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You only get one! (match)

By fenixin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme1253.26
Humor1293.02
Audio1393.31
Fun1593.17
Overall1883.26
Graphics1963.46
Mood2013.08
Innovation3922.51

Comments

sink 2013-12-17 00:40

This game is really great! The graphics are very nice and remind me of Mario Bros. Also the music is nice and arcady. Really cool areas to go to and nice difficulty curve. The only gripe I have is that he backgrounds can be a bit busy making it hard to see but other then that everything is great!

chamberlainpi 2013-12-17 01:08

It's a great looking game, and fun too! Can't help to feel a bit nostalgic (good ol' mario games).
I couldn't get passed level 1 though, not sure what you're supposed to do with those barrels. (EDIT: I'll have to try again, didn't know you could crouch to light those up)

harsanalif 2013-12-17 12:11

Nostalgic looking game. A bit too hard & classic for my taste, but it fun short time nonetheless :)

tanser 2013-12-17 12:30

There seems to be problem with the resolution but anyway it is nice game.

danbo 2013-12-17 12:34

I really like this! Control is a little too slippery, though.

muciojadpl 2013-12-17 12:35

Good thing. I like this low-quality graphics. But sometimes when I run the game I can't press any key, and the window is too big for my screen and I can see only part of this. Screen could be resizable, because some peoples can't play (I had this problem last LD with my game) ;) Anyway, congrats for finish and good job!

ditto 2013-12-17 12:38

Very challenging, in a good way, i love the cute walking little coffee cups ^^ Good game!

gungnir 2013-12-17 12:42

You nailed the single screen arcade charm perfectly, in every sense. Even those typical lo-fi photo backdrops. Controls are dead on, and a great level of challenge. Nice effort getting in all those national cliches too. Ingenious life/energy bar.

doctor-broccoli 2013-12-17 12:48

Really quite fun! The main problem is that on some levels the background is too distracting, making the platforms difficult to see.

fenixin 2013-12-17 13:22

Hey! Thanks for the nice feedback!

The screen is resizable, but it wasn't really working at the end of the jam, so we didn't mention it. Didn't think of people with small screen resolution!

You can resize the screen using 'Ctrl-s'. Resizing will make the title screen and comic screens look weird but will look perfect while playing. I have added a comment about this in the game description.

tombofry 2013-12-17 15:49

Concept is absolutely amazing, but your lives don't reset to 3 once you die the first time, and the items on the screen are quite hard to see in some cases (ie. in Australia the boomerangs were hard to see).
The arcade style was brilliant though!

fenixin 2013-12-17 16:26

@TomboFry, Thanks! It's a bit buggy, yeah. We will probably realse a mor polished post-jam version with more stuff.

kutullu 2013-12-17 16:54

Don't really like the jumping, it feels a little bit off. But the game is quite good nontheless, I like graphics and sound. The gameplay feels like something from the 80s... and I mean that in a good way. Thumbs up! :)

Cheers, Marcus

fenixin 2013-12-17 18:14

Developers here: yes, you know, it's Ludum Dare. We are working in a fix release for the bugs, right know yes, lives don't reset and you can hang up the title screen if you pass the mouse around the game screen.

The backgrounds were made in the last hours, so, yes, palettes are not optimized. Stay tuned for the post comp version, we will work to produce a great arcade experience that fix those problems, movement, colors, and gameplay in general. Regards.

mrvanderpants 2013-12-17 18:20

I can't see the lower part of the level because of my resolution, but the game looks really good.

chrismingay 2013-12-17 19:24

For lack of a better explaination, this one is the most game like entry I've played so far, so well done :D

Again, can't put it into words, but it just feels right, kind of like a DOS shareware game or something

stmatn 2013-12-17 19:33

Awesome game!
There seems to be some bug with the lives (maybe just the number shown) if you restart after loosing.
Nice graphics, nice sound, nice story, so:
Great work!

fenixin 2013-12-17 22:21

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

@StMatn, you are right! We have just uploaded a bugfix doing some 'Typo' bugfixing as the rules say. We have fixed:
- The lives not resetting
- A really ugly hang that happened if you left the mouse over the game screen.
- Music not looping.
- The last level was simply impossible, fixed that.

dremelofdeath 2013-12-18 08:15

love the graphics and style of gameplay. Though the resolution seems a tad too high. I can't play it well on my laptop which maxes out at 1366x768

nisshoku 2013-12-18 08:36

Nice graphic and music style, good work on the different art per stage and fun and challenging gameplay!

fenixin 2013-12-18 08:55

@dremelofdeath, Thanks! You can change the screen size with 'ctrl-s'

udinjelek 2013-12-18 09:06

I love the graphic, give me a nostalgic moment, anyway it couldn't appear well in my Computer. I'm using Win 7 64 bit :(

dsoft20 2013-12-18 09:42

Nige game I love the gameplay :D

fate 2013-12-18 13:23

Great game. The visuals and audio were amazing :)

seantheartist 2013-12-18 15:23

I liked the theme a lot and the music was pretty sweet. I like the idea of going through an obstacle coarse with 1 match!

archaeometrician 2013-12-18 16:00

Cool nostalgic concept. Great work

tobbez 2013-12-18 16:15

Nice game, quite a challange.

whiteknife 2013-12-18 18:41

Well-done in terms of art and music, really captures that arcade-charm!

javifugitivo 2013-12-19 01:33

Looks like Mario!

ammorechicks 2013-12-19 08:36

Very relaxing, good pixel art, sweet retro-style. I saw you made it with pygame. Good game!

fenixin 2013-12-19 12:01

@AmmoreChicks, yes, we used pygame. We will release the code (and the game) in the pygame web sooner or later. The code needs some cleaning...

murilo 2013-12-19 14:36

It loads the menu. when I click the 'vs AI' it hangs forever :(

soy_yuma 2013-12-19 20:58

I like poor Macario! But the jump is a bit funky for my taste. Also, I'm a greedy bastard and try to get all coins, which is extremely difficult even on the first level! Graphics are cooll and sounds not bad.

lightsoda 2013-12-22 02:08

Pretty high difficulty from the start, I think the high gravity pull on that jump made it a bit hard for me, I though it controlled really well otherwise.

On some objects, like the birds, it's really hard to tell that you're losing time when touching them.

Good graphics and fun music.

jonask 2013-12-22 19:31

This game gave me a warm feeling :)

benjamin-soule 2013-12-23 22:45

Great work, remind me the arcade game "Pang" where you also visit famous places. This kind of themes where pretty famous back in the 90's arcade. I love the way you took time to change every monster skin on each level. You should have put an outline on those boomerangs : brown sprites on red bg is almost invisible.

I went to the ??? but can't pass it. I only had one life left :)

jprogman 2014-01-03 03:25

I'm a little concerned on the flying enemies. If they fly to random spots, I might get unlucky and have them keep guarding the fireworks until I ran out of time. I'm not sure if the enemies move randomly or not. Nice retro arcade game overall! It just need some further polishing and tweaking.

anvoz 2014-01-03 12:55

Great game! The graphics and music were really good. But the background of Paris stage was quite annoying.

I really want to discover all levels to see new places and monsters but the game was quite hard for me. Perhaps you should make it easier so more people will have chance to reach the last level.

I got to stage 4 - Sydney, 50270 points.

techblogogy 2014-01-04 18:27

Nice and fun game. Amazing!