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Corn Quest

By burlapjack

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness374
Innovation1393.25
Audio1933.10
Theme1943.02
Humor1942.66
Graphics2363.32
Overall2533.12
Mood3092.79
Fun3602.63

Comments

tomski 2013-12-17 03:53

Loved the character, nice mechanic too

whoaconstrictor 2013-12-17 03:56

Requires a bit of patience, but overall a really clever use of the theme in an interesting gameplay mechanic. Art is consistently good, and the music fires on all my gameboy nostalgia cylinders.

ambi 2013-12-17 04:59

You get only One Direction, indeed. It's a little tricky.

seigeengine 2013-12-17 05:05

This may be an interesting use of the premise, but it leads to very clunky, and (in my opinion) thoroughly un-enjoyable controls. This ruined the game for me, despite the nice sounds, and cute graphics.

Still, you have managed to achieve a very aesthetically pleasing game. I just don't like the limited oontrols, nor how much you I end up having to wait to move.

However, in looking past that problem, it's quite good.

grincreative 2013-12-17 05:05

Need a lot of patience. Even for me!
But, I loved it!

seasons 2013-12-17 05:12

nothing in this worlds transcends the value of corn. super cute art and music. the level design is interesting as well, but it's a shame how tedious it is to get around. also, i thought i found all the corn in the first level of the spikes but it didn't progress. got a smile out of me for sure.

aneeslol 2013-12-17 05:13

Well, trying to rush through was certainly intense. Good use of theme!

kwl_tw 2013-12-17 05:47

Cute character in a cruel world. lol.

elcow 2013-12-17 06:44

Interesting idea in theory, but as others have said, really tedious in practice. Perhaps instead hold down the button to start rotating and release to move in that direction, but start the rotation at whatever direction you moved last? It takes away some of the difficulty, but I think the increased playability would be worth it.

chabuduo 2013-12-17 06:55

unique mechanic and nice take on the theme!

d2king10 2013-12-17 17:26

I like the idea of only having one button to control your character, but I felt the turn speed as a bit too slow, and most of the time you are just sitting there waiting for it to face the correct direction.

vinull 2013-12-19 01:29

Nice little game, I love the music and the "chat" with the adventurer =)

catonmars 2013-12-20 10:35

I can hardly control the main character, maybe it's by design. Overall nice graphics and audio, like the character.

xrm0 2013-12-29 13:18

Nice concept

nicotr014 2014-01-05 08:56

The art and sound are excellent. The movement mechanic is a little irritating though. Good job!

mephi 2014-01-05 17:56

Nice game concept! Lovely graphics and music! Though as others said it gets tedious very quickly.
The fact that the moving directions are changed clockwise, makes it easy and fast to make "clockwise maneuvers" like: move right, move down, move left.
However if you want to make a counter clockwise maneuver ("left, down, right"), you will wait one cycle between every move.
Some suggestions for experimentation:
- add second control, which can switch between the two cycling rotations (clockwise or counter clockwise).
- add game speed control, which would affect the direction cycling speed as well as all objects (enemies and obstacles) in the game.

xanjos 2014-01-07 00:01

Slightly difficult due to the control scheme but still an enjoyable game. I really liked the graphics and the audio created a rather interestingly eerie mood.