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The Sandbox

By quade81

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness291
Innovation344.12
Theme833.90
Graphics2223.74
Overall4593.27
Mood5303.00
Humor5422.45
Audio5482.79
Fun7242.84

Comments

jerick 2014-04-28 05:46

This was a lot harder then I thought it would be, I was struggling with the controls a lot, I wonder if locking the camera to the player would make it easier to move.

mark-feaver 2014-04-28 05:49

Original idea. A bit too difficult for me though

ohfiddlediddle 2014-04-28 05:50

Wow that was really hard. :P
I think it might have been easier if the camera came with the player or something like that.
But really innovative!

taugeshtu 2014-04-28 05:50

I completely agree with Jerick :)

manabreak 2014-04-28 05:51

Extremely difficult, but also a very original concept!

brucedoh 2014-04-28 05:52

Nice, innovative gameplay. Very challenging!

Graphics are exactly what they need to be, and the song is nice and soothing.

Would have liked more freedom of movement - annoying to have to repeatedly press the controls rather than being able to hold them down. The turn radius also didn't seem to be quite consistent (eg. 4 button presses left turns me around 180, 4 button presses right gets me further than 180). This made movement a bit unpredictable.

Overall, highly rated. Well done.

nition 2014-04-28 05:53

Excellent interpretation of the theme.

liens 2014-04-28 05:54

A little slow for my taste, and it was hard to tell how much control you had over movement. But interesting concept and good theme.

shivur 2014-04-28 07:19

Very relaxing game. BruceDoh, the turns follow and hexagon shape, it's easier when you understand that.

shaneparsons 2014-04-28 07:21

Very hard only just got past the first level!! But a good game overall.

alucard-j 2014-04-28 09:46

A really good idea, and great use of physics and mesh, but the controls could really use some refining. It took me a few goes to realize it was looking for GetKeyDown, not GetKey, each press and release of a key rotates the direction. The speed of the 'monster' and the size of the sandbox makes it very hard to control. A long comment because otherwise I thought this was very clever =]

andrewjamesadams 2014-04-28 17:21

Nice. Thanks for letting me play this. I think the difficulty is just right.

dragonxvi 2014-04-28 18:34

Great idea and well presented, but have similar issues with the difficulty :p Quite fiddly to push the balls out.

graebor 2014-04-28 18:34

Cool idea, I found it really hard though, even with just the one ball.

rylgh 2014-04-28 18:36

such a good idea!

sprawl 2014-04-28 18:37

I'll have to agree with Jerick. The controls made this game hard to fully enjoy.

Enjoyable Graphics.

xgeovanni 2014-04-28 18:37

It's hard to come up with a truly original game idea. I don't think I've ever done it. Really nice looking as well.

tingham 2014-04-28 18:37

This game was really difficult. I think locking the camera to the player would help a lot.

hnjslater 2014-04-28 18:41

Tricky but good fun, I got the third level on my third try so not too bad. I think a stop button would've made it easier.

But seriously, beautiful looking and sounding game!

derosa 2014-04-28 21:02

Really hard to control! But a nice interpretation of the theme.

terraco 2014-04-28 23:16

Very hard. Good job!

kepamun 2014-04-28 23:55

I liked the idea, but it took me four attempts to get rid of the first ball. I got passed level 2, but was burnt out once I got to level 3 and stopped.
I don't know what the solution is, but it takes too long to figure out what your new direction is after pressing a key. It took me a while to realize holding the buttons down did nothing.

benmcnelly 2014-04-29 00:25

Solid entry, very neat and almost relaxing!

integershift 2014-04-29 01:45

Pretty good game, but I don't like how you are constantly moving...

techblogogy 2014-04-29 12:48

Pretty hard game, but I enjoyed it.

halbernacht 2014-04-30 08:27

Took a while to get used to the control, but once I did the game was really neat.

tehryanx 2014-05-01 23:11

Super neat idea. I wanna see what I look like :P

drstahlbart 2014-05-02 13:53

A game easy to understand but hard to master. Nice work!

mintarcade 2014-05-05 10:31

Nice use of the theme. Interesting gameplay.

zerkruemler 2014-05-08 14:22

Very cool idea, but too difficult. I feel that it is not so realistic that the sand at the borders has a slope towards the border. Otherwise good realistic feeling and nice idea to play just sone chords on your guitar instead of synthie-music.