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the vole beneath

By mcapraro

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme343.93
Innovation793.75
Graphics1334.06
Overall2583.38
Mood2643.29
Fun2863.14
Humor3052.75
Audio4582.86

Comments

milktoast 2014-04-29 00:36

Very nice vole animation! Hurry up and make more levels!!

endesga 2014-04-29 04:03

This is such a cute game :'D
I love it :) Please build on it more, because I wanna play more! :D

empyrealhell 2014-04-30 03:07

I like your interpretation of the theme. Instead of simply being beneath the surface, you made being beneath the surface a gameplay element. Also, your graphics are top notch.

soupy 2014-04-30 03:08

I got that walnut so good. So good.

The animations are delightful and the palette is very pleasant.

jotson 2014-04-30 03:13

Love the vole. Really nice animation. Could be fun with more levels.

jedeen 2014-04-30 03:39

This could definitely be a very fun puzzle game. Nice job!

zillix 2014-04-30 03:56

this is absolutely adorable. great work!

elstevo 2014-04-30 03:57

Great idea ! I would have love to have more levels ! super cute vole !

ninjascript 2014-04-30 04:15

Best vole animation I've ever seen. I would play more levels of this in a heartbeat.

alect 2014-04-30 04:15

I enjoyed this one a lot. fun and cute.

reinkout 2014-04-30 04:17

This was really great surprise! Im thinking it has a little bug, when you make the bumpy ground right on the beginning and then press go, the walnut rolls into the hole every time. :)

myachin 2014-04-30 04:17

great! make a post-compo version with more levels!

boltz-game-studios 2014-04-30 05:03

This was good. I love your spin on the theme, one of the best I've seen yet!

syner_d 2014-04-30 05:09

more levels please! =DDD

szrapnel 2014-04-30 06:15

Nice! Want to play more levels!!!

mimic 2014-04-30 06:18

Very funny, this is a great Vole sim!

eastes 2014-04-30 06:31

One of my favourites. Well done.

rylgh 2014-04-30 06:52

wowwww this is great. one of the strongest takes on the theme i've seen WHILE having an interesting mechanic WHILE having wonderful art

micdoodle8 2014-04-30 07:05

Wow, great job. Very innovative in mechanics and your take on the theme. Nice animation on the vole as well.

daandruff 2014-04-30 07:06

Great game, just need more levels! Awesome animations and graphics!

bebopbraunbaer 2014-04-30 07:16

i really liked it! nice feel, art and music (- : hope to see more of it soon (- :

ilo 2014-04-30 07:28

Looks lovely. Only suggestion I'd make is to be able to start and restart levels with the keyboard.

mark_ffrench 2014-04-30 07:35

MOAR LEVELS :)

Really nice presentation and sound though

gins 2014-04-30 07:36

Quite a cool idea!
It seems to only have a single level, right?
It is also a bit hard to get the bumps to be smooth enough for the nut to roll over, but I enjoyed solving that little challenge. Well done :)

copain 2014-04-30 07:50

good idea, good animation,we would have liked play more...

lukepilgrim 2014-04-30 09:13

great game! a bit easy, but the idea is cool and it was fun. needed 3 tries.

seconddimension 2014-04-30 09:50

Shame you couldn't get more done, it definitely has great potential. What you did get done was very fun.

Spotline 2014-04-30 11:37

Really great concept :D (and very good realization) i'm looking forward to see more with it.I wish the sound and music loops were longer too.

kill0u 2014-04-30 14:20

Hmm.. does not work on flash 11.2?

mcapraro 2014-04-30 23:47

@kill0u sorry, i guess not. it might require 13.

rujomarco 2014-05-01 01:47

smooth and cool design on this game, i liked it!

dreii 2014-05-02 05:40

Nice! this looks really cool so far, definitely expand on it!

oranebeast 2014-05-02 06:19

A great concept to be expanded on

jed-tiotuico 2014-05-02 07:08

Absolutely love it. Animation is slick. Physics is amazing, I love your theme rendition! Only complaint I have is that the game is too short and too easy. But good job overall!

neekobus 2014-05-02 08:24

Great animation, good interpretation of theme. Nice mecanics.

But I don't understand the rule :/
Do I have to take the leaf then get the nut in the hole ? or do I need to avoid the hole ? Because there is nothing written when I get the nut in the hole, and I can't manage to avoid the hole when I take the leaf...

About control : you should add a key (enter?) to release the nut.
Good work, want to see more !

local-minimum 2014-05-02 10:05

I'm on to you -- you like animals! I remember your bowerbirds from last time.

This vole has much better play-feel and nice animations going. I really liked the way the ground got bent. It did take me a little while to actually figure out the way the game worked, but while at it I discovered some minor things you could adjust:

First off, the leaf -- I'm not understanding it's purpose, and it get a bit weird that I can knock ground so it comes below the surface yet still I can't catch it.

Second, if I knock the surface (btw I want a thud-sound for that) in the very left end of the knock-able area I can make ground discontinuous, so you probably want to extend the flex-region at least one step outside the knock-able region.

Then, instead of the "go!" button, (because it is annoying to have a to switch between keyboard and mouse, make a special knock-area under the nut that will just dislodge it.

When the nut is rolling, there's a loose condition when nut doesn't reach/pass the hole which lacks logic for game to detect it (zero speed nut).

The win seems to be lacking as well.

Hope you enjoyed the comments, I sure enjoyed the game! And yeah, you and your son should put links in your descriptions to each other!

sparrow 2014-05-02 12:33

Astonishing, even thought it's only one level it is a very good game mechanic. Sweet graphics and silly is good! Also good job for being an awesome dad! <3

mcapraro 2014-05-02 14:23

thanks so much for all the awesome feedback everyone!

conormn 2014-05-02 14:23

Super great idea you have here! No doubt it would do really well expanded.

lowcade 2014-05-02 16:57

More levels!
Good game, and good use of theme.

georgebroussard 2014-05-03 07:49

Excellent art and animation. It was fun to play. LOVED the mechanic or moving the dirt around. Is there just the one level? Great effort. Make more levels and add some more elements. I think you the potential for a real nice puzzle game here.

soulrot 2014-05-03 13:59

Others have said it before, but this could make a fun game if it were to be expanded!

kddekadenz 2014-05-03 21:30

Couldn't run it in Firefox 26 :/

randoman 2014-05-04 15:05

Nice concept, art, everything! If you go on and really do include more levels/power ups it will be awesome.

rico-albe 2014-05-04 21:56

I didn't get the leaf to be a secondary objective, as getting the walnut itself seemed too easy. I played it a couple of times, once thinking it had changed as I'd pressed space once unnoticed so there was an unwanted ramp. New levels could include some of those so it'd be harder.

Also, having the possibility to repeat an attempt without having to make the ramp all anew would be nice. If only you'd not get the three stars (it does feel like a game that would work with the three stars kind of level system).

snoother 2014-05-05 11:22

Definitely an innovative mechanical concept and a clever take on the theme. At times, the controls were a bit clunky and imprecise. But the graphics are really nice; same goes for the music. Yes, as you say, it definitely needs to be expanded on, and I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

belva1234 2014-05-06 21:02

Love this game 5 start on everthinghs

illugion 2014-05-09 03:06

Looks really awesome! That animation and the colors you used are sweet :D ( it was really fun to make a hole on the left side, get up there and get the walnut, even tho it was a bug hahaha ) are u gonna make more of this ? Would be great to play on mobile too !

zyxer 2014-05-10 18:38

Great game concept. I hope you get around to finishing it!

managore 2014-05-11 01:38

Absolutely adorable! I wish there more levels to play around with, but great work nonetheless.

joshos 2014-05-11 10:56

Very nice game!. Graphics are cool and I love the vole animation. Maybe you could add some sound effects but keeping them low so you don't break the ambientation.

I think it could be a great mobile game. Good job.

vilya 2014-05-12 20:34

The animation is good and the background music is too, but that rolling noise for the walnut got annoying really quickly!

It took me a while to realise that I could still bump the ground after the walnut had been released - I assumed once you pressed go you just had to wait and see. That might just be me being dumb (wouldn't be the first time!) but maybe that's worth mentioning somewhere?

zeh 2014-05-12 20:59

Great entry, and awesome idea! Lots of potential here.

nanolotl 2014-05-16 08:46

Really good job with the vole animation.

iamspencer 2014-05-19 21:09

nice clean graphics and great concept, would like to see more!