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Hectic!

By zakchaos

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness366
Theme5113.55
Audio5742.47
Humor6872.23
Innovation7352.68
Fun7382.73
Overall7392.93
Graphics8212.56
Mood9402.13

Comments

perfect-victim 2014-12-08 20:05

nice idea, but very difficult game

shubshub 2014-12-08 20:07

It was very confusing to play

christopf 2014-12-08 20:10

Man that's a hard game! And that's also what i like most about it. It's quite challenging and getting your attraction through it. But what i miss is the difference in levels, also a fullscreen mode would make things a little easier imo :D

zakchaos 2014-12-08 20:14

@cristphopf (You should be able to enable full screen when playing the embedded version via ludumdare)

v01pe 2014-12-08 21:02

Nice, challenging game! What @christopf said - I basically stopped playing after dying in the 2nd level, because I was like: OK, seen everything…
The hit-box of the player is a little bit too big IMO.

HelkeGames 2014-12-08 21:56

I like the concept! Neat!!

deft97 2014-12-09 00:36

Surprisingly fun c:
Only complaint is that the screen is a bit too busy to focus on anything.
(But that might be intentional)

hypnoticbytes 2014-12-09 00:40

Wow, I hate those guys!!! Like the gameplay but it's hard :) I had fun playing, well done!!!

andrewkennedy 2014-12-09 01:41

Phew, this game is hard! I like that using the conveyor belts can be a really good thing (avoiding enemies) or a really bad thing (suck you into the spikes).

The player and enemies could have used a little more contrast to make them easier to separate visually from the background.

misto423 2014-12-09 01:42

Pretty cool. The collision seemed a little buggy for me, and the game just stopped when I died (had to refresh to play again). Still pretty fun and I think the challenge worked to your advantage for this kind of game.

muush 2014-12-09 04:21

Very difficult yet not necessarily fun. Certainly better than a lot of games here in LD. Not bad at all

rainshapes 2014-12-09 21:13

Interesting and challenging game!

skipi 2014-12-09 21:44

The hitbox on either the player or the spikes are a bit too large. Other than that, the game is fun.

holyblackcat 2014-12-09 21:58

Simple, but still fun. Though, I wish spike and conveyor animations were smoother.

kerdelos 2014-12-09 22:09

740 ! I was almost done ! The game is fun however I found the controls have a kind of inertia that makes it hard to avoid the spikes. And I would try to make the animation of the arrow more smooth, I don't know why but the way they are, they prevent me to focus on my character. But good job anyway ;D

hjfrew 2014-12-09 22:38

Great tweaks on the pac-man formula!

knivel 2014-12-10 03:11

Very difficult! I think the loose player controls make it feel kind of out of my control. Compare to a brutal difficulty like Super Meat Boy where the controls are very tight, but the levels are super difficult. Basically, in your game, I feel like the game is screwing me over rather than me making mistakes.

tortoise 2014-12-10 03:14

Challenging game I could only get the outer rings before dieing. Lost my sight of my character a few times too. Surprisingly fun once you get the hang of it.

crefossus 2014-12-10 06:36

Some parts of the music track are catchy although it's little disjointed overall.

Could be more fun if the hitbox on the main character was a bit smaller. The blue guys pushing you sometimes feels like you lost control (may also be the conveyor belt). I thought that it was kind of emergent when a blue guy pushed me into the dots.

After you understand all the mechanics and the hitbox then it's fine.

zompi 2014-12-10 18:32

It looks simple but in fact is a difficult game. Too bad the difficulty is because the huge hit box of spikes. But it has something that keep player try again and again and again. So, good concept and gives some fun afterall :)

rothens 2014-12-11 09:55

well.. this was difficult :D

caspila 2014-12-11 10:21

The controls need some more polishing. Also the hitbox of the player is waaaay too big. All the times that I died I felt like the game was cheating, instead of felling like I made a mistake and controlled the character wrongly.

ruerob 2014-12-11 20:32

Nice little game. Hard to play first but after a while I get used to it. Maybe the character should stop completly after releasing the arrow key.

hitchh1k3r 2014-12-11 22:09

Good work finishing this game, and following the theme. I feel it was a little too hard, and I'm not sure if there was a huge amount of depth (not a lot to learn). I liked the music in the game, it fit the overall feel of the game well.

nassi 2014-12-12 15:23

Sadly not that much fun to play, mainly because of the finicky movement combined with the hitboxes I guess. My best score was exactly 400 I think.

Having to reload the page to replay was pretty annoying. A bit jittery on Pale Moon (a Firefox based browser), but ran pretty smoothly on Chrome.

zakchaos 2014-12-12 19:04

Hmm, shouldnt have had to reload, after you die after the score prompt it goes back to press space to start,

crazyrems 2014-12-14 12:46

A good entry, but way too hard. The character hitbox is oversized, so we are always trying to get out of the ground that pushes you. Get killed 5 times in a half minute without any progression.

nonobattle 2014-12-19 22:06

Very hard, very fiddly and very confusing. Kinda fun though and good for a LD!

01rafael 2014-12-29 09:01

Awesome maze!