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The Hole Thing

By theexgenesis

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness370
Audio1703.45
Theme2353.63
Mood2453.42
Humor3432.78
Fun4153.18
Graphics4283.35
Overall5323.20
Innovation6792.89

Comments

xevozfighter 2014-04-28 17:31

The music and the visuals do a nice job giving the game an unsettling feel.

crabman 2014-04-28 19:14

Man, that soundtrack is fantastic. Could be a bit louder though, or the jump sounds quieter. But nice work!

skymen 2014-04-28 19:16

Good game. Good sounds and good graphics. Pretty well made and good overall. Good job.

marccspro 2014-04-28 19:16

It is a fun game :D I like the way the player smashes in the ground :D The graphics and Audio are very good ;)

snoother 2014-04-28 19:20

I agree, the soundtrack's really good, but it could be louder. I like the game mechanics quite a bit too, and the trial by death design works quite effectively.

oh, and a minor thing: pressing A to restart doesn't work for me.

covenant 2014-04-28 19:33

Extremely difficult, a lot of "leaps of faith", but it was very moody and pretty! Good job!

theexgenesis 2014-04-28 19:39

Thank you! And one little thing, it's "R" to restart ahah, the font may or may not have messed up there ^^

torri-y 2014-04-29 19:52

Nice job. I realized why it's called "the hole thing" when I got to the end.

daylonwilkins 2014-04-29 19:53

I like a good challenge, and this definitely provided one! I did run into a bug where I accidentally pressed some button combination that gave me an auto-win. I couldn't quite figure it out, but I think I pressed about 6 buttons at the same time.

jestar_jokin 2014-04-30 13:25

Nice one! Cool atmosphere. Would have preferred if the music didn't restart every time you die - but that's probably just because I'm quite bad at the game :)

kragnir 2014-04-30 13:43

Almost every jump is a leap of faith, try to use some other jumps as well. It wasn't clear exactly how the wall grap worked when playing, sometimes it was possible to use multiple times and sometimes not.

theexgenesis 2014-04-30 16:09

That's a bit unfair to say, considering how there is almost always either a glowing mushroom, a wall or a platform in sight, but I appreciate the constructiveness of your comment! Both the Wallgrab and the Glide have a timer that resets when you hit the ground, I just edited the description, thanks ^^ Also, that music thing isn't supposed to happen, I'll check the code.

secret_tunnel 2014-04-30 19:17

Really great game! Reminds me a bit of Risk of Rain. It was pretty hard-- maybe too hard-- but I could totally see myself having fun with this on a big screen in a dark room. Sort of like the dark levels in Spelunky. Yeah, tweak the gameplay a bit, and this could be pretty amazing!

seme 2014-04-30 20:07

Nice graphics, nice controls and nice audio. Good job!

tuxxilla 2014-04-30 20:08

Unfortunately this game did not work on my machine. I.e. it starts, I see a platform on the left and a purple background but not player...

theexgenesis 2014-04-30 21:24

The bad news is: I don't know how to fix that :(
But fortunately, I'm almost done on an HTML5 port so expect to be able to play it on any platform soon!

sudorossy 2014-04-30 22:16

I'm awful at it, but it's pretty nice! Really great atmosphere

bauhausgamessyndicate 2014-04-30 22:17

<3

bukaneerz 2014-04-30 22:56

This is a good concept !
it's soo hard, but it's cool (:

jpdev 2014-04-30 23:01

in the html5 version I had the problem that on my second death restarting with R did not work. the hint disappeared but I still lay there in the dark. (it was after a pretty deep fall)

theexgenesis 2014-04-30 23:09

I'll check it out! Meanwhile, if you refresh the page yuou should be able to keep playing without any issues

pancakecity 2014-05-01 15:08

Trying to restart just freezes my game :( But wow! That's a huge map!

theexgenesis 2014-05-02 08:05

Try running it on chrome.

gamertaters 2014-05-03 09:32

Nice game overall. Really liked the audio you had going. The art style is also very nice. Good work.

tuxxilla 2014-05-04 12:31

Played the HTML port now. Great audio and graphics. Really liked the concept with checkpoint and restart giving another chance to survive a deadly jump.

notruespaceman 2014-05-07 02:37

Web version has no sound in Firefox, and has game-breaking graphics bugs in Safari.

thingostudios 2014-05-10 20:18

Pressing R doesn't actually restart. But the soundtrack is great and the atmosphere is suitably dark.

badgerpriest 2014-05-12 04:38

Solid. I loved the accumulation of dead bodies.