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Squirrel Man, nuts!

By kunzbe

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor3203.17
Innovation4743.21
Mood5432.94
Audio5612.68
Theme5643.32
Fun6212.96
Overall6803.04
Graphics8812.47

Comments

v_v 2015-04-20 22:15

Great game! I liked the implementation of the theme. Very innovative! The level generator is a big plus as well.

nevet 2015-04-21 23:47

that is one scary squirrel!!

kcrimson 2015-04-22 20:23

Interesting mechanics, the music was quite catchy and it had dynamic lighting. I was able to run off the stage however

louis-denizet 2015-04-22 20:26

Lol yeah scary squirrel that wants my nuts... This might become really fun with some more polishing ;)

xandy 2015-04-22 20:31

cool idea and nice music. the mechanic fits the theme very well but it was very hard to die in the game and hard to feed the hungry squirrels because the others blocked them. had a lot of fun!

michael-meadows 2015-04-22 20:39

Wow - that was slightly weird. Spent a third of the game figuring out what was going on, another third using my squirrel to tank, and then the last third after losing my squirrel running and being chased by a screen full of monitors. Much fun - good game!

careless 2015-04-22 20:40

Lighting was different, what did you use? Nice map generation, liked the idea of the angled tiles rather than just normally aligned.

Good to have some upgrades, the enemies were pretty crazy. I went a bit mad and kept running out of nuts too quickly.

Lots of fun

pinkindian 2015-04-22 20:47

Nice. Love the combat squirrel. But the nuts collecting doesn't work sometimes, or feels like it.

lochmann-apps 2015-04-22 21:30

Hi knzbe, thanks for your feedback, yeah the sound is a bit annoying, but hey, it's selfmade! ;-) @Your game: Quite crazy one, but funny and definitely unconventional ;-)

hburd 2015-04-22 23:23

Wow, that was nuts..........

conflictivelabs 2015-04-22 23:35

Very funny and great game mechanic

f-wiktora 2015-04-22 23:38

Much more fun than I expected!
It gets a bit repetetive after a while, but I still feel a little bit addicted.
The music is a bit odd, but not annoying.
Good work!

smiley 2015-04-22 23:39

yay.. another libGDX game :) nice with the box2d debug mode with the right button ;)

dracomagna 2015-04-22 23:44

That was indeed an unconventional weapon! The idea is really fun and the game is well done.
Good job!

acro 2015-04-23 01:28

Just sat and played this for 20 minutes straight, longer than anything else on the site. And judging by other comments I didn't even scratch the surface compared to some others. Level 10 seemed kinda far off, even, so there's still more I've not seen, like I kept going wondering what the 'tree squirrel' thing was about.

Hopefully you won't take offense when I say the graphics look like crap - but that really hides the fact that this works amazingly well! Alas, I reached a narrow choke point and all 5 of my squirrels got trapped and I was separated and overwhelmed, so a bit buggy with squirrel pathing getting stuck in the blue obstacles (was that.. water?). Right-click shows all your hitboxes/steering behaviour vectors, was that meant to be visible?
But anyway - the music is really good, it sets a nice tempo for play.
The mechanics all complement each other really neatly, and this is a great use of the theme. It's also really impressive the amount of movement behaviour you got working - I'd have thought that would take weeks of work to debug and get fun gameplay out of, but this proves me wrong on that.

terraneola 2015-04-23 22:16

I like this crazy graphics and mood. Live it looks much more interesting than screenshots show.

ld_lan_party 2015-04-23 22:27

Reminds me of the Christmas Critters episode on South Park.

somnium 2015-04-25 06:32

Fun game, strangely addictive :-) And killer squirrels are a unique take on the theme!

zeriver 2015-04-26 14:54

Pretty fun game. I really like the idea and execution. The more squirrels you have the harder it gets but you need more minions to be able to defeat enemy, nice balance.

thescopelessone 2015-04-26 18:17

The infinete generating map is impressive but it is not that obvius what you are supposed to do inj the game.

bossmojoman 2015-04-26 22:28

I liked this game way more than I want to admit. Interesting take on the theme, great job! very fun!

seankimdesign 2015-04-26 22:41

I liked the idea a lot. Some frustrations aside, I think the mechanic was solid. Surprisingly addictive as well. Kudos!

bace1000 2015-04-27 15:10

Lots of content but the graphics really need some work xD

monos 2015-04-27 16:21

Ok, the music was cool, maybe the graphics need a bit more work.

Wasn't really sure what to do and in the end i lost but don't know why, my energy was almost full.

Pretty fun in some sense.

fluffy-tigers-in-the-sky 2015-05-03 13:08

The game started of quite cool, but after following that small corridor for a while it became quite repetetive. In the End I died, because some seemed to have spawned in the water and all my squirrels wanted to only attack him. Other enemies swarmed around them and as I had so many squirrels i couldn't move out of the way.

Some bigger areas would have been nice.

On the other hand, I really liked the artstyle as well as the sounds as well as commanding your mininons by throwing them nuts ^^

digiraze 2015-05-03 14:39

I enjoyed playing this game. It was fun (and hectic) to take care of 10 squirrels! =)

spin-down 2015-05-07 19:31

Nice mechanics and I'm a sucker for anything that involves managing your own mini-army (even if they are demonic squirrels!) Some of the areas were much too enclosed and I wasn't a fan of the bottlenecking but apart from that I had fun with this.

ohsqueezy 2015-05-09 21:36

I was intrigued by berzerk mode. I got it and died, but I built a killer team of squirrels. Move aside, people.
Squirrels coming through.