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Super Alien Bro

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio1253.63
Humor1593.06
Fun2493.27
Mood3673.11
Overall3813.23
Graphics4393.25
Innovation6642.40
Theme7062.10

Comments

transmit 2014-08-25 23:50

Love the music. Would dance again.

vandriver 2014-08-25 23:54

not quite done with it yet, but liking the art and music a lot. would love some variable-height jumping in this. what does the music-changing flower do if not invincibility? that was my mario-based assumption and i killed myself on many things testing it!

nerd-burglars 2014-08-26 00:02

The only effect it has is what you see. Our original design was to have an alien using drugs, so we just kept it in there to distract the player(trippy drug).

snail_man 2014-08-26 00:07

Nice platformer. The physics worked pretty well, although the slopes were pretty dodgy.
The music was pretty awesome.

vandriver 2014-08-26 00:48

eat plant, trip out, kill self. this is a morality play

r0x0r 2014-08-26 02:51

can you make a linux build, please?

maxium 2014-08-26 02:52

I like the rave candy, although I think it should make you temporary invincible.

nylonica 2014-08-26 02:52

Mechanics were really great! Loved it!

seantheartist 2014-08-26 02:54

I had a lot of fun playing this game. I enjoyed the different upgrades especially the reverse one, great work!

nerd-burglars 2014-08-26 03:04

Never thought I'd hear someone saying they enjoyed the reverse upgrade, hehe :).

r0x0r 2014-08-26 04:20

hey, thanks for the linux build! works perfect :) also, nice game, the candies on the floor reminds me the game zool, haha

fallingbear 2014-08-26 16:05

What a clever platformer. The music is amazing and the cuteness of the alien is of the charts. Very very very good game.

jnyknn 2014-08-26 16:06

Still needs some polishing, but it's still good.

ryguydavis 2014-08-26 16:07

After a while I played this just for the candy. Very, very funny. I would have liked check points and fewer difficult/frustrating jumps so early in the game but overall it was quite nice.

axebane 2014-08-26 16:07

Pretty good game! It was really hard though, but I'm sure you meant for it to be hard. I got fooled by the first reverse powerup like 3 times in a row even though I knew it was there. xD

floko 2014-08-26 16:11

Nice graphics!! The floaty jump bothers me a bit, but just because I like falling fast to the ground, haha. I don`t like the idea of a pick-up Item that does nothing ( Trippy drug ) . But overall , very nice work , keep it up! =D

reverend-speed 2014-08-26 16:24

OH GOD IT'S THE NINETIES AGAIN. Reversed controls! Flashing coloured raves! But the alien is really adorable (the squeak as he/she/it/they dies!), the intro is fantastic, and the platforming is fun. Great music too! Nice work for the jam!

pinkninja 2014-08-26 18:01

Nice funny game :) Congrats!

hogtrick 2014-08-26 18:02

Loved yours powerups!
Stage 2 is too hard >_<

ramori 2014-08-26 19:24

I really like all the pickups! They give the game really good feel, like in the old platformers. The game is however quite hard, mainly because of low gravity and slippery slopes. Good level design, as well as choice of art. Nice!

nerd-burglars 2014-08-26 21:33

We all appreciate the comments! The game was designed to have a Mario Bros type feel, but be more difficult. Our target player is a true gamer with victory on his/her mind! We plan to add even more levels after this LD is over. I'm curious to know how many of our players made it to the end :)

rejooh 2014-08-26 21:38

Instant good mood! Thanks for that game, some powerups reminded me of the dreamcast icon. :)

beardogames 2014-08-26 21:38

It's a nice touch to have lots of temporary power ups! I also really enjoyed the snowy world. Nice work!

naytron 2014-08-26 21:41

Nice mechanics and well presented! Great fun to play - that reverse mechanic is really tricky!! Very cool.

resonious 2014-08-26 21:41

Pretty smooth.

twintrite 2014-08-26 22:00

That was funny and weird :D The jumping control was a bit tricky but I still enjoyed playing it a lot. Nice work!

2014-08-26 23:35

I hate you! :) No really, lots of fun :)

hoyt-hoy 2014-08-26 23:40

I like this game!
Simple and with administration of powerUp !
Simple art and good way to teach to play.
Congrats!

amvere 2014-08-27 00:10

Really trippy! I liked the music. Especially the rave part.

comatoes 2014-08-27 01:41

The difficulty felt just right. Not so easy that you can get it first time, but not so hard that it feels impossible. When I fail it feels like my fault rather than the game, which is spot on. Nice work.

ruerob 2014-08-27 01:46

Thank you for your game. It was fun to play.

blurryroots 2014-08-27 02:22

What a trip! I liked the visuals and the music. The controls needed a bit of getting used, especially the jumping.

nerd-burglars 2014-08-27 03:05

Thanks again for the feedback, we all really appreciate it :D

mechanicmoon 2014-08-27 04:04

Wow! The graphics are very tender! Great mapping and good objects! Really nice work!

jshaffer94247 2014-08-27 04:51

Cute, fun, and I died on those silly spikes several times. Still enjoyed it and would play again. So many games, so little time...

aflatminerstudios 2014-08-27 04:58

I dig the idea of the temporary power-ups being critical to world navigation.

extrelime 2014-08-27 05:07

True hardcore!
These reversed controls are soooo weird! It made me angry you know :D Great concept of compositions of bonuses, it makes the game really hard.
Good job!

buckslice 2014-08-27 05:54

Nice temporary boosts. Movement felt a little off though. Graphics and music were great!

davisan 2014-08-27 06:04

Great game! Loved the stoned alien XD

landosystems 2014-08-27 06:16

Glad to see Kenny's art in a game, its very colorful. I really liked the flower-induced rave mode. Controls were a little tricky, but the level design was good. Nice work!

honcho 2014-08-27 06:30

Very cute tradition platformer. Loved that crazy candy in the second level that makes you trip out XD

nuclearnapalm 2014-08-27 07:18

Really funny game! I love the power-ups! Good job!

ryusui 2014-08-27 08:41

I've got one word for you: checkpoints.

That said, I wish the trippy flashing colors and music were there throughout. That was fun. :3

oxeren 2014-08-27 09:43

Great game, nice art and music and good job on controls, they are pretty smooth.

nonentheless 2014-08-27 10:14

Very nice and pretty challenging platformer, love the snow :)

43iscoding 2014-08-27 11:42

Nice music and the main character is ultra lovely <3

nerd-burglars 2014-08-27 13:22

We are happy to hear back that most of you found our game challenging and fun! That is our main goal! I'm curious to see how many hardcore gamers made it to the end! :D :D

manou 2014-08-27 13:53

Love the character. Didn't pass 2nd level (azerty here).

yodamaster 2014-08-27 14:34

Nice little jump'n run.

bobrocks 2014-08-27 14:40

It isn't working on my work PC, I'll have to try when I get home. After the ship crashes I just have a black screen. If I hit enter, I can hear the level restart. Music is catchy, though!

jjhaggar 2014-08-27 14:45

Loved the floating octopuses XD Good game! :D

nerd-burglars 2014-08-27 15:09

Yayyy! The Octopussies were my creation! Thank you, everyone!

rustybroomhandle 2014-08-27 15:30

I truly suck at this, but the psychedelic powerups were great!

runvs 2014-08-27 15:44

Nice Game.

raphy 2014-08-27 16:14

Maybe I suck but i find it hard!

Still, it's a fun game with classic but solid mechanics and a nice cute execution!

dunin 2014-08-27 16:39

temporary power-ups is a good idea. I think jump is too slow for a fast die and retry, but it's only my opinion....

ogniok 2014-08-27 17:13

Cool looking game with very nice gameplay :)

badlydrawnrod 2014-08-27 18:10

That's quite a challenging platformer to an old guy with bad reflexes. However, I enjoyed some of the powerups, even if the reverse direction one broke my brain. Nice art style too.

lkr 2014-08-27 19:08

Fun platformer with unusual powerups :)
I had some trouble with how the physics worked on sloped tiles, but other than that it was enjoyable.

gaarlicbread 2014-08-27 20:17

This is awesome. I think the mechanic of temporary power-ups all over the place are great.

The first level was a well-planned introduction to the power-ups it contains.

Then I hit the second level and it said to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaZU4Q3Ubk

and I died. A lot. Maybe a more gradual difficulty curve?

Overall awesome game. Also, the music is GREAT!

ekilibr 2014-08-27 21:08

Loved graphics and music ! Made me think a lot about Happy Tree Friends ! (especially when you die...hahaha that's so hard !)
Great overall, the mechanics are pretty cool and the gameplay often switch from one to another. In two words : Liked it !

uolcompsoc 2014-08-27 21:10

Some of the best music I've seen in a game made in a jam :)

robert_steiner 2014-08-27 21:13

That dance music... what's wrong with you? ;)

dhargan 2014-08-27 21:35

really nice platformer! music is so positive and it suits great to the game. it doesn't make you angry even if you die which is actually a hard thing to accomplish. good job :D !

nerd-burglars 2014-08-27 22:21

I've enjoyed reading everyone's comments! Great to see hardcore gamers up for a challenge!

eruiz00 2014-08-27 23:23

I like music and some effects like the snow. Nice yet simple platformer. Smooth and fun but theme related? Good game as conclusion.

nerd-burglars 2014-08-27 23:37

Eruiz, How far did you get in the game? There's a mountain world, a winter world, a metropolis world, and a sea world. Each level is connected to the last world :) I hope you actually played it!

alucardx60 2014-08-28 01:57

Why am I such a masochist? I loved every second of it. Up until the gundam killed me in level 4. Sometimes I felt like the levels were too long which is weird to say for a LD game. Also I really liked level 2, it showed good use of multiple routes depending on the powerup you have. I would've liked to see more of that.

donaldducky 2014-08-28 02:35

Nice game play.

swiftillusion 2014-08-28 02:53

I know it was a small thing, but I just loved how shakey the ship was on the intro where the ship crashed, really great.
Also loved the level design and temporary power up system, kept the controls system but allowed the mechanics to be flexible and consistently feel fresh. One of my favorite parts was when the high jump and reverse powerup were next to eachother-but you had to get them both to be able to jump up the tree, was a really cool use of them.
Not a good enough gamer to make it all the way to the end but loved all my time with it regardless :).

tchem 2014-08-28 03:08

the music is great!!!,, i like the graphics and atmosphere,,, maybe you can left more fast the gameplay, but the game is great,,, incredible to 48 hs. congrats

dragoninstall 2014-08-28 03:53

Nice music. Simple good hard game. Well done guys!

dagamesta 2014-08-28 04:09

I ate a lollipop and suddenly everything was in flashy rainbow colors and awesome music. Paired with keys being reversed and playing in a dark room, it was kinda tripy.

chuigum 2014-08-28 05:38

Love the music and great graphics!

gafblizzard 2014-08-28 06:02

Nice graphics, but the difficulty was so high that I didn't end up seeing some of the cool stuff in the screenshots. :(

I really liked the music when the snow level started. SEIZURE WARNING though, that screen-flashing effect could be dangerous.

toubib 2014-08-28 08:23

Well done. I died a lot xD

aortastudios 2014-08-28 09:43

Haha, I loved the trippy dancey pick up! Although I kept getting confused and dying when the reverse control pick up went back to normal, cool sub though! Good job and nice use of Kenney's assets! They always make a game look pretty :D

mechabit 2014-08-28 10:18

fun game

toubib 2014-08-28 10:58

got the golden coin, wanted to see the end and...UNITY CRASHED OMG T T

rantt 2014-08-28 13:34

I liked the music and particle effects. It certainly was difficult :) Fun game, I enjoyed it.

dickpoelen 2014-08-28 14:19

Really like the temp powerup idea. The music in level 2 was a bit overly dramatic :)

mechanicmoon 2014-08-28 16:40

So sweeeeet! Really nice work! Congrats!

esayitch 2014-08-28 17:16

I ate plants :D Normally we something else with them around these parts... water them.

Mechanics were pretty solid and the pickups were fun to play with. Pretty difficult too! Great game overall :)

andybrown 2014-08-28 19:16

That was pretty fun, but very challenging. It would have been great if the octopuses made you bounce when you landed on them. It was also a bit frustrating when you would catch on the edge of something or land on a certain angle and couldn't move or jump except fall / slide to your death. Great music and artwork though! The powerup system was a great idea and proved to keep the gameplay interesting.

aaronflippo 2014-08-28 19:40

The powerups add a great twist. Very impressive level design and presentation!

tosic 2014-08-28 19:42

Yeah, very challenging, but powerups are nice and the weird opposite direction powerup was quite cool!

kristof 2014-08-28 19:59

Lovely graphics and music! I like the disco pills :) The only thing I don't like are the inverted controls. They frustrate me. Still a cool entry. Nice work!

td5 2014-08-28 20:32

I love the graphics and the gameplay, but the flashing screen gave me a headache =/ The difficulty was spot on for me :)

ltyrosine 2014-08-28 22:36

ok graphics, amazing musics. Nice gameplay. Not so much of theme connection, though;

iamspencer 2014-08-29 00:37

man that was hardcore lol, nice game though, good job :)

pikkpoiss 2014-08-29 01:53

Funny platformer with good difficulty and fun powerups.

blue-thumbs-gaming 2014-08-29 03:46

Congrats on your game! Kenny Wings! This games looks and sounds great and the powerups are a lot of fun. I especially enjoyed the switched controls powerups, which took some time to get used to. Cheers, Ben.

ninjascript 2014-08-29 04:23

Wow, love the different powerups. Brilliant!

joshk 2014-08-29 05:24

Nice game :)

frr171 2014-08-29 06:33

Cute platformer - loved the modifiers system.

crazi456 2014-08-29 08:25

Great music! Solid gameplay, good work!

doomista 2014-08-29 11:46

Great game, sometimes too hard for me (but tell me, why does igloo reset the level. Isn't it supposed to be checkpoint?

william_edwards 2014-08-29 12:36

Loved the beat man :)

Putting a reversing-direction-swirl and an up-arrow on the same place is just mean :)

I hadn't really reflected on this before, but making it so you can't change direction when jumping is not so fun. Interesting.

nerd-burglars 2014-08-29 12:58

You are able to change direction when you are jumping unless you ran and jumped at full speed.

nerd-burglars 2014-08-29 13:01

Just double checked, you can change direction when jumping at any speeds.

tomker 2014-08-29 15:48

Really nice music. Good job.

jukimv1986 2014-08-29 16:40

Nice platformer! I really liked the variety of power-ups and the level design. And the audio when invincible was awesome!! Good work!

daanvanyperen 2014-08-29 17:08

That twirly icon rainbow music is the best!

2014-08-29 18:40

alien trippin' balls while running in reverse. the creators be the devil hisself

joror 2014-08-29 19:55

Very fun game, love the 'not so good' powerups, and the party-ups! :D Good learning curve, cute alien-guy. Tops!

rocketship 2014-08-29 20:57

I absolutely loved the music. The graphics were fine, gameplay was slick, although very generic platformer stuff. The was very straightforward platformer but with good execution which is always good.

snicklodocus 2014-08-29 21:11

Cool simple platformer. I liked the variety of powerups, but some of them could last a bit longer. I saw some graphics glitches (seams in the tiles) but nothing major. Great music too. Good job!

rookmage 2014-08-29 23:23

Music and graphics where great, really loved the style. 'Puzzles' where interesting, if not a bit frustrating.

kidando 2014-08-30 04:35

I like the music. the graphics were simple and inviting. It felt like platforming on the moon, and I guess that was point. Congrats on submitting your entry.

datacr4sh 2014-08-30 05:14

fun game, nice icethetics

jprogman 2014-08-30 07:18

Nice game, but the part with the rave candy just got in my nerves. I didn't rage quit, but I almost did. Playing long levels without dying is just mean, especially how beautiful this game is just adds irony. It's a beautiful game, but it's misleading due to it's difficult play. I'm okay with hard games, but only when I'm in a good mood.

leafthief 2014-08-30 08:16

Really good audio. I thought the game was hard, but the level design had some nice touches!

jahmaican 2014-08-30 09:37

Wow. That's a lovely platformer. And hard. And the music, just wow.

papygaragos 2014-08-30 10:16

The music, the bright colors, the huge jumps... I don't know why, but it reminded me of the old amiga game "james pond II". (And that was before it became both flashy AND super hard)

Too bad there is no real connection with the theme

nerd-burglars 2014-08-30 12:36

Thanks again for the feedback! Glad to see some hardcore gamers liked it! :)

franklins-ghost 2014-08-30 15:35

Fun game, enjoyed the way you had to use the temporary powerups.

jimmypaulin 2014-08-30 15:54

Absolutely hilarious thank you so much! Definitely one of my faves so far, I nearly squirted water out my nose when I chewed that candy on level 2, you have a wicked streak that is tempered by an aesthetic sense that is also very strong ;) 5/5

papacheech 2014-08-30 16:29

SO GOOOOOOOD

unnamed1334 2014-08-30 16:54

Good job on the game.

Other then a few bugs with the collisions, the only thing I can complain about is that I wanted a better indication of when the (de)buffs where about to run out.

igoramendola 2014-08-30 19:23

Uff! Finally finished!! That was hard haha
I like challenging games and this is a good challenge. I don't know if this is part of the hardness, but the character doesn't jump if he is on an edge and he becomes slippery... that's kind of annoying :P
The powerups feature is really cool and I liked, although the reverse item can be hateful hahaha
Nice work :D

howkj1 2014-08-30 19:27

The fun sounds remind me of FFVII ! It gets quiet after the flower trip music ends.

sonicspeed53 2014-08-30 20:50

A very nice little game, I love the flower trip!

vividhelix 2014-08-31 03:16

The little guy was adorable...so sad when he died :) The reverse controls power-up took a while to get used to...

h1s2 2014-08-31 06:41

very funny game over all. great music. i found the concept of the added abilities very interessting. would like to see more of it!

ammorechicks 2014-08-31 13:00

Some nice ideas... but the theme? Good platform anyway.

gwa 2014-08-31 17:22

I love jump and runs.

crocantidepollo 2014-08-31 19:51

Lovely music and graphics. So unfair but so addictive!

blindfox 2014-09-01 03:37

Overall pretty nice. Had some issues with slopes, which I saw someone else mentioned, but otherwise it was pretty solid.

retr0spectrum 2014-09-01 19:36

Good audio and graphics. Quite buggy, a bit too difficult and fits the theme very loosely.

rehacked 2014-09-02 06:00

Good graphics nice music and fun gameplay! what more can be needed??! Good job on this.

stevesalmond 2014-09-02 07:20

Pretty awesome music, I loved getting the candy swirl thingies just for the tune :D

swich 2014-09-02 10:27

I love the idea of temporary power ups. Where are the connected worlds, though?

s0rax 2014-09-02 12:33

The music and graphics is cool, I like the techno effect ;)

lowcade 2014-09-02 15:13

The game is very fun and hard! hahaha! Congrats!

tbamberg 2014-09-02 18:32

Music is great, gameplay is solid. Nice to see Kenney's art in use :)

bytegrove 2014-09-02 22:21

Pretty neat idea with the temporary powerups. I think something like that could be useful for a mobile game as well. The power flower or whatever it was that started the party mode was hilarious. But why couldn't I kill the enemies when I was huge? :P Cool little game! Couldn't really see the theme connection though.

maesk 2014-09-02 22:40

Great graphics and music. Hmm, the alien looks somehow familiar :P Nice powerups, too bad I got the confusing one too often :D

brighterorange 2014-09-03 03:45

Oh man, it's so hard! I usually play all the way through LD games, especially platformers, but I'm stuck on level 2 feeling like I keep getting randomly killed, usually by sliding off a platform. I think the core idea is great, the music is awesome, and the level design looks good, I just want a little more control on the ground and variable-height jumps. Maybe I will come back and try again...

emak 2014-09-04 12:24

really good music!

robotfriend 2014-09-04 23:50

Nice work!

egor-idiot 2014-09-06 11:01

Nice game. I love fun pill %)

dylanwolf 2014-09-06 13:37

It was definitely a hardcore platformer in that I was frustrated by the second level, but I also felt like I learned and made progress, so it wasn't punishing.

orangeez 2014-09-06 17:39

Lol, cool idea with powerups. Also, level-design is pretty good: it's devoid of common gamedesign mistakes.

gerjj 2014-09-07 17:55

Nice little game! I can't really rate you for the graphics as I know they're free ones - but apart from that good job :)

tautnerve 2014-09-07 19:06

Nice pickups and overall platforming, great to have a web
build available. Nice audio and graphics as well!

majorcrampas 2014-09-08 13:25

Cool game.
Nice controls, cool and consistent graphics and I loved your audio. :)

phocker 2014-09-09 03:43

Nice job. Really like the idea of the control changes. Interesting.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-09-09 06:59

Super polished platformer. It's a lot of content for 72 hours. Great musics too!

larzan 2014-09-09 08:02

Haha, great music, good concept with the funny extras and effects. Nice one.

klianc09 2014-09-11 21:30

Reverse Controls: The Game. But seriously, the main challenge consists of coping with the controls getting reversed and reversed back to normal again after a random duration all the time. Also the jumping is quite floaty and edges quite slippery.
But besides that I really liked the various powerups (EXCEPT REVERSE CONTROLS) and the ending music is really groovy.

lokarunith 2014-09-14 23:02

A lot of these levels are more frustrating than fun, nevertheless a very fine, entertaining and polished entry.

pinktreeleaf 2014-09-15 05:08

Went from simple, easy and happy in the first level, to epic, hard, and complex in the second. Not that its a bad thing, just i never made it passed the second level. I liked all the different mechanics that were added in. and that none of it felt out of place.

luisdc 2014-09-15 09:45

Great game! Loved the music, graphics and power ups!

alexfili 2014-09-15 19:03

Love this game. I got stuck on stage 2 but I really love the power ups, especially the 'trippy trippy trippy party mode' I got when I ate the flower (don't know the item name but it was hilarious all the same)