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Talking Heads

By ponk

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness292
Humor393.79
Graphics694.05
Innovation883.96
Overall3053.45
Mood3223.21
Theme4823.65
Fun5593.08

Comments

hotboxgames 2014-12-07 19:41

Amusing and entertaining, also confusing.
Cool entry!

broivula 2014-12-07 21:11

Damn, that's some fine art! Cool little puzzle game. All of it looked so smooth! Well done!

fleegle2000 2014-12-08 02:33

Weird and wonderful. I love it.

andynonomous 2014-12-08 02:58

Very unique, I liked this one!

sharpcoder 2014-12-08 04:56

Very awesome game! It's unclear to me whether or not there is a level beyond the intro text - but regardless of that, it was still a lot of fun :) very unique and theme-relevant! Nice job.

mactinite 2014-12-08 07:09

Really cool, great art and smooth animations.

nicotuason 2014-12-08 11:23

We need more games like this. It's rare to see weird done well.

franklins-ghost 2014-12-08 12:40

Love how weird this one is with such nice use of the theme. Did find it quite addictive and wasn't able to stop until I'd solved it. Would work well on mobile and would be nice to see levels.

simonchauvin 2014-12-08 14:31

It's beautiful, and it got me thinking about various people that could transmit altered information and so on. Very cool. Too bad there's only one level :)

gre 2014-12-08 16:16

weird. very cool art.

mrexcessive 2014-12-08 18:08

Hi there. Well that is a seriously weird game. Very Python/Terry Gilliam. Shame no sound to accompany the visuals.

doublezeroonezero 2014-12-08 18:37

Love the art. I'd like there to be more levels (maybe there is and I just can't get to them?) where you played around a bit more with what they said. This IS a game jam though, so I think you've done a great job for 48 hours!

ponk 2014-12-08 20:24

Thank for the kind words :) !
Going to make a level generator when I got time.

But for now I'm going to play and rate some games !

crazyrems 2014-12-08 20:41

Nice entry, beautiful drawings, and a small minimalist micro-challenging puzzle.
Well done.

tudd 2014-12-08 20:44

Very funny graphics and concept. Everything seems super playful and bouncy <3. The reward was great too ! I agree, it really could use levels. Some conversation audio would be really nice too.

thristhart 2014-12-08 20:51

Weird, interesting and a beautiful art style. Well done!

chaosed0 2014-12-08 20:53

Strange and weird. But in a good way.

sheepolution 2014-12-08 20:56

I feel like there is a missed opportunity here where you get a different set of heads per level.

Still fun and weird though.

intogamesuk 2014-12-08 20:57

Funny & original -- would love to see this taken further (not sure how you'd grow the puzzle element without having some heads missing an ear -- maybe have some with really BIG lugs or something!)

Managed to get the reward with one head out of the circuit (there's something I never thought I'd be writing!) -- dunno if that's supposed to be possible? Great stuff though :D

snemanden 2014-12-08 21:14

Wow, I *really* love those awesome talking heads! Cute and wonderful. Really great execution.

erkberg 2014-12-09 11:51

Nice puzzly game mechanic. I really like the art, it's quite different from what you usually get to see and the fact that almost everything is in some way animated makes the screen look very dynamic. I could easily see this become a nice puzzle game with more levels AND you could tell a narrative in an innovative way with this mechanic.

bygmalion 2014-12-09 13:35

I really like your drawings, the thumb up dude looks like a Crumb drawing. Cool stuff brah!

voider 2014-12-09 14:25

I felt in love with this game. Simple yet powerful message and mechanics. The drawings make it perfect. Good job!

thatwhichis 2014-12-09 17:55

PLEASANT- i am successful :-D

tritegames 2014-12-09 19:14

Very short but a nice graphic style and unique gameplay mechanic :)

goutye 2014-12-09 21:07

Nice idea! I like the way you draw! I took some times before understanding the fact I can speak to an ear not perpendicularly x)

toki-anholmes 2014-12-09 21:18

This is nearly perfect !

flegmatical 2014-12-09 21:49

This was super-weird, it took me a little while to understand that the game was actually running, and not a preloader or something like that :D Liked the handdrawn style and the puzzle. Simple and fun, while still being clever!

zkenshin 2014-12-09 22:48

This was super entertaining. Good job!

lynx 2014-12-10 04:18

Ha I see what you did there!

wilbefast 2014-12-10 09:10

Hehehe :)

I love the way the game introduces itself in the words that the people are saying.
Seemed to be pretty straightforward to begin with, but really made me think to find a solution :) Very stylish (yay, tweens) AND fun to play. Great job!

mathias234 2014-12-10 12:30

Nice game

gins 2014-12-10 13:08

Haha that was funny and a bit of a head scratcher :)

simon_simon 2014-12-10 16:25

Challenging and pretty, yet too short !

rulrite 2014-12-10 18:25

A wonderful entry! I'm pretty sure I saw a screenshot of this before the deadline passed, and I'm so glad I finally got to play it.

I wish the game was longer, but that's really just me being greedy - it's such a novel and wonderfully executed idea. The graphical style is very pleasing and works perfectly with such an abstract concept (I love the reward at the end).

I hope you'll pursue this further; I'd love to see where it goes!

ponk 2014-12-10 23:58

Thank yoooOOOoouu...!! :) .. !
Each of your comments are real motivation boosters to finish the game.. !
Will post soon !

thecams 2014-12-11 07:54

A simple idea well executed, original art, nice job.

pjimmy 2014-12-11 17:17

cool, very bizarre game, well done

valandre 2014-12-11 17:55

Love the art! appart! simple gameplay very fun!

adventureislands 2014-12-11 18:45

Cool idea. There could have perhaps been levels you would have to complete with set amount of heads.

drnick 2014-12-11 23:03

The mechanic is very unoriginal, the game is quite short and there is not much challenge. However, the graphics and their style are very good.

dracomagna 2014-12-12 00:48

Nice graphics, but the game lacks some feedbacks.
Good job captain.

mase 2014-12-12 00:53

The drawings are very funny. I enjoyed this.
It's not quite as luscious looking as your previous entry... maybe if the heads had bodies or something to form a background it would look more complete.
It might also be better if the text had more of a purpose.

tonbery 2014-12-12 01:38

nice game,

it would be cool if some heads change the way the message is presented, so you would need to delivery the right message by turning the message to it's normal state

something like that

gwil 2014-12-12 11:15

Really nice puzzle :). The graphics all work very well with each other.

nassi 2014-12-12 16:27

Ha, nice implementation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers. An enjoyable experience, but also a lot of room for further expansion!

themeorch 2014-12-12 22:03

This has a unique art style, and the puzzle is deceptively harder than it seems at first. Nice work!

voxel 2014-12-13 15:05

Short and sweet, beautiful and a little clever. Sounds like the ideal life partner. Do you also do 48 hour human-making jams?

ponk 2014-12-14 05:35

Thank you again for all the <3

Your suggestions really help me to decide what should I do next with that game. (If I have time to work on it)

@voxel : Is "human-making" is what I think ? :)

chuigum 2014-12-16 02:24

Nice graphics, good solid game.

dunin 2014-12-17 20:45

simple puzzle game, but good graphics and mood.
Need some other levels...

Lucariatias 2014-12-20 16:30

An interesting entry - there wasn't really much content but what was there was pretty interesting. The art style was neat, but it was sorely lacking in sounds of any sort. Circuit building is pretty fun for a while and quite intellectually stimulating.

instant-noodles 2014-12-20 21:36

Very innovative game I love it ! Very interesting way to use text !

metalchouchen 2014-12-21 02:08

Great art as usual ! Would be awesome if heads really talk when a word, go out from their mouths :) Congrats!

frozencow 2014-12-21 12:53

Very cool concept. It took me a while to figure to use all heads in the circuit, but it was fun to figure out. Nice reward too :D

barryrowe 2014-12-22 03:00

I love the way this looks, and the use of the theme. I feel like I cheated to get a complete circuit, but that's ok. Great job on the visuals, and concept.

pjchardt 2014-12-22 03:44

Interesting :) Very novel concept. Love the art. Would be interesting to see more puzzle elements added, or investigate more into the idea of information circulation. For example, what if different heads modified information in different ways?