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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness275
Innovation553.90
Graphics1974.06
Fun2433.46
Overall2843.51
Mood3203.39
Humor8662.07
Theme9792.63

Comments

seamonster131 2015-08-25 00:56

Really cool gameplay! I don't know how you did this bubbles. :)

djfariel 2015-08-25 00:58

An interesting take on the theme. I enjoyed how this very simple set of rules becomes a fight for survival with no added complexity. Great job!

captainkraft 2015-08-25 01:28

Really neat concept. 5 outa 5 for innovation. I enjoyed playing around with it.

pusty 2015-08-25 01:32

Nice one! Neat physics you have there! :D

magenta 2015-08-25 01:42

Sleek, simple and very cool. Had a lot of fun just avoiding the other blobs :}

marekkpie 2015-08-25 01:43

WHOOPS (accidentally rated a different game when thinking of this one. Sorry other duder!)

Real Agar.io feel. Kind of unsatisfying since you can't really lose.

graebor 2015-08-25 02:13

Music fits well, cool vibe. I'd be interested in seeing a post on how you achieved this look in Unity, it's really slick!

boskosokolov 2015-08-25 02:19

nice innovation nice game but feels like missing something like score or anything good job :D

kersplotchpolice 2015-08-25 02:24

Really cool physics going on and is good to mess about with for a bit, but didn't really fit the theme.

nibblebitsstudio 2015-08-25 02:37

Wow, this game is really cool! How you did this bubbles in Unity?

robot-souls-games 2015-08-25 02:42

Very cool! I like how you made a game without any tropes like health or score or HUD.
Very simple. It feels natural.

jharler 2015-08-25 02:56

I enjoy games like this. This was very well put together. Good job!

bloodyaugust 2015-08-25 03:01

This was a great demo of some serious shader-writing capabilities! I'm not sure I'd consider it a game so much as a... relaxing interactive wallpaper, but whatever it was, I really enjoyed it. I'd love to get a look at the shader code... Y U NO SOURCE?!

lucho9 2015-08-25 03:19

i love this one, i recomend to my friends

literal_games 2015-08-25 03:21

Nice controls, and really enjoy the different graphics modes

conradte3 2015-08-25 03:34

Cool concept, the graphics were intriguing which made it fun to float around but it was lacking in challenge for me and got old a bit too quick. Not really an issue in concept though I think, just needs some difficulty balancing imo. Nice game :)

grywhttl 2015-08-25 03:46

Smart!

bloodyaugust 2015-08-25 04:56

We loved your game and featured it in our top five favorites here: http://blog.synsugarstudio.com/my-top-5-favorite-games-of-ld33-so-far/

georgebroussard 2015-08-25 06:18

Sexy graphics and satisfying to move around and absorb. Great job. This is a great toy and a solid base to build a game on. I would pursue it for a few days and see where it leads.

mantis 2015-08-25 08:30

Nice graphics. Also, mode 1 is best mode! ;)

simonaiso 2015-08-25 12:02

Great visuals and fun to play. Those liquid mechanics are amazing and using the game border like that is really cool.

themiggo 2015-08-25 12:03

Simplistic but beautiful

jimjam 2015-08-25 12:21

Metaballs are awesome! You could've probably thrown in a timed score or something like that to give it a bit more gameplay goodness, but it's fun to play with in any case.

nicotuason 2015-08-25 12:22

Mezmerizing... That is a really neat effect and I had a lot of fun just moving around!

humanatee_studios 2015-08-25 12:28

This is what my brain feels like after Ludum Dare 33 - awesome job - loved the minimalism all round.

atomicvikings 2015-08-25 12:33

WOOOOOOOOOOOW! :-)

rocketship 2015-08-25 12:33

Very fun, very innovative. Nice to play around with even if there is no real target.

de_von 2015-08-25 12:36

Good game =)

azure_kyte 2015-08-25 12:40

This is really cool. I must agree with graebor, you've done some excellent work here :D

dell 2015-08-25 12:43

Great atmosphere and very stylish!

freaknarf 2015-08-25 12:44

Great experimental game ! I wish there was a score or some win/loss condition... Anyway this is really good looking and original ! Visual effects are amazing, and gameplay is very simple and pleasant !

rongon 2015-08-25 12:44

Great liquid simulation, nice to have different graphics modes.
If only there was score, to somehow make the counting easier. Or timer. Or something to give me a clearer goal.

grhyll 2015-08-25 12:46

Sweet!
I would have loved some goals or levels, but just as it is it already took some minutes of my life floating around and getting BIG!

wizzardmaker 2015-08-25 13:02

Really good looking game, so minimalistic this game, reminds me on agar.io, nice Idea

legulysse 2015-08-25 13:04

Really cool visual developpement

meat-us 2015-08-25 13:48

Wow, very impressive, I love it !

darius 2015-08-25 13:51

I can't stop playing ! I love the 3 graphics modes. This game is really cool !

clurect 2015-08-25 13:54

NIce, the fluidness is really entertaining. I had to force myself to stop because I wanted to take over the whole screen! :D

hiddendepthgames 2015-08-25 13:56

Love it! I am SO intrigued as to how you achieved this. Well done mate

nidzakornjaca 2015-08-25 14:03

Thoroughly enjoyable. I gotta find out how you did the bubble thing.

kai20 2015-08-25 15:41

Really relaxing i enjoyed it really much. BUBBLES are cool

amy742 2015-08-25 16:14

very cool! I had a lot of fun with this one! very unique!

dkoding 2015-08-25 16:26

Coolness through the roof!

recursor 2015-08-25 17:26

Not sure that it fits the theme very well but man it is a really cool little sandbox thing that is really fun to play with.

tuism 2015-08-25 17:27

Really rad! I want Agar.io to look like this! :)

There's not much of a game there, I actually hadn't realised that the purple blobs made you smaller, eventually you just get to a size that makes dodging impossible, then... what's the point after that? :)

Definitely find more game with this thing, it looks and moves amazingly :)

a_k_ 2015-08-25 17:44

Nice shader work. GJ

wuballiance 2015-08-25 17:52

This is an incredible game. Overall, everything feels very polished. The movement and physics feel very coordinated. The difficulty curve gave me just enough time to understand that some blobs hurt you. Solid entry!

aflatminerstudios 2015-08-25 17:52

Really like the visuals, whatever physics and shaders you used are really effective. You could make a killer biology game out of this...it looks like cell membranes!

wg_phancock 2015-08-25 17:59

Wow, that was actually a lot of fun to play with - you can sort of make up your own objectives, like how much to avoid the purple bubbles or how big to try to grow, etc.

Kind of reminds me of a single player scaled-down version of agar.io

kles4enko 2015-08-25 19:35

everything cool!

mitkus 2015-08-25 19:47

Cool idea. Not much of game though...

conormn 2015-08-25 20:52

Very very cool. I had a lot of fun with this :)

cjacobwade 2015-08-26 01:36

Enjoyed playing with the metaballs, but wish there was any kind of goal or conflict.

plusultra 2015-08-26 01:51

Very chill-- I like it a lot!

solifuge 2015-08-26 02:06

What a cool way to use 2D fluid simulation! The music and minimalist graphics were solid, like a highly chill Spore Cell Stage. It wasn't really challenging per se, but it was fun. I'd love to see an Agar.IO clone with mechanics like these too.

crunchykingcrimson 2015-08-26 02:20

I'm not sure what that was but I enjoyed blobbing around the place, very cool stuff.

rulrite 2015-08-26 02:25

Obviously not challenging, but very satisfying to just sit and play for a little while. It was fun to try and avoid the purple bubbles as much as I could! Great job with the feel of this one.

exoddinary 2015-08-26 03:01

nice bubbles! maybe can develop more in the future, great job sir

dydx 2015-08-26 03:01

Awesome style and the controls felt awesome. Had a lot of fun.

el-pepi 2015-08-26 03:04

The graphics and gameplay are really cool. I just wish there was a win/lose condition.

mrcdk 2015-08-26 03:51

Really fun and nice game, the graphics are simple but the end result is really good!

reckhou 2015-08-26 04:02

My whole life flashed before my eyes while playing this game.

andrew-2 2015-08-26 04:09

This was insanely pretty to look at.

cdunham 2015-08-26 04:35

Great game with great art and style :)

thebrickanator 2015-08-26 05:08

Really cool little toy that looks really nice and might make a good game if expanded upon :)

geckoo1337 2015-08-26 05:17

I am an enzyme :)
Neat aesthetic and cool physics. Minimalist environment adds a funny mood. A really good idea for this entry. Thank you for this contribution ++

vividhelix 2015-08-26 06:47

Great graphics and mood. I'd love to see the source shaders for this one!

kerdelos 2015-08-26 08:26

I like it ! It just took me a bit of time to understand that violet bubles were hurting me.

guoboism 2015-08-26 08:44

High technology there! Really innovative!

awpteamoose 2015-08-26 09:21

2d metaballs?

saintheiser 2015-08-26 11:00

Looking awesome and nothing more =(

shimage 2015-08-26 11:01

Very good feeling and addictive! It reminded me of ramen noodles.

zkenshin 2015-08-26 16:27

Quite an interesting entry. Well done. :)

qkerguelen 2015-08-26 17:18

Very nice one! Controls are good, graphics beautifully minimalistic! Good one! :)

pirate_shell 2015-08-26 18:08

This was the most oddly satisfying game I have played this LD. The graphics were sleek and the audio was good. Not sure if it fit the theme as it was stretching the term monster quite a lot. The gameplay was fun and simple, though so I don't mind. Overall, a really solid entry!

smotko 2015-08-26 18:35

Amazing graphics, I love it! I wasn't able to figure out if there is a win/loose condition, but even without a reason for doing anything in the game it was still a lot of fun. Good job!

alexbrainbox 2015-08-26 22:20

A nice little time-wasting game, and I like the different graphic modes!

granat 2015-08-27 08:21

Very nice visuals! For some reason I was not able to grow as big as I wanted. My tiny blob melted together with the other blobs but never really had any affect on their movement. Maybe just an issue with the web player?

pereubu 2015-08-27 11:55

I spent a lot of time watching the wobbly things

slapunas 2015-08-27 11:58

how come windows version weighs 2.5 times linux or mac? it's a fun concept, obviously lacking gameplay, how did you do the bubbles?

slapunas 2015-08-27 12:00

how come windows version weighs 2.5 times linux or mac? it's a fun concept, obviously lacking gameplay, how did you do the bubbles? reminds me of agar.io

eddy93 2015-08-27 12:11

I just got called by my girlfriend(who talks A LOT) during this game and I found out that this was the ultimate thing to do while listening to her. Thanks for that!

nanolotl 2015-08-27 12:36

Very cool jelly effects. Wibblewobble

off 2015-08-27 13:51

Nice game but lack of a game over to create more tension like osmos, or agar.
I would personnaly also prefer a control with the mouse to let me have à more organic feeling.
It lack only few element to make this more a game(score, game over) and less an interactive experiment.
But still one of the more interesting entry i saw.

digiman572 2015-08-27 13:58

THIS GAME IS AWESOME!!! The graphics are amazing! How the heck did you make them so jiggly!?! It so much fun just ramming into other cells and getting bigger or smaller! This is a superb game and I'm adding it to my list favorite games in this LD. What's this? A downloadable exe? Don't mind if do.

namnam 2015-08-27 15:33

Very nice. The visual effects are amazing

triplevisiongames 2015-08-27 20:08

Amazing visual style, really well pulled off too. Very hypnotic game overall and I could have sat here for hours (if it wasn't for the crying baby behind me).

MattHartley 2015-08-27 20:55

Really fun and great graphics!

qaterknan 2015-08-27 22:50

Great toy with beautiful graphics. It's a shame it doesn't have any objectives but maybe they would do more harm than good in this case :-)

superfreak 2015-08-28 00:07

Really interesting movement - had a great deal of fun experimenting with how I could move around and grow. Overall great entry.

dunin 2015-08-28 15:53

what a strange game...
good mood
but not so relaxing when you try to become the bigger blob...

tonny_elhond 2015-08-28 18:31

just perfect! Really great job!

kchplr 2015-08-28 21:07

This is agar.io done right ;)

inbetweengames 2015-08-29 06:57

That was very innovative and mesmerizing!

voidstar33 2015-08-29 10:56

This is brilliant. The best concept so far.

dat_not_my_game 2015-08-29 13:03

Nice effects!

los-pixelados 2015-08-31 14:17

I really liked this, although I'm not sure how it's related to the theme.

Loredana,
los.pixelados team

crafteverywhere 2015-08-31 15:42

One of my favorite games by so far.

officialcodenmore 2015-08-31 15:48

The graphical effects are amazing, well done and well balanced!

larzan 2015-08-31 16:13

Beautiful, how in the world did you program that, well done!

francismoy 2015-08-31 16:16

Great atmosphere!!!

hunttis 2015-08-31 16:56

Almost reminds of some demoscene stuff with the graphical style you have chosen. Nice selection of music as well.

The controls are quite good when you get the hang of it and the blob looks very blobbular. I like the idea and the game almost realizes it completely, the lack of a loss condition brings it down a bit, but otherwise a very solid entry!

linus123xbb 2015-08-31 18:18

Very innovative game and indeed quite relaxing. I'd love to have this as an interactive wallpaper on my desktop!

Bravekat 2015-08-31 18:24

Really Love the game and even made vid of it on yt with bubble song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKVWG-E85Cw&feature=youtu.be I hope you enjoyed creating it becease i enjoyed playing it :D

_waterman7_ 2015-08-31 18:38

Great visuals, I'd love to see how you did those...

adaymc 2015-08-31 19:17

BRUTAL experience. Real amazed with that final product, did Unity really was able to do that!?!?!

I don't rate you with more stars because there aren't :P

Really good work!

keyboardcat 2015-08-31 19:39

Looks great but... I don't really understand :)

jupiter_hadley 2015-08-31 23:02

Neat game! I included it in part 14 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/CvW_HEqR1oI

zatyka 2015-09-02 01:02

Very pretty and sounds nice, but without much variety, the gameplay quickly runs its course. I didn't really feel the theme in this game. I still enjoyed playing it.

crazyminnowstudio 2015-09-03 02:07

Amazing implementation of the blob dynamics. I played for quite a while and wasn't sure if there was an end or objective. Seems like no matter what I did, the 'bad' blobs remained present. Is there a 'win' situation? Great job.

uheartbeast 2015-09-03 02:16

Nice mood and graphics. The gameplay wasn't really my thing but I think that is just personal preference.

foodzilla 2015-09-03 02:35

:)

gaius-baltar 2015-09-03 02:59

There isn't a score and you can't die so it seems kind of like a tech demo.

jackrugile 2015-09-03 04:16

I love that blob effect. I could see this type of mechanic making a super fun game if you were to expand on it and develop some more. Nice work!

bunn1e5 2015-09-03 05:12

Really cool! Although i can't really see the theme.

ruerob 2015-09-03 07:24

Nice work. I like how the bubble thing works. Graphic mode 3 is my favourite! Looks awesome! A possibility to win or lose or points would be great. I really like your entry!

chrismcmath 2015-09-03 08:45

Absolutely beautiful, would love to see the source.

modoc73 2015-09-03 10:03

Real neat bubble effect. Although, I have no idea how it relates to the theme...?

dregamr 2015-09-03 16:37

I'll love you forever if you say me how you did the bubbles.

taro 2015-09-03 23:15

I feel like the game might be better if it was more like a relaxing simulation, kind of like those moving lamps. In that sense, the music was rather jarring, as was the repetitive sound effects. The super-tight controls was also a bit annoying and unexpected for this game.

goutye 2015-09-04 02:01

Bubbles bubbles <3 Nice take on the theme! Enjoyed it a lot!

super-hamster 2015-09-04 03:04

Very impressive stuff, I'm trying to understand how you did it but I have no idea where even to start. :D Great job!

valid4life 2015-09-04 04:31

The bubbles were fantastic! Id love to know how it was done!

peterthehe 2015-09-04 09:55

Really really cool. Like next-gen agar.io :P

almax27 2015-09-04 12:19

Simply beautiful, beautifully simple :D

puppetmaster 2015-09-04 21:29

Cool and unique gameplay, animation and graphics style is also very good!

shawn42 2015-09-04 22:06

I'm very impressed with what you created here. Lots of fun and innovation, not much on the theme. great entry!

diningphilosopher 2015-09-05 13:12

Interesting mechanic, I had fun playing around with it. :)

nihilaleph 2015-09-05 20:21

Tried the both jam and post-jam version, the following error occurs: Array index is out of range
And for some reason there is no music... Running on windows 10 firefox

Anyways, great concept! I really like the feel of the graphics, really relaxing~

nihilaleph 2015-09-05 20:33

Oh never mind about the music, windows 10 was being weird, restarted the computer and now the music is playing.

oakus 2015-09-06 08:11

I really like the concept and simple visual. In one point my monster grew nicely and from this point it was not necessary to play any more, because the enemies was really small. So I think there should be bigger challenge, because I couldn’t lose :).

bombjack 2015-09-08 10:19

amazing technical job! the game is repetitive but fun. good job.

wooltech 2015-09-09 12:11

Love the look and the feel of the game. Not sure if there's a win condition as I never got really large, but it was fun to play with.

deepnight 2015-09-11 21:31

Very original gameplay :)
The game lacks a feedback that gives a real sense of progression: when you are a large blob, it doesn't feel like you're achieving something. And you usually quickly hit purple blobs that shrink you back. Maybe some kind of exponential scoring that rewards these moments you manage to keep a large form?

lukezaz 2015-09-12 03:29

Fun to look at. Ended up playing quite longer than I intended.

bloomingbuds 2015-09-12 11:50

Nice concept and fluid gameplay!

thatwhichis 2015-09-13 22:32

chill experience :-D

crucknuk 2015-09-14 19:32

Well done on your game! i loved the graphic style and it plays like heaven!
congrats! :)

zccc 2015-09-14 23:25

This is really nice to play around with. I was expecting the source though, this seems hard to do!

yuigoto 2015-09-15 00:27

This is really cool! The blob graphics are really nice!

Even though it doesn't fit much into the theme, it's a nice abstract game. I didn't read much of the description, so it was quite some fun to discover how the game worked and all.

It gave me that "eureka!" moment only games like this can give the player. Good work! ;)

dos 2015-09-15 00:31

Very simple effect, yet pretty impressive!