Samarkhanda, the Dancing Sword

Category	Rank	Score
Audio	324	3.19
Humor	350	3.20
Innovation	451	3.19
Fun	528	3.04
Mood	549	3.00
Theme	636	3.19
Overall	675	3.04
Graphics	925	2.15
Coolness	1383	47

nassi 2015-04-21 15:18

Came because of the name, stayed for the setting :P.

Interesting idea and the music was cool too. The rounds were somewhat too long and it didn't feel like there was much point to it at the moment. Maybe it would've been better if it had progressively harder levels, for instance on level 1 you would need to get some amount of points without killing over a certain amount of other dancers and the limits would get stricter which each passing level. Maybe the other dancers could also move more slowly at first and there could be less of them.

huo-cuo 2015-04-21 16:49

I liked the song, is it available for download? Playing it was fun and quite some challenging, I just missed more songs.

whoaconstrictor 2015-04-21 19:39

I really love the core gameplay here. Would be nice if it was broken into a series of shorter levels with increasing difficulty, since playing for two minutes straight was a little exhausting since there was so much to keep track of. Including little challenges of "acquire X score without killing Y people" would also be really cool. A final neat touch could be increasing the speed at which you spin the longer you spin in one direction, resulting in more style points (but being significantly harder to control + more dangerous to other dancers)

Cool game!

elpaulo 2015-04-21 20:12

Wow.
Wow.
Wow !
My favorite so far. Quite easy but... i don't know, the mix of the great music, switching color tiles and the sword movements... that was crazy fun.
Also, maybe i'm a little psycho, but i like to think the sword is actually a chainsaw :-)

2015-04-22 10:19

i like it so much! you dare yourseflt in order to obtain more and more points and at first being respectful with the other dancers.. but then you become a real killer muahahaha
the music is awesome and makes you stay alert. congrats :D

f-wiktora 2015-04-22 23:48

It is as simple as it is great :D not visually, but in terms of fun!

newt_ 2015-04-22 23:49

Unique gameplay, catchy soundtrack! The only thing I can think to improve would be the graphics. Great work!

jprogman 2015-04-23 00:09

I really like how you can rotate the sword around so the enemies can be killed by the blade. You should stick with that idea on your future projects with different level designs, enemies, and so forth.

kasmilus 2015-04-24 21:06

OMFG, THAT'S PERFECT :D Love that game, description is even better ^^ Just that colors make it hard to look at it but fun is incredible!

tughan 2015-04-26 10:21

Loved it. Also very cool background plot hah :D

jajo 2015-04-26 11:42

100 seconds of dancing and stabbing = fun. Graphics weren't that brilliant, could have made some sort of sword. Loved the audio.

rburema 2015-05-03 12:26

thoughts:
- I'd anticipated more games that flipped the theme on it's head like this (not just 'do something unexpected' with the theme... that would be about half of them, luckily), but out of all ratings I gave so far, you've been only about the second one to make the 'weapon' property into something antagonistic to the player :-)
- Had some sad music (of my own) playing in the background, and originally thought it was part of the game... was just a bit disappointed when I figured out that only the club-beat was supposed to be in. It created this great dissonant, melancholy/tense mood that fit well with the way you've interpreted the theme.