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The Goo Sword

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness356
Innovation3703.31
Theme4093.50
Fun4383.17
Overall4743.27
Graphics5313.27
Humor5692.74
Mood7412.73

Comments

steboots 2015-04-22 00:45

I was getting points, but was I killing the rocks or were they going underground. I ran out of goo and didn't get any more, would've liked to have kept going to see how hard it got and how well I could've done. Good foundation.

uvwar 2015-04-22 00:45

I was pretty confused when I ran out of goo but then I saw another geyser, still pretty hard though! I got to 109 or so. Really cool game!

dagamesta 2015-04-22 00:59

Simple but effective

pitzik4 2015-04-22 01:19

I hit an unlucky streak after a while and didn't get any geysers for what might have been a full minute. 371 points.

The simplicity is very nice, though I would have liked to see some variation in gameplay. It gets repetitive after a while. Still, there's an elegance to this game that some people, such as myself, just can't seem to muster. No levels. Minimal text. Only one type of enemy, randomly spawned until the player dies. In the end, a game doesn't need to be more complicated than that.

boywithstick 2015-04-22 03:03

When I downloaded the windows version, I only got a fast moving character and nothing else. Not sure what was going on there, but I switch to the WebGL version and everything was great.

I like the idea of only temporarily stalling your enemies and how that works with avoidance and scoring points. Once you run out of *goo*, it was challenging avoiding all the enemies to get to a geyser. I got 255 points. It was fun to play! Nice job!

mghareeb32 2015-04-22 07:49

Awesome concept! Goo geyser castles (which are made of goo) are the best! :D

endingchaos 2015-04-22 16:09

A very GOO entry!! 5 Stars!

projectx593 2015-04-22 19:46

The hit detection on the sword felt a little wonky, but pretty good aside from that.

teslacoil 2015-04-23 01:03

I felt this game was a little disappointing. I didn't find it particularly satisfying to attack enemies only to have them freeze in place or disappear at random. I would have thought with a sword, I'd be able to actually kill them. Especially since it seemed like the enemies still hurt you while they were frozen! The Goo Sword is a fantastic idea, and I'd like to see this sort of thing as a Zelda-esque adventure game where you harness the powers of goo to defeat evil. As a survival game, I just wasn't feeling it, sorry to say.

lucidsheep 2015-04-23 01:04

nice animations!

archonthewizard 2015-04-24 23:59

Fun little game. I think it might be a little more fun if the player started with less health - taking damage didn't seem like a big deal, so I wasn't as careful as I could have been.

solarexplorer 2015-04-25 01:12

Good start, it didnt seem i could kill rocks, just slow them, which might be what you intended.

construct1 2015-04-27 10:47

Had a bug with the graphics setting controlling the actual speed of the little sad sack but was fun, props to the creativity overall.