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Without a Paddle

By namuol

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness354
Fun1133.68
Overall1473.68
Humor1493.29
Innovation2293.55
Audio3943.00
Mood4063.16
Theme4173.42
Graphics6083.10

Comments

elforama 2014-04-28 03:43

For some reason the boat animation made me laugh. Good job with this game.

wespaugh 2014-04-28 18:50

Difficult game, but incredibly intuitive and the controls feel great.

tomboogaart 2014-04-29 20:11

ha this game felt pretty smooth, i enjoyed throwing my spear at these sharksss

bazld 2014-04-29 20:13

Very nice game. Theres more to it than meets the eye, the control of the boat and spear are not the simple approach you might expect.

angryloaf 2014-04-29 20:38

this game is really hard! its done well though. nice work!

matt_j 2014-04-29 20:49

Simple and polished, well done. Love the punchy sound effects!

jlay 2014-04-30 00:04

This game feels great. It was a joy to play! I speared three sharks at once!

metanokid 2014-04-30 00:07

It's got some nice graphics and sounds! The aiming mechanic gives it an awesome gameplay, and the spear gives it some extra points on humor!

landosystems 2014-04-30 00:07

19150. Super simple concept that was surprisingly addicting. Spearing 4 sharks at once was one of the most rewarding things I've done all night. Thanks!

switchbreak 2014-04-30 00:43

Nice work! I got 4250. I love the way the boat moves clumsily, like a boat would.

josefnpat 2014-04-30 01:47

Nice job! Perhaps another spear or two! While the waves are nice, I don't know if they really can be use in lou (get it?) of music. Great job!

ix 2014-04-30 02:14

18700, thanks to a lucky spear of a stack of sharks. Great mechanics in here. The slosh-y aiming feels just about right.

mrodrigues 2014-04-30 04:50

Nice entry! The gameplay is solid, I really liked the way the crosshair wobble when you move, nice way to enforce strategy. It's addictive, though I'm not very good (my highscore for now is 8000).

Did you use any game engine?

namuol 2014-04-30 05:26

@Marcos Rodrigues: I used my own JS/HTML5 game framework called Combo. It's not released yet, and I plan on selling it.

If you're into JS gamedev, send me your email and I'll hook you up with a key for free when a beta is ready. :)

tomvert 2014-04-30 11:11

Good gameplay, making combo was really rewarding, I managed to make a shark/fish combo (wich could be rewarded differantly bu the way). Anyway keep it up :)

aaants 2014-04-30 11:43

Simple, effective and fun! I liked the aiming/movement link up.

01010111 2014-05-01 18:26

Love this entry - the movement was really smooth, and the animation was goofy. Wish I could aim and shoot through fish though.

namuol 2014-05-02 02:54

@01010111 -- Not sure what you mean; you _can_ aim and shoot through fish. Do you mean hit all the ones in the line the spear follows?

namuol 2014-05-03 05:47

Just scored 300,000+ points. The secret was landing 2 10xShark spear combos, and another 9xShark combo... heh. The game's a little too "easy" to play indefinitely, actually. No real difficulty ramp-up. Maybe I'll do that for the post-compo version..

mrbungle 2014-05-08 12:26

Digging the simplistic graphical style and the animations are cool. The sense of everything wobbling about is a really nice touch.

littleball 2014-05-08 12:26

Sweet little game! Getting a double catch is so satisfying. I love the simple graphics too.

simianlogic 2014-05-11 21:39

Feels very polished for such a short time. Love that your aim gets more and more erratic the further out from the boat you throw. Floating feels relaxing.

jacic 2014-05-17 19:06

I loved how movement made my aim wobble across the whole screen. :p Great work.