up for it. I liked the sounds and music.

and dat ending.

orni 2013-04-29 08:47

Potatos are awesome - so is this game.
well done, I dig the graphical style of it

dissonance 2013-04-29 08:59

Great art! A little hard, but good job!

hypnohustla 2013-04-29 09:19

Nice graphics, really hard though. A rapid fire option would have been nice, or the enemy bullets could have been a bit slower. Shoulda coulda woulda. :) The boss fight was well designed, one of the best bosses I've fought in a while. And the bit with the moving platforms was a very well designed level.

tinytouchtales 2013-04-29 11:48

nice!

narayan 2013-04-29 11:59

Very cool game

omaha 2013-04-29 12:45

if only he was shooting a potato gun...

great game.

colorvade 2013-04-29 15:00

good fun, good art, good stuff!

heychinaski 2013-04-29 15:59

Really really nice pixel art. Very hard game though. I didn't finish it I'm afraid.

indieretro 2013-04-29 16:52

Love this, I get a very mega man kind of feel from it, really fun, hard and unforgiving, just my type of game :)

unusualcadence 2013-04-29 17:15

Lovely art, nice to play! I feel that the potato baddies shoot slightly too frequently, I think it makes it harder than it possibly needs to be as it seems the only way to kill them is to time your jumps with extreme precision? Love that the lil' ground runner dudes have inertia when changing direction.

broxter 2013-04-29 17:20

Tasty pixels and nice fitting music. After playing this game I can say I now have more chance of beating a carrot in a shoot-off.

vidar 2013-04-29 17:47

Great stuff! Lovely palette and tight gameplay. A solid game.

lioneljitro 2013-04-29 22:44

Really nice, minimalistic platformer.

Sounds, music and art really go well together.

fuzzywuzzie 2013-04-29 23:30

Very well put together! My only complaint is that it's too damned hard!

cloudiestnights 2013-04-30 01:24

Gah! So tough XD Gameplay was spot on retro, though it seemed to lag a bit (possibly because I have a gazillion tabs open right now). Level design was simple but challenging, and the graphics were very crisp and distinctive.

JFlegle 2013-04-30 02:55

Great game.

omaromeir 2013-04-30 09:38

Awesome graphics, well-designed levels and a really polished entry. Bravo!

realyuniquename 2013-04-30 14:06

A lot of fun, but too hard

jolle 2013-04-30 17:03

Good stuff, but the gun fights are a bit annoying.

mchaza 2013-04-30 22:08

Great graphics, just hard to shoot enemies tho.

aaronmueller 2013-04-30 22:30

Awesome, very smooth and polished!

kevinzuhn 2013-04-30 23:25

I thought it played well, and I really liked the charging enemies and the boss potato. The timing for fighting the gunner carrots took some getting used to, but mostly I was allowed to jump and shoot them from safety so it wasn't unfair.
It's a solid game, though aside from the ending I'm not feeling the theme much!

multitude 2013-04-30 23:36

cool game and sweet graphics. enjoyed playing it.

namkcor 2013-05-02 03:56

Performance was a bit off, I kept getting frame locks. Otherwise not bad.

pamvllo 2013-05-02 23:58

Kinda laggy for me =/

pamvllo 2013-05-02 23:58

Kinda laggy for me =/ But still a realy god game!

georgebroussard 2013-05-03 06:45

Graphics and audio were hot. I really wanted to play more of this, but got frustrated with the combat. It's too hard/tedious to avoid enemy shots and the checkpoints are far enough apart to make me stop. Super slick entry though and again the art is fantastic.

rongon 2013-05-03 15:59

Standard platform with really great art. Just not really into theme.

minionstudios 2013-05-03 16:44

Great platformer! Very challenging, too. The animations are hilarious!

michail 2013-05-03 17:47

Classic one :) It's a little too hard / too precise though.

daanvanyperen 2013-05-03 18:57

Arghhh they keep shooting me! :C Appealing art style.

_rilem 2013-05-03 21:09

Really like the graphics, the potato is so lovable
It's very difficult though. It took me three tries to kill the first enemy :P

rsodre 2013-05-03 21:31

NEAT!!

zkenshin 2013-05-03 22:13

Really cute art style. :)

exclamation_mark 2013-05-03 22:40

Fun and well made. My x-pressing finger wasn't very fond of the boss fight, but the button mashing does work well with the retro appeal. Can't really see how it's in theme though - having pixelated graphics does hardly count.

matthias_zarzecki 2013-05-03 23:20

Lovely! Though quite hard

wiering 2013-05-04 00:27

Great game! But very hard, I couldn't beat the boss level.

Would be nice to be able to choose other keys.

knighty 2013-05-04 02:43

Really fun game. I didn't think it was too hard, the difficulty was perfect. I liked how killing the enemies relied on careful timing, instead of just mashing the shoot button.

redwater 2013-05-04 12:05

Pretty difficult game. The enemies shoot-interval is pretty short which makes it hard to jump inbetween and shoot at the same time, let alone hitting them. Nothing wrong with difficulty really, but you need your time to get accustomed to the rhythm of the game.
Sweet entry anyways :)

irock 2013-05-04 18:25

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! I released a post-competition version of the game that features an easier difficulty mode and another control setup among other improvements. Just make sure you don't rate the Ludum Dare entry based on that.

rujomarco 2013-05-06 15:40

great graphics and solid retro style gameplay

Jeremias 2013-05-07 19:04

Nice graphics and background music. I played it with my gamepad, that felt way better (Y and Z are swapped on german and other country's keyboard layouts). The game is really too difficult. Every level should be full of checkpoints. I think, Ludum Dare entries should have something like an emergency button to get invulnerable or to skip the level. Additional, the enemies shoot too fast.

After I made my rating and my comment, I played your post-compo and... yeah. Exactly what was missing :D

barkergames 2013-05-08 02:05

The controls were very hard to get used to, I suggest making up jump. It would make it feel more natural.

dector 2013-05-08 10:03

Wanna play it somewhere on console :)

atraxgames 2013-05-08 19:13

Very cute graphics!

8bitpimp 2013-05-09 21:37

Nice game and solid mechanics.

turbodindon 2013-05-12 09:25

Very cool graphics.
But very hard. I used more than 10 lives to finish the first level! It's very difficult to target the carrots correctly.
x'D

- SEPHY (@sephyka)

sheep 2013-05-13 18:07

Jump jump, shoot shoot, dodge dodge, die. I suck at platformers, especially when the enemies have as many hitpoints as I do.

phocker 2013-05-16 04:06

great game -- very hard

roupette 2013-05-19 15:03

Simple, funny, so potatly !

beldarak 2013-05-20 14:30

Nice game, but I kept getting stuck in a block before the second monster (the first block on a pillar).