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With Kindness

By cdgugler

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Theme874.00
Humor1283.66
Fun4183.20
Innovation5183.15
Overall6203.10
Graphics6212.95
Mood7012.74

Comments

ferraware 2015-04-20 02:42

Yay! 24 new friends! Cool game, but why do the aliens fall down when I hug them so much? :(

paperblurt 2015-04-20 06:34

This is my kind of design.
So easy to understand and fun to play.

noxfadh 2015-04-20 23:27

Really nice idea :D

dustoutgames 2015-04-20 23:28

This game was quite silly, and that was a good thing. Hugging was a very unconventional way to fight, but I liked it. Very nice.

cgmorton 2015-04-20 23:46

This would be the second game I've seen where hugging is the weapon, except that in your case it's not so much 'hug' as 'crush to death with bare hands'. I like it.

sugarbyte 2015-04-21 00:14

Made me laugh and laugh, great job!

gene-z 2015-04-21 00:32

Good Work,, love this game

shimage 2015-04-21 09:41

Very funny! Animation is cute. Did I make friends really??

forsakenllamas 2015-04-21 10:13

Theme matched, fun to play!

caio-varalta 2015-04-21 11:59

Fun game, mate!

gruhn 2015-04-21 12:37

A good and funny concept, which was well implemented.

As a suggestion, the attacks of the enemies might have a way to defend ...

davecarlile 2015-04-21 14:33

Love this. Simple and fun and humorous.

sorlok 2015-04-21 23:13

Really funny take on the theme! I think you should be able to block their bullets while hugging, but either way, cool game!

jakob37 2015-04-22 16:08

Fun and lighthearted in a sinister way. I really liked it :) I like sorloks idea to be able to block the bullets using your newly found friends!

cdgugler 2015-04-23 03:58

Thanks for the feedback everyone! @sorlok, that's a great idea, I'll have to add that in post-compo.

gafblizzard 2015-04-23 05:58

Being able to hold down F instead of buttom mash would make my hands thank you. :P Funny idea though. It looked like the astronaut was dancing while killing the aliens.

Also I didn't hear audio -- if you didn't finish it, did you mean to submit without audio as a rating category?

suppi 2015-04-24 11:37

This is a really cute idea! love it! too bad you didn't have the time to add audio :)

syawqy 2015-04-24 12:51

why do they shoot me? I just want to hug them

elpaulo 2015-04-25 14:33

Is this hug or strangulation ? :-)
Good job making a game with Phaser, mine was made it with too.

lvours 2015-04-25 14:53

simple, but beatiful idea and gameplay:)

shimone 2015-04-25 14:57

Thank you! I have never got so many friends in such a short time!

lucidsheep 2015-05-03 03:11

Cute! Great application of theme.

jezzamon 2015-05-03 03:45

Not bad. The enemies appeared faster than I could kill them, so I could see that I wasn't going to survive for long.

I would've liked it if they absorbed the bullets depending on which way you were facing.

The game mechanic did feel a little uninteresting, because if you just think about the mechanics without any of the graphics or the game's context then really it's just the enemies are attacking you with range attacks and you have a close-ranged attack that you have to press the button a lot to use. Perhaps that would've been remedied by the music, sound effects and visual effects (e.g. explosions). OR maybe it would be cool if instead of dying the enemies actually became your friend and fought off the bad guys?

tikilittle 2015-05-03 05:19

I liked hugging them aliens. I expected that my alien buddy was a bullet sponge, but I still took damage. That ability would allow the player to play with another mechanic. Try to think of other mechanics you could add on. Another thing is that you could build in an indicator to keep pressing F (like a QTE).

mrlarryli 2015-05-10 15:45

My highest score is 11 friends. I do like the graphics and animation. Audio of the alien struggling would enhance the experience.