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Kraken Babies

By johnhattan

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness353
Innovation963.74
Theme2443.80
Overall3303.45
Audio4083.06
Fun4483.16
Graphics4493.55
Humor5332.76
Mood8062.73

Comments

kakarotsan 2015-08-25 02:47

This was very enjoyable! I like the evil "Mary Had a Little Lamb" intro.

monkokio 2015-08-25 03:06

This is a really interesting idea. A chess-inspired game where you an objective to complete while avoiding combat.
but unfortunately it didn't end up being too fun.
It just devolves into alternating between running away and eating ships.
Overall package is very solid and complete. Really happy to see people trying to original ideas. Congrats on finishing a game!

retrogradeorbit 2015-08-25 14:11

Highly polished. Enjoyed exploring the degrees of freedom in the game rules, but soon worked out the hook to winning constantly. Very nice.

tuism 2015-08-25 17:02

It's interesting, works as a boardgame, but ultimately the ruleset seems too easy to handle - the queen seems to always have an advantage. Hmmmm, a really well polished game otherwise!

joh 2015-08-25 18:18

Pretty cool, was it normal there was no music? it had some at first then stopper.
Otherwise clever mechanic and quite fun. not sure if fair though.

zzcalvinzz 2015-08-25 21:08

pretty fun game

wuballiance 2015-08-25 21:12

Fun game, like the style choice. The music and graphics really helped the humor. Not sure if this was an accident or on purpose, but the voice always sounds like "release the kraken" :P (maurice and denice both fit). Could use a bit of rebalancing and more explanation, but very well done overall!

johnhattan 2015-08-25 21:34

Yes, "Denise The Kraken" and "Maurice The Kraken" were intended to sound like "Release The Kraken". That's why I got a real live semi-professional voice actor to do them :)

tweedle 2015-08-26 00:59

i tweeted my score, need to add that in our next jam, nice work! -t

shaw 2015-08-26 02:41

I love this game. It's original, it's cute and it's tons of fun to play. Excellent job.

chrisfagan 2015-08-26 17:06

Very cute art!

axoona 2015-08-26 18:23

it's quite entertaining, an interesting idea and nicely executed as well!

nassi 2015-08-26 19:24

Would've loved to play this against a friend. The AI (especially for Maurice) just didn't think far enough in advance to make it challenging. Looks good and plays pretty smoothly although it was somewhat annoying that mouse dragging stopped if your cursor left the window.

Solid entry, but the gameplay got a bit boring as is.

mrcdk 2015-08-27 01:07

Nice idea, the game was fun and the graphics were cute :D

voider 2015-08-27 20:12

Good job. The rules are simple yet resulting in a satisfying experience. I would love an option to play against a friend!

ithildin 2015-08-30 22:49

Very nice puzzle game, I really liked the different movement pattern for each sibling. It would be cool to see it further developed as a full fledge game.

Good work!

divillysausages 2015-09-01 21:58

This is actually a pretty fun game; very strategic - excellent work!

vereos 2015-09-03 12:57

I found it a bit easy, but it's a really nice game :)

ddrkirbyisq 2015-09-12 20:45

Haha, cute!

team_ftlol 2015-09-12 21:53

Nice work! The graphics look great, the game feels complete. The "one-move queen" versus "two-move king" movement feels pretty balanced; Maurice has a bit of an advantage, I think. Showing each character's available movement on mousedown was a really helpful feature. I liked the combined scoring for the player taking a turn as each of the krakens, too.

-mildmojo