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Riveroboros

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness293
Audio4472.89
Humor4642.61
Theme8773.33
Mood8822.55
Fun9222.65
Overall10012.72
Graphics10222.34
Innovation10342.34

Comments

greenyuk 2014-12-08 04:53

Holy hell that's difficult to play! The staggered scrolling screw you up lots! Pretty fun, but I didn't possess the the will power to attempt level 2. aha :D

mtinkerhess 2014-12-08 05:00

That is mind bending to try to read the maze when it's moving and wrapping around. Especially level 2. Pretty cool! Nice music.

seraphina 2014-12-08 05:01

This is a fun little game. Level 2 is really hard on my eyes though, haha. Still managed to beat it though. Nice work.

mortl8324 2014-12-08 05:07

Man that jerky movement really hurts my eyes. If you are really careful, you won't die, but it is interesting how the warps and movement really disorientate you.

raincole 2014-12-08 06:07

I don't think you're supposed to to claim the source code as 'OSX' or 'Linux' version tho...

evilobjective 2014-12-08 06:11

Well it was James Over for me pretty quick each try, tough game! Excellent sound.

doitle 2014-12-08 06:16

I just pushed a quick update to LD31.py to add a Shebang at the top so you should be able to just pull down the repo local, and run LD31.py on Linux or OSX.

maurogik 2014-12-08 06:18

I took me a while to understand how it all worked, but I managed to complete the first level. Level 2 is out of my reach though. Nice concept here !

olligobber 2014-12-08 06:35

The scrolling is quite annoying, but without it the game wouldn't be difficult.

snuux 2014-12-08 08:00

Hardcore game! I like it!

plauk 2014-12-08 08:06

Haaaa! This is the hardest game ever made. Why does the player scroll with the river? I will never get to the other side. Never.

mokosha 2014-12-08 08:31

This game almost gave me a seizure. It was really difficult! I know a lot of people that would actually really enjoy this game, but I don't think it's for me. :)

cmayhem 2014-12-08 10:12

It was more difficult than I though it would be, the scrolling really messes you up. Very cool idea!

joris 2014-12-08 12:37

Really fun to play. I was proud of myself after I beat the game :p

littlethor 2014-12-08 12:45

Frogger on steroids! Way too difficult for us, humans ^^

ohsqueezy 2014-12-08 17:17

Excellent audio! It works really well with the setting. I got to the end without much trouble. It's a maze on a river with water instead of walls.

P.S.: I had to remove the "import pygame._view" line to get it to run on linux.

doitle 2014-12-08 17:26

I just pushed a new version with that line removed. It was added to make freezing the Windows executable work, but is not needed to run the game normally.

ossi 2014-12-08 18:59

That was really tough! Even though it was a bit dizzying to look at with the way the level scrolls, I kind of liked tapping up to "catch up" to the pattern of the flowing river, it really felt like I was running haha! I couldn't beat it though, the timing is really precise. Nice use of the theme and the music was really catchy, well done!

jpdev 2014-12-08 19:52

Wow.. took me long to grasp, that i did not have to make it over to the other side without reaching the bottom of the screen :)

empyrealhell 2014-12-09 01:05

Once I understood the mechanic (the bug messed me up and I thought I couldn't go off the bottom), it actually wasn't that difficult. Not a bad entry, but there's not a lot to it once you understand the mechanic.

The graphics were pretty limited, but I see what you were going for with the NES limitations. I'm not sure how well the smooth edges work with that though, I think you would been better off going with zoomed in pixel art to really seal that NES aesthetic. Also, smooth scrolling would have been so much easier on the eyes.

cosmologicon 2014-12-09 01:28

A bit intimidating, but if you keep your cool it's not that hard to get through. Nice work!

resty 2014-12-09 13:57

level 2 goes so fast, my eyes can't catch up with it.

jhice 2014-12-10 15:16

+1 for the audio and graphics NES style ;) Level 1 ok, level 2 dont understand why died at the bottom. Overall realisation is consistent.

jacic 2014-12-10 22:55

It gets difficult quick!

"Your James Over"

gene-z 2014-12-11 21:19

Cool game, I like it

bobombe 2014-12-11 22:08

Interesting maze game, the movement is perturbing which is challenging in the first level, but too fast in the second.

kualitygames 2014-12-11 22:19

Quite challenging indeed.

kate-kligman 2014-12-12 06:05

Love the retro / frogger-like aspect! It's hard!

johnnwfs 2014-12-13 04:47

I found it pretty hard. interesting frogger-esq twist - maybe with smoother scrolling it'd be more playable.

jovoc 2014-12-13 08:29

haha! At first I was like, scrolling! but then I was like, I get it.. nice job. Fun and challenging.

pjimmy 2014-12-13 16:45

cute and challenging game, but 120MB?! that's a big file size for such a simple game. Anyways, well done

doitle 2014-12-13 20:19

I've just uploaded an updated version using .ogg instead of .wav for the audio. The file size has decreased a ton. Hopefully that helps anyone who wants to play this in the future.

tomhunt 2014-12-14 08:12

the scrolling of the land felt weird to me. when i see a frogger-type game, my expectation is that the land is stable while the water scrolls.

seraphki 2014-12-21 23:30

Whew! That's difficult. Well done =3