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Mole Empire

By priorblue

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics1393.91
Mood2153.47
Overall2353.54
Audio2853.19
Fun3303.30
Theme3543.49
Humor5422.45
Innovation7832.74

Comments

somfunambulist 2014-04-28 04:06

Really great atmosphere and pretty solid gameplay. The best part is easily the editability factor, more games should have features like that. The graphics sometimes break a little but otherwise very solid.

crefossus 2014-04-28 04:07

I like shadows and mood (sound/fx) a lot. I'm kinda bad at the game though and the character moves slowly to reset so much :D

aneeslol 2014-04-28 04:15

Everything about this is awesome! The spiders seemed to be a little too powerful though, unless I'm missing something...

priorblue 2014-04-28 04:21

@aneeslol: the spiders are just the beginning :D

nanolotl 2014-04-28 05:36

Difficult and fun.
The shadows look really neat.

loggs2 2014-04-28 05:39

I liked the lighting effects, it gave it a nice atmosphere. I got owned though haha. Maybe a little faster movement would be nice.

fyberoptic 2014-04-28 05:40

Really nice concept. Not many games you see with a mole as the protagonist! Great artwork though, and the shadows are very atmospheric, fitting for the character you play. Would be interesting to see how you develop it from here. Now if only moles had longer arms!

I did have a visual issue with the game though, unfortunately. Looks like a case of "shadow acne" as I've heard it referred to, where the shadow mapping results in lots of lines.

drprettypatty 2014-04-28 05:46

It's... BEAUTIFUL! I loved it.

priorblue 2014-04-28 05:47

@loggs2: the movement increases when you get the right power ups.

yozz 2014-04-28 06:11

I are sirius mole doing sirius business.

Cool game, sound and overall atmosphere.

thedreik 2014-04-28 06:36

Good game in style and gameplay. Reminded me of the thrill of Diablo-games somehow. So I think it will be great, if there be generation of cave for more replayability.

idkfawin32 2014-04-28 06:44

Graphics were excellent although it was an ultra challenge for me to nab those bats(I think bats)

primaerfunktion 2014-04-28 08:02

That was really fun to play and the graphics are great too. That's a good game you made there.

kikito 2014-04-28 09:39

I liked the technology used, although I experienced lots of visual glitches - about once per second - (my computer is a MacBook Air, if it helps).

I confess I didn't enjoy the combat. The first spider killed me right away, I don't know if there's any strategy involved. If there's some sort of strategy, I did not find it.

headchant 2014-04-28 11:42

I really dig the music! Amazing work for a compo entry. The game is hard but fun.
I also get a lot of graphical glitches on OSX.

stenol 2014-04-28 22:57

Great ambience. Nice little game and the shadow effect is just WOW.

anbreizh 2014-04-29 10:42

Fun game, great atmosphere. The shadows render the thing really nice

marcellus 2014-04-29 16:19

This is a great job, congratulations for the editor.
The mole hitbox is a bit weird, that's all the negative I can say about this game. Well done.

pancakecity 2014-04-29 16:32

Great job, the lighting and the artwork are fantastic. Fun to play!

radiolemon 2014-04-29 22:05

The shadows make the game look and feel great! Very difficult too, I was not able to kill the spiders ;p

zutty 2014-04-29 22:08

Excellent. Best game I've played so far. I enjoyed exploring.

The game seems to freeze for me on the "You are Death" message.

stepperz 2014-04-29 22:11

Awesome game!!! Feels very complete, and an editor!! Great sense of atmosphere created by the shadows :)

elpaulo 2014-04-29 22:26

Oh ! A very good game. A little like Zelda ! The music during game made me think a little about the Godfather. Nice job.
"You are death" he he.

elpaulo 2014-04-29 22:27

Oh ! A very good game !! A little like Zelda ! The music during game made me think a little about the Godfather. Nice job.
"You are death" he he.

josefnpat 2014-04-29 22:45

"You are death!"

Nice game! The light/shadow-casting didn't work well on my machine, but I love what you did! Great job!

runvs 2014-04-30 18:02

Great Game! I like the shadow effects. The soundtrack fits the mood.

blockbot 2014-05-01 13:18

I am death! Badass game, I can see this really developing into more. Loved the overall feel.

whalebot 2014-05-02 03:16

Man those spiders are OP... Sweet lighting/shadow effect.

bender 2014-05-02 18:56

Couldn't get past the spiders sadly, tried 5 times but I suck :( But there seems to have various enemies, nice shadow effects, the music was perfect and the animation really worked well.
Impressive performance for a Love game, I didn't know you could do such cpu intensive calculation with it. I played a lot with the editor too, it was way better than what I use for making map. Nicely done!

lightsoda 2014-05-05 17:46

Those spiders where pretty rough. The cast shadows looked nice and smooth. Nice job.

ammaralsharekh 2014-05-09 08:16

Nice fight game I like the light system

_waterman7_ 2014-05-09 18:31

Nice look and atmosphere! A bit too difficult for my taste though...

jaj 2014-05-10 09:59

Great game. It looks good and plays well. I would replace the sound effects, as they don't go with the music too well.

caranha 2014-05-11 11:26

Could not run your game :-( Here is the error message:

~/Games/LD/LD29/MoleEmpire$ love mole_empire_0.1.0.love
[string "conf.lua"]:6: attempt to index field 'window' (a nil value)
Error: [string "main.lua"]:12: attempt to call field 'setDefaultFilter' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[string "main.lua"]:12: in function 'load'
[string "boot.lua"]:310: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:308>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

priorblue 2014-05-13 13:07

@caranha: I suppose you are using Mac or Linux with the Love2d interpreter. So i think the problem is, you have an older version, maybe 0.8.0? Because the "window" object is new since 0.9.0. On love2d.org you can download the newest version.