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Curiosity

By geckojsc

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness359
Mood353.93
Audio483.81
Overall823.82
Fun1363.56
Graphics1473.78
Theme4373.65
Innovation7282.91
Humor8021.90

Comments

supermomo 2013-04-29 18:16

Woaw ! I really enjoyed this game ! Great work !

daanvanyperen 2013-05-01 02:50

Very well done!

frr171 2013-05-01 02:52

Awesome presentation and mood!

joror 2013-05-01 17:51

I reallly dig the soundtrack, really puts the mood in the game. Mechanics are solid, but a bit too platformy. (that is just my taste ;))

danielcmessias 2013-05-01 17:52

Pretty game with solid implementation. A really cool entry! I think your movement is a bit too twitchy which makes it too difficult, but otherwise I really like this game!

moist 2013-05-01 18:00

An adorable little platformer! The mood is great, it sucks you in from the first second. Excellent job, sir.

nicealexanderas 2013-05-01 19:37

BEST GAME EVER! :D nice work bro!!!!! :D Impressive game.. also nice concept I've always liked games like this.

pl0xz0rz 2013-05-01 19:42

Awesome game!

badlydrawnrod 2013-05-01 19:50

Very nicely done. I enjoyed it immensely. Very good mood, helped by the atmospheric music.

SuperlevelSebastian 2013-05-04 11:03

Sadly I can't play it because it crashes when I just try to start it. :( (Windows XP, 32bit)

killedbyapixel 2013-05-04 19:28

Great intro and music, really hard platforming mechanics with the grappling hook! I couldnt get the orange seed that was way up there. Maybe you could ease the player into the difficulty a little slower.

geckojsc 2013-05-04 20:31

Haha, it does get quite difficult quite fast, but bear in mind there's more than one way to grow that 2nd sunflower. Maybe you should check for secret passages further back. :)

Thanks for the feedback so far guys, it's nice to know people have enjoyed it!

geckojsc 2013-05-04 20:49

SuperlevelSebastian: sorry you couldn't get it working, I don't have an XP environment to test it on. You don't have mingw/msys installed by any chance? If you did, you could maybe run it through gdb and see where the error occured.

kefir 2013-05-04 21:26

Put it my BEST bookmarks folder. It is really cool in all aspects. But I stuck right after I took this rope.. How can I get back with this?!

geckojsc 2013-05-04 21:52

There's more than one way out, check for secrets!

snakeeater 2013-05-04 22:19

Nice platformer and great atmosphere

hamster_mk_4 2013-05-04 22:52

That was fantastic from start to finish. I loved how you gradually added to the mechanics while keeping it very minimalistic on the controls.

bipolarmike 2013-05-04 22:57

Yay I'm a ninja XD
VERY well done for 48 hours, in all aspects!

teejay5 2013-05-04 23:01

Excellent atmosphere! Though the platforming does get pretty hard

bipolarmike 2013-05-04 23:07

Kinda reminds me of the Knytt series, which is one of my all time favorite platformers :)

Trying to finish with the extra seed now...

geckojsc 2013-05-04 23:31

Yes! Knytt Stories and Knytt Underground were sources of inspiration for me when designing this - I'm a big Nifflas fan. :)

diamonde 2013-05-05 10:33

I'm totally amazed by this game. It's simply so good! :D

tifu 2013-05-05 21:32

Nice game, had fun exploring the world. The first little "jump over reds using grappler" was a bit tough for an introduction I thought. I can see how to get the final flower, but the jumps would be too difficult to get it so I'm just settling for no cookies :(

eatenalive3 2013-05-05 22:27

Amazing. Controls lagged very slightly, but you couldn't notice it once you got into things. The death animation was a little too long in opinion, but everything else was perfect! (maybe a little frustrating sometimes :P)

goerp 2013-05-07 19:47

Wow another programming language I have never heard of.
This is pretty much a finished product. Ready to ship. 5 stars!
It fits the minimalistic theme, but really doesn't need anymore.
If I had to name one point of criticism it has to be, that the flickering of the light in the corners can be annoying, but thats only when you're not playing but just watching.

It reminds me of Knytt.

Just out of curiosity: how does ooc compare to Java or As3?

nseward 2013-05-07 21:15

Very nice game. Simple but it doesn't smack you in the face with its simpleness.

geckojsc 2013-05-07 21:27

Thanks!

goerp:
ooc is a pretty young language compared to AS3 and Java, and has quite a small community behind it. In the last 2 years or so it's become quite usable for OpenGL or SDL-based game development, and it binds very nicely with existing C libraries, especially ones that are written in an object-oriented style already.

It's still rough around the edges, currently I find that its higher level features like closures and generics work very well in isolation, but may break if you try to mix them together (e.g. create a HashMap of Func objects). I'm happy to work around those issues though, I just love that I can use a clean/modern language and have the flexibility of C and C++ at the same time.

atraxgames 2013-05-07 22:07

Great work, exploring this little work is a pleasant and magic journey.

minionstudios 2013-05-09 21:37

Fun and wild artwork, great gameplay, this one rocks!

kill0u 2013-05-10 13:02

Nice game, but twitchy movement and hard game mechanics (grappling hook) made me give up too early =/

lightsoda 2013-05-10 14:18

Very nice, took me a while to get a hang of the grapple mechanic. Looks and sounds nice, good job.

turbodindon 2013-05-10 14:59

It is a very pleasant adventure.
The soundtrack is beautiful.
I've got a white background at the end, is it normal?

- SEPHY (@sephyka)

geckojsc 2013-05-10 19:20

Yep, the ending is very minimal, partly because it suits the theme and atmosphere, but also because it was 3AM and I couldn't figure out why my 'end' text wouldn't appear on the screen. xD

kulhajs 2013-05-11 12:32

Reminds me a lot of Knytt Underground, nice game, well done.

sylvain-p 2013-05-15 14:40

Nice game, but it's relly too hard (for example with the grappel). I like very much the universe.

qxd-me 2013-05-19 14:48

Really good exploration-based platformer. I liked all the secrets (that I found).

I managed to plant the last seed and still have one left over :)