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Super Chop

By savethejets1

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun913.78
Audio1193.71
Innovation1623.53
Humor1643.55
Overall1743.67
Graphics2034.05
Mood2903.43
Theme5973.37
Coolness141545

Comments

vividhelix 2015-08-25 02:51

I really like the chopping mechanic, especially the delay which kept you on your toes as the line moved faster. The trees are awesome!

tehphen 2015-08-25 03:09

A infinite chopper has never been so fun. Feels good to land on green, but I wish you can make it feel even better! Its a bit disappointing to miss a chop, so punishing!

madcapacity 2015-08-25 03:13

Reminds me of Hot Shots golf series, but at least I don't get frustrated when I don't get a perfect shot :P

antonybaasan 2015-08-25 05:01

Awesome art work. Smooth animations. Good job

mike-cullingham 2015-08-25 05:48

Took me a few trees to realize the chop happens when the spacebar comes up rather than when you press it down. Cool mechanic and I really like the happy faces on the trees. Such a monster chopping them down.

broknecho 2015-08-26 03:19

Excellent entry! Was fun and rewarding to get the timing down. Was hard at the beginning as the key up timing felt delayed but you learned to compensate for that.

Would probably need a few more timing mechanics to stop the line one from getting repetitive but wicked for the weekend of work.

Great job!

tuism 2015-08-26 07:57

Has a really nice feel to it, the chopping mechanic is core and works great, but:

- There's a delay between keypress and the cursor stopping, that's super irritating, it makes the misses all the more frustrating.
- The rhythm change seems arbitrary, which doesn't feel good when it happens all the time - there should be a rhythm to it.
- there didn't seem to be much point walking through the forest... Yeah I get that the big trees are harder, but you could also just easily swipe through trees. Platform walking was superfluous.
- If the shop isn't working, remove the button :) And only having to use the mouse for one thing is irritating, it should be changed to keyboard controls entirely.

Looking great, keep pushing it :)

dan-marchand 2015-08-26 15:10

Love the art style on this!

andrewjamesadams 2015-08-26 15:26

Fun and unique.

adsilcott 2015-08-26 15:28

Loved the gameplay. The chopping mechanic was very innovative. Liked the graphics as well.

cxsquared 2015-08-26 15:35

This is the ultimate chopping game. I loved everything about it. With a few additions (aka a pancake eating minigame) this could be the ultimate lumberjack simulator. Great work.

rustybroomhandle 2015-08-26 15:39

Enjoyed this. The chopping bar is maybe a bit big and distracting from the great animations though.

baykush_figtree 2015-08-26 15:51

Fun little game! I feel so bad for the trees :(

thomcc 2015-08-26 16:07

pretty fun. sounds like you fixed everything i was going to suggest with your post compo version.

i think this game might work well on mobile.

azure_kyte 2015-08-26 16:12

This is really fun. I really like the chopping mechanic, it reminds me very much of Mario Golf's swing strength mechanic.

warlorddreadful 2015-08-26 16:47

I love the timing-based system for chopping down trees. The bar moving faster with the more times you successfully chop was a nice touch and added a little difficulty. Very fun gameplay. The visuals were great too, and I feel like the audio suited the cartoon-y look. Great game.

sararycow 2015-08-26 16:52

I liked the pixel art graphics as well as the chopping mechanic. At the beginning I had trouble chopping the big trees and the red ones until I realized it is the keyUp event who triggers the chop. That's a weird design decision in my opinion but is fun to play once you know it.
The Shop button doesn't work for me, may be I don't played it enough?

el-pepi 2015-08-26 16:59

Simple yet very fun gameplay. Loved the graphics and the faces of the trees.

qkerguelen 2015-08-26 17:05

It was really expecting something less challeging and more repetitive but in fact it was really fun to play! Well done! It's good surprise :D

serch 2015-08-26 17:10

I love the mechanic of chop

gmaker 2015-08-26 17:11

Mechanic is awesome! pixel art too. but when you see all the time on pow-panel, can't look at awesome graphics!

pirate_shell 2015-08-26 17:14

First of all, I love the take on the theme. It is so unusual, yet works very well. The graphics and sound were good and it does exactly what a good LD entry is supposed to: make one simple mechanic and run with it. It's a very well made entry!

johnhattan 2015-08-26 17:28

Yeah, like the others it took me a bit to realize you chop when you release the spacebar. Once I had that down, I did much better. Really like the graphics and the sound and the animation.

I'll have to try the post-compo version, as I wanna go shopping :)

leafthief 2015-08-26 18:47

Worked really well, I wanted to keep going. Also I don't know if you built it that way but I had the feeling that red and big trees differed from the other trees. They weren't just harder they really became my rivals. At first I wanted to chop them really bad but later on I realized that I started to avoid them.

Thanks for this :)

drzanuff 2015-08-26 19:11

Man, i played the compo and the post-compo version. It's a pity you had not time to put the upgrades in the compo version, it's so addictive!

plusultra 2015-08-26 19:19

This is brilliant.

guoboism 2015-08-27 01:43

Really interesting way to cut a tree! The walk animation is so cute! Picked by GB!

chrismcmath 2015-08-27 03:17

Those poor trees with their blinking, smiling faces :(

I think I would have preferred to have the rhythm integrated more into the main scene; your art was so beautiful I didn't want to be forced to look elsewhere.

jmaggard62 2015-08-27 03:54

The chop mechanic felt great! Really had to time it just right.

daydreamcorgigames 2015-08-27 09:41

It is rather fun. I can play this for hours just to buy more upgrades.

colindoody 2015-08-27 14:18

This was really fun and had an interesting mechanic. Very polished all around! I do echo some of the other comments that it would have been good to have the chop happen on the down press of the spacebar!

nikteddy92 2015-08-28 00:22

I hate the red angry Tree... LOGS FOR THE LOGS GOD!
Nice entry, funny gameplay and really cute graphic!
Well done! ;D

boywithstick 2015-08-28 02:05

Makes me want to go out and start chopping down trees! That is until I start coughing and wheezing on the second swing, so I'll just stick to Super Chop. Fun art style and the faces on the trees kill me. Hilarious. I liked how the chopping gauge markers bounced back and forth. Fun game!

chuigum 2015-08-28 04:27

Nice graphics, and the mood is fantastic. Love those happy trees!

kizler 2015-08-28 04:50

Those creepy death smiles... :D

rafaella 2015-08-28 04:52

Amazing entry! Good job! Nice mechanics, take tons of stars!!

matthew-rayfield 2015-08-28 14:56

yeah i liked this!

it was fun to chop!

i can imagine that with the shop opened and more different things to chop and power ups and such that this would be quite a fun game

nice one!

derr 2015-08-28 17:08

Great artwork and music! It was fun chopping down dem trees. :-)

lemer 2015-08-28 17:43

Great artwork and fun gameplay. Well done!

shawn42 2015-08-29 15:01

Really fun. Don't think I blinked for like 10 minutes straight. That chopping mechanic is great and takes a lot of concentration! Great game. Theme seemed a little off..

kikaz 2015-08-30 08:22

First, with the screenshots, I wasn't sure of the interest to cut some trees. But, it's a really smart and addictive game ! Thanks ;)

onionblitz 2015-08-30 09:25

Great art, love the chopping mechanic. :)

patvanmackelberg 2015-09-01 01:00

Really great game - loved the graphics and audio -- couldn't get the shop going myself but I'm sure it's splendid :D

jantuts 2015-09-12 19:26

Very nice!
I liked how even the wood splinters have smiley faces :P

jupiter_hadley 2015-09-13 12:17

Super cool game, love the story and graphics! I included it in part 28 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/UzsNzPlW29s

ellian 2015-09-13 22:55

Great game!
The concept might be simple but it's well executed and looks really nice. Good job!

jupiter_hadley 2015-12-01 04:32

I also included your game in an article of my favorites from this jam and added a trophy to your Ludum Dare profile!! :) http://fireside.gamejolt.com/post/jam-favorites-ludum-dare-33-part-2-jbncejqm