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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness291
Audio304.05
Overall354.00
Graphics424.43
Innovation533.85
Fun533.76
Mood693.84
Theme1483.66
Humor3192.54

Comments

binarypie 2014-08-25 23:07

Beat the game, super fun. Nice work!

cakencode 2014-08-26 08:43

Lovely lovely game! I like the hexels artwork, and the game has a really great concept behind it. the music was good, and I thought it was challenging and fun to play! My only complaint was that the game screen was pretty big. It was too big for my resolution (1280x800) so it was a bit difficult to scroll up and down to properly play the game.

sharkxx 2014-08-26 17:21

Nice i liked the art style

nerd-burglars 2014-08-26 17:32

Wow. This is amazingly well-designed and polished. Finished the whole game. Ideas and criticism: a more rewarding end screen would be nice, but that's not a huge complaint. I feel like the right-click mechanic is not necessary since creating a new link will automatically delete existing links. Nice job!

kyyrma 2014-08-26 17:55

The artstyle is absolutely fantastic, and the gameplay is smart as well. Very polished entry.

zdonkeyx 2014-08-26 17:57

Simple and beautiful art. I love trixels! Solid entry

rookmage 2014-08-26 17:59

Awesome levels. Really challenging, yet not annoying. I did encounter a glitch when the last enemy ship destroyed my world, the end screen had the restart and next level buttons overlaying each other.

jaenis 2014-08-26 18:01

Great style and very interesting game idea!

robber 2014-08-26 18:44

well developed and polished concept, also innovative and fun to play..excellent job! i assume we will see in the app stores somewhere in the future

handkor 2014-08-27 01:32

Very good and beautiful game.

mactinite 2014-08-27 06:05

Wow really cool take on a kind of puzzle/tower defense game. would be really fun on mobile.

torandi 2014-08-27 08:28

Made it to level 8 before I gave up, nice combination of puzzle and challenge.

capsizedmoose 2014-08-27 11:56

oh man! I love the hexels graphics! love everything about it! :D

pixlwalkr 2014-08-27 12:40

Wooah awesome gameplay and concept. Cool graphics also *_* well done :)

atomicvikings 2014-08-27 20:05

super great! nice art style. nice soundtrack. great puzzling :D android version? *hint*

artamus 2014-08-28 20:10

Nice game, congrats!

naytron 2014-08-28 20:10

Really polished! Great work on all fronts, the game plays really slickly, the visuals are really sharp and vibrant and the music and sfx really help tie it all together. I don't know if maybe a health bar for the base objects would be useful, I couldn't really tell how many more hits I could take. Excellent work, otherwise!

mihaivdev 2014-08-28 20:13

Great entry, I found it difficult but that's probably because I'm generally bad at defense/tactic games, and if they're combined with need for quick reactions, I'm doomed :). Great game mechanics, great graphics (Hexels?), music, and impressed that you added quite a few levels. Congrats and good luck!

rd127p77 2014-08-28 20:14

Graphics are great, kinda hard, but fun. Also controls are basic.

3cgames 2014-08-28 20:26

Excellent work, best game I've played so far.

william_edwards 2014-08-29 09:37

+overall +graphics

Starts simple, quickly ramps up into instant death difficulty :)

Very good polished finished game :)

lasagnegames 2014-08-29 18:16

Very entertaining, couldn't finish it, damn, it becomes hard in the last stages!

creative630 2014-08-29 18:20

Fantastic! So nice to see an entry that places so much emphasis on level design! Finally!

Game looks lovey to boot and great to play. Well done!

dickpoelen 2014-08-29 18:45

Looks beautiful! Had this weird bug on level 6 where I won and lost the level at the same time I guess. I got the gameover screen with the "next level" and "restart" buttons on top of each other. (when I clicked on 'm, "restart" unfortunatly won)

frr171 2014-08-29 20:05

Love the art and music! This game-play feels like it would be great on a mobile device!

ragepaint 2014-08-29 20:10

Really enjoyed the gameplay a lot as well as the look and feel of the game. Very solid concept and take on the theme. Good Job! I want to play again.

egor-idiot 2014-08-30 05:16

Oh that nice one! One of the best graphics and stylisation.
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leafthief 2014-08-31 09:50

Made it to Level 6. I have to say i played it on a laptop with a touchpad which might've made it much harder.
However: I found myself really drawn into this strange universe. It was partly because of the few sentences in the description. I loved the phrase "our mutual hearts." It set a tone for the whole game that really helped create a fantastic mood. It was subtle but I imagined populations inside the centerpieces. Millions of hearts sitting there hoping to survive, that nothing goes wrong in the Linking process.
The gameplay was simple but fun and challenging and the music was good. I especially liked the SFX when connecting two nodes.

My feedback or points where I think you could improve:
1) I think it's of utmost importance that you bring some of the setting/sentences in the description in there. I think you could really create a great experience overall if you were able to fuse a subtle story with your gameplay.
Maybe you could draw some inspiration from 'These Robotic Hearts of Mine (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/585599)

2) Difficulty/Length: Considering that the difficulty ramps up quite quickly I think you could make each of the levels longer, which could also give more of a feeling of accomplishment.

That's all I can think of at the moment. Very well done!

lars-faust 2014-08-31 19:14

Wow, those were a lot of levels.

Great entry. I got here through a little article on Spiegel Online (one of germanys biggest news magazines), they featured a bunch of games there, including yours.

Loved the Hexel-aesthetics, very rare style to encounter. Gameplay was perfectly excecuted, fits the theme, and was fun. Really really good.

empyrealhell 2014-08-31 19:15

That had an amazing amount of polish, the graphics and sound were incredible, and they all fit together very well. My only complaint is that the gameplay itself wasn't very fun. It was mostly a game of trial and error, coupled with "can you click and drag fast enough". That's not my kind of game, so it may just be a preference thing. Either way, it was put together incredibly well.

bradsmallplanet 2014-08-31 22:50

The game had very nice graphics and sounds. It was quick and easy to learn. I think it would make a good mobile game because of the 'tap and drag' mechanic between the worlds.

rawbosaurx 2014-09-01 00:13

Great entry! Had a blast playing this, but it escalates very quickly. That's part of the fun though, so I wouldn't change that.

flannelvindicate 2014-09-02 16:12

Hey! You are on today's episode of Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3kmJ2DDWPE

dissiden7 2014-09-02 16:28

One of the best games I tried yet. Flawless.

tombofry 2014-09-02 17:47

Nice concept, but I found it a little difficult. I really like the art style and music!

robotfriend 2014-09-02 19:52

Great art and and interesting concept. I wish the gameplay went faster.

mechabit 2014-09-03 02:00

fun mechanics and simple to understand, would make a great tablet game. Disconnecting is pretty pointless as making a new connection breaks old ones anyway unless there were friendly units later on which you had to let through. For any game with lines for connections I always prefer swiping across them to disconnect cos it feels like cutting a rope, especially on a touch screen.

stevesalmond 2014-09-03 10:21

That's a very cool gameplay hook. Really well executed too - great work guys!

georgebroussard 2014-09-05 13:38

Nice use of Hexels! Really slick overall and very well done for Jam. Very easy concept to grasp and nice art/music. Good job. Would maybe speed up the lower rounds so you don't get bored waiting.

sk16games 2014-09-05 15:15

Very innovative gameplay, you should port this for mobile devices, that could be a potential succes! +5 in innovation!

jjhaggar 2014-09-06 00:32

Great music and addictive game :) I would add a health bar or something similar to the base(s), and another end screen a bit more rewarding XD (some more text like "You saved our worlds. Blah blah blah... Thank you for playing!" would do ^_^) Anyway, I liked it a lot! :D

xanjos 2014-09-07 13:25

Really cool gameplay idea which fits the theme very nicely. I actually like how you need to have quick reactions to change your links on the harder levels.

pythong 2014-09-08 08:24

great music, nice defense game!

reddogstone 2014-09-10 17:54

Very tense and fun game with a nice atmospheric sound-track.

runvs 2014-09-10 18:46

Nice Game! I really like the art style (great colors) as well as the background music. I could imagine this game great on mobile devices. Difficulty was not an issue for me.

jod 2014-09-10 21:43

Very pretty indeed!

brookman 2014-09-11 11:18

5/5. This game is simply great!

tbamberg 2014-09-11 17:18

Pretty fun, really well polished.

p4nurge 2014-09-13 13:46

Hit level 7 before getting repeatedly overwhelmed. :) I'm going to go back for another try in a bit.

Lovely clean graphics and sound with a really smart concept. Addictive and enjoyable to play. Good work!

nanolotl 2014-09-14 11:16

Really intuitive controls and a great overall feeling. Great job.

mcapraro 2014-09-14 17:31

really polished and smooth, congrats on the great entry! i really love the concept

jupiter_hadley 2014-09-14 19:03

Love the graphics, the game feels really nice. Well done. I included it in part 24 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/3RN80xyak-c

TaoPhoenix 2014-09-23 16:45

I beat the game too. I would def say a touchpad is a handicap because hand coordination is as much as strategy. Really clean design!

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