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Underbyte

By unusualcadence

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall164.02
Fun84.08
Audio74.21
Coolness355
Humor473.59
Innovation683.48
Mood703.57
Graphics1393.79
Theme3872.39

Comments

travislucia 2013-12-17 03:05

Great game! Excited to see a fellow stencyl game! This game is like a mario cartridge thats been chewed on and never blown out! Great job!

colorvade 2013-12-17 03:32

Solid gameplay and finely polished. The two glitch blocks exploding on collision was really interesting. The only thing holding it back for me were the really loose controls.

phi6 2013-12-17 14:44

This is amazing! Love the glitchs, the art, music, sound, everything. One of my favs this LD

phi6 2013-12-17 15:33

I've mentioned this in my top 6 games on LD28 so far:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/17/my-top-six-ld28-games-so-far/

valerien 2013-12-17 15:50

I love it ! The controls are slick and the gameplay is really solid here. Special mention to the soundtrack which is very well produced and rousing !

Cheers,
Nathan

spellingphailer 2013-12-17 16:03

Really good platforming here. I also love the sounds and feel of the gun!

gravityscore 2013-12-17 16:04

Awesome!!

methamphetabear 2013-12-17 16:10

Wow this was supafun! But bro, you definitely need a glitchhop soundtrack ;)

senevri 2013-12-17 16:15

Tight controls, lots of fun. Not sure how much it relates to the theme, though. only one life? One character model? :D

ob6160 2013-12-17 16:29

I actually love this, the gun and the sound and the exploding blocks are amazing :D You should win :)

unusualcadence 2013-12-17 16:35

@phi6: wow, thanks for the mention! :D

@Senevri: yeah it's a bit tenuous but... you get one invincibility power-up which you can use at will once it's unlocked. I really wish I'd found a better way to communicate it in-game but I totally messed up my original plans to put in more power-ups that You Only Get One of. Time limits, aah! (You also only get one life, one enemy type, one weapon, one love)

headchant 2013-12-17 17:05

So juicy, it drips.

strangelander 2013-12-17 17:35

Fun, but lacked variety. Blowing stuff up felt good.

coblynau 2013-12-17 18:16

Great classic arcade style with a twist. :)

dmitrix 2013-12-17 19:02

Actually a pretty awesome platformer! :D

mortus 2013-12-17 19:15

Amazingly fun! The exploding cubes mechanic is just perfect, a great find! It's just too bad sometimes they reset too soon.

lipedal 2013-12-17 20:31

Hahahah, great concept! The Underbyte, glitchburbia, where the fallen souls wander and try to keep the fun flowing. Weapon, deaths and explosions all provide great feedback. I had some trouble with the explosion cubes, sometimes they fall from a great height and won't explode what they were supposed to, sometimes it was hard to get them in the right place to shoot a way out. Apart from that, loved the quintuple jump and the upgraded gun :D Great job!

mrtedders 2013-12-17 21:58

Excellent work! Your game is a very creative game in art, sound, design, just all around. Very well done.

xezko 2013-12-17 23:48

Amazing!
this game feels really good to play! the music is great too!

stvr 2013-12-18 02:06

Really great interpretation of the theme; I don't think I've seen a single-use invincibility yet! Burning Tiger (my son) says: "your game is amazing and I like the idea of invincibility."

igoramendola 2013-12-18 07:51

awesome!!! sooo intense! and very nice music :D

havana24 2013-12-18 08:04

Great old-style platformer! It's addicting!

derevensky 2013-12-18 10:24

Love it. Great controls and narrative. And I like how you utilized game mechanics to give that awesome retro super mario bros impression.

pinkmonkeyhead 2013-12-18 16:12

Definitely the most original entry I played so far! Really good, everything

raiyumi 2013-12-18 17:07

Awesome game. :) Lovely sounds and gameplay.

gfm 2013-12-18 23:01

Wooow. A game about bugs!
You got mean when I first saw those glitching tiles. xD That reminded me of the debug mode on Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (after you spawned thousand of things xD)

It's really fun and the music was great! I didn't got tired of it even after playing for a while!.
The graphics were pretty cool. And the glitching effect was amazing!

But I got stuck in one level... I'll probably come back to finish this game later.
Great job! =D

johnnysix 2013-12-19 00:41

This was hilarious! Really loved the graphics and music especially.

syawqy 2013-12-19 02:54

this is really fun...

tchem 2013-12-19 12:24

Awesome, everything!!!!!

rnlf 2013-12-19 17:38

Amazing game. The camera feels a bit to shaky to me, but all in all great. I like how the gun feels like POW block in Super Mario :D

joeprogram 2013-12-19 19:19

There's so many cool things here. I love the cannibalistic nature of the beings, all trying to steal each others bits despite being the same people. Getting the blocks to smash together was really satisfying too. I found it was a little too easy to push the blocks into a corner repeatedly - would have loved some move to get easily get them away from the wall.

soy_yuma 2013-12-19 21:54

Excellent game! It's fun. It's solid. The gameplay feels right. The theme is a bit forced... But still a great game! Good job!

kalth-streil 2013-12-20 02:00

Great game :)

The theme isn't really there much, but the rest is awesome. Love how the grass and the clouds share the sprite, just like in Mario XD

The glitch part is very unique and funny :)

kunonooni 2013-12-20 03:19

I really cool idea. Loved the mixture of themes and those glitched blocks looked awesome. Reminded me of the original super mario when it glitched in the NES. Solid entry even if the overall theme was a little week.

teamflare 2013-12-20 15:07

Dont know how that relates to the theme, but wow this was fun..probably the LD game I played for the longest time this LD. Good action,plays very smooth :) Great music and visuals.

nightshadow0 2013-12-20 18:13

This is awesome, the cube explosions are particularly satisfying.

katamori 2013-12-21 04:22

I swear I couldn't even feel myself in a LD game!

moop 2013-12-21 16:29

Great game, will probably end up playing again since I didn't have time to finish it.

bitslap 2013-12-22 00:44

A really cool take on the glitchness. Awesome art direction.

jgpicatoste 2013-12-22 11:12

Innovative, addictive and well executed. Top 10 for sure, if not higher. Congratulations.

fluffypillow 2013-12-22 16:52

One of the best entries, and one of the rare games that support non-QWERTY keyboards. Great work!

makatak 2013-12-22 21:37

One of the best games I've played so far! Love the glitch aesthetic, and the whole concept is so unique :)

nyrrrr 2013-12-23 02:27

all in all a close-to-perfect game :) good job!

kgs0142 2013-12-26 06:19

SO MUCH GLITCH lol.
I love this game, it's pretty fun.
Good job :D

xbelanch 2013-12-27 10:52

Glitch, glitch, please, more glitch!!!!

christian-s 2013-12-30 08:44

I really enjoyed this one. Great opening.

frederickk 2014-01-01 23:38

Great mechanics! Just think it doesn't fits the theme very well.
Other than that, the graphics, sound and gameplay are great!

brighterorange 2014-01-02 02:59

This one was really fun! The physics and enemy behavior are not that tight, but the glitchfest made it make sense. I loved the music too. It was maybe a little too cruel to make your score persist between rooms, because I entered the last one with like 60 health, which made it extra hard. But I completed the game. :)

mcapraro 2014-01-02 07:05

really fun and fast and fluid!

patrickgh3 2014-01-03 07:05

I love this game, it feels so magical exploring the secret underworld. Awesome glitch graphics and the exploding blocks fit in perfectly. The music was spot on too. I had to quit after a while because I kept getting swarmed by enemies and it felt unfair. But overall really great.

xanjos 2014-01-03 14:56

Amazing game. Absolutely loved the retro/glitchy visuals and the mechanics were just spot on.

mmickyman 2014-01-03 16:04

That a great game, waoh. I want to play it with a controller during a insanely number of hours.

Just one thing : the scrolling feels weird when you go back and forth too fast.

anvoz 2014-01-03 16:23

Really nice idea. I enjoyed this game so much. Some parts were hilarious. The sound was also really good.

jishenaz 2014-01-03 22:13

Very nostalgic! The music is fantastic. Is there anyway we can get it?

rincewind_cz 2014-01-04 23:18

Nice shooting mechanics, but after few levels the fun was over for me.. :-) The actual game is good, mechanics too but I somehow prefer more puzzle than action based platformers. Good job.

potomak 2014-01-05 09:03

Really nice game, well done.

muciojadpl 2014-01-05 16:52

Fantastic! I love audio and amazing mechanic, shot dynamic is really awesome! Veery nice!

waynetron 2014-01-06 04:42

To tie it to the theme: I like to think that Mario only really has one life. But there are actually many clones that die and end up in the Underbyte. Tragic, really.

blushine 2014-01-06 05:51

Awesome idea, solid gameplay, cool graphics, catchy music. Didn't really go with the theme very well, but no big deal!

ditto 2014-01-07 16:17

Love this to bits, really hard in places, and feels messed up all the time! Flawless execution!