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Path Breaker

By kyru

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Fun2473.36
Innovation2683.49
Theme4463.64
Overall4913.23
Audio8062.26
Graphics8302.68
Mood8622.58
Humor10081.56

Comments

branch 2013-04-28 22:53

doesnt work on my os. could you port it to ms-dos 6.40? :(

tiffi 2013-04-29 14:52

cool game, but i keep gettin a bug when im trying to start again!

ragzouken 2013-04-29 14:59

Nice :) The entities sometimes fire directly into a wrong wall which makes a horrible sound :p

rwos 2013-04-29 15:06

That was fun, and surprisingly difficult! When I first started it, Level 2 wouldn't finish, even though there were no cubes to be seen (maybe something to do with the randomized cube placement?). After that it always worked fine, though. I really liked it, it's a fun little game. And well-made, too.

btw, the JAR worked fine on my Linux machine (64-bit Debian)

kyru 2013-04-29 15:11

@tiffi Thanks for the heads up, kind of a dumb bug, but it should be fixed now.

ofursnati 2013-04-30 14:09

Nice game. Worked like a charm. got to level 4 and game over. It gets really difficult after the first few levels.

ryebread761 2013-04-30 14:30

Neat little game!

ashdnazg 2013-04-30 14:48

I really liked your game idea!

cakencode 2013-04-30 18:57

That was a lot of fun! A surprisingly simple concept yet it was executed wonderfully. Well done :)

hypp 2013-05-01 07:56

This is my kind of game! Very nice work!

wisegamer 2013-05-01 13:38

Hmmmm , the idea is simple,the game play is good, the sounds is annoying :( , at one time the red entities kept moving from the top of the red line to the left end of green line one after one .

granada 2013-05-01 18:49

Cool breakout idea. Would be a great mobile game.

matter123 2013-05-02 03:53

dosent work, win7 x64 java 1.7

papagrimbles 2013-05-02 19:11

Cool idea. Pretty hard to do well after a few levels. Could see this concept work extremely well if it functioned on limited number of lines or length, rather than high speed (pause and draw kind of thing). Nice work!

thevideogamemechanic 2013-05-02 19:14

Nice idea! Really minimal as well. Sometimes a cube spawned really close to a wall and with full speed I lost. Maybe put some restrictions on how they can spawn.

whilefun 2013-05-03 01:36

Pretty cool idea! I thought this was original, and interesting, and minimalistic. I did find timing the line drawing a bit hard to master. Often I would draw the line, but let go of my mouse button a hair too late thus letting the block pass through. Maybe tweaking that would enhance the fun factor a bit more. Good stuff.

netmute 2013-05-03 20:11

I don't have Java installed, sorry :(

lafolie 2013-05-03 20:12

Wow, Pong on crack! Found it really challenging, which is awesome. Great work.

sampotasz 2013-05-03 20:14

I really enjoyed this! Thanks. I would love to see a few difficulty changes to make it a little more accessible (more simple tutorial levels, maybe slower blocks overall, etc.) Nice job!

huvaakoodia 2013-05-04 19:05

It's a simple working idea that leaves a lot of room for further development and iteration.

Two things annoy me quite a bit though:
-Sometimes a cube spawns very close to an adjacent wall and flies directly to it over and over again.
-Moving the mouse outside the game area while drawing a line doesn't create the line, but rather does nothing.

The first one could be fixed by:
-Setting the spawn direction away from the nearest wall
-Randomizing the spawn direction
-Spawning always in the middle of the wall

eatenalive3 2013-05-08 20:43

Could have used sound! (unless sound was added.. then, it didn't work on my machine. The comments imply there's sound, so I won't rate audio)

Cool concept!

paulopn 2013-05-14 05:17

Nice game!
Drawing lines is a little annoying sometimes, because the mouse keeps leaving the screen. Also, too many entities right at the beginning of the later stages usually destroyed my score...
Still, it works generally well and really needs some skill. =D

heychinaski 2013-05-14 22:40

Cool game. It's nice to see an original concept.

onzephyr 2013-05-15 00:30

Great mechanic well implemented. It get rather challenging as the levels go on. Fits the theme well. Only critique would be possible softer tones on the audio, as it was a bit jarring compared to the visuals.

diningphilosopher 2013-05-15 21:38

Nice game! It was quite addictive, although it was annoying when a cube started really close to a wall. I got to level 6.

rawbits 2013-05-17 21:14

I like the idea. It's simple and action packed.

You should finalize a line when the mouse pointer goes out of the screen so the player can keep up with the action while not being so precise about the moves he makes. (clicking all around the place wildly)

thatwhichis 2013-05-18 00:11

Nice mechanic implemented well! Never could beat level 5... ::looks at level 6 longingly::

jtzp4 2013-05-19 21:42

Good game! But stuck at level 5, it's kind of difficult after!