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Interloper

By hoqjed

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness365
Mood354.18
Audio553.97
Graphics664.42
Overall1193.79
Theme4353.57
Fun4393.17
Innovation5882.93

Comments

madcapacity 2015-08-25 02:06

A great creepy ambiance, it felt kind of like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Bravo!

tehphen 2015-08-25 02:31

Holy crap! That ending track errire as hell! Nice job! The art is out of this world

antonybaasan 2015-08-25 02:40

Awesome art.

vividhelix 2015-08-25 02:43

sweet, the mood is amazing. reminds me of spore and osmos mechanically. ending is pretty sweet and tense too! well done!

mike-cullingham 2015-08-25 05:24

Nice and creepy. Cool stuff.

broknecho 2015-08-25 05:46

Art and sound create a really unique experience. Neat concept. Executed well!

tango172 2015-08-25 10:16

Great idea - graphics are amazing, all executed well.

shaw 2015-08-25 10:18

Wonderfully eerie atmosphere and superb graphics. Excellent job.

lucentbeam 2015-08-25 13:12

Really cool art and ambient sounds/music! I wish the "battles" went faster, and perhaps as a function of the difference between your and their nuclei.

komradus 2015-08-25 13:23

Love the mood and the graphics, it's a really pretty game. Though it's hard to understand my objective.

pereubu 2015-08-25 15:16

Awesome work on the art, and great concept :D !

tuism 2015-08-25 19:49

Looks and sounds great. But doesn't feel particularly interesting because it seems pretty inevitable that you'll eat everything with or without too much thinking.

Did you know there's already a game called Interloper? It featured in the previous IGF awards.

If the ending was just the title... Yeah there's really not much to do/not do.

It's really gorgeous :)

hoqjed 2015-08-25 20:53

@Tuism yeah I actually found out sometime after publishing that there was already a game called Interloper, I was surprised I hadn't heard of it.

I agree that the game ends up being pretty straightforward and doesn't put up much of a challenge. Farhan, our programmer did an awesome job though considering how late we came up with the mechanics for the gameplay. He probably only had 30 something hours (including sleep) to implement pretty much the whole thing. So while it's not the most dynamic thing ever, we're still really proud of the work that went into it.

- Dylan

aberdeenphoenix 2015-08-26 05:21

Man, this is beautiful and really well thought out. A brilliant short-form gaming experience.

nonobattle 2015-08-26 09:29

Very much like agar.io. Nice visuals and quite fun.

conormn 2015-08-26 18:18

Absolutely gorgeous! Loved the gameplay and late title screen, very good call :)

techblogogy 2015-08-26 18:20

Beautiful, but very short. Art is great and music is quite moody. Great job guys!

tlansdale 2015-08-26 18:37

Good idea, and good execution too. Felt like you could win "by chance" quite easily by simply being in the right place at the right time, but it was a cool vibe, watching other cells fight and stealing from them :) Happened to me too, so I guess what goes around comes around!

minionstudios 2015-08-26 19:01

Very cool look and sounds! Would have liked there to be more to, maybe some stages of progression?

plusultra 2015-08-26 19:35

Fantastic art.

sergi-montaner 2015-08-26 19:54

It looks like your dropbox account is not working right now. :s

ptolo 2015-08-26 19:55

This looks really intriguing but none of the links are working for me :/ (dropbox returns error 500)

oxyoxspring 2015-08-26 20:02

The artwork in this game is absolutely phenomenal! You've captured a fantastic eerie atmosphere here! Love it!

hthomson 2015-08-26 20:15

The art was really pretty and the background audio set the mood very well. The gameplay was fun but a little easy.

Btw this game struck me as being a more graphically advanced agar.io, if you haven't played it you should check it out it's pretty fun.

Great entry though, I enjoyed it :)

adaymc 2015-08-26 20:17

I liked it, nice full experience game. I lost at beggining but then I became the full bacteria monster.

Nice work!

big-cow 2015-08-26 20:33

Reminiscent of Osmos which for me is a good thing! The border graphics are brilliant make you feel like you are inside someones body plus the music is like a heart beat. Nice atmosphere. When I became the leader and the title appeared I thought ahh thats the intro! Would love to see more.

sararycow 2015-08-26 22:15

Beautiful and intriguing game. Gameplay is simple and a lot of mechanics can be developed around it. As someone already said looks like the intro of a bigger game. May be a little of challenge could have be added ("bad" micro-organisms?).

Anyway, great entry.

sararycow 2015-08-26 22:24

Oh, btw, first I tried to download the desktop version for OS/X but it doesn't work once uncompressed, so I played the web version.

ptolo 2015-08-27 16:11

Links to the game works and its very impressive :D
You nailed the art aesthetic of microscopic organisms and I felt the sound design and visual effects were very suitable. There is something ominous in a single cell growing larger and larger by engulfing smaller ones, nice ending too.
I had some ideas to do a game set in microscopic world before the Ludum Dare but did something more standard. You managed to produce the kind of thing I'd have liked to do myself :)

mathmadlen 2015-08-28 03:10

Stunning game! While it's on a slow side, I really enjoyed it - it's absolutely beautiful.

azureknight808 2015-08-30 18:11

Great art. Seems like we had kinda similar ideas.

jupiter_hadley 2015-09-08 19:16

Neat game, love the graphics! I included it in part 21 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/sSjPmVXpfX4