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Aqua

By littleball

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio1283.56
Mood2573.39
Graphics2883.61
Overall3403.41
Humor4832.53
Fun5313.05
Theme7233.07
Innovation11422.18

Comments

sleepyrhino 2014-04-28 12:09

Love the pixel octopus looks great.

Had a few issues with the collision and fell through things all the way till the end.

liens 2014-04-28 12:14

That was cool, and strange. Was I supposed to be able to double jump by using both the up arrow and W key? I ended up jumping out into this huge open area, then I found some weird blocks without black edges, then I found the treasure. I won! Yuss

zutty 2014-04-28 12:16

I found it, yay! Beautiful music. The jumping gets somewhat repetitive, and it would have been nice to some indication of which gate just opened, but otherwise fun.

franklins-ghost 2014-04-28 13:39

Like the octopus look but had an issue with collision where I fell through the ground at the start. Nice aesthetics though, good job.

littleball 2014-04-28 15:27

Thanks for the comments. I would have liked to add a bit more variety but time was against me. I might do a post comp version with mobs to avoid.

trueyomic 2014-04-28 19:02

If anyone has issues running it in Firefox, it worked perfectly in Chrome. I loved the graphics; very cutesy. I agree that it needs some variety, but it was fun nonetheless.

littleball 2014-04-28 20:14

The falling platform bug should now have been fixed.

manabreak 2014-04-29 12:10

Nice, calm mood :) Good looking game, I liked the relaxed feel it had.

jayemjee 2014-04-29 12:19

It's a little confusing, what with the key opening doors automatically vs one having to take the key to the door. Also, towards the end, there were spots where I fell through some of the level (in spots I didn't think I was supposed to be able to). The graphics are good, however, and it plays really well.

adamcclifton 2014-04-29 12:22

I quite liked it. I got stuck at a point where you have to jump backwards and forwards between 1 block holes in the wall. The collision was a bit weird wit that.

Maybe making the hitbox smaller than a block and maybe some small physics changes to improve the feel of it would make it even better.

darkengineer 2014-04-29 12:40

Nice game, but it just buged when i changed card in browser. Nice chilling music.

marcus_siactro 2014-04-29 13:05

Sweet game! Good work :)

gap 2014-04-29 17:12

A basic platformer, not more, not less :) Nice experience!

vilya 2014-04-29 19:31

Good attention to detail here. It felt like a platformer should, long press for a higher jump & things like that. Love the piano as well. Good work!

gamertaters 2014-04-29 20:09

Love the game and the octopus. Sound is amazing makes me happy.

mikedirl 2014-04-29 21:14

Nice game, i liked your style of graphics. The collision issues didn't really bother me, I could just get to the treasure quicker :-). Well done.

grayhaze 2014-04-29 21:15

A fun little platformer with some nice soothing music and parallax effects. Managed to get to the end without too much difficulty. If you managed to make this and compose the music in 48 hours, I'm impressed!

whalebot 2014-04-29 21:18

I wish the piano track looped, that was a sweet song. It looks like there are multiple treasures you can find. And keys in the walls o_o Overall, nice job, for someone who stresses out about precise platforming, this was a relaxing change of pace.

pfeyffer 2014-04-29 22:35

Amazing game. The controls feel just right for an under water scenario. Some directional hints would have been nice. Lovely graphics. Fun to play. Perfect.

delca 2014-05-02 19:18

Excellent game! Loved the audio, the graphics, and the control were pretty good too.

cricklewood 2014-05-02 19:53

Nice music and graphics.

The gameplay gets a bit tedious. :)

vinull 2014-05-02 23:54

Loved it - really fun game that shows you don't always need a fail condition. The piano music is perfect as is the pixel art. Was also a lot bigger than I expected! Was there a way to get the keys in the rocks? "I found it" without them but I still wonder...

shadow64 2014-05-03 01:46

I really enjoyed the music, but the unlocking sound was pretty harsh on my ears. I think the gameplay is nice, but at one point I definitely had to use the up/w double jump trick to get to where I needed to be.

If that's not a glitch, then the web version I played in Chrome is having issues with double jump - I couldn't do it with just pressing the up arrow twice.

I think the game is JUST a little long and you can probably ditch the keys stuck in the wall and the extra treasure chest - they're a little confusing/concerning since you don't know how many keys you need for which gate.

Overall, it's well made and fun. Thanks for sharing! And thanks for voting/commenting on mine!

petrih 2014-05-03 12:30

Found it!

gfm 2014-05-04 02:26

Graphics were nice and the music was pretty good!
Nice game. :)

kugrou 2014-05-07 04:00

Really liked the music. Overall the jumping felt pretty good, except jumping into one tile high gaps felt tougher than it should of been.

papygaragos 2014-05-07 17:22

I don't think that this "find the key | reach the door | repeat" gameplay you have here is the best match for the atmosphere you created with the graphics and the music.

martin_monosys 2014-05-08 20:48

Pretty visuals, great music. But jump'n'runs still aren't for me, especially the tricky ones... :)

penguincat 2014-05-09 21:37

This was pretty good! The gameplay was pretty simplistic, but oddly that didn't bother me as much as it usually does. The music was really nice and peaceful, though it didn't quite seem to fit the game, but I think it was the main reason I kept playing. The sound effect when a door is unlocked was very annoying though. All in all it was a very relaxing game to play.

badpaul34 2014-05-10 09:16

Very nice game with a good polish and a lovely mood. Excellent level design. Well done!

perfect-victim 2014-05-10 10:26

very well made game, smooth controls, good graphics that fits the game perfectly and i really love the music

pichifino 2014-05-10 16:11

Good job

zedutchgandalf 2014-05-10 21:23

I love the look of this :D
It's a bit buggy at times, though (esp. collision)
Neat game, though! Congrats! :)

namuol 2014-05-11 20:50

Nice graphics, really nice background music! Would've loved to see more diversity in the scenery, but you did manage to build a pretty large puzzle to navigate. :)

There wasn't really enough communicated when I found keys; I constantly found myself just shrugging and wandering around until I found a newly opened pathway. It might help to cut a camera to the door opening and then cut back to the player whenever one opens?

By the way, were those "impossible-to-reach" keys reachable?

lanoiadimuu 2014-05-15 09:49

Great music! I really like the Octupus, too!
On my first playtrough I fell under some platform and basically reached the treasure with no effort.

alucard-j 2014-05-19 15:36

Really nice artwork, background music is awesome. Also had collision problems and issue with the door sound. Was fun to play and explore, well done.