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Gingerman And The Christmas Tree

By markusfisch

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness362
Graphics2773.54
Humor3202.86
Fun4243.22
Innovation5463.14
Overall5993.16
Mood6002.89
Theme10323.08

Comments

stray 2014-12-08 06:43

Control is great. Theme so fun. Congrats. It's fun

specialtrooper 2014-12-08 16:14

Some may say the animation is simple, but I just love walking, celebrating and even burning Gingerman :-) !!! Great game !

matthewholland 2014-12-08 20:51

Strange controls; it might have been worth explaining them (or using something a bit more conventional). Nice theme and very appropriate graphics.

bobombe 2014-12-08 20:53

The controls are a little weird (I don't know if i like or not ^^). Anyway, the game is fun (the graphics too) and a bit challenging :)

ferraware 2014-12-09 05:37

Cool mechanic, I like the christmas theme :P

tmalicet 2014-12-09 14:27

Fun game, I like the controls.

bernhard 2014-12-09 14:27

Interesting controls, the mouse only thing actually works.
Cute graphics nice tree generation.
Some Christmas-y music would have been perfect :-)

folmerkelly 2014-12-09 14:27

Nice one, easy to pick up and get into even though the controls aren't conventional.

brokenbeach 2014-12-09 14:28

Fun controls and cute visuals. Good work"

brokenbeach 2014-12-09 14:28

Fun controls and cute visuals. Good work!

rocketship 2014-12-09 14:31

Interesting control mechanic, simple game but well executed!

drludos 2014-12-09 16:42

Interesting game. Nice graphics, and mastering the unusual control scheme represents the core challenge. Fun to play, it'll be nice to have more level / propos in a post-compo version!

mrexcessive 2014-12-09 17:20

Hi there. Managed first two levels, third one always burnt after first bauble. Shame no xmas soundtrack. Nice graphics. Weird but intuitive control scheme. Good job!

01rafael 2014-12-11 12:24

This is lovely. Gingerman is awesome. I'm your greatest fun! ;))

valandre 2014-12-11 17:46

Nice entry, very cute graphics and very fun.

adventureislands 2014-12-11 22:57

Cute little game, great idea and I really dig the art style. Wish you could have used arrow keys or wasd for movement and jumping through.

igoramendola 2014-12-12 06:21

I WON!! It's an adorable game!! And I liked the innovative way to control the main character.
Nice graphics and cool animations. I just wish it had more levels hahaha :P
Good work! :D

hoothoot 2014-12-12 08:10

Great little game! Felt like the controls would suit mobile devices well.

6downstudios 2014-12-12 17:26

Simple but sweet! I love the pixelart and palette, and feel like such a pro dodging flame on those last couple levels.
Nicely done!

xanjos 2014-12-14 21:37

Short but sweet. Very solid entry and good level design. Shame there's no sound though (Also the gingerman deaths are pretty funny).

downtown 2014-12-14 21:59

very nice, straight forward little game. that last level was quite difficult to line the final jump up but got it in the end.

pulsartronic 2014-12-14 22:13

When I saw the first tree I thought... man, that's was really easy, are you kidding me? But when I up the level at the next tree, I fell in love with that cookie buddy. Then I arrived to the last one and when the game says... You won... I was expecting for more levels... so... DO MORE LEVELS NOOOWW!!! Love it :D

mach60kas 2014-12-14 22:15

Hey, I thought your game was really sweet! Very relevant to the time of year, now I'm kinda hungry. :I Some audio would have been nice, but I quite like what you have already - it's actually rather pleasant after the extremely hectic games I've seen so far. Well done, I enjoyed it!

oh_andrej 2014-12-17 18:06

Simple, beautiful and very very charming. Some polish would be nice of course (title screen, sounds/music etc.) but what's here is very enjoyable.

tuism 2014-12-19 15:30

Hmmmmm so it was made *for* touch? Keyboard works much better though the touch potential is there.

I was very excited when I thought the levels were procedurally generated. But when I realised they were not I got less excited :P

But a cool effort :) Pretty :)

zatyka 2014-12-20 04:57

Made it to the end. I appreciate the atypical platform setting, and think it worked out well. Graphics were cute, and the levels were fun, though a bit repetitive. I was hoping that more game mechanics would be introduced.

It took me a few seconds to realize I had to click the mouse, or hit space to respawn. is there a reason you didn't want to auto-respawn after dying?

markusfisch 2014-12-20 13:59

@Tuism
Actually I tried to procedurally generate the levels but that didn't work out too well. That's the reason there are only four levels :) Generating a well balanced but increasingly challenging distribution is quite delicate.

@zatyka
No, I just didn't realize because I was hitting space all the time while developing. Auto-respawning will be definitely in the post-compo version.

wirtualnosc 2014-12-21 11:37

Very nice little game! Wish it could be a bit longer.