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Barry the Avalanche Dog

By hippolyta

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness279
Theme1023.71
Audio1163.69
Graphics2163.78
Humor2632.84
Mood2703.27
Innovation3053.16
Overall3633.22
Fun5532.64

Comments

lerc 2014-04-28 22:09

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed because the title was truncated. On the Browse view and "Barry the Avalanche" sounded like a way more fun game.

foolmoron 2014-04-29 20:59

Really great concept, graphics, audio, presentation, but it was pretty boring just going around and digging randomly.

udellgames 2014-04-29 21:14

Would like to have seen a message other than "Game Over" when I successfully complete a level, but otherwise it was good.

mnemusyne 2014-04-29 21:15

Interesting idea!

littleball 2014-04-29 21:17

Got a bit tedious in the end, but the concept was good. Maybe some kind of detector would help.

wicht 2014-04-29 21:17

Nice concept/idea. The graphics match the setting quite nice. Well done!

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-04-29 21:52

Great concept but gameplay is too tedious. Maybe you should had some hints!

ninjascript 2014-04-29 21:52

Love the music.

fatjoe 2014-04-29 21:55

Overall good. The gameplay could have been made a bit more interesting, but the concept and idea I really like. Looks good and sounds good. Good Job :)

ithildin 2014-04-29 21:56

Visuals and audio were impressive, really polished,but gameplay felt a bit slow. Still, this is a great entry, and I loved your take on the theme.

Congrats!

degtyarev 2014-04-29 21:57

haha, such adorable game it is!

snowflower 2014-04-29 21:59

increasing the number of skiers to track while also increasing the rate at which the dog moves around to dig them up would make it more engaging.

it would also benefit from some kind of 'sniffing' sonar type mechanic so you can vaguely tell if there is someone in the area or not without giving their precise location under the snow

pfeyffer 2014-04-29 22:05

The theme is spot on, I love the concept and the graphics turned out nicely. The huge paw print cursor makes navigating a bit more difficult than it should be. A mobile version with touch controls would be a nice addition. Great game, Good work!

newt_ 2014-04-29 22:05

Pretty nice, but the gameplay could have been a bit more varied. Great work, though!

totalnerd152 2014-04-29 22:19

nice idea and i really like the style of the game! but it did seem like i was digging around kind of aimlessly for a while.

sugarbyte 2014-04-29 23:26

Art and music are adorable, I wish the controls and movement were a little more intuitive and immediate! I loved seeing an avalanche game though, nice creative idea.

gwinnell 2014-04-29 23:27

It says game over when I win! The avalanche effect is awesome, and the music is quite comical!

gwinnell 2014-04-29 23:28

Oh, and based on the controls description I expected Barry to follow my mouse cursor not go to where I click. :)

thomassand 2014-04-29 23:32

Nice concept, well done ! The dog is a little slow but i guess it's a part of the difficulty !

Was really easy to understand without indications so fantastic work on that !

Congrats !

mrshoestore 2014-04-29 23:34

Good presentation art and sound, but I couldn't figure out the digging! I swear I was in the right spot, but nothing was happening.

kibertoad 2014-04-29 23:35

Excellent artwork. Makes me miss my recently dead dog. Music is way too jolly for a game about broken bodies slowly suffocating under the ice, but that's not much of a complaint.

phocker 2014-04-29 23:36

interesting idea but it fell a little flat. nice graphics. the skiers coming down the hill looked great. nice effort

stenol 2014-04-29 23:37

Great game. The music is superb ! It would be nice if we had more than 2 people to rescue. Great work !

hippolyta 2014-04-30 01:24

We fixed the difficulty selection bug...
Our main coder was extremly tired and made a little error ;-)

Now, you should really be challanged :-)

Have a nice day!

flavio 2014-05-01 10:55

wow... a disturbing game it is. A very serious topic that you treated lightly... why not ? But I had a hard time finding the people under the avalanche, even though I pointed them with my finger on the screen before they get buried !

fox_in_sox 2014-05-01 17:08

A very funny idea and take on the theme.:) I had some graphical problems when launching the game in full screen (web), maybe you should look into that.
Otherwise the graphics aren't bad and I really like the concept. I didn't find it boring at all, but the dog could be a little faster, so I don't have to wait so long until he walks over to another body. Nice game overall, definitely worth the time.:)

joe40001 2014-05-01 19:21

Clever, fun, and pleasant mood.

invisiblewonder 2014-05-02 02:22

My next game has to be about an avalanche elemental.

hippolyta 2014-05-02 09:06

We balanced the levels and the speed of Barry.

The mouse cursor should now be more logical and we added a mark ("x") to indicate the target destination.

We also tried to fix the full screen support - it works theoretically... But Unity has some strange redraw problems with GUI elements. Unfortunately, we don't know how to fix this at the moment. Suggestions are very welcome ;-)

hippolyta 2014-05-02 13:58

The GUI redraw problems are solved :-)

Cheers

gre 2014-05-04 15:27

Very cool graphics and music, nice take on the theme, however I found the game mecanism to be a bit limited for a Jam entry.

csanyk 2014-05-10 19:40

Cute, but if you can't remember where someone was, there's no hope to find them. It would be nice if there was some way to sniff to know if you're close.