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ToTheRescue

By saikai

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun363.68
Theme373.76
Overall1093.52
Humor1213.11
Mood1413.33
Innovation1523.30
Audio1693.20
Graphics2873.28

Comments

stewthepoo 2013-08-27 12:24

this is really fun! such a great use of the 10 second theme, the music made me feel like a badass firefighter

lcass 2013-08-27 18:20

EPIC

rincewind_cz 2013-08-27 18:28

Nice use of theme ;)

mental-atrophy 2013-08-27 18:30

Fun game. Tomorrow I'm going to start replacing the staircase in my house with a ladder, to honor your bloodline.

kristof 2013-08-27 19:20

Very cool interpretation of the theme. I like the pixely graphics and the smoke streaming through the corridors. I got stuck a few levels in, because I could not make a jump. I always hit my head on the ceiling. But I had a lot of fun up until that point.

infinitedog 2013-08-27 21:55

Good job! Interesting game mechanics and good interpretation for this theme!

johnfn 2013-08-27 21:57

Ahaha. I wasn't expecting much from the pictures, but you wildly exceeded my expectations! Funny and tense and very enjoyable! My only suggestion is that the air pockets kinda took away some of the tension, and you really want a lot of tension out of the game, so maybe airpockets should just slow down the rate at which you run out of time instead of giving you all your time back? Just a suggestion. Anyways, it was really good, and a lot of fun! Nice job!

shard123 2013-08-27 21:58

Loved your entry, it was nicely polished and very fun!

toadpud 2013-08-27 21:58

Well done!

kebabskal 2013-08-27 22:01

Very nice! Good gameplay, Fits theme well, Nice pixel art. Good job!

unept 2013-08-27 22:21

Fun game. The intense music an sound effects really added to the "mood" for sure. Nicely done.

vile-smile 2013-08-28 00:10

Very good! The art was done very well and the music was very driving.

phocker 2013-08-28 06:05

this was a very solid game with execellent use of the theme

folmerkelly 2013-08-28 08:43

Well done! Good pixel art, neat game mechanic, great music, and very good use of the theme. Solid!

khopa 2013-08-28 23:22

Great game :)

soerensen3 2013-08-28 23:28

I liked it, very innovative.

sephiroth87 2013-08-28 23:31

You should put a %.2f to that timer :P
Nice little game, but a bit too easy

blackbulletiv 2013-08-28 23:42

That was awesome. Very fun. I love your use of the theme.

awppy 2013-08-29 22:55

Pretty solid entry. It was a bit easy but the level designs were good and I'm pretty sure with the mechanics you have in place you could flesh out a deeper game with more interesting puzzles and challenges.

fififox 2013-08-29 22:56

Inventive use of the theme, with solid graphics, very good music and humorous dialogs.

brotherst 2013-08-29 23:03

Haha! I really like this game. It is unfortunately a tad easy :P but it was mega fun.

beardogames 2013-08-30 00:13

The firefighter was a nice take on the theme, but I almost wish it was even harder by having to rescue the people before they succumb to smoke-- now you can just hang out in the safe zone. But all in all really nice. It could easily be made into a full post-jam game!

almightyzentaco 2013-08-30 00:20

I always wanted to be a fireman.

kohijin 2013-08-30 00:36

Nice one, the gloomy visuals tempted me to try this and it hooked me for quite a while. Really liked the smoke clouds too.

almax27 2013-08-30 07:30

Simple but effective. :)

miguelsantirso 2013-08-30 08:05

Nice concept, fun and defying. Congrats!

manofdoom 2013-08-30 08:06

Bit rough around the edges (particularly in visuals and level designs) but really fun and having to smash doors down, fix ladders etc was very intense when running out of air. Great use of humour too, what with throwing civilians out of the windows and such. Good work.

hoqjed 2013-08-30 08:13

Right, this is pretty interesting actually. I was surprised a bit with the game, it had a certain impact that worked well for it. The game works well for the most part, I did find one glitchy-ish thing. If you accidentally jump out of the window you just continue to fall into the blackness until time runs out. A nice remedy would be to just restart the level after they cross a certain distance of falling.

Aside from that the game worked fine. As someone else noted you're going for tension here. So the air pockets really work against some of that often providing too much of an easy route out. Now, since it's worked into the gameplay already I figure a good way to add more tension while keeping the air pocket layout would be to have the air pocket slowly drain of air. Then the tension of being stuck inside without completely unlimited resources is still there, while still retaining the air pocket in the level design.

Aside from that the art was fairly good for what was done, a little rough around the edges for some things (like the air pockets, safe zones, and "edges" of the layout that are surrounded completely by a black abyss). The audio was fine, the song choice fit the intensity and the other sounds worked fine in the game.

xaychru04 2013-08-30 09:15

Really enjoyable game. I like the sound when you pick someone, and throwing them trough the windows was funny. Good job! :)

ratalaika 2013-08-30 15:19

good job

dookie 2013-09-02 17:38

Great use of the theme and the graphics were nice. A little more work and some better levels and this could be a great little game :)

jwolf 2013-09-05 02:09

Nicely done! Your entry is interesting, fun, and really well put together.

sestren 2013-09-05 02:11

Really great game. I wish there were more levels to play, but as is, it's pretty fun. I like how the screen gets darker as you run out of air.

ahm99 2013-09-17 00:55

Really cool game. I actually see potential for a full version.

connors 2013-09-17 07:56

Awesome. Like many entries it shows potential for being made into a full game...

I'd prefer it be a little harder. Maybe you move slower when you carry people?