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ORBII

By lars-faust

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics224.39
Coolness1100
Innovation1643.72
Mood2293.41
Overall2883.48
Theme3163.57
Audio3363.09
Fun6992.88
Humor9061.70

Comments

oranebeast 2014-08-25 05:45

Innovative and fun game.

nonentheless 2014-08-25 07:44

Fun game, great style, music is neat but could be little longer :)

vandash 2014-08-25 07:46

Impressive art direction, I like the simplicity :)

stevesalmond 2014-08-25 07:50

Beautifully presented, and surprisingly tricky! I love the clean aesthetic. Was initially having trouble determining what the brown icon corresponded to on the planets (didn't pay close attention to the instructions, haha). I get it now, though.. :)

stephan_h 2014-08-25 07:50

Neatly designed. Very well done.
Game description could be shown a bit longer. Or loose it and explain the game alongside the first playthrough.

mr-cassels 2014-08-25 08:08

so creative and fun, with beautiful polish!
love it!
more detailed rules explanation might be nice, though.

merlijnvh 2014-08-25 09:24

Really original and beautiful!

linuus 2014-08-25 10:01

Looks and sounds fantastic.

tonasz 2014-08-25 10:13

Genius in its simplicity. Perfect audio-visual mood.

jupitron 2014-08-25 10:45

Excellent presentation.

kinta 2014-08-25 11:03

I really like the graphics, but I didn't get how to win. When I thought I had all the elements, the end result showed just an empty planet with 0 score. But still a great entry. ^^

lars-faust 2014-08-25 11:28

@Kinta: When you have two planets completely neutralizing each other in the last turn, you will of course, as a result, end up with an empty planet. You do not need to combine all elements until the very last moment.

muriel 2014-08-25 12:12

Nice graphics and gameplay :)

hyoga-3d 2014-08-25 14:24

Graphic style is superb, very nice game. The concept of the game very good too.

graebor 2014-08-25 15:44

REALLY liked this one. Took me a few playthroughs to figure out the strategy but felt very rewarding. Nice graphics. Great job overall :)

robinerd 2014-08-25 18:11

Really relaxing game, and the art style is stunning! Love the flatshading and great color palette!

uvwar 2014-08-25 18:28

Wasn't entirely sure what was going on until I played through it a few times, but really nice aesthetic!

keyboardcat 2014-08-25 18:32

Lovely graphics!

jetl33t 2014-08-25 18:41

Stunningly beautiful!

jharler 2014-08-25 18:42

Very innovative and well polished game. I love the graphics and the overall feel of the game.

quade81 2014-08-25 19:08

This is awesome, yet so simple. Highest rating I've given a game yet.

laremere 2014-08-25 21:00

Absolutely incredible polish for a game made in 48 hours. It's hard to know what moves are going to do, especially the first time playing, however I did manage to win, so...

mactinite 2014-08-26 06:01

That was a really neat premise. Really makes you think about what each planet is getting. I was never able to win, maybe it's because I don't understand it, but I was only ever able to hit 3 elements.

Also I'm really interested in how you generated each subsequent world, really cool.

nickzangus 2014-08-26 11:38

One of my favourite so far. Great game!

mrexcessive 2014-08-26 17:00

Hi there. Lovely graphics and world generation. That snippet of music is now going around my head... Got 2/4 on third try

kebabskal 2014-08-26 20:17

Lovely visuals. Don't really understand the gameplay, but the execution was great!

maesk 2014-08-26 21:40

Nice game, I must have lost mountains in one of the steps, but the result was fine. Great visuals and graphics.

hb3p8 2014-08-27 09:26

Love how it looks and feels. Got 4/4. Cool puzzle idea!

ponk 2014-08-27 20:45

Aaww!! Beauty!
Really nice game

kerdelos 2014-08-27 21:56

4/4 yay ! By the way the graphics are gorgeous !

primaerfunktion 2014-08-28 06:30

I liked this one a log. Really cool visual style and mechanic.

georgebroussard 2014-08-28 07:41

Peaceful little logic game. Nice job.

paperblurt 2014-08-28 09:18

As always.
Gameplay is perfect and the graphics are mindblowing.

anssipe 2014-08-28 19:06

Nice design and style!

compostface 2014-08-29 08:00

Beautiful work. How the planets combined with each other wasn't immediately apparent.

leafthief 2014-08-30 10:03

The 3d graphics were really good but I found the icons somewhat confusing.
However, the mechanics were good and it takes some thought to get it right. Short but good.
Also it reminded me of genetics ^^.

divillysausages 2014-08-30 22:20

That's a pretty nice wee game! It's a bit hard to figure out which planet has which resource, so I ended up cancelling out a few times, but I got there in the end :)

zkenshin 2014-08-31 02:19

Nice graphics, and enjoyable concept. Nice job. :)

mlinus 2014-09-04 20:36

That was fun. :D It took me a few rounds to understand and then it took me a few more rounds to get the hang of it. I think it took about 8-9 rounds to score 4 out of 4. Fun game, well made. :)

clownaround 2014-09-05 03:09

Nice graphics. Like the style. Could use some more variety though.

vividhelix 2014-09-07 08:43

It took me a while to understand the mechanics.

For future readers, choosing an element adds it to that planet and the lines show how the planets will be created for the next level - if a planet on the next level has 1 incoming line, it will just be "copied", but if it has two incoming lines (source planets) then the combination rules apply (two of the same element cancel each other out, one of an element will get transferred through).

Graphics were amazing!

vividhelix 2014-09-07 14:23

I realized my description is incomplete - choosing the element next to the planet decides which of the two planets spawning off gets the element...

lars-faust 2014-09-07 21:22

Hey vividhelix, good explanation, cheers, but your addition only applies to the very first choice, to turn number one. After that every planet affecting two following planets will affect both equally.

I realized that small inconsistency after i submitted, but it actually helps the gameplay to not have the player confronted with two exactly same looking planets in turn two already.

vividhelix 2014-09-07 22:02

Lol, that's what I was thinking but then I was like "wait, what about the first turn?" :)

cakencode 2014-09-16 00:39

Very beautiful game! I'm a sucker for games with this kind of visual and artistic polish, and I think you made it just as fun as it was beautiful! My one comment would be to adjust the kerning on your instructions, as they're a bit hard to read. :P