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Gravity

By jsmars

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Overall314.04
Fun343.97
Graphics904.07
Mood1133.71
Audio1153.61
Humor1883.17
Theme2203.65
Innovation4713.18

Comments

gabbsson 2014-04-28 09:13

Gotta love collecting artifacts! Also a nice "balance" of frustration and need to continue!
Graphics are awesome!

diamonde 2014-04-28 10:53

Oh my wow. I almost don't know what to say. I'm so impressed with the overall quality. The game is so challenging and fun to play. Although the game is so polished I believe it is the global high score that is the icing on the cake. :)
Very well done!

adamwoolridge 2014-04-28 10:57

Nice one! Polished.

j_peeba 2014-04-28 11:00

A well polished entry! The only irritation is that the camera could do a better job of showing where I'm heading to. But other than that, the game's enjoyable already AND there's good potential for possible future improvements.

mtrc 2014-04-28 11:01

Fantastic work! Great graphics, the game's really tough but I got the hang of the jetpack eventually which offset it a bit. How do I submit a high score?

Really loved it. Fantastic stuff for 48 hours.

jsmars 2014-04-28 11:09

Thanks a lot everyone! Highscores are submitted automatically after each death! The viewing global stats and artifact saves may be a bit delayed in loading tho, not sure why but having some slow mysql requests at the moment, but highscores should still be saved.

lantto 2014-04-28 11:20

Awesome job. Very unforgiving but also very addictive. The graphics are the best I've seen in the competition so far. Overall it feels very complete and polished.

caridorc 2014-04-28 11:33

This game is awesome. Only problem: I only had issues while I was trying to close it from fullscreen mode in Windows.

maniulo 2014-04-29 06:42

So fun! 230 is my personal best, I'll be seriously working on getting into the top-5.

thx4nothing 2014-04-29 15:40

I liked it but everytime I died, the game crashes.

runvs 2014-04-29 15:43

Unfortunately the game crashed on my laptop just at startup. I did install the XNA Framework. Is there anything else i need?

neonian 2014-04-30 00:47

Amazing!

archaeometrician 2014-04-30 00:59

Awesome graphics, complex game, is that auto-generated level? All those little artefacts.. what an amazing job :D

nonentheless 2014-04-30 17:33

Very nice graphics, but I die all the time :)

neonlare 2014-05-02 00:05

Very polished, very interesting, very humorous and very sweet! It's amazing how simple a concept can be pretty damn fun! It's a shame you can't enter your name on the Highscore screen, I'm down as USER-PC right now :< Great job!

supermini_man 2014-05-02 23:15

Excellent game, probably one of the best games I've played in this Ludum Dare. The difficulty is just right.

jsmars 2014-05-03 07:54

Thanks for the positive comments :) There are a few bugs with the highscore server I didnt have time to test enough during the 48h sadly.

@Neonlare: I figured I'd make it easy and automatic to enter highscores so that everyone would be entered.. it's based on your PC network name, so if you want you could change that in windows :)

@runvs: Not sure why it would crash if you have the framework installed. It may require a DirectX 9 graphics card and a graphics card with support for Shader Model 2, other than that I would think it should work. Hope you get it working!

01101101 2014-05-05 07:28

Pretty cool game, I like the procedural levels, gives a bit of a Spelunky feel to it :)
The hitbox for the falling stalactites must be a bit off though, it's pretty frustrating when it gets you from a block away...
Anyway, a really good and polished game, especially for a solo entry. Congrats!

angelk 2014-05-05 07:45

Very difficult, but probably also the most fun randomly generated underground game I've played so far this LD. I'm jealous you got an online high score chart working :) I had a lot of fun just holding the respawn button.

chuigum 2014-05-06 06:51

Gave a 5 star for graphics! Love the graphics, love the music, and love the game

zutty 2014-05-06 11:34

I can see this one winning! Solid concept, well polished, fun and very playable.

davidb 2014-05-07 08:03

quick die, quick retry (like super meat boy).
I like a lot your game (my favorite currently).

nsun 2014-05-07 10:31

Nice game, and extremely cruel. Maybe it will be better spent with a level design handmade, or with progressive difficulty depending on the depth. I found death sequence particularly funny by the way.

jsmars 2014-05-07 14:08

The map actually does generate at higher difficulty the deeper you come. I didn't want it to always have a 100m of easy map since that makes it tedious to beat highscores.. but maybe could have made it just a little bit easier early on, didn't really have much time to fine tune it.

ragzouken 2014-05-07 16:07

Awesome game! Very addictive, I was playing it for ages :) Love the graphics and audio

copain 2014-05-07 18:51

Nice game. very polish. Hard but not boring.
remind-me spelunky.
But I've got an high score and since, the game crash after each death....
(and an other bug reveal me all the artefact while I doesn't see them in game...)

jsmars 2014-05-08 07:17

copain, I think it crashes because your PC name uses a foreign letter (like åäöÿüýß etc) I will fix this in a post-compo edition, until then you could just change your PC name to avoid thid crash.. computer properties-change network name

Also there is a bug which unlocks all artifacts, I'm trying to fix this too

jsmars 2014-05-08 08:11

copain: Download 1.01 version, should work with your computer name.
Also disabled online saving of artifacts because of the bug with mysql.

romandtom 2014-05-08 09:18

Dude, this game rocks!
I liked how you randomly generated the map every time (or theres a couple of maps?)
Graphics are awesome
wonderful :)

copain 2014-05-08 11:09

jsmars: thanks!

xaychru04 2014-05-12 20:50

The controls and player movement are almost perfect, it's also really cool you managed to make a nice level generator within the 48 hours, it really kept me playing for quite a long time, trying to collect all the artifacts and go deeper.
The only thing I found frustrating was the collision detection with the falling spikes, and I didn't like the font, but I had fun playing anyway! Awesome game! :D

mortus 2014-05-13 10:57

Very fun and very hard! My best score is 232 and I was able to collect only 5 artifacts, those stalactites are harsh! I wish I could see farther down below me...

lama 2014-05-15 06:05

pretty nice but quite hard

klianc09 2014-05-15 17:53

Really awesome game. Looks and sounds really good. Had fun trying and dying. The only thing I would have to complain, is that the collision detection with the stalactites seems to be a bit off sometimes.
Also you can still throw bombs when you are dead which is pretty funny.

jsmars 2014-05-16 17:52

Thanks! I've made a post-compo version now which fixes better stalagtite collision, you can also look down and change highscore name and lots of other small fixes (I kept bombs when dead becaus its funny)
If any old players would like their top 10 name changed just comment here and I can change it.

snoother 2014-05-16 19:26

I'm trying hard to think of some criticism -- but I'm stumped! The graphics look fantastic, the music is stellar (get the pun) and the gameplay is ridiculously addictive. You've addressed all the stand-out problems in the post-compo version, so I don't know what else to say! Just congrats, it's an amazing entry. Thank you for bringing my attention towards it.

One idea: I would be curious for you to do a post-mortem or something similar. And I'm sure others would find this valuable.

jsmars 2014-05-16 20:59

Thanks alot Snoother! I'm planning to do a post mortem post this weekend before the voting are closed :)

franklins-ghost 2014-05-18 11:29

Nice challenging game with addictive gameplay. Enjoyed trying to get all the artifacts.

actionremix 2014-05-18 14:29

The perfect companion to the film :)

(Dang, I only collected three artifacts)

brodenino 2014-05-18 15:35

Very impressive that you managed to get all this done is a such small time, and even a small achievement system and global highscore! Very addictive and solid gameplay (despite mentioned bugs). The music and filter effects for the graphics adds to the mood too! As for the gameplay, have you been inspired by Spelunky perhaps :)?

robinerd 2014-05-18 15:39

Great smooth gameplay, and really good feeling overall. Excellent graphics as well, and highly addictive. Best game I've played in this LD, well done!!

Jeremias 2014-05-18 20:17

Fun and addictive game. Add some upgrade system and this is just spelunky-like perfect.

vladimirdlc 2014-05-18 21:35

Amazing entry! Difficulty feels at the start a little unfair, and the level generation feels unfair as well... at least while you get used to the gameplay.
The post jam fixes were just what this game needed to be flawless, definetely one of the best compo entries I have ever played.

oye-beto 2014-05-19 07:00

226 was my best. I like that it has a scoreboard.
Very fun game!

derosa 2014-05-19 11:43

One of he best games I played this LD. We may have a winner here :)

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