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By ethankennerly

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1723.64
Mood2293.41
Innovation2463.57
Fun2553.43
Graphics4003.34
Theme5683.24
Coolness159839

Comments

tannernetwork 2014-08-25 08:38

Great game! I've never thought that remembering shapes could be so interesting.

dsalles 2014-08-25 18:10

Perfect!

tomvert 2014-08-25 20:14

Coolgame :)

akymos 2014-08-26 13:13

Nice game.

the 2014-08-26 13:14

Nice concept.

tomvert 2014-08-27 09:02

Thanks a lot for the great advice you gave me on my game ! I'm working right now on an improved version.
The bomb are indeed random and have a simple 25% chance of appearing, your "deck of card" idea could work, I'll try to implement it as soon as I have the time.
Again for the down arrow idea, I tried it and it's great.
Thanks a lot for your involvement, have a nice day !

endurion 2014-08-27 11:30

Very good idea! Looks so easy on begin but gets tough later on. Needs sound badly!

43iscoding 2014-08-27 11:37

Very simple gameplay and suddenly game becomes pretty hardcore :) Well done!

ethankennerly 2014-08-27 15:33

@Endurion You're right: it feels empty without sound. The latest version (finegamedesign.com/dotdot) now has connect animation and musical notes that play when you connect.

t4u 2014-08-27 22:48

Love the feel of connecting the points. It really encourages me to play.

jezzamon 2014-08-30 23:00

Cute! This game works very well on my touchscreen PC!

But it was definitely lacking sound.

I think showing the sleeping child between 'levels' could have added something to the game, too.

andrewkennedy 2014-08-31 03:11

Thought it would be easy - turned out to be way harder! Nice graphics and intuitive gameplay. Could have used some sound to really put it over the top!

jedi 2014-08-31 05:24

Cool game! Really innovative!

As has been said, it needs sound. Also, sometimes the dot would snap to where I didn't want it and the level would restart. I didn't think precision dragging should have been part of the game but maybe that's just me. Maybe you should set a fraction-of-a-second timer so the player doesn't lose immediately if they're just passing by a point that's not in the design.

Also, was there an end screen? Did I just click past it by accident? It seemed like the game just restarted after the last level.

Thanks for the game and good job!

stevesalmond 2014-08-31 08:15

Neat idea! I only wish it had a some nice ambient music and sound to go with it. Going to play the post compo version now.

stevesalmond 2014-08-31 08:17

Played the post-compo version. The sounds help a lot! It would be great if there was a piece of music playing along that the 'connection notes' fit into, so you're kinda playing music while you connect stars. Again, very nice concept - keep developing it!

0x0961h 2014-08-31 11:37

Years of Android lock screen usage trained me for this! :D
Nice concept, I like it. :)

ltyrosine 2014-08-31 15:22

Cool, simple game! Sound and music would improve it to another level, though. Smart theme usage.

skyfish 2014-08-31 16:10

Really good result you got here, I played with my touch screen and it felt nice. It could use more visual effects to make the experience superb in feel too.

haymanmarc 2014-08-31 20:19

Neat dot-to-dot game. Seems like it needed something more, not sure what tho.

colapsydo 2014-09-01 08:13

It's working pretty well.
The last level (the character face) gave me some hard time.

I also tried the post compo, the audio add a lot to the experience, although I'm missing some difficulty in that version (nice touch to make the player draw is own score).

spotco 2014-09-01 22:38

Very cute but pretty easy (and a little repetitive after a couple of levels).

deepnight 2014-09-02 11:50

Very interesting puzzle idea :)
At first I thought "meeeh too easy, I don't see how it could be difficult".

The it became quite hard for me :) Good job.

hunterhbb 2014-09-04 11:26

Very nice. I like it.

villetou 2014-09-04 20:38

Ooh that smiley face was a tough one! :)

jukimv1986 2014-09-08 02:41

Nice memory game! I reckon it would be great for kids to help them with their learning process, but some of the shapes are challenging for adults too. Good job!