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Oddest Jobs

By hunttis

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness358
Fun1163.72
Theme1523.88
Overall2513.52
Humor3103.19
Graphics3293.43
Mood3673.15
Innovation4403.26
Audio6612.43

Comments

klbrazil 2015-04-20 06:33

reminds me of the old gaming days XD good job!

akokich 2015-04-20 06:36

Saw this one in the feed during the compo. Couldn't wait to play it! Great game.

gafblizzard 2015-04-20 06:37

For some reason, the super-fast hat throw is REALLY satisfying.

jakob37 2015-04-20 06:37

I really enjoyed the mechanics! And the visuals too. Such a gentleman.

cheddly 2015-04-20 06:38

This is a really fun game, especially when you can throw your hat, take out the enemy, pick it up and toss it right at the next.

Although, I think there's a problem with level 5 (the second document one) as the documents just fall through the floor

wood-innis 2015-04-20 06:46

Lost all collision in level 3 and watched what I assume were my documents fall through the bottom of the screen.

Fun though. A practical application for hats :D

jerryleelodbrok 2015-04-20 09:23

Nice hat throw, I was going for the same concept off of mine too.

sublustris 2015-04-20 09:24

Nice art style!

olias 2015-04-20 09:27

Pretty cool feeling when throwing the hat and chain killing.

dyn 2015-04-20 09:58

Lost focus on space press.
Otherwise quite good work!

modoc73 2015-04-20 09:59

Nice hat throwing motion. Neat art style too. Great job.

madjackmcmad 2015-04-20 10:00

Great job with the hat. Controls felt a touch floaty, but otherwise solid. Could have maybe gone with half the screen size and character's twice as big, would have felt a little more engaging. Maybe. Great work, fun game!

mike1101 2015-04-20 10:01

In-game web doesn't work - When I press space it jumps down to the comments section ...

Omg, I love this ! I lost my hat !

Brilliant graphics. I love how snappily the hat fires. Such a funny idea - just by looking at the dude you can see he's debonaire.

Would love to get more on the story - Who are those dude in white ? Why is your badass self running around these buildings ?

Couple issues with collisions against walls. Not a fan of the jump physics / acceleration ... Hate it when you sort of float down in side-scrollers ...

I LOVE the fact that you have to collect your hat !

nuclearchocolate 2015-04-20 10:03

My only complaints are that the sounds are annoying, and the player falls down in the air WAAAY too slow. Other than that, the game was great, the concept was good, and fit the theme well, and the game was fun to play!

dragonxvi 2015-04-20 10:03

Nice little platformer. Love the hat mechanic :D Controls a little floaty, and you seem to be able to wall jump too. Concept's nifty and visuals pretty cool too!

prowler 2015-04-20 10:08

Nicely done! Reminds me of james bond: Oddjob :D
Background music would be cool!

Good job!

Pat

kalinka 2015-04-20 10:18

Really nice !
Love the feeling when hat hits !! Great Job !

thegamefather 2015-04-20 10:36

This guy must know kongfu, haha. Nice concept and the art is good. But the frame rate drops in from time to time. Is it bullet time?

kabutakogames 2015-04-20 10:37

I really liked the hat mechanic! Great game feel - though I fell through the world on the second document level

lyxilion 2015-04-20 13:42

It's hard but nice gam !

aevek 2015-04-21 02:10

Really liked the mechanic of the hat throw, really cool interpretation of the theme. I would have liked to see more use of it for puzzles and stuff, like throw that hat ahead to open the door then go retrieve it kinda thing. But an awesome job for the time you had.

codecranker 2015-04-21 02:44

Nice little game! In the first level the hat went through the stairs, looks like a bug.

Not sure why but I got the Gunpoint vibe, in case you are familiar with that game.

aik 2015-04-21 05:06

Cool game, but it either has some performance issues or the movement is just really dodgy? Much too floaty, and the last(?) level bugged out completely and all the documents fell through the floor.
Having to collect your hat is a great mechanic though.

goglmogl 2015-04-21 09:15

I was stacked on level 2, and i didn`t saw enemies, and collision was broken.

tommyno222 2015-04-21 10:48

Perfect! I'm big fan of old DOS games and this really looks, sounds, plays and feels like a retro game! Simple mechanics and so much fan. Good job!

triplevisiongames 2015-04-21 15:28

Really satisfying! Love the hat mechanic and having to go pick it up. Makes you feel super cool jumping over a bullet and then killing them just as you land.

diegomachado 2015-04-21 17:05

I really like those tiny graphics. Physics on the hat is great! :)

Some already mention it, but collisions in the second level with the documents are weird, you should fix that.

I took me some time to get the James Bond reference on the title...hahahahhaha

nonentheless 2015-04-21 19:26

This is pretty damn fun. After a while I was a little bit tired with jumping/moving physics, but the physics of the hat and the gameplay in general is really great. Also graphics are nice. Great job! :)

hunttis 2015-04-21 20:02

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone! I could've never imagined that my graphics would be enjoyable :D

It really seems that there's something strange happening when levels load. For the life of me I can't figure it out, but it has to do something with the physics objects not being properly cleared or loaded when the level changes. After it starts bugging, there are physics objects that you can hit your head into, but I can't get the physics bodies to be drawn so I could figure out what they are. The most frustrating thing is, it's really random, if you try again, it'll probably work!

It's my first game with "proper" physics, so even if I was expecting trouble, not really game-breaking trouble. Meh :/

Thanks for playing anyway!

gafblizzard 2015-04-21 20:34

I wanted to comment again because I forgot to mention, the hat spinning around after it hits something is also really satisfying, lol. :P

boxedmeatrevolution 2015-04-24 03:18

That is one powerful hat! Nicely themes graphics and I really like the swiftness of throwing the hat. Some improvements would be more polished controls and maybe something added to the gameplay mechanic to make it more immersive.

seconddimension 2015-04-24 18:36

Really enjoyable gameplay and overall game. Movement feels a little floaty though.

aaronjbaptiste 2015-04-25 17:43

Dat hat trough, it feels so freaking awesome. I actually felt like odd job.

Controls (left and right) were a bit too slippery, but I don't care. Great job.

mase 2015-04-26 04:02

The environments are pleasant; nice details & color palette. I'm amused by the stacked trees.

barkergames 2015-04-28 02:56

Throwing that hat is just so satisfying!
I love it!
When I got to the level where you "Find Documents" they just fell off the screen, and then none of the graphics matched the physics, sadly I couldn't proceed :(
I love the hat throwing mechanic though!

kitch 2015-05-05 01:06

Ran into loss of collision bug on the second document level.. and would have liked a tad more gravity... but other than that, really good take on the theme and really liked the art style. Good job. Thanks!