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Goranha

By polskadot

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness297
Audio603.65
Fun1183.37
Humor1183.12
Mood2013.16
Overall2013.31
Graphics2963.25
Innovation4062.68
Theme5012.60

Comments

stenol 2013-08-26 18:09

Cool little game. The music is good.

sgehlich 2013-08-26 18:12

I like this! Nice little arcade game, very addictive :)

local-minimum 2013-08-26 18:13

I'm gonna believe that my 46 avoided is a good score. Really like the encouraging texts and the happy music to all that blood. You should add a high score system (though then I would know that my 46 was a really low number). Nice game.

doctor-broccoli 2013-08-26 18:13

Fun little game, and the music´s awesome. I guess my main criticism would be that the text that pops up every now and again is a bit difficult to read while you´re playing.

doonay21 2013-08-26 18:14

Nice one! I really love the music :)

jools64 2013-08-26 18:15

Pretty fun and frantic. The avoided genre is not the most interesting one but the pacing on this felt really good. For being a 5 hour game, this is very impressive. It seemed quite polished and had good sound.

Well done!

choqaae 2013-08-26 18:16

Nice graphics and music.

handcraftedradio 2013-08-26 18:16

Wow this music is amazing!

andreyin 2013-08-26 18:16

Couldn't get it to run, got a GM error ):


___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object objEsc:

Error defining an external function.

coreym1988 2013-08-26 18:41

Really fun. I like the design of the piranhas and the music was great!

polskadot 2013-08-26 19:30

At first thanks to everyone for the unexpected good critics.

@local minimum - I made the game as if I had only 6 hours left to put the game in the Compo so it turned to be really, really simple. If it gets more attention I could develop a further detailed version with highscore rankings or something. The score is pretty random. You can be the best but even with that you'll suffer if the game plays randomly hard on you.

@Doctor Broccoli - The idea was to put some messages to encourage the player to keep alive more and more while making him lose visibility and attention due to read the hand-drawn letters and attending to the crazy color changing. It's intended, lets say.

@andreyin - I've uploaded another version which includes all of the files needed to run the game properly. You may want to download it and try again. If that doesn't solve the problem please tell me so I can look for another solution.

asardhandala 2013-08-26 21:15

Addictive.

tigers 2013-08-26 21:22

54 piranhas! Holy crêpes man, the music was great! The death animation was also satisfyingly fast and superb! ^_^

tony-pe 2013-08-26 21:34

84 piranhas aggggh best I could do

Really fun, nice job :)

refreshcreations 2013-08-26 21:40

173 avoided, yeah! A fun, well crafted lil game, I particularly enjoyed the music with this one :)

bitserum 2013-08-27 14:54

Very addictive, damn those pesky piranhas! It's very thrilling to play and those encouraging texts make you feel awesome.

dagamesta 2013-08-27 14:59

Fun little game. Too luck based for me to play it a lot, but it was fun nonetheless. Still rocks for a 5-hour game.

optimus6128 2013-08-27 21:37

Simple yet effective. Fun!

kragnir 2013-08-28 01:14

The game gets repetitive quickly. Nice graphics and music.

phocker 2013-08-28 22:59

this was an excellent game -- needs powerups!

polskadot 2013-08-29 13:59

The only powerup I thought about was some kind of "press X to kill all piranhas on the screen" every 10 seconds but I was more inclined to add obstacles than could kill you than give you any kind of help...

kibertoad 2013-08-29 22:43

very basic, but colorful and fun. loved the art.

ellipticaldoor 2013-08-29 23:00

Fun gameplay and delicious music

namrog84 2013-08-30 09:40

Quite enjoyable!

I wouldn't have mind an 'ending' like you making it home to the reef eventually or something.

Overall awesome! The pirahanas sometimes seem to be a little jumpy/flickering? but overall quite awesome!

polskadot 2013-08-30 10:47

@namrog84 I recognize this probably could have been made in a more smooth way with the proper time but it was the first I could came up with for the compo. It was intentionally made that way to prevent the piranhas to be "linear and predictable", so they "jump" a random distance each time making the player be more cautious about skipping them and adding even more difficulty. If it hadn't been included all the piranhas would have had a really close speed and never changed their original direction, so this add a plus to the gameplay.

But about the jumps, you're definitely right. It was the easiest way and could have been made better I guess.

In terms of the "ending", well, I think it would change the game concept. With an ending, you'll be playing to reach home and never play again. Without it, it turns into a never ending game where you have to beat yourself on and on, getting higher and higher points each time. You may reach the ending and say "damn, at last I get to the fucking home, I'm going to delete this crap for ever", while playing without the ending you may be playing more like "shit, what a bad luck I had, I'm sure I can get a better run this time" and so on.

arrow-x 2013-08-30 15:01

good music ... and addactive

gmaker 2013-08-31 13:59

really cool game! =) loved little fish))) the music very impotant to me=) good job!

diptoman 2013-08-31 14:15

Haha, this was a lot of fun to play. The soundtrack was awesome! And I liked the hand-drawn gfx. It's amazing you made this in 5 hours!

jomomomo 2013-09-02 00:59

Can't play windows.. can I get a web ver?

archaeometrician 2013-09-02 01:33

Ahhh wow nice game :) Addictive gameplay, awesome music. I love it :D

muciojadpl 2013-09-02 14:23

Good game, is very hard ;) Fantastic music and funny idea! Dobra robota :)

zerot 2013-09-02 14:53

Well Done.

lonelytimelord 2013-09-06 13:38

48 avoided so far :P

paperblurt 2013-09-09 15:33

Kinda like a shump with fish! Great job!

nicotr014 2013-09-11 14:48

Damn those pesky piranas. good job

01rafael 2013-09-16 16:39

Nice game, but nothing about theme.