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Enjoy The View!

By frenchie

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness355
Graphics674.06
Mood3133.22
Audio4982.82
Overall5003.25
Humor5082.55
Fun6213.03
Innovation9252.55
Theme11632.48

Comments

karlipoppins 2014-12-08 03:49

Great job. Thanks for the checkpoints. Awesome visuals! :)

fussycashew 2014-12-10 01:47

Getting a 404 on your Windows link :(

defectivemelon 2014-12-10 01:47

I get a 404 on the download page

frenchie 2014-12-10 07:49

@Noah Ratcliff, @DefectiveMelon
Doh! I was busy trying to get HTML5 compiling to work and moved the project out of DropBox because it filled up. I've moved the Windows project back in.

ynots 2014-12-11 06:29

GOT 404 ERROR..:(

flashlight 2014-12-11 06:47

The character is sooo cute, and the graphics is also great.(Unreal is awesome!) It can be better if there is something that can indicate the progress for the player.

frenchie 2014-12-11 06:55

@ynots: ='( the links are working for me

@Team Flashlight: Thanks! Yes, Unreal's graphics are great after working in Unity for so long! I never considered adding a progress indicator, but that could be a good idea.

drgeraud 2014-12-11 10:42

The game is a bit too hard for me, but cool anyway !

rico-albe 2014-12-11 10:56

I don't see how this game fits the theme, frankly.

Unreal's graphics are great and you did a good use of them, but they make the character's lack of animation and weird collision box be even more noticeable.

anyway, good job for a compo entry!

frenchie 2014-12-11 10:56

@DrGeraud: I enjoy hard games but I might have gone a little overboard in my crazed, lack of sleep, state =P

frenchie 2014-12-11 10:57

@Rodaja: did you manage to get to the end? That's where the theme gets tied in. And yeah, I have a long ways to learn with UE4. Thanks for playing!

victorafael 2014-12-11 11:38

Very nice graphics... I'd like to keep playing but I need to go back to work... and got really stuck on the moving blocks part (The ones who push you away from the platform)... I really wanted to go a higher place but I have to accept my fate! :P

Congratzz for the game!

marcellus 2014-12-11 12:16

played for 2 hours and couldn't get to the end. When you get ON the platforms that are moving back and forth from the wall, if you jump from the before last one, you get thrown away or in the wall and have to restart. could get through this part but the graphics are awesome

grambler1 2014-12-11 12:42

Would've liked the controls to be a little more responsive. Maybe it's just a lack of air control?

defectivemelon 2014-12-11 21:27

Hello again :) This was fun to play, but after a bunch of tries on one part I had to give up. But trying to make it was addictive and just the right kind of tough where I felt like it was possible and it was my own terrible play that held me back

frenchie 2014-12-12 04:58

@victorafael: you have to jump! I didn't have enough time to get UE4's phyisics working right so that they'd push you =(

@Marcellus: woah! Two hours?! I'm glad you enjoyed it, except for the whole, way too hard part.

@BarrensZeppelin: I agree the controls could have been better. If I were to make another platformer I would make you stop mid-air when not pushing a direction. That would have made things easier

@DefectiveMelon: I'm glad you tried a few times instead of giving up right away!

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It seems like I've made this game too difficult. Since the game is beatable I can't patch it per LD rules. However, I did add a video playthrough to give some ideas on how to win.

snickersnacks 2014-12-12 05:53

Wow, really choppy in-browser. Nice graphics though :) very seasonal and festive

frenchie 2014-12-12 05:59

@snickersnack: play the windows version! HTML5 is an experimental feature of Unreal Engine!

otaviogood 2014-12-12 06:00

nice hat. web version worked for me.

frenchie 2014-12-12 06:01

@otaviogood: Good to hear! Using Chrome?

esaygin 2014-12-12 07:26

Cool and pretty game. Good for me to play in school^^

grabengroup 2014-12-12 09:46

cool game!

dvdking 2014-12-12 10:04

You should have removed debug information file pdb, it takes really a lot of space. The game itself looks beautiful, but character controls are quite bad. Maybe it also caused by the fact that I have ~15 fps, but it was really difficult.

frenchie 2014-12-12 10:14

@dvdking: wow, thanks! I didn't notice that so far down in the folder. Yeah this definitely wouldn't be playable at ~15 fps. Can I ask what GPU/CPU you have? I only got to test this on a beefy computer

maxyan 2014-12-12 11:05

Great work!

leaghorn 2014-12-12 11:46

Looks good. Player should rotate only when velocity changes not when in mid air and just want to slow down. Then he should keep facing the way he's going. Looks weird

dvdking 2014-12-12 12:21

Frenchie,I have CPU i5-3350P and GPU GeForce GT 630
It is below average configuration I think.

jjevil 2014-12-12 17:51

Nice looking game.

thiaguera 2014-12-17 12:58

Damn! This game is hard. Good work. You just missed the theme.

maxmetallica 2014-12-29 22:16

really nice graphics dude nice game also