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Reach the Surface

By agreon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Theme2203.65
Humor2662.95
Innovation4403.23
Mood4993.05
Audio6772.54
Overall8502.88
Fun8862.64
Graphics9412.56

Comments

2014-04-28 12:39

good game GG

gikdew 2014-04-28 14:17

Quite fine, it is so complicated when you start but then gets better!

kragnir 2014-04-28 14:39

I expected the sound waves to be used to detect things not to control the character. Seems to be some graphic bug where lines of dark brown appear. Didn't really like the controls they could use some work to be more natural.

agreon 2014-04-28 14:39

@Kragnir That's actually a good idea...

binary_girl 2014-04-28 14:42

good effort man. reminds me of something i did for my first one using sonar to guide the player.. i found it quite hard tho.. and abit frustrating to use the keyboard to select menus then use the mouse to play etc.. still good going tho :)

hexabeast 2014-04-28 14:42

The graphics and audio are pretty good for a game made in 48h, but the best side of this game is its respect of the theme and the original gameplay :)

aldian 2014-04-28 15:36

Very fun, good entry for 48 hrs

8 / 10
Well done :D

szrapnel 2014-04-28 16:30

I don't like the controls and getting points mechanics.
But the idea is cool.

r2d2upgrade 2014-04-28 16:30

Making sound waves is a bit temperamental for me for some reason :|

legendpaul 2014-04-28 16:31

GG

romankornev 2014-04-28 16:44

I really like the concept of non-standard controls. It gives me that feeling of playing something completely new and original.

The size of obstacles could be just a bit smaller. It would have been nice to know how close am I to the surface.
Also direction change could be more gradual instead of instant.
Well done for first LD :)

okeyboy99 2014-04-28 23:40

Interesting game concept. My mole ate a lot of dirt..

chagroo 2014-04-30 16:27

Nice idea and a fun game . Took me some time to realize you can't click far away to move direction :P

syben 2014-05-01 18:42

Couldn't run it on windows, missing MSVCP110.dll file ?

tenpn 2014-05-02 20:35

Novel steering mechanism but unfortunately poorly explained, took me quite a few attempts to work out where i could click to steer.

pvwradtke 2014-05-04 16:13

Liked the idea, but controls are not so obvious at first. Had to read the instructions at this page to succeed :).

lemmingsurvivor 2014-05-06 20:53

Menu navigation by keyboard then game controls by mouse is a bit weird.

The screen area where you can click isn't too well defined. When clicking "too high", rather than ignoring the input you should project it down to the "legal" area.

That aside, it's a pretty decent game. Good work!

pichifino 2014-05-10 15:48

Controls are a bit odd but good game over all