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Frantic

By joritan-cety

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme943.76
Audio1013.46
Fun1053.57
Overall1883.48
Mood2653.14
Humor3522.63
Graphics4982.97
Innovation5822.92

Comments

archaeometrician 2013-08-26 11:24

Hey nice little game ! Music and sound are good, the difficulty is just perfect.

kevlanche 2013-08-26 11:28

Nice! The music and level design was good. The color palette was excellent! The only thing that felt strange was the hitbox when you attacked. It felt kind of small (compared to the animation).

lustdante 2013-08-26 11:45

That was by far the most satisfying sword swing for pixelated player!

falconstar 2013-08-26 12:46

Fun game! I loved the pixelated grass, and like the person above me said, the sword swing just felt right.
My only complaint is that it was too short! :)

benswinden 2013-08-26 12:48

Cool idea, I really like the look and feel though the bird noise was a little annoying. There needs to be some way to get health back because it really sucked being stuck at one health.

thejackimonster 2013-08-26 12:51

The game looks really nice, but you should improve the collision a bit... (I just want to finish the game! :O)

Great job! :D

eolhing 2013-08-26 12:54

The game is nice, especially the music. hitboxes are a bit frustrating but it didn't make me rage quit :)

x-or 2013-08-26 12:55

I was a bit astonished about the rather large filesize for a small game - then again, you used .wav as a soundformat. That explains it :D
It was extremely fun to play through the levels. The hardest one was I think 2 before the end, where you actually had to move diagonally and only had one opponent.
Nice go for a minigame!

zeppelincaptain 2013-08-26 12:57

Liked the sound effects a lot! The sword swing was good, but as Kevlanche said, the hitbox felt off.
I think you did a good job on the characters as well. They're pretty cute.
And yeah, very nice difficulty actually!

kunzbe 2013-08-26 13:08

Quite hard but it was fun to learn how to master the timing of the knife attack.
Level 3 or 4 (the first time where you have to go around the top) I finally beat in arounr 9.999 seconds :)

ratalaika 2013-08-26 13:43

Nice work!!

kragnir 2013-08-26 13:48

Nice game, like the music and the levels really explore all aspects of the game.

stenol 2013-08-26 13:49

Great game!

karsyf 2013-08-26 13:51

This kicks ass! More levels please. It's a swashbuckling hotline Miami.

berdinerdi 2013-08-26 13:52

Completed the game :) I enjoyed it quite a bit. The game had a very cool fast-paced feeling to it and was very smooth and responsive. Also, the feel of the sword swinging was excellent! The runs could get quite intensive at times, and I feel there's much potential for making more puzzle-like action scenarios within the levels.

I do have one complaint when it comes to the controls though. The collision of the sword hitting enemies felt a bit off and random at times. Sometimes I didn't hit the enemies at all when I felt it should have, so that did cause a bit of frustration on the levels with a lot of enemies.

Another thing I found fun was the seemingly mix of feelings I got them the menu of the game versus the gameplay. The menu had a very sort of dark and horror-like music and graphical style going, while the actual gameplay seemed more colorful and the music more action-packed. Not really a criticism, just a note I found to be quite funny :)

All in all though, the game was very enjoyable. Good job!

riley1219 2013-08-26 13:52

Fun game, but incredibly difficult due to the crappy hitboxes. Lovely audio though, I loved the music!

omar_q8 2013-08-26 13:52

nice work, fun game, and nice application of the theme

latcarf 2013-08-26 13:58

That was fun! Sounds and music are very nice and the difficulty is good. As other said, I just found the hitbox quite buggy (bigger than the actual sprite).

urth 2013-08-26 14:37

Played it through.
Nice game!

tiffi 2013-08-26 14:49

5 Stars for graphics, love that style. hitboxes are a little off, but after a wile I ott it

loerden 2013-08-26 15:15

Good work!

omnus 2013-08-26 15:17

I won! Definitely some tough levels in there!

irl 2013-08-26 15:19

Excellent game. Did the first few levels OK but then ran into trouble beating the four-in-a-row. It seems I was dying too easily. Loved the sword swing animation and sound effects.

grimgary 2013-08-26 15:19

Overall, I liked this game - just very hard =)

dioiminik 2013-08-26 15:20

Nicely polsihed Game and very well done :) but I got stuck at one level, simply wasn't able to make it to the exit in time. Overall a 8/10

laserbeam 2013-08-26 15:21

A bit chaotic at times (just timing strikes is painful sometimes), but very fast and quite fun :D.

ezolotko 2013-08-26 15:21

Fun to play

marcellus 2013-08-26 15:28

nice little game, I was disappointed by reaching the last level, wanted the fun to continue :)

choqaae 2013-08-26 15:29

Great game! I like the sound and graphics

reaperguy 2013-08-26 16:00

Game crashes as soon as I open it...

bufbot 2013-08-26 16:51

Very Nice work ! The music, the level desingm the menu, very fun !

spiralcodestudio 2013-08-26 18:20

Very short but fun!

tegu 2013-08-26 19:44

This is fun! The sword attack hitbox was a bit weird at times, so backing and swinging was a good tactic if straight running didn't work. I liked that you could take multiple enemies down with one swing.
I tried to make files named level9 to the level folder in hope that the would load it, but it didn't. :( Would have been fun to add levels. Ofc that can be modified on the source if wanted to.

shellfishgames 2013-08-27 09:59

Pretty good, especially sound and music. And thumbs up for the options menu! :D

diogomuller 2013-08-27 12:48

Great game! I really liked the concept, and the execution was great.

The only thing that feels bit off is the hit detection.

mekuri 2013-08-27 13:26

Nice idea. The graphics are simple, but the color palette makes it very beautiful. I loved the sword swing animation, it was just perfect, and the sound for it was awesome.
It was a bit confusing to hit with the sword though, it didn't quite fit the animation it seems.
All in all, a good game. Good job!

flamecow 2013-08-27 15:32

Fun game, but has some issues. For example, you can't hit enemies that have walked inside of you.

sasoridama 2013-08-27 16:05

Very nice feel to it.

rincewind_cz 2013-08-27 17:50

The clock image ruins the overall pixel-look :-)

lordjosephdeburg 2013-08-27 19:42

hey joritan its really cool seeing a lwjgl entry. I enjoyed it, your right about the title I have to really time my attacks

canobie 2013-08-28 03:43

Definitely one of the best games I've played so far! Good job!

neekobus 2013-08-28 12:07

That is really simple... but efficient : I just wanted to finish it (and I did) :)
Looks like the enemy can hurt the hero a bit too early.

nerlin 2013-08-28 23:25

Excellent game! Simple and playable. Well done!

andrewshouldice 2013-08-29 02:22

Fun! The collisions were a bit off, but it was really satisfying to get a feel for the timing of your attack. I found it was sometimes a better idea to avoid enemies instead of engaging a big group. The front-end menu is a really nice touch, too. Good work!