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Surface Dwellers and Pit People

By soupy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation344.12
Overall7023.04
Fun7092.85
Graphics8332.73
Mood9522.53
Theme10832.40
Coolness146046

Comments

hyperbox 2014-04-28 03:45

Interesting idea.

moonmagic 2014-04-28 03:51

This is cute! I wish it wasn't so easy to score points; after I raised the center bars to make a mountain, I just had to sit back and wait for the people to spawn and I didn't really have to raise or lower the side bars very often.

nesis 2014-04-28 04:18

A nice idea, the gameplay gets pretty frantic (and fun!) once the little guys start piling up onto each other and you need to start thinking of how to juggle them across platforms. Good effort for the time you had available to put into it.

drprettypatty 2014-04-28 04:59

Awesome! The gameplay is really unique, it's a great game to zone out to.

franklins-ghost 2014-04-28 12:34

Simple but interesting mechanic, could see it working well on a mobile.

mikeypb 2014-04-28 12:39

Neat idea! I found balancing and juggling the guys quite fun, where they had battles fighting each other which I was forced to try to resolve! Pretty innovative mechanic :)

microapple 2014-04-28 12:46

Interesting game mechanic. Like others have said, this would probably be cool to play on mobile.

sam101 2014-04-28 15:53

Simple concept, but well executed !

designernap 2014-04-29 18:21

had fun with this. Nice execution. good work.

ccglp 2014-04-29 20:56

Game mechanic is very original, and the difficult have good design, good work!

thingostudios 2014-04-30 23:40

I found it really fun to try to get the pink people to fall beneath the blocks and crush them. But actually playing the game as it was meant to be played was kind of frustrating. You probably could have made it more clear what you were supposed to be doing in-game, though. Color the arrows green and pink, respectively! Make the screen rumble when the screen is almost filled! As of right now it's really bland. But the core gameplay is simple and (hypothetically at least) fun!

soupy 2014-05-01 02:04

@ThingoStudio: If you found a way to enjoy it other than how I intended, I count that as an extra win :)

Good suggestions about goals and gamestate feedback, I think devs (including myself) tend to assume that the goals/game state are obvious since we designed it, but more feedback is always good.

pvwradtke 2014-05-03 00:27

That was fun, loved the mechanics. Seemed obvious at first, but had a hidden depth that I didn't anticipated. Also, being able to make character walk over other was a nice touch. Congratulations.

m4rw4 2014-05-03 00:33

Very nice idea and graphics

poxpoxpox 2014-05-03 08:18

Fun! Nice idea.

mrexcessive 2014-05-03 19:35

Hi. Interesting idea. Shame no sound. Negative points can accumulate surprisingly quickly !

kddekadenz 2014-05-04 19:55

I think the core game mechanic would work better if you could drag the blogs with your mouse. It would feel more intuitive, direct and allow more fast paced gameplay.
It also would be interesting to have a NPC changing directions of NPC he meets on the way. And some visible effect when a creature leaves at the wrong level (explosions! :D).

All in all a great idea, which needs some more variety and an other control scheme.