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'moeba

By rab236

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme6243.47
Innovation6403.02
Humor7561.96
Fun7692.75
Overall8252.92
Graphics9062.59
Audio9491.99
Mood9972.41

Comments

nolojen 2013-04-29 15:00

nice work, clean minimalist graphics style, nice font. movement definitely challenging!

geepit 2013-04-29 15:06

Movement was interesting and cool. Pretty fun quickly turning and flicking the balls away with your tail

idovoodoo 2013-04-29 15:11

Hard to control at first but I like the concept, well done! :)

bradleysmith 2013-04-29 15:13

Quite fun, once you can hang of the controls.

jaj 2013-04-29 15:29

This is pretty great. I love the style and colors!

elscootro 2013-04-29 15:50

Couldn't get it to work. Got to the menu screen, but clicking PLAY produced no results.

Mac OSX 10.7.5 Chrome browser
Let me know if you get it working or if I'm missing something so I can play!

nakato 2013-04-29 15:53

Control is difficult at the beginning but with time, become correct and cool ;)
Nice job

rab236 2013-04-29 15:54

Huh, that's odd. I'm also on Chrome on 10.7.5. My only suggestion is try refreshing or a different browser. I honestly don't have any idea why it's not working for you.

merkoth 2013-04-29 15:57

I like the idea and the minimalistic graphics, but the controls are kind of a turn off at the beginning. Cool concept.

ataxkt 2013-04-29 15:59

Quite nice, the controls took a bit too much from me though, I didn't feel very in control!

zerodivide 2013-04-29 16:49

The controls make sense at first, but once you lose a chunk or two, it starts to make no sense. It seems it still depends on the "missing" chunks' weight.

artifex 2013-04-29 17:37

Addictive. Very fucking addictive. Excellent concept. You got it.

cmayhem 2013-04-29 18:19

I really like the controls, makes you feel all amoeba-like.

cirrial 2013-04-29 18:25

Interesting take on the snake-like genre. I like your game, although the controls are very hard to work with. I realise this is the intent, though.

kortuga98 2013-04-29 19:10

Kind of strange movement, at times it felt like I couldn't really control my 'moeba. Good game though, interesting concept.

senordiablo 2013-04-29 19:31

interesting idea well achieved

dasrkrain 2013-04-29 19:45

Cool idea! Loved the way he moves randomly!

crazi456 2013-04-29 20:41

Was pretty amusing!

michaelhaii 2013-04-29 21:09

Really innovative and interesting concept, but those sounds were extremely annoying.

tobiasl 2013-04-29 22:16

Nice work. Though it was really hard to control when I had only one dot left :)

rab236 2013-04-29 22:23

I may or may not have forgotten to remove the mass of the tail pieces once they're removed. It was on my todo list, I swear :P

daydalus 2013-04-30 02:32

Game has a nice minimalist look. I found controlling the "snake" a bit too sluggish and difficult to collect the balls.

rab236 2013-04-30 02:36

Oh, but that's the challenge. You need to learn to be the amoeba :)

cwilloughby 2013-04-30 03:03

Liked the idea and concept. Hard to move a bit at first, but ultimately cool. Good work.

mcdonaldswizard 2013-04-30 04:06

well executed concept. I really dig how the controls feel especially as your amoeba gets smaller and it feels different.

neight 2013-04-30 06:22

This is a fun game, but I wish there was a little more character to it. The gameplay mechanic is awkwardly original and interesting, and I found myself determined to master it.

jubjub-2 2013-04-30 15:01

I really suck at it, but I really love those physics! Was good fun. Thanks.

whitetigle 2013-04-30 15:58

Hard to control but nice concept :)

anatolat 2013-04-30 18:00

Controls are really hard, but the idea is good.

ilovepixel 2013-04-30 20:18

Great game! It felt a bit out of control some times.

pixeloaks 2013-05-01 01:44

Pretty innovative, and quite challenging. It's one of those types of games that make you play it over and over until you get use to it.

komradus 2013-05-01 02:38

I am the amoeba king.

bobokat 2013-05-01 02:48

The movement was definitely challenging!

daanvanyperen 2013-05-01 03:13

Who doesn't like to flop their 'moeba around! (I have no idea what I'm doing).

rab236 2013-05-01 03:54

@Komradus, will you wear the red crown or the green?

@DaanVanYperen, I couldn't say I have any full idea of what I'm doing when I play either :p

fullmontis 2013-05-01 12:43

Very cool concept! But the controls are unintutive.

lotusgame 2013-05-02 07:55

Very unusual controls for a snake, but unteresting new concept ;)

broxxar 2013-05-02 16:24

Really couldn't get a handle on the controls. Aside from that, it's a neat game, good use of theme.

rafaelsales 2013-05-02 21:27

Interesting mechanic, really minimalist concept, but the controls are weird.

pabloalexandre31 2013-05-04 02:18

The controls are hard, but the idea is very interesting of move like a snake. Good Work!

alucard-j 2013-05-04 11:15

Also found the controls difficult, but really liked the idea and the physics. Was impressed how the tail moved and stayed relative to the other tail objects. Well Done =]

smilingcat 2013-05-04 18:13

Pretty fun. I spent most of my time chasing after new brown segments to try to get back to original size.

prelucid 2013-05-04 18:16

No idea what was going on, but what was going on appeared really nice and clean.

rab236 2013-05-05 00:34

Thanks all for the comments, compliments, and critiques. I do want to fix the movement and then develop this concept a bit more to see where it leads.

patrickward 2013-05-06 20:13

Interesting idea. I had to play around a bit, before I understood the controls, but I think that's part of the challenge and the charm. Nice job!

justinmullin 2013-05-06 23:59

Huh, very cool. The physics on the snake thing make it very interesting, and add a lot. Well done! My only complaint is the sound effects were a bit jarring.

rab236 2013-05-07 04:26

Yeah. I didn't have much time so I just cranked a few things out of sfxr. I wish I had time both to make better sound effects and a soundtrack.

lightnarcissus 2013-05-09 03:39

Intriguing game. Liked the simplistic concept which goes along quite well with the theme IMO.

gatechgrad 2013-05-10 05:28

Cute... now I know what it's like to live a day in the life of an amoeba.