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laGrengine

By fdevant

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness275
Innovation3773.21
Overall4283.18
Graphics5122.95
Mood5222.77
Humor5392.25
Fun6172.85
Audio6292.41
Theme6463.08

Comments

djbriandamage 2013-08-26 21:25

Fun game - reminds me of Osmos. Quite beautiful graphics with a very cool physics engine. Well done!

tigers 2013-08-26 21:43

Cool that you made the font, bit shame that I had a hard time reading it! I love the way you framed your failings with the game as the premise of it, so much more better and satisfying than giving up! You rock man! :D

susanthecat 2013-08-26 22:25

I found the font hard to read. It took a bit, but I finally got the hang of flying around.

otresnjak 2013-08-26 22:30

Wonderfully original idea, but kind of hard to control!

tehlulzinator 2013-08-26 22:38

Actually managed to beat it! Pretty hard to actually hit things, but it was fun to play around for a bit. It has been said a lot, but the font wasn't very pleasant to read. Luckily it doesn't matter for the actual game ^^

Wait what... you did multiple themes? :o

blay09 2013-08-26 23:00

I couldn't figure out what to do first, until I realized I have to collect those things and not dodge them. From there it was easy as all balls were already floating towards me.

tork 2013-08-26 23:49

Good idea, love the way it starts growing, would have liked to start a bit more bigger and the text to be legible.

cbear_wallis 2013-08-26 23:52

it ran but the screen was blank except for sound and the framerate. I'm on win7. i really wanted to play this ;-; <3

olafurw 2013-08-27 00:10

Very very tricky to control and hit the smaller objects. But after a few hits it became easier. As someone said here, it reminds me of Osmos as well, but a quicker version of it.

skully 2013-08-27 01:14

I'm just getting a black screen that shows the framerate :(

themushroomsound 2013-08-27 03:31

I like the art style a lot, including the totally unreadable font. It really fits the hardcore, minimalist gameplay. :)

fdevant 2013-08-27 07:17

Thank you all for your comments and feedback :) Very appreciated!
I'll try to make the font more readable and indeed it looks a bit too much like osmos; I had the Idea, sounded very original and after a while I started feeling like it had too much in common with things like osmos, katamari damacy and snake :P A bit of a Jamais Vu, but it was too late to change my idea then.
cbear, mushroomsound... you guys are on what operative system? is it 32 or 64? Looks like I need do do some more checking on the ports :S (I'm working on OSX and just have bootcamp for checking... I guess processing.org is just not really fit for this kind of thing)

gremlin 2013-08-27 17:46

Tricky, though I eventually won. Huge positive feedback loop. Very sensitive to initial conditions.

dioiminik 2013-08-27 20:02

Good game, reminds me of Osmos

thermite 2013-08-28 00:33

Nice concept, controls are a bit fidgety!

kbm0 2013-08-28 14:51

Controls are a bit screwed but I like the idea. Good job!

iiechapman 2013-08-30 03:53

Very tough to control, but I love how the physics end up moving around in a mesmerizing way

berkano 2013-08-31 15:43

Really neat concept, and love the pixely graphics. Quite challenging too. Reminded me a little bit of Eliss.

latcarf 2013-09-05 00:07

It doesn't work on Linux 64 bits, it's looking for the file lib/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-amd64.jar whereas you only bundled lib/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-i586.jar.

lokarunith 2013-09-05 00:55

Brilliant concept

fdevant 2013-09-05 07:40

Again, thanks for the feedback :). I've been thinking about the controls... I must say I like them the way they are, but if most people hates them I must pay attention... maybe if it was controlled using the mouse it would make things different. Must check that out but I don't wanna lose the feeling of the forces pulling you and you having to be careful fighting them. Also, just added a linux 64 version which hopefully works.

lonelytimelord 2013-09-05 22:34

The font was hard to read, and it was a little hard to control, but great idea :D

chrisgaudino 2013-09-05 22:48

Well done. Really enjoyed this one.

naufr4g0 2013-09-09 22:30

I like the concept and minimal graphics! Everything hinges on how you play in the early stages in this game.
Bug: Final score continue to change each 10 sec after you win.

fdevant 2013-09-10 19:40

lol, just noticed that this http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=1381 entry from the previous ld, was a lot like this.

gfm 2013-09-11 02:31

Nice game.

It wasn't as uncontrollable as I thought it would be... it the controls were great, actually. (with lots of inertial, but, hey, you warned about that)

1fir3 2013-09-16 23:20

Earth will be destroyed