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Tentacle Rails

By javifugitivo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Overall843.72
Fun903.56
Graphics1284.07
Humor1923.07
Mood2253.38
Innovation2503.29
Audio3223.17
Theme6102.61

Comments

root-beer-barrel-boys 2014-04-29 03:36

I like the art style and level design! Awesome job!!

kivifrewak 2014-04-29 08:41

Good graphics!

aukyr 2014-04-29 08:54

Awesome

pereubu 2014-04-29 08:57

great job, there's a lot of content here. Maybe you should add some screenshake to get a better feeling on the guns :D

javifugitivo 2014-04-29 09:34

Thanks for the comments! pereubu, It would be a great feature for a future mobile version with more levels ;-)

bombjack 2014-04-29 10:02

nice art.

tacs 2014-04-29 10:24

Love it!

fox_in_sox 2014-04-29 10:55

Really amazing! Took me a while to figure out what exactly is the lever, but I managed to find it in the end.:D The visuals are beautiful.

orangepascal 2014-04-29 11:08

very nice!

javifugitivo 2014-04-29 12:34

I have updated to fix the problem with the lever (I consider that it is a bug. Now is bigger and more visible).

Jeremias 2014-04-29 12:51

These graphics are really well made but with many enemies, it gets a bit confusing. Like pereubu said, add screenshake :D

sushin 2014-04-29 13:01

Very nice graphics!! The mechanics works perfectly. Hope u get a nice place cause it deserves! :D

nicolashognon 2014-04-29 13:51

great gfx. music is good. perhaps controls can be smoother. good game.

citsua 2014-04-29 14:46

Extremely addictive game with great graphics ! Good job !

nezzhil 2014-04-29 15:24

Please, hightlight the levers a little, to find them better.
Really fun. Good job :)

wdebowicz 2014-04-29 16:33

After few seconds my audio was brake (just a strange noise) anyway Very good game!

helopol 2014-04-29 17:39

I love the graphics ! This is fun,even though I had some diffculties to find the levers

javifugitivo 2014-04-29 18:01

Thanks for the feedback! I know that the levers are a bit hidden, but it's part of the gameplay. Thanks for playing our game, we are very proud of it!

degtyarev 2014-04-29 20:33

very nice oldshool mood!

hob623 2014-04-29 21:28

Really nice game. I especially like the music and graphics. At first I had trouble figuring out how to move on (I didn't notice the lever or even know they existed) but it's kinda fun!

iamspencer 2014-04-29 21:43

The art style in this was really fantastic. I loved it, also it was pretty damn fun. Great job :)

arcturusdeluxe 2014-04-30 00:43

Cool idea. Certainly one of the better games I've seen this competition. Love the art style.

balloonsfor600 2014-04-30 02:35

I like the puzzle elements of shooting the switches. Nicely done!

gnerkus 2014-04-30 08:28

I've taken too much sugar in my eye. =(

The game was a little slow.

zedutchgandalf 2014-04-30 09:38

Really cool! I love the art style, the music, the concept... Everything! :)

dmcfarline 2014-04-30 10:30

Really cool artwork, I like the fuzzy spore clouds when you kill enemies

quill18 2014-04-30 16:17

Pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew!

thinkster 2014-04-30 17:20

Awesome game, really enjoyed it!

pancakecity 2014-04-30 17:54

Whoooaaa so much action! Really pro game!

wakka 2014-04-30 22:45

Really fun game. The GFX effects are awesome!

7hesama 2014-05-01 00:03

Character felt basically invincible which didn't give me much incentive to try hard. Also, bunched up enemies all died from a single bullet.

Individually the sprites are nice, but it's hard to tell what's what as everything (objectives, loot, enemies, terrain) all blends together. I like the PC sprite a lot though, he's rad.

nicom 2014-05-01 00:36

Great game! very smooth animation, something about that full 360 character really impresses me, fun gameplay to!! great job!

kevinworkman 2014-05-01 02:50

This is a great start to a fun little game. But did you really make it for ludum dare? Didn't really see the theme and I would guess it took more than one weekend to make!

javifugitivo 2014-05-01 06:27

Yes,the theme is that the action is in a cave belowvthe surface,a mine with rails. And we have slept about 8 hours those days. I was doing streaming in twitch as proof ;-)

flavio 2014-05-01 12:52

Crazy and fun ! Cool visuals and gameplay. It seems to me that the game is a little bit hard to play, right from the beginning !

mintarcade 2014-05-01 18:33

Great humor and fun. Was enjoying your game a lot.

huvaakoodia 2014-05-01 22:31

Well this is the most unapologetic on-rails-shooter I've ever played and it's not bad!

The gameplay is hectic and fun, but I do have a few complaints.

The player hitbox is a tad too big. If enemies come outside of the screen, around corners or spawn right next to you there is too little time to react before they collide into the cart.

I'd prefer a secondary single shot attack which only hits levers, or something similar, as accidentally shooting a lever multiple times is annoying.

Health pickups or, I can't believe I'm saying this, regenerating health might also work to reward skillful play even more.

dreii 2014-05-02 01:10

Wow! the animation on the character is amazingly well done! hats off man! the gameplay's really good too with a nice difficulty gate mechanic good stuff :)

cupcakemedia 2014-05-02 03:28

A top down rail shooter? That's surprisingly a not bad idea. Pretty fun, actually.

javifugitivo 2014-05-02 09:37

Thanks for the comments and pieces of advice. We will work in a version for android with more level an features using your feedback!

vinull 2014-05-02 23:31

Wow, amazing job all! The gameplay was fun and the art is really good. This would be a game I'd work on making a full release of.

mventurelli 2014-05-03 01:31

Very literal take on "on-rails shooter" that is super interesting :D Congrats on the cool graphics as well!

ninjacharlie 2014-05-03 12:59

Ha, a literal rail shooter :D

Pretty fun game, I would have liked to have some more mechanics, but what you had there was good. Good job :)

hyoga-3d 2014-05-03 14:21

Very cool game, reminds me of snes game, art is very polished too, I just didn't liked the gun sound it is a bit annoying.

paperblurt 2014-05-04 18:06

Rail shooters ARE fun.
I can focus on killing and shooting instead of steering.

Like the badass guy in the cart too!

phocker 2014-05-05 03:23

took a bit to figure out the levers - relaly nice game - great job

matthias_zarzecki 2014-05-07 18:13

Ha, this is awesome :D

Love the level-design, among other things :)

_waterman7_ 2014-05-08 16:09

Nice concept, and great art! It was really fun to just mindlessly shoot at everything that moved.
I was kinda missing an overall directive though, I was not really sure if I was trying to get to a certain point in the level or just had to make as many points as possible.

conormn 2014-05-09 04:58

Really great style. Mechanics and execution were excellent!

caranha 2014-05-13 07:12

Pretty novel idea. It needs some polish, for example when you lose a life you teleport with no feedback -- at first I thought the game had glitched. But definitely has potential.

pinkmonkeyhead 2014-05-16 16:56

Impressive graphics

gfm 2014-05-18 13:25

Nice graphics! How the health is represented is really cool, but not all that practical...
The game is good, but since the bullets go through enemies, it's hard not to shoot those scepters...

Nice game. :)

teamflare 2014-05-18 14:15

Very cool and fun. Of course graphics are great, sound also, but what I liked most was the playability and the fun when blasting monsters :) Do you intend to develop that further? I can totally see this on the playstore :)

javifugitivo 2014-05-18 19:23

Thanks for all the feedback! Yes, we are already working in a version for Google Play with more levels and features and better graphics ;-)