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Parable of the Broken Window

By akurn

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness352
Innovation264.24
Theme364.37
Audio3992.97
Mood4023.10
Overall4033.34
Graphics4123.32
Humor5682.47
Fun7062.93

Comments

recon 2014-12-08 13:49

Very good adaption!

kalaskrysset 2014-12-08 14:10

Your take on the theme is amazing. I resized away tons of enemies :P and the end was within my reach when I died the last time. Clever game! art & sound great too.

hexagore 2014-12-08 15:31

I like the take on the theme. The window resizing mechanic seems very daring!

tipyx 2014-12-08 15:32

Wow, I don't expect that... A little binding but some much smart !

okkolobr 2014-12-08 15:32

Now I see what could have been done with the them. Well done Sir.

nushriell 2014-12-08 15:33

I love those game types.
Really cool.

resonious 2014-12-08 15:33

Wow, nice! Never seen anything like it. Excellent take on the theme, sir. Well done. Although I'm sure you've noticed, but the character sometimes seems to have a hard time telling which direction he should be facing.

lisac 2014-12-08 15:33

Awesome interpretation of the theme! So clever! Well done.

conk 2014-12-08 15:52

Really good use of theme, jumping seemed a little pointless, overall quite fun although re-sizing the window was a little annoying at times as I'd often miss.

akurn 2014-12-09 02:56

Thanks all! :)

@Resonious Yeah, it's my dodgy collision detection code. It fixed going through walls when teleporting to the other side, but made running look glitchy. Definitely need to rewrite it.

@Conk Yep, it's meant to indicate that you CAN jump, but show how pitiful it is, until you pickup the boots. Also yeah I agree with the resizing thing, I was working on a trackpad and it's even harder. Wanted to implement some kind of larger button to grab to resize, but yeah 48 hours..

mrleeperry 2014-12-09 04:59

Oh man, well done! Love the resizing window dynamic for the level. Cool!

shasharala 2014-12-09 12:38

I can't even begin to express how amazed I an my friends were upon happening on this game. Astounding! More! Please do more!

jhelle 2014-12-09 14:15

Love the usage of the the theme!

floorman 2014-12-09 14:16

Damn, this game is hard.

Love the idea of being able to resize the scene to get more of the game. But still, damn you! This game is hard! =D

bobmorate 2014-12-09 14:18

Very, very smart design, I loved it! Congratulations!

imaginarymonsters 2014-12-09 14:20

Really inventive take on the theme! Excellent meta-game : D

friggingames 2014-12-09 14:25

Awesome idea for a one screen game! I love the character design too. He is super cute.

nobuyoshi 2014-12-09 14:41

Clever.

pjimmy 2014-12-10 01:16

love it, very innovative

frump 2014-12-10 02:23

Very cool idea to make the browser window part of the game. I stretched it across both of my monitors. I found the jump to be lacking, it was hard to get to the keys

kaijuu 2014-12-10 04:31

Cool idea and concept! Enjoyed the game!

hypnoticbytes 2014-12-10 15:26

Pretty clever idea. Love the pixel art. A bit difficult for me but I suck playing games. Great job!!!!

gungnir 2014-12-10 15:34

Pretty brutal but it's the most interesting interpretation of the theme I've seen so far.

Well done!

joshua_burr 2014-12-10 15:58

Really nice entry. Took me a few tries to reach the red door. Became much easier once I found a shield.

glaze_96 2014-12-10 16:41

Awesome idea! The only thing I don't like are the controls, they're kind of jerky which makes the game hard to play. Other than that, fantastic!

losttraindude 2014-12-10 16:41

The concept is really amazing! It has (at least, in Chrome) few bugs and glitches (i.e. Hitting "HELP" will "respawn" the character, maximizing instead of resizing the window will not generate rooms) but I see lots of potential in your idea and I hope to see a future version soon! :D

Great job!

dracomagna 2014-12-10 17:35

Awesome game, it's one of my favorite so far!
The concept is so damn clever! :D
I love it, great job!

sputnik 2014-12-10 17:51

Very good idea! Had a couple of bugs though.

zanenga 2014-12-10 18:06

Wow, so hard! Love the use of theme!

fussycashew 2014-12-10 21:39

Wow! Very clever take on the theme, and great execution! Well done!

andreaswitzen 2014-12-11 02:40

Quite innovative and a good interpretation of the theme. Cool procedurally generated environments. But to hard for me! Restarted (and resized) maybe 10-15 times before giving in. I'm not good at platformers.

mactinite 2014-12-11 04:38

I really like the idea of this game! didn't really hit any big bugs or anything, really awesome!

paperscraps 2014-12-11 06:16

This was super clever. Awesome job.

flashlight 2014-12-11 06:59

The idea of resizing the window to influence the environment in game is quite unique. You may try to do more things with that mechanism. And the game seems a little hard...The player can die easily..

deyteris_team 2014-12-11 11:32

Simple challenging gameplay, fine

threstle 2014-12-11 16:09

Nice idea! And the visuals are cool. But it keeps on crashing when I play, and the player movements are buggy. :(

virtuallycompetent 2014-12-11 19:54

Clever idea! I think the core gameplay could be tightened up a bit, but the dungeon scaling mechanic has a lot of potential. :D

ghostinthesoft 2014-12-12 16:07

Interesting idea !

carduus 2014-12-13 11:22

Interesting, i was stuck in the first room on my first try.
Maybe an issue with the generated dingoen.
Would be great if you bind keys for AZERTY keyboards :)

franklins-ghost 2014-12-13 14:28

Such a smart take on the theme. The resizing window aspect proved really interesting and was a nice touch, was good to know that if you didn't like the layout then you could just change it.

oldpeculier 2014-12-14 01:07

Super clever and pretty fun. Great!

chuigum 2014-12-14 01:18

Great innovation, fit really well with the theme. Nice graphics and audio too. Good job

thopis 2014-12-14 07:00

Very cool take on the theme!Cool entry

soulgame 2014-12-14 09:49

I agree with people above, very cool theme concept!

selfishgenome 2014-12-14 11:46

brilliant concept very cleverly executed and with a really nice art style.

instant-noodles 2014-12-14 22:13

Very Good idea, i love the resize concept. You should continue to develop this game !

hundredhundred 2014-12-15 08:25

innovative! i really enjoyed playing this, although i kinda felt that the death was a bit brutal. overall nice game!

phocker 2014-12-16 05:03

amazing idea for the theme - high marks here

lynx 2014-12-17 03:50

Great concept! I also enjoy the random rogue-like elements although sometimes they seemed impossible (spikes in front of every door)

ncannasse 2014-12-19 12:49

Would have been a great take on the theme but the game itself is hard to play. Tip : don't do random generation in LudumDare, a small level design is less complicated for both you and the players :)

Lucariatias 2014-12-20 17:59

A novel mechanic, unfortunately the physics didn't feel tight enough and the browser resizing caused big grey squares everywhere when refreshing the display. The music is pretty nice, and it's alright graphically, but doesn't really seem to pull off what it sets out to achieve sadly.

solifuge 2014-12-22 08:31

Ooh... this is a great idea. I never quite got to the ending, though, because of a strange bug where the level would restart but a key would be pressed down, so I couldn't stop myself from running right or left. Also, my corpse bounced a lot >_< I liked the graphics and audio--really clear and easy to understand. Thank you for the game!

2hitadam 2014-12-26 17:23

Nice twist ending haha, took me awhile to get there. Like everyone else is saying, this is an awesome, awesome take on the theme. Love the ingenuity, it's probably a little bit more clever than fun right now with the bugs and abrupt physics, but still, for 48hrs I'm well impressed.

sakergames 2014-12-28 10:48

Really great idea and adaptation of the theme. Good job! :)