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True Dark

By ranseur

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Innovation5693.11
Audio5742.67
Theme6043.57
Fun6213.03
Overall6573.10
Humor8511.98
Mood8572.58
Graphics11372.03

Comments

wandersenus 2014-12-08 09:05

nice game!

seledorn 2014-12-08 09:15

Fun to play, challenging, fits the theme. A great game! a bit of programming art though, but that's fine, nobody's great at everything!

icedvariables 2014-12-08 09:42

I had great fun play this - took awhile to figure out the scrolling part though!

valtaroth 2014-12-08 10:49

Nice game, my screen is too small for it though.. the zoomed out version is slightly to high and if I scroll down it zooms in^^ if I try to zoom back out I either scroll back up or die in the meantime. Otherwise really nice, would love to play a longer version with these mechanics.

ranseur 2014-12-08 10:52

@Valtaroth You need a screen that's at least 1280*720 to play ): The zooming is intended though!

43iscoding 2014-12-08 11:27

Great game! Took me a while to get that scroll-wheel thingie) A love the gameplay and the challenging difficulty! Well done, the game feels complete :)

gamepopper 2014-12-08 11:36

Pretty good, sadly I could only use a touch pad which meant I did pretty bad.

anokta 2014-12-08 11:36

whoa, that's one tough game! Really enjoyed the mechanics, couldn't even get close to 'the ending' though. :/

stray 2014-12-08 11:47

nice,
the only problem is wide screen

hectorhon 2014-12-08 12:06

Great fun to play! Tough challenge, never made it past the second room T_T

sfdnetwork 2014-12-08 13:44

Really fun game. Nice job

naufr4g0 2014-12-08 14:27

Nice little stealth game. I like the way you implement the "one room" theme and the use of the mouse wheel. :)
The game is a lot of fun, I love to shoot enemies.

pjimmy 2014-12-08 16:27

nice, very fun, but it's missing a Pause button

domicuc 2014-12-08 18:00

Interesting and really good game! I little miss the graphic of all characters, but it is fine.

oskardevelopment 2014-12-08 18:05

Thanks for the game! Interesting gameplay and with smooth movements on the circle when moving/shooting! Good luck!

lisac 2014-12-08 18:38

Nice game :)

skeeto 2014-12-08 19:34

Interesting game idea. I've never played anything like this before. It's brutally difficult though: one hit and it's game over, with several rapidly moving enemies.

The only way I knew how later stages of the game worked (i.e. moving to other rooms) was from the screenshots. The game itself doesn't make it very clear.

legiion 2014-12-08 20:13

the controls are interesting and give this game a unique ability

rzuf 2014-12-08 20:25

Brillo mechanics. You should know, that your game is extremely hard when played on a netbook. (like, I could youse a second pair of hands) :P

frondeus 2014-12-08 21:01

I'm really impressed. It reminds me N and Portal.

_waterman7_ 2014-12-08 21:37

Innovative and challenging gameplay, and an interesting implementation of the theme. Good job!
The ammo counter could be more obvious, I almost didn't even notice and was often frustrated to run out of bullets at the wrong moment without a warning.

Btw: I added the source code to my game now, thanks for the reminder! :)

lavendark 2014-12-08 22:15

A hard but fun game. Took a few goes to get past the first room and figure out what I was doing but glad I did as the surprise of the next room was a good one. Good Job :)

rabbit 2014-12-08 22:26

These controls are almost impossible. I have no idea what is going on or how to play this mania.

trisquare 2014-12-09 02:13

sad to say Game Doesn't load. . . no Rate,

bkgh 2014-12-09 04:11

Fun to play, but a bit confusing.

benmcnelly 2014-12-09 06:39

Very fun! Bookmarked to come back and beat later..

ranseur 2014-12-09 09:43

@TriSquare Care to tell me more about it? To the best of my knowledge you are the only with this problem so far..

ranseur 2014-12-09 10:19

Today it seems that dropbox takes a bit time to load the html5 version of the game, maybe it was that? Also, if you weren't able to play because of your keyboard layout, now there is a good chance that you can.

threef 2014-12-09 17:50

I really enjoy that kind of gameplay!

jezzamon 2014-12-21 02:02

Ahhh too hard! I think the game was way too hard to control. Bouncing off things an accidentally killing yourself wasn't really fun to me. I gave the game quite a few tries, but couldn't get past the 3rd screen. Those black circles seemed a little unfair.

I think this game did suffer from a lack of art, I think having some type of meaningful enemy to avoid would've made the game much cooler. Perhaps devoting some more time to graphics would've improved things.

If you can't do much in the way of graphics, here's some tips for making circle and squares look better:
1. Never use grey, especially for your background, always have a little bit of colour.
2. Don't use fully saturated colours. Slightly toned down colours actually look nicer.
3. Try to stick to a colour palette or some colour scheme. There are a few sites that collect nice looking ones if you can't find one yourself, here's one I just found: http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes
4. Avoid small outlines. Either pick fairly large outlines, or leave outlines out entirely. I think it looks nicer.