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ICE MAN

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness364
Audio593.89
Overall1083.78
Fun1283.64
Graphics1294.11
Innovation1873.61
Theme2213.87
Mood2593.39
Humor5302.54

Comments

inateno 2014-12-09 03:02

It's really hard !

peterthehe 2014-12-09 17:23

Difficult game. Excellent overall: love the concept :D

againey 2014-12-09 17:25

Too painfully difficult for me. But it was fascinatingly interesting how the arrangement forced the the eyes/brain to try to focus on two separate locations on the screen in a very counter-intuitive way. My neurons didn't want to cooperate, but I imagine they'd adapt given enough time. I'm curious if that could be adapted in any way to a practical improvement in hand/eye coordination or flexible reflexive thinking.

Maybe I just need to first drown myself in caffeine before playing a game like this. The arrow indicators were immensely helpful UI element, but I apparently needed even more help than they provided.

Perhaps starting off with a slower vertical avatar speed, and/or slower moving, more regular, or less dense obstacles, and then gradually making one or more of those variables harder over time, could help generate and maintain a state of flow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29

pastry 2014-12-09 20:34

Excellent game, great idea, frustrating and incredibly rewarding! Awesome job!

pastry 2014-12-09 20:39

Seriously consider porting this for mobile, might need some tweaking but I'd buy it.

minibutmany 2014-12-09 21:19

The graphics and audio were both very captivating! As Pastry said this could be really great for phones.

Oreganik 2014-12-10 00:59

TWENTY-TWO SECONDS and I feel like an ICE GAWD

thingostudios 2014-12-10 03:37

Let's Play: Super Gravitron

I love this game-- it's a smart take on the theme. You should definitely port this to mobile.

elvaq 2014-12-10 05:10

Cool take on SG. Great music and art too. Really nice twitchy feel!

raiyumi 2014-12-10 08:41

Nice aesthetic and polish. I also loved the arrow indicators you got - it really helped.

akhilnivarthi 2014-12-10 19:56

Pretty interesting game, cool aesthetics

pjimmy 2014-12-11 18:31

very original, yet very hard, well done

metalchouchen 2014-12-13 14:29

Really hard :) Good jobs!

kddekadenz 2014-12-13 18:36

brainfuck

robotloveskitty 2014-12-13 18:50

Very enjoyable! This reminded me a lot of 6180 the Moon, but as a fast paced action game instead of a puzzle game. I love the split screen dynamic!

voider 2014-12-13 18:52

It is hard but you can get better at it. I feel the challenge-reward balance is just great for me. It is very polished as well. Good job!

jachepe 2014-12-13 18:56

very hard!! great work!

el-pepi 2014-12-13 19:01

Amazing music and graphics!!!
It was really hard, but I just keeped playing, it feels really good!
I only got to 00:31:93 haha

ulydevsecondgame 2014-12-13 19:14

Excellent game ! It indeed looks like my entry, though it's a lot more polished ! Nice job :)

galman 2014-12-13 19:28

Cool original idea! Hard as needed. prefect game :)

hbocao 2014-12-13 19:34

At first my brain couldn't handle the movements haha It was so funny. Then I got better. Who Am I kidding? I sucked hard. Very hard, indeed. The art is awesome and the sound creates a sense of constant danger. Nerve wrecking gameplay. Goob job, guys!
Tune down the difficulty a little bit, create a smooth learning curve and launch on mobile.

pkenney 2014-12-13 19:44

A+! This is just the kind of game I like to play and make in these jams. You've got an interesting novel physics combined with simple difficult gameplay that forces you to take it to the extreme. And to get there, you need to bend your brain a little.

Your polish is also awesome, game looked and felt great.

Hyper mode was a sinister addition, love that you added it, though I couldn't hang.

My scores were 23:90 on normal mode, and 7:52 on hyper.

boxedmeatrevolution 2014-12-13 20:02

Very fun game. I liked the screen splitting, really makes this game unique and adds an element of visual dexterity on the player's side (focus up, focus down, repeat) which is cool. My one complaint would be the difficulty curve. I always ended up losing at around 24 seconds and didn't feel like I was getting any better with subsequent tries. This might just be me though. Overall, cool game, I love the innovation!

whitematterteam 2014-12-13 20:19

Nice game! It's pretty hard. I liked music and art.

apiotrw 2014-12-13 20:24

Very well made. The start is incredibly hard but it gets better after you begin to focus in the right way.

valeour 2014-12-13 20:39

Very funny and fun. Would be really interesting to see how well this could work on Android.
Did enjoy. :)

oddballdave 2014-12-13 20:43

My brain can't cope with this game. Good stuff though.

dokthar 2014-12-13 20:52

Very fun Very hard Very solid entry. Good job

rnlf 2014-12-13 20:54

This game is crazy hard! But it looks pretty damn hot and seems to be well polished! Good job!

kunonooni 2014-12-13 22:07

I agree that this should be ported over to mobile! The art, music and concept are all top notch. Good Job!

guimonpa 2014-12-14 12:44

This is incredibly hard, but so very funny and addictive.
Nice graphics and audio.
I got 8:61 on hyper mode and it felt godlike!

lereveur 2014-12-14 20:44

Hard, but nice idea ! Nothing to say about good graphics and music. :)

dream-of-sleeping 2014-12-15 09:12

The most addictive and rewarding game I've played so far. I like it because at first it seems impossibly hard, but if you stick with it you do start showing improvement quite quickly and get real sense of pride with your score. That's kind of what happened to flappy bird and that did alright! My highest so far is 28.40 seconds. I really like the look and music too.

kddekadenz 2014-12-15 21:04

I featured your game at GameARTMonday: http://buff.ly/1qT3S6k
along with other beautiful Ludum Dare games.

Cheers! :)

pkenney 2014-12-31 22:29

What this game didn't make top 100 for fun?? I need to reevaluate my life.