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The Square - By Suese

By suese

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness373
Humor633.59
Audio1023.58
Graphics1073.90
Overall2603.48
Mood2743.23
Fun3323.23
Innovation8552.73
Theme9013.17

Comments

split82 2013-04-29 03:28

Yeah right :D I like it. I make a game about square too.

dscripps 2013-04-29 03:31

Wow! I'm very impressed and addicted to your game.

shama 2013-04-29 03:31

Awesome intro. +1 kittens. :D

stustuthebloo 2013-04-29 03:34

Haha, really liked this one. Lots of polish. Attacking was awkward though because it canceled your attack when you let go of the button. Solid!

cherrynukacola 2013-04-29 04:23

Awesome music!

acronaut111 2013-04-29 05:09

Nice twist of intro. Hilarious character design! tricky to attack (most likely get hit by enemy than inflicting damage scott-free).

skwirl3014 2013-04-29 05:21

This is really nice and polished

bobo72a 2013-04-29 05:30

Great entry! One of my favorites so far.

orni 2013-04-29 06:50

fun game!
the surprise one gets after the intro is priceless (I was expecting a platformer). by the way - the character is a square wearing pants ... I might have seen its yellow cousin somewhere ;)

cool idea, well done

lpcustom 2013-04-29 07:12

The one thing I like about this theme is that I'm seeing a lot of good minimalist graphics. This one has great graphics even though they look simple, they are complex at the same time. Good work!

xgor 2013-04-29 08:07

Great intro, the collision feels kinda weird, and you can't be hit by a enemy several times without you having a chance to move so that's pretty annoying though.

hadyn 2013-04-29 08:13

Great style, polish and sense of humor. Gameplay is fun enough, though the attack feels a little limited and the enemies aren't overly challenging. Still, I like what you've done with the theme!

perry 2013-04-29 08:14

Really great, mate. Only one complaint, the birds are annoying.

andrio 2013-04-29 08:15

Funny intro :)

daniel 2013-04-29 08:31

That is quite the character :) Fitting audio selection, goes well with the retro look / gameplay.

infin8 2013-04-29 09:38

Awesome. I love procedurally generated games. Here's one I can add to the list, a beat em up. Just having a delay in the attack animation makes it so much more fun.

unclejunkie 2013-04-29 13:45

Nice game, I've slaughtered the whole army of evil worms and bees!

colapsydo 2013-04-29 13:54

Nice surprise and nice character animation.
Is there a particular reason that you choose not to make the attack automatic?

fuzzywuzzie 2013-04-29 18:54

This was really cute!

puzzlem00n 2013-04-29 20:57

Wow, haha, not bad, not bad, wasn't expecting that after the intro! Pretty funny, I guess. Although, I agree with everyone on the attacking- I just kept hitting the button wondering why nothing was happening at first.

skwirl3014 2013-04-29 21:01

This is pretty good

suese 2013-04-29 22:31

The range of the sword doesn't go far past the body, so I figured I had to make the swords 'attack' region slightly ahead of the character.

I had the attack 'automatic' but it really made it feel hokey being forced into the entire animation on the tiniest little tap.

If you think it's too easy try 'death-sandwich'
If you think it's too hard try 'easy' :)

Thanks for all the encouraging comments.

mokkom 2013-04-30 00:10

Apart from the flying enemies being able to hit you when they don't appear to be close enough depth-wise, this is reasonably fun and is of a quality that one does not often see in a Ludum Dare entry.

toonheart 2013-04-30 00:18

I see headless snakes... Love it Love it.

Done rating.

Please do show some love on my game too :)
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=rate&uid=21211

cloudiestnights 2013-04-30 01:03

And then it was a diamond :) Simple game made tougher with the delayed attack animation. Quite funny, too XD

john_conder9 2013-04-30 02:07

This is a game I could spend hours playing trying to get better at. ... And I'd probably still suck :P Brilliant concept, hilarious implementation, and I loved the potatoes dropping from the birds (when I could kill them that is, because, let's be honest: that was hard. That was very, very hard.)

blennosoftgames 2013-04-30 03:43

Nice parody of the theme in the intro :P Also quite fun, though took me a few tries to figure out you have to hold the attack button.

syawqy 2013-04-30 04:15

nice art
but collision feel a bit weird

ddionisio 2013-04-30 06:47

Nice surprise with the intro! I love the graphics, plenty of personality into each creature. I have to agree that it was kinda hard to tell if you're able to hit enemies.

georgebroussard 2013-04-30 09:53

Liked the visual style and the music. Really disliked the attack and having to hold the attack key down vs just tapping it once?

lotusgame 2013-04-30 11:48

Funny intro. good job. But It's difficult to attack bird.

sonnybone 2013-04-30 12:01

You got me! I was expecting yet another 'block' game and then BOOOOOM you hit me with the art change! I hate those birds, though. I can't hit them when they're on another plane, but they can hit me. I hate them for that! Great job with the art and sound. Nice interpretation of theme!

zatyka 2013-04-30 22:06

I really liked this one. Great surprise opening, and fun game play. Nice job!

kunzbe 2013-04-30 22:55

the intro was really neat, especially the clash of style.
i would have liked this style element more if used it again later in the game

hayawi 2013-05-02 02:28

Nice game, I really liked the intro :D

vinull 2013-05-02 02:32

Other than the slow swing of the sword, everything about this game is great. I love the music and the art style!

somenetworkguy 2013-05-02 02:45

Beautiful animations! Clever intro! Excellent Music!

Hard to know where the enemies are. Looking down at the shadows felt unintuitive and awkward. And attacking was difficult. I didn't like holding the attack button to attack. I would rather just tap it to attack.

But fun overall.

ecool377 2013-05-02 02:51

Perfect, great game suprised you finished it in 48 hours to tell the truth.

rose 2013-05-02 03:01

Cute intro. :)

minionstudios 2013-05-02 04:51

Great game! I love the screen effect

tanius 2013-05-02 05:41

lol great graphics & music. Is it normal that in order to attack i have to long press j, right?

jacklehamster 2013-05-02 06:27

Nice graphics! I wish I didn't first see the screenshot from the post though, it would have been a nice surprise. I would have tried this game after the intro anyway.

therestlesstaxidermists 2013-05-02 11:12

Nice intro! Attacking was really hard though. May have to tweak that. But overall quite nice!

ointment 2013-05-02 11:39

Doesn't do much, but does it decently.

Clumsiness in the form of unskippable text and awkward attacks/collisions. The player character it animated all right, everything else looks programmer arty. A bit heavy on the scanlines, don't you think?

matthias_zarzecki 2013-05-02 20:50

The Intro is great :D

Also nice work on the music. The game itself turns out to be somewhat difficult.

suese 2013-05-02 23:33

Everyone's gone soft. Games in my day were HARD.

sylvain-p 2013-05-04 17:28

The intro is funny. Good job.

covenant 2013-05-05 11:12

Top notch visuals! The attack control was a bit hard getting used to it, and never much fun because of it... Other than that, great job!

ithildin 2013-05-05 21:40

Nice game! The intro was really funny =)

Also, I enjoyed the art and music. About the gameplay, the attack could have been a bit more fluid, but it was fun nonetheless. Good job! :D

mrshoestore 2013-05-06 02:32

that is such a cool way to do graphics man... in a weird way the game reminds me of that old genny/snes pacman game were he walks around on an adventure... dont know why... wonder if i still have that... *off to dig through boxes*

suese 2013-05-07 00:00

It totally reminded me of Pacland too. I was going for the cheap SNES game feel.

phocker 2013-05-15 03:23

reminded me of pac-land for some reason -- nice job -- whats with the kitties?

whiteravens 2013-05-18 21:44

I like the art :), though the mine placement are confusing at times.