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Down the snail hole

By oxysoft

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme1473.77
Innovation4143.27
Audio4242.96
Graphics4623.30
Mood6322.91
Overall8122.92
Fun8992.62
Humor9011.94
Coolness146046

Comments

kayz 2014-04-28 13:40

Interesting idea. Controls are a bit strange especially having to reselect the ants after digging. And at one point I wasn't able to make my ants move upwards :(.

Interestingly, yours is the second Dart game that's broken in Firefox because of the same error. Also, please check out my Dart game :).

iamspencer 2014-04-29 01:34

Fun, you managed to make it engaging enough to keep me playing. I liked the digging part, I don't know why but it was cute. Well done :)

zzorn 2014-04-29 13:50

Love the tileset.

travislucia 2014-04-29 22:11

Cool idea but controls are frustrating and get old fast.

evilseanbot 2014-04-29 23:01

Nicely ambitious. The controls are kind of awkward, left me wishing for something playable with only the mouse.

theholychicken 2014-05-01 03:38

Very cool!
Why not use mouse click to move the ants? And all ants could be selected by default since digging currently deselects everything and is a bit inconvenient to reselect.
There's a bug where the snail went into the walls and became unreachable.
Great work nonetheless!

oxysoft 2014-05-01 11:08

- I couldn't remove the context menu when right clicking and I found space to be the least awkward of all the other keys

- The snail do get stuck in the walls when they attack in diagonal angle from a wall tile :(

- You can't move your ants up in the second level for some reasons

gaming_ray 2014-05-01 21:26

Looks interesting, but the controls are totally awkward.

blockbot 2014-05-01 21:49

Interesting ideas, I would love an auto select for the ants. I didn't expect to the like the space to cursor mechanic as much as I did.

noom 2014-05-04 01:25

Very cool, was a good bit of fun. Some criticism - the SFX were a bit intense and I had to turn my headphones down. The controls seemed slightly bugged where each time I dug I had to reselect all my ants. And I had snails on the last level just run off into the terrain where I couldnt reach them.
I love love LOVE the music though, very nice. That and your graphics are really neat. This is a great entry!

quantumpotato 2014-05-17 01:56

Interesting idea. You don't seem to actually need RTS c ontrol schemes.. WASD or mouse would have worked fine.

andreiagmu 2014-05-17 01:56

Great game! It was a quite obvious, but nice use of the theme.

If you continue developing this idea, I think adding more types of enemies/ants/obstacles would make the game more interesting. :)

jlay 2014-05-17 02:23

I like the graphics!

sevenkingdomssurvivors 2014-05-19 03:52

Interesting concept. The controls where a bit hard to get used to. Wish it was more fleshed out.

clinthoney 2014-05-19 04:03

Not sure what I was suppose to be doing so most of my ratings are based of the visuals and sounds. But overall looks great just wish I knew what to do.

pikkpoiss 2014-05-19 04:45

It took me so long to figure out you needed to select ants to do anything. The digging mechanic was cool and fighting was easier than I expected. Wish there was a fast way to select ants though, jugging the selection was frustrating. Beautiful and simple sprite graphics on the walls and dig icons, and I liked the music too.

copain 2014-05-19 13:50

seems cool but controls and problems of pathfinding discouraged me...