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Captain John's Buried Treasures

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun2693.39
Humor3562.75
Audio4972.87
Graphics5793.14
Overall5863.16
Innovation6992.87
Mood7772.74
Theme8732.86

Comments

manabreak 2014-04-28 06:20

First off, the game crashes if you flood bombs! Other than that, nice game. The theme is not that clearly visible in this one, though. Audio is fine, and graphics are good enough. Solid. :)

whalebot 2014-04-28 06:22

Thought it was your basic platformer up until I saw how to use bombs. Then I just blew the crap out of everything! :) That was pretty fun, but the frame rate seemed to lag pretty significantly. I imagine each of those blocks might have been doing a bit too much causing the game to run a bit slowly. Overall cool dynamic terrain effects.

mtinkerhess 2014-04-28 06:23

Nice block physics, with the sand and dirt and water. The water physics especially look like a tricky thing to implement, good work on that! The puzzle solving is fun. Nice sprite and animations -- especially when a block falls on your head!

There are some crashing issues, like if you hold down z and fire a bunch of cannonballs, which ended up stopping me from getting too far in the game.

honcho 2014-04-28 06:24

Game crashes for at at level 2.

empyrealhell 2014-04-28 06:26

Not bad. It got a bit repetitive after a while, and the knockback from the cannon made digging laterally pretty irritating. Overall it was a good entry, lots of content for 48-hours.

huder 2014-04-28 06:33

It runs terribly slow on my laptop, and game crashes but graphics and physics is good.

fasox 2014-04-28 06:38

Some technical problems, but man , the game got me after a level 2 :)

cognizant-game-studios 2014-04-28 06:40

Crashes with bombs!! Other than that, GG!

eldog 2014-04-28 06:41

On Linux so can't play. But I like the character art! :)

idkfawin32 2014-04-28 06:45

the particles when collecting the treasure was such a rewarding experience. Like a happy little goldsplosion

muramasa 2014-04-28 06:49

Captain John. Arrrr!! This game is fun, but after some levels, I started to think if they were procedurally generated. Or if there was an end. After the second one I lost count (?). But I know I beaten more than 10.

mugwort 2014-04-28 06:58

Nice little terraria styled game. I really liked the collapsing dirt effect and the water dynamics.
Good ideas for a basic little platformer. I've been kicked off the computer so my daughter can play it, thanks.

tomboogaart 2014-04-28 08:25

runs too slow on my laptop to play ::::(((((, looks pretty coolcool

majsmanne 2014-04-28 08:27

Most polished platforming mechanics I've seen so far this compo, but runs very poorly. You've managed to create an impressive amount of levels considering the time limit and the graphics are basic but pleasing. Good job!

gnerkus 2014-04-28 08:51

I love the bombs. I just blow everything up until some rock falls on me.

dreii 2014-04-28 08:57

:D pretty fun feels nostalgic with the snappy feedback

terraco 2014-04-28 10:02

Flooded with bombs. Crashed it. Had a blast ;)

givemeallyourcats 2014-04-28 10:30

I have a crash in the next area if I pick up something :c
But other then that. The game looked good!

lrnk 2014-04-28 10:35

Really cool! Ran fine for me. I love the feel of the bombs and the attention to detail with the grass animation

hexagore 2014-04-28 10:40

Well that's fun isn't it? Excellent pixel art. You get splatted a lot, but it always feels like your own fault.

lekochen 2014-04-28 10:43

This is surprisingly fun!! Well done!

foofur 2014-04-28 10:44

Not réally innovative, but like the way you worked it out. Fun to play, clean game. but drop the bomb sfx pls

lantto 2014-04-28 10:49

Very nice!

I had some performance issues but other than that I enjoyed it very much. It's a very satisfying feeling wrecking havoc with the bombs and it was funny the first time I got squashed by my own greediness.

It would be nice to be able to go back a level since I accidentally jumped to the next one.

seppel 2014-04-28 12:47

It's laggy, it crashes, and it's fun!

I love Captain John's movement animation.

morcosan 2014-04-28 13:44

well done :)

doubstract 2014-04-28 14:45

I just destroyed everything :)
Great game!

binary_girl 2014-04-28 14:58

i had to install directplay to play it ;p i like the fluidity of it.. and love the little particle anims when you pick up a treasure.. crashed if i set too many bombs off tho ..good job :)

paperblurt 2014-04-28 16:09

Funny and easy going game!

whitewolf93 2014-04-28 17:26

Really fun and interesting, some levels are challenging, not bad! :P, graphics are nice too

theholychicken 2014-04-28 19:00

It's odd that I can throw more bombs in late levels but if I throw more than one at a time on the third level(first bomb level) I almost always crash.

The mechanics and concept are very cool. I stopped on the level with row of chests because too many bombs were required to get through all the dirt and I kept crashing :]

lixaxil 2014-04-28 19:12

Best entry so far. I love how you can blow up everthing with enough patience.

gins 2014-04-28 21:20

Cool game, feels good to break everything with bombs :D
The music makes me want to move ^-^
Unfortunately it crashes on Windows 8 due to that nasty Game Maker sound glitch. Also I'd recommend to put the file into a ZIP rather than making it a raw EXE download because antivirus programs typically don't like that.

mihaivdev 2014-04-28 22:16

Bonus points for destructible terrain and particle physics! Too bad it crashes often. Keep it up!

endesga 2014-04-28 22:19

Interesting game :) I love it

benmcnelly 2014-04-29 00:33

Other than the crashes, showed a lot of potential, and a lot of fun.

phocker 2014-04-29 05:30

aaargh. neat game with cool graphics - too bad it kept crashing on me. good job.

thorig 2014-04-29 10:23

Nice game, too bad it crashed sometime. Still a good entry.

siewart 2014-04-29 12:35

Really fun, however I had some trouble in understanding the trigger for the blocks to fall, but it seemed like the explosions could trigger this + some stochastic transistion

lanoiadimuu 2014-04-29 12:45

Crashes if you throw too many bombs.
But overall is a small and enjoyable game.

blazingfanfish 2014-04-29 13:49

Love the physics. Other than it laggy, the game is quite good. :)

blahoink 2014-04-29 19:22

pretty good, nice well polished gameplay. just a bit too shallow.

hyouko 2014-04-30 03:31

My question is this: where are all the bombs coming from?

Perhaps it's best not to know.

angelk 2014-04-30 05:49

I really like how the world falls on you. It's great that it's not simply an average platformer, it allows for some much more interesting puzzles.

crazi456 2014-04-30 07:23

All the treasure is mines! Nice work!

spotco 2014-04-30 09:03

Pretty fun (in a Terraria like way).
Had a random bug where I glitched through walls though.

sparrow 2014-04-30 12:24

Awesome, Captain John is awesome! Can't find a fault in this. I'm running on a laptop but no performance problems whatsoever.

metkis 2014-04-30 23:14

Interesting game, great job!

tijmentio 2014-04-30 23:45

Loved bombing everything into oblivion until it crashed. Had a nice run though.

jujule 2014-05-01 22:08

Overall presentation is good. Controls are responsive. I liked the Dig Dug + Terraria + sort of real physics mix. And you managed to make a lot of levels.
Solid throught and through.

lasagnegames 2014-05-03 08:39

You should do a post jam version for sure. Good work on the controls very fluid.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-05-05 09:12

Fun little game. Maybe needs some polishing on the controls, but anyway, was fun blowing everything up!

whitewolf93 2014-05-20 16:15

You did very well! Those ratings :/, This game was very fun for me, I don't care what people rates but this game was fun for me and I loved the style and the idea. I hope you make a new game for ludum dare 30! I'm making a list of people who made me have a good time and are going to participate in ld30, you are one of them and I wanna rate your next game :), so let me know if you are gonna participate! The next time i'm gonna be in the jam! Really good luck!