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Saving Gray

By tnt

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness291
Theme2343.49
Innovation3453.11
Humor4222.33
Mood4502.96
Audio4592.86
Overall5223.00
Fun5682.70
Graphics7182.30

Comments

jellycakes 2014-08-26 02:23

Really cool, I liked the animals and the whole concept was sweet. Nice job!

animated 2014-08-26 02:28

Pretty neat!

rothens 2014-08-26 02:35

This kinda reminded me to the Shift series :) I enjoyed the gameplay, it's a really innovative work. And I love the music, it was so calm, and really connected to the game.

scipio-xaos 2014-08-26 02:38

I wanted to play this.. but I'm getting a ton of errors. The game appears to run, but there's no sound, and it gets to the title screen and doesn't accept user input. It is updating and there's an FPS counter, but no matter how hard I slam the Spacebar it won't start. Sucks too. This game looked awesome.

I DO have log files for you if you want me to send them to you. There's some sort of issue with the audio code, I believe, as most of the errors are coming from the IcedTea toolkit complaining about not being able to open the line for the pulseaudio connection.

But yea... I really wanted to play this! >.<

komiga 2014-08-26 02:44

Hmm, getting no sound and a ton of "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Line not open" exceptions on Linux (OpenJDK 7u65) and, uh, what I'd imagine to be weird behavior. I /think/ I got the black orb at one point, but I got stick on something or turned permanently black. Sorry, I can't rate this one!

hamster_mk_4 2014-08-26 02:47

The buttons for interacting with stuff could have been explained in the intro. My first few play sessions were very unproductive.

jaloko 2014-08-26 02:51

Cool story introduction to the game and nice theme incorporation.

jordanfitz 2014-08-26 02:57

Great audio.

akirassasin 2014-08-26 05:04

Good idea

piat 2014-08-26 05:12

I wasn't sure about where to go, but I had fun messing with the mechanics.

wan 2014-08-27 10:58

Nice idea and the mecanics, but I don't understand what I have to do to win. I like the music ;)

43iscoding 2014-08-27 11:20

Game is well designed, but you should have probably made everything less contrast and tried getting everything the same style.

nerd-burglars 2014-08-27 20:24

The mazes could use a little polish, but it was still a good game :)

jjhaggar 2014-08-27 20:31

I think it would be cool if it would be more self explanatory. Maybe through media instead of text. Its an interesting idea what you explored there

ekilibr 2014-08-27 20:33

Liked the all mood :) The theme is also well incorporated. Nice work !

yoni 2014-08-29 15:25

Nice concept, but after beating 2 levels it seems to just repeat the same way. Would love to see this game with a continuation/ending! I really liked the white/black health bar!

scipio-xaos 2014-08-30 02:14

WOO! That was awesome! I loved the concept. I had the most fun trying to combine demon cats with devil dogs to get them to leave me alone. :P Also.. I may have found a little bit of a glitch with the Linux version (maybe with the Windows one as well), but eventually I just decided to grab every shield and activate it. After about the third level I was practically invincible. :P

*SPOILERS*
@Yoni There is an ending.. if you keep playing you'll notice that things begin to "gray". :D :P

landosystems 2014-08-31 19:26

Neat idea, but a little confusing the first couple playthroughs. Wall of text help screen is too much, gotta pare it down a bit.

bluesky 2014-09-14 15:15

Good job!