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Little monster's way back to home

By buddakaeks

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness284
Mood2283.35
Innovation2293.39
Overall3833.21
Audio3952.89
Graphics4753.07
Humor4932.65
Fun5532.90
Theme6143.15

Comments

gaga 2015-08-24 09:18

Liked it, got really hard tho :)

mat1er 2015-08-24 09:23

Game is pretty interesting, only problems I found was some laborious collision (often when hitting the ground) and the end is maybe a little abrupt.
Good game still, interesting and well made

Lucariatias 2015-08-24 09:26

This is a stunning entry - the level design down to the narration is fantastic. Highly enjoyable to play. Some of the areas were incredibly tricky to get your head around. For improvement, the biggest thing that this is missing is audio - adding music and sound effects would add so much to what's already something so atmospheric and beautiful.

buddakaeks 2015-08-24 09:28

@alyphen: Actually there shoudl be audio...
i knew midi files would make problems

fenreliania 2015-08-24 09:28

Unfortunately doesn't seem to run - plays music, but only shows a black screen.

ciderpunk 2015-08-24 09:30

Controls don't feel too responsive when jumping, could use some indicator on the monster to show what mode he's in, maybe change colour?

mcfood 2015-08-24 09:31

I liked the music, fit the dungeon feel well.
The gravity mechanic is cool, but quite hard to use.
An extra check point might have been nice after the first big climb =)

The contrast made it hard to distinguish walkable space from walls. Intentional I guess?
It was also odd, that I had to jump back and forth over hazards to read the written text. It's a bit jarring.

Fun stuff though! Nice art!

nizl 2015-08-24 09:38

Played to the part where you have the electricity and the gravity object. Pretty hard part and didn't know what to do after and died. :(

The background graphics are really cool and i like the kind of sphere view (don't know how to call it). Also the texts on the background was not only helpful but cool.
Sadly the Game wasn't a lot of fun for me but liked the idea.
Keep it up!

lythom 2015-08-24 09:50

Hi !
What I liked :
- a good plateformer with some intersting puzzles
- the atmoshphere
- the length and difficulty are well balanced for the jam format
What imo could be improved :
- jump is a bit glitchy, you have to wait the mosnte rto collide properly with the floor to pe able to jump again. It makes the climbing parts very frustrating.
- the story line. If there is none it's not interesting to pretend there is one (better let the player discover the universe). "Philosophal" lines are ok thought because they just suggest a different point of view on the situation.
Good overall, thanks for the game !

bodsey 2015-08-24 10:09

Can't play on Mac :(

insality 2015-08-24 10:16

Nice game, interestings platforming puzzles and level design, good job!
There is some glithes: when started, i have a big screen, which is much bigger of my screen ;[

miro662 2015-08-24 10:17

A bit too hard

g_o 2015-08-24 10:23

Nice game, the text perspective effect is just awesome!!
Graphics overall are pretty good. The mechanics were a little wierd since the radius of the action was kinda unknown it once changed and in another time it didn't even though the cube was in the same distance, just opposite gravity. Is it a deliberate anti-symmetry or something?
I think the connection to the theme could've be better but it's a nice game.

nikincz 2015-08-24 10:53

Graphics were outstanding (5*). Other than that, I found it waaaay too difficult. Didn't made it past what seemed to be uncrossable hole.

sogomn 2015-08-24 10:57

Really cool! How did you do this screen curve so it looks like you were looking at one of those old monitors?

testsubject06 2015-08-24 11:18

I think if you took the concept of this game, and pushed it beyond this weekend, you can get a lot out of it!

off 2015-08-24 11:21

Really nice game, the main feature is interesting and well used. It's hard to play with keyboard, because your game required a good timing. But it work well, not sure about the theme and the monster side, but a really interesting basis for a good plateformer.
There is maybe too much inertia for this kind of mechanics.

justashadow 2015-08-24 11:21

This game is...interesting. Jumping feels a bit weird and the platforms don't go up if you're standing on them. Also, the gameplay had nothing to to with the theme, which is a waste, because I think this was a really good theme that allowed for a wild variety of games, and you develop...a puzzle platformer?

darkcart 2015-08-24 12:10

Got pretty hard, but well made.

aden-manson 2015-08-24 12:27

Yea I couldn't play either, the music was great but the black screen not so much. If it would have worked though it would have been great!

thomastc 2015-08-24 12:32

Any chance you could make a Linux build? I can hear the music, but get no window. Since it looks like Java and lwjgl, it shouldn't be too hard.

ajopart 2015-08-24 12:40

Sooo hard and tricky. But very well made. The concept of gravity is interesting. I struggle a lot with the jumps. Don't know why but controls seem to not respond when you jump while running.

dhargan 2015-08-24 12:45

not my type of game but still god. good job :)

tfrodrigues 2015-08-24 12:48

Very interesting. But I think the levels are too dark. If they were a little brighter, it would be perfect.

juin 2015-08-24 12:49

I feel like the jumping could've been a bit less floaty and the text is really hard to read because everything is dark. And sometimes the text is in 2 lines but you can only read half of it because its dark so you have to go back to start the next line..

webfreak001 2015-08-24 12:51

I really love the graphics and the mood! The text everywhere was an awesome way to tell the player something. The controls were kinda sloppy though at some parts. I really liked the difficulty.

komradus 2015-08-24 13:04

I enjoyed that, the mood was definitely set. And the difficulty was a bit much, but it seems like something that can really be engaged in.

acerio 2015-08-24 13:27

Atmosphere was great. Graphics are great and I loved the lighting system. Level design was great. Some beautiful music to go along would make it that much better though. I had a friend do my music for me and it came out well, maybe I could hook you up?

flygamer101 2015-08-24 13:40

Pretty cool graphics and lighting. Enjoyable :D

scorched 2015-08-24 20:06

I also only hear music and see the black screen.
Maybe because I have Radeon, not Nvidia...
Or because I'm in front of computer, and not "behind" it :-P

cgmorton 2015-08-24 21:49

For real? You make a game in Java but it only works in Windows? XD

grhyll 2015-08-26 11:15

How do you run this?

paquinn 2015-08-31 22:12

Really liked the Graphics and the audio added a lot to the mood.

poptartftw 2015-09-14 21:27

Nice game!