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Grief

By mantis

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness284
Fun2123.49
Graphics6503.02
Overall6843.03
Mood8172.61
Humor8292.20
Theme10331.97

Comments

2015-04-20 14:50

That's nice, but very similar to Super Meat Boy

jerryleelodbrok 2015-04-20 21:34

I hit the door, go to the title screen, then it restarts. Not sure if I should be doing anything else?

mantis 2015-04-20 21:56

It's still work in progress, full version will be up when the deadline hits. I'm creating more and more levels now.

mantis 2015-04-21 02:24

Btw: full version is up

allanolivei 2015-04-21 02:27

Much like super meat boy, and this is perfect.

siryakko 2015-04-21 05:42

Nice Super Meat Boy like. :)

xaychru04 2015-04-21 08:31

The controls are intuitive for anybody who has played SMB, the player is a bit too slippery and I would have preferred something else than a white square, but on the overall it plays nicely and still looks polished. :)

pankamil 2015-04-21 10:27

So you have basically made a Super Meat Boy in less than three days. Impressive.

Character physics is interesting. I had problems with controlling this high acceleration and inertia at the beginning, but it all makes sense now.

Btw, doctor's pixel art and the whole intro are pitch perfect.

apoconypse 2015-04-21 11:33

Quite difficult but great fun and very well done :) Nice job!

joshk 2015-04-21 11:35

Well done, maybe a bit hard but i had fun playing :) I loved the Squares as Characters in the intro!

mouch 2015-04-21 12:17

I didn't get the unconventional weapon theme in the game. Great game, but very slippery ground. (Are you playing a piece of soap? That would explain the color... almost).

louis-denizet 2015-04-21 15:55

realy fun to play ! But gosh it is as hard as super meat boy ! Even harder with the controls acceleration.
Graphics is nice, FX are good. The only thing that could have add something more to the game is some music :)
However you did a great work in only two days ! Very impressive !

yamzho 2015-04-21 15:58

Very nice game, cool pixels, but... I didn't the how related to the theme it was... But still, cool game.

dracomagna 2015-04-21 15:58

The game was fun, but the physic was hard to handle. It's also really similar to Meat Boy.
Good job!

the4thcircle 2015-04-21 16:13

It's fun but ultimately it's super meat boy. No unconventional weapon and to be honest I didn't get a 'denial' feel about the first stages. It was JUST super meat boy. That's the only sense I get from the whole game. Never made it to the next stage of grief (assuming you did them all).

techblogogy 2015-04-21 16:57

Really nice game, absolutely enjoyed it!

foofanoo42 2015-04-21 16:57

Slickly tuned and playable. Good to have lots of levels, worth the playtesting to make sure.

It is amazing how much the Super Meat Boy 'feel' came out. But this is fine, there were games much like this before SMB anyway. To me the innovation of SMB was the 'watch all your deaths' thing at the end of each level.

onetrueaaron 2015-04-21 16:58

I think you know my opinion. Great game!

thescragglyman 2015-04-21 17:22

Handles like a charm, Love this game, Not sure how the world being your weapon works towards the theme to be honest (sounds like loop hole logic to me :P) but i really enjoyed playing it, i will complete it (got up to level 5)

Great entry ^^

zakchaos 2015-04-21 17:22

Did not scale properly in browser for me leaving scroll bars on the edges, but i still had a great time with it, beautiful graphics, great opening sequence!

jacob-peltola 2015-04-21 17:50

Really fun, reminded me of SMB, Level 5 was hard

yuigoto 2015-04-22 06:50

Yes, it feels like SMB, but that's not bad. It's actually nice to see you made the mechanics and nailed it with some nice level designs in three days.

The graphics are simple, but hold its charm, and it's always nice to see a story being told without dialogue, it makes the game universal, no need for translating for people to embrace it.

More than a soundtrack, I'd like to see some ambient sounds in this game, it'd be a nice addition.

Stage 7 is HARD, BTW.

mantis 2015-04-22 09:57

Hey all, thanks for comments, I really appreciate it. I know that my theme interpretation is lacking. When I was wrapping up the game and I was creating the levels, I realised that creating challenging levels (which in my opinion make or break this kind of platformer) meant I had to play through all of them to make sure that they're actually possible to beat. That cut into my making-more-levels time, which meant I had to make even more challenging levels to make up for that.

I wanted to put more ways to kill your enemies with the world and more kinds of enemies to kill, (for example slow enemies that don't jump off cliffs but you can crush under pistons), but I just didn't have enough time to implement it.

I'll do a more coherent writeup in Post Mortem, as soon as I finish working today.

rzfmzn 2015-04-22 12:03

hard to control :D
fun to play :D

flwns 2015-04-22 12:19

I liked the clean graphics, the interpretable intro sequence, resemblance to meat boy, but the controls were very frustrating.

chrismcmath 2015-04-22 16:38

Nice homage to Super Meat Boy. Good polish with a nice game feel. Wish the levels were less punishing (I didn't finish) but know that a lot of players relish in this hard fun.

rmc 2015-04-22 20:02

Its just like super meat boy! Not that is a bad thing, but, I don't really see how it fits to the Theme Unconventional weapon!

But the game is well done, the character is a bit too slippery, witch make things even harder!

Even though i don't really see how it applies to the theme, very well done!

cbear_wallis 2015-04-22 23:17

It's pretty tight ^_^ I liked it a bunch! <3

chronusz 2015-04-22 23:26

Interesting storytelling! The gameplay reminded me of SMB so much that I found myself pressing shift to try to move faster :-)

xbcw 2015-04-22 23:27

Controls are appropriate and tight. Good challenge.

split82 2015-04-22 23:33

Hard but fun. Great job.

sputnik 2015-04-23 00:16

Really meatboyesque! Superb tweening!

hbocao 2015-04-23 00:59

Very SMB-esque indeed. Which is good and impressive, but bad for me because I suck at it hehe. Awesome job!

thegamefather 2015-04-23 01:20

Super square boy, nice! Good execution for a jam entry! Control feels very fluid.

ianburnette 2015-04-23 01:51

Nice recreation of Meat Boy playability. Did NOT like the fridging at the beginning - I almost stopped playing before I got to the gameplay. But the gameplay was fun! So, I guess I'd suggest a different story if you continue developing it. :P

asobitech 2015-04-23 12:47

Really like the intro you put in explaining the back story.
As most people have said, this is ver much Super Meat Boy, which isn't a bad thing.
I really like the squashing and shape changing of the squares to give them character.
Movement feels too heavy at times, it's hard to change direction and sometimes you don't feel in control.

sledknight 2015-04-24 05:16

Difficult, but very nice entry!

runvs 2015-04-24 16:14

This is hard! At first the controls felt very indirect and wobbly, but i got kind of used to it.
Super fun as well as great intro and story! Esp. for 48 hours.

nppro93 2015-04-24 17:30

I wish the player felt less slippery; I had a hard time controlling him. But really nice and polished design.

nguyenmv2 2015-04-28 14:34

Excellent game! If you were able to make a super meat boy copy in 3 days, that's quite a feat. Didn't find the unconventional weapon to actually be a weapon though.