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The Life Countdown

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness351
Audio4192.77
Overall4353.17
Fun5502.93
Mood5592.72
Graphics5632.87
Humor6102.15
Theme6863.03
Innovation8672.53

Comments

falconstar 2013-08-26 13:30

Very fun game, I could totally see this being a mobile app of some kind. The only thing that I thought was weird was that the music was waaay too somber for the cutsey art style. xD

doonay21 2013-08-26 13:45

Nice entry! Music somehow not fits the rest but still very playable :)

greenyuk 2013-08-26 13:46

Pretty cool game :) Played for quite a few levels! I think a double-jump would have been helpful personally but nice job.

ratalaika 2013-08-26 13:46

I had a good time playing it, it's a really fun game

flai 2013-08-26 13:50

It was okay, a bit boring and easy though. The character graphics were cute though :) If you smoothed the camera's movement a bit (so that the camera would be a bit "late"), it could "feel" a bit better.

mitkus 2013-08-26 14:06

I love the cute character and tight controls, but it was too easy for quite a while! Way too much food and way too much hearts. I don't think it needs that many levels - maybe have 7-10 and ramp up difficulty quicker?

foxfiesta 2013-08-26 14:41

The game has potential, the graphics and the generation works well. The only problem is balancing : there is way too much hearts and orbs. So I tried the endless mode to see if I could find a real challenge but I found the same problem.
Next time, pay more attention to balancing, the rest of the game is cool ! :)

bvanschooten 2013-08-26 19:06

Nice finished-looking game, only way too easy, at least in the first 10 levels. There is so much food that there is no point to the time limit, and do I really need 27 lives? At around level 10 the game started slowing down and the sounds started looping and glitching (not sure if it's a bug in the game), so I stopped playing. It would also be nice to have more graphical variety in the levels, even if just different colours.

mlinus 2013-08-26 19:14

I liked the idea but found the game a bit too easy for quite some time. I would have liked if it ramped up the difficulty a bit faster. :)

shellfishgames 2013-08-27 13:44

Got to level 7, but lost motivation then because the levels seemed a little too long, especially since I had to play each of them like 3-5 times until I finally made it to the end. :D
Fun game nontheless, I really like the character and his way of looking at you and panicking when the time goes down (which was very rarely the case by the way). Also, the small intro demonstrating the basic time-mechanic was great. The "show, don't tell" paradigm in action. Good work. :)

crazi456 2013-08-28 08:56

Nice solid gameplay! Good job!

wally2069 2013-08-28 18:36

The first couple of levels had power-ups everywhere which made the time limit seem unimportant

velospectre 2013-08-30 05:33

A fun collection based game.

jprogman 2013-08-30 05:38

I wish this game has more content as it got tedious after level 10. Otherwise, you got yourself a good platform engine and nice level generation. It just needs more stuff.

sdgusler 2013-08-30 21:14

This is a very fun game. Good sound effects.