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Dark Vaimanika

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness292
Fun4843.06
Mood5762.94
Overall5963.10
Innovation6302.84
Theme7993.18

Comments

spazzarama 2014-12-09 00:40

Nice movement, had to try a lot of times through the obstacles :)

floorman 2014-12-09 00:47

Damn, this is hard... =)

I don't like how GameMaker requires me to install though...

kburkhart84 2014-12-09 00:50

Honestly, in my opinion it was way too difficult. It feels like if there were no enemies and the game's point was the navigation, then maybe it would be fine. But considering how much you have to concentrate on the navigation, adding the enemies is just too much.

The movement itself is cool though, although quite unforgiving.

minibobbo 2014-12-09 01:09

I finally won by completely ignoring the enemies. In my opinion, trying to shoot anything made this game extremely difficult. If enemies only took a single shot I think it would be worth going after them.

Maybe all the variables in the game need to be lowered (player acceleration, shot speed, etc.) It might play better, but wouldn't be what you were going for.

ozcr 2014-12-09 01:10

Cool.

nickbasswright 2014-12-09 01:12

Super hard but that factored into the fun in my opinion. Good work, amigo.

drakenish 2014-12-09 01:29

Very hard. I sort of agree with kburkhart84. I think the focus should have been entirely the really cool navigation mechanic.

davidvisscher 2014-12-09 02:45

Pretty fun

krishna911 2014-12-09 03:00

fun and bit hard :P :)

harley77 2014-12-09 03:02

I didn't care for the install, but the game itself is nice. Hard though. Great job.

ViliX 2014-12-09 18:38

Very challenging, but nice entry :)

headmade 2014-12-09 18:47

I don't like the installer one bit :(
But the game was polished. Hard, but polished.

sh1rogane 2014-12-09 18:53

Fun game but really hard.

k8n 2014-12-09 18:53

Nice physics, but don't like the installer

local-minimum 2014-12-09 19:05

Nice game, really hard to navigate that ship but I did get quite far one time. Since it's a game where you die a lot, I would highly recommend having space rather than P start the game from the menu so that the player doesn't have to move around on the keyboard. You want the players to keep trying.

Getting time to shoot the ships was hard too, I found it a distraction and that the best option was to fly past them quickly. It doesn't matter so much though, but maybe reward killing them more by having them die faster.

A solid entry all in all.

lurumdurum 2014-12-10 13:41

Even though it's pretty hard, and there is not much too it: I just had to finish it! I took my quite some tries though, but eventually I had control over the movement.

aidinviper 2014-12-10 17:55

hard game but fun.

technomancer 2014-12-10 20:41

Very nice!

HelkeGames 2014-12-10 20:56

Great mechanics! I like the concept! Well done!

sushin 2014-12-10 23:28

Good idea, it was a bit hard for me.

linear 2014-12-10 23:35

Had a tough time trying not to die. The health wasn't really that useful, since the best approach was to simply ignore the turrets if you hoped to finish in time. The worst part was that sometimes touching the walls killed you, sometimes it didn't. You would usually not dying if you set the ship down gently on a wall, but sometimes you'd explode anyway. It would be nice if you just lost health when you collided with walls.

evanegibbs 2014-12-11 03:57

Oh my gosh! Beating that game felt like a miracle! I ended up just trying to get to the end without killing any of the ships. Haha I loved the happy holidays message at the end. :)

nicealexanderas 2014-12-11 20:17

Good work on the game (: it was really fun but it was very hard for me xD

snicklodocus 2014-12-14 22:55

I didn't like having to install, but the game was fun! Very hard, but not frustrating. I found that just ignoring the enemies was easier than trying to shoot them. Overall, good job!

victorljs 2014-12-14 23:21

Good Job. Nice game.

dieblume86 2014-12-16 15:59

I like the ambiant

cmweiss 2014-12-22 05:01

Very hard, but fun idea. I think the trust was a bit too much.

01rafael 2014-12-29 04:18

Oh! This is hard to achieve!
But anyway great! ;)