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Pen Pals

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness293
Graphics1773.76
Overall3133.44
Humor3493.12
Fun3713.28
Innovation4113.31
Mood4503.05
Theme4703.44

Comments

2015-04-19 20:35

Wow, that was amazing.

forspareparts 2015-04-20 06:07

Very cool! The fighting mechanics seem like they could be a bit more fluid, though. If you were going to keep developing this, I'd love to see different movesets. Might I attack differently with a keyboard than with a pencil, for instance?

akokich 2015-04-20 06:08

The name / stat generator is cool

sirikan 2015-04-20 06:11

Really like the style of graphics you went with.

resty 2015-04-20 06:12

It's interesting. I like your art style so much.
It seems not check for a draw game (* o *)

junber 2015-04-20 06:14

Really fun game. A little bit too easy in my opinion but the art style is awesome.

kabutakogames 2015-04-20 08:30

Fun little game here,
The art really sells it well,
Wish that there was more!

rtmrn 2015-04-20 17:18

Great game. Awesome graphics and fun fighting system. I even found a perfect fighter :o.

conno1234 2015-04-20 19:09

Pretty cool! Nice work

clavus 2015-04-20 19:15

Very nice art style. The fighting gameplay needs a lot more work before it's really interesting, but great work nonetheless.

jungle 2015-04-20 19:23

I really enjoyed the graphics! The idea of the drawnings of our youth being used as fighters was really nice.

I don't tknow if it was a problem with only my screen, but it didn't fit, that was a little bad. But congrats anyway!

mano 2015-04-20 19:57

Really kool how it things change based on the name you put in. Also good on you making a fighting game! Would have like unique attack for each weapon, but I understand you had only so much time, but good job!

officialcodenmore 2015-04-20 19:58

I love the art style of this, but the mechanics were a bit strange, well done though!

hamsternator 2015-04-20 19:58

I did not expect to see a fighting game from a LD Compo. Really impressive work =)

piratequentin 2015-04-20 19:59

I love graphics, but AI is a bit stupid ^^

10fingerarmy 2015-04-20 19:59

that was really refreshing! loved the idea of going for paper art. that makes it unique and memorable. I am not so sure about the game itself but the whole package is very cool!

plams 2015-04-20 20:00

I love the pencil graphics :)

obscenelytrue 2015-04-20 20:01

Fun and the stat generator is interesting.

saymon 2015-04-20 20:01

Really nice !

michael-meadows 2015-04-20 20:02

Great game - really fun to play - like the generator concept and the drawn stick man concept - brilliant.

rectangular-tim 2015-04-20 20:04

First of all: Bonus points for using C++. ;-P
The art style is nice. The weapons are unconventional. I'm no expert on fighting games, but it seems like there's some room for improvement there. All in all very well done.

thenoviceengineer 2015-04-20 20:05

Nice art style and I love the idea of generating different fighters based on name.

lorenaipsum 2015-04-20 20:05

Cool! I'm suposed to win fighting with a motherboard!!! :D

ciderpunk 2015-04-20 21:24

Great idea and graphics but the combat was a bit lacking, very ambitious concept for a compo entry!

cgmorton 2015-04-20 22:24

The art is the best thing about this game, it looks amazing. I also think the character generation is a great concept, and well executed.

I'd definitely like to see more progression. Right now it's just repeatedly fighting some random guy.

Of course I'd also like to see more interesting fighting, but that's sort of to be expected for a 48 hour game. However, I think you could have gotten rid of things like jumping and crouching and instead focused on a more interesting mechanic, blocking for instance. I guess you can jump over low attacks(?), but there's no good way to pull it off since there's no warning that an attack will happen.

I suspect a lot of the dev time for this game went into the art - time well spent, to be sure. But the gameplay just isn't that fun yet.

drprettypatty 2015-04-21 04:21

Haha by far the best fighter I made was "yo momma dawg". Great take on the theme, fantastic artwork (I've never really seen a paper and pencil style pulled off as well as this!), and great work overall :)

vytheros 2015-04-21 18:44

It doesn't really focus on the theme too much, the weapons are kinda just there, they're not really the main focus, which I'm not sure is good or bad. The number of stat combinations is ridiculous and I tried like 5 names to get the best character.

Really love the art style and the gameplay is really hard to master.

jerryleelodbrok 2015-05-02 14:54

Cool Art Style

franklins-ghost 2015-05-02 14:57

Liked the art style and thought the way you used the name to generate the player was a clever touch.

jonathang 2015-05-11 22:05

I like your fighter generation and some weapon ideas. It might have been easier if you'd done it multiplayer instead of vs AI - the AI doesn't cope too well, but hitting my friends with a train/keyboard is one of my favourite pastimes. :)