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Simultaneism

By bogden

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Audio403.93
Fun533.89
Innovation613.97
Overall683.92
Mood1303.58
Theme2673.98
Graphics4983.06

Comments

yumaikas 2015-12-14 06:23

Definitely try this game. #nospoilers

mukult 2015-12-14 06:24

Nice game... don't know how it fits the theme exactly... so with growing screens...you play more games ?

But still!! It was fun to play but gets way too intense by 3rd game! :)

gironc 2015-12-14 06:24

Too easy.... oh wait....

stevenjmiller 2015-12-14 07:24

Great game! I loved how it started with two button controls and then switched to growing, my favorite incorporation of both themes so far.

fede0d 2015-12-14 07:41

Great game! Its very difficult but also addicting. I liked the music also.

tensoplast01 2015-12-14 07:47

SOOOO Nice, I love your concept!

blohod 2015-12-14 08:27

very good, although naming you game so close to the theme is not a great idea/

docjekyll 2015-12-14 08:42

Love it. I had a similar idea during brainstorming, and the way you executed it was so much cleaner than what I was thinking.
Good idea. Great execution.

divineomega 2015-12-14 08:44

Clever one! I really wasn't expecting the escalation to multiple games. :)

doitle 2015-12-14 09:21

Awesome execution on this one. It's literally the themes. Syncing it to the music gives it a really polished feeling and ramps up the hype. You could probably put this on a flash portal and people would enjoy it.

thembi 2015-12-14 09:47

Goes from boring to almost impossible very quickly.

bogden 2015-12-14 09:51

Thanks for the compliment doitle! Thanks to your suggestion I learned that kongregate lets you upload iframes as games! Who knew?

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Bogden/two-buttons

nonentheless 2015-12-14 20:21

Dude, you went over the edge with wsad....
Very solid entry, I like the idea, graphics and sounds.And you just want to play one more time :)

sp3ctrum 2015-12-14 21:01

Really fun ! I like so much how the difficulty is scaling

mattrified 2015-12-15 04:54

I really liked the layered music.

(SPOILERS!)

Very cool concept and fun play on the theme. I will say I sorta wish there was a health system. It was annoying to die at phase 3 before I understood it and then had to replay through phases 1 and 2. Minor thing. Nice job!

ianh 2015-12-15 08:07

So hard. T_T

robert_steiner 2015-12-15 10:56

You lied to me! You sneaky bastard :D

scorched 2015-12-15 17:27

I feel like I'm playing Starcraft: I go to build the second base, and my first one is destroyed :D
Very hard for me, but overall the concept is pretty good!

ssjmetroid 2015-12-15 22:02

It's so simple but effective. You lied to me about the two button thing though :|

bogden 2015-12-15 22:16

@SSJMetroid, It's not a lie! The name of the game changes as you play :D

drury 2015-12-16 00:58

I want to see someone get a ridiculous score on this and upload his run to youtube.

alvarop 2015-12-16 04:48

I don't want to give a review that will spoil the game, but I really like how you start playing by thinking that you chose one theme, but in reality, it's the other.

Or is it both?
HUH.

kirbytails7 2015-12-16 08:06

Good implementation of the concept. I like how I wasn't expecting the multi-tasking at first. The UI could be a bit more intuitive, but who has time for A/B testing for a jam? ;)

danidre14 2015-12-17 02:14

Hard!!!Hard!!

careless 2015-12-17 02:40

haha I thought I could multi-task until WASD appeared!

walaber 2015-12-17 05:28

loved the twist, this is one of the reasons I like Ludum Dare- games that seem to be 1 thing and then surprise you as you play them. nice work!

qwetro 2015-12-17 06:01

It looks so simple at first sight, I'm glad that I didn't close the game before ****, lol.

decentsauce 2015-12-18 20:31

Well done! Had fun playing this. :) Furthest I got was 48 http://puu.sh/m0ux6/8031b89cc9.png (It becomes so hard with 4 screens xD)

trasevol_dog 2015-12-18 20:44

Multitasking video games is hard D:
Had a fun time, although it really does get too hard when you get to the fourth screen. Nice concept anyways. Me likes.

ssodelta 2015-12-18 21:28

Cool with the adding of both themes! Nice done ! http://puu.sh/m0ykc/bf222e788c.png

zeriver 2015-12-18 21:48

Cool multitasking game, really hard (especially when math parts comes in). Simplistic but very polished, i mean nice animation, great choice of colors and music.

My score http://i.imgur.com/xuoneNW.png

jsmars 2015-12-18 22:46

Great game! I've seen a similar idea done before but it was still very well made, and awesome take on the theme :)

thedashdude 2015-12-18 22:47

The growing controls was a really nice touch, but everything after the fourth screen was to much for me.

troma 2015-12-19 00:20

Too easy! Liked the concept!

jeroenwimmers 2015-12-19 01:11

creative, but too hard for my brain >.<

frederickk 2015-12-19 03:13

Great idea and made it right!

publicidadeba 2015-12-19 04:28

Cool! Multitasking at it's best

_hopfrog 2015-12-19 04:35

This sure gets hectic really quickly haha. It was a lot of fun, totally recommended!

rfdshir 2015-12-19 04:47

The best gameplay, i think. Very clever take on the themes!
Was not able to win the fourth game ^_^

elliotfiske 2015-12-19 07:22

Super fun game! great controls, fun concept.

Gets super hard by the 4th game.

de_von 2015-12-19 12:52

Fuck my brain...

ointment 2015-12-19 17:20

Hah, I appreciate the surprise factor. I'm not sure if stuff was syncing with the music or not, would've made the multitasking easier.

matiasbontempo 2015-12-19 22:20

I really liked the twist. I was not waitting for that.

akirassasin 2015-12-20 00:32

You should add simple instructions when a new game appears, other than that, it's a very challenging addictive game :P

wizbyte_games 2015-12-20 01:06

Wow that gets hard fast :)

roaringcatgames 2015-12-20 04:46

5/5/5/5/5/5/5 This is great. Infuriating but great. Super polished, fun, challenging game. One of the best entries. Feels complete, and ready to go. A+++++ would smash keyboard again.

bumblepie 2015-12-20 04:58

A really great entry, similar to multitask. The difficulty grows really quickly, and it is a lot of fun to try and beat your high score. It does a great job of making you feel like you're improving, and each time you die, you really want to do better, and focus on the minigame you failed, making you die on another one! A really fun game, great work.
My Highscore was 89, although that was slightly because it bugged out when I was at 60 something and let me start from 70 despite not reaching it already.
https://gyazo.com/343d3c8d2c42ddd9b6ffd4c4667c2109

lereveur 2015-12-20 06:22

Er... Did someone have a brain to loan ? One is not enough to properly test this game...
Clever gameplay, but very hard for normal persons (I mean, those who have only to brain lobes).
Good job !

blobo 2015-12-20 21:18

Wow. ok, this got hard fast. so much multitasking. so little time. you have to monitor the falling cubes, monitor the green ball, monitor the blue line, monitor the WASD portion, do basic arithmatic. MAN! amazing work.

mike-cullingham 2015-12-21 04:40

Ha. Nice twist. But it gets seriously hard fast. I didn't get to find out if there was a fourth game.

inbetweengames 2015-12-21 06:52

Oh wow. Really innovative. Great mindfuck game.

lurils 2015-12-22 00:37

very fun and challenging game, great use of the themes

spotco 2015-12-22 01:04

Really clever idea (I see you definitely covered your bases with BOTH themes), wish there was a way to skip ahead the easier sections.

kayz 2015-12-22 12:05

Wow, great take on the theme. Didn't expect that. Need to play this game more often to improve on all those skills required to beat this beast!

ithildin 2015-12-22 13:29

Brilliant!

galvesmash 2015-12-22 22:45

Well I have to admit, I played alone and couldn't handle it then I asked for help and I figure out that was still hard!! At the end was left two people with broken brains haha. Good entry, very innovating.

zanzlanz 2016-01-01 16:37

Well done! I made it above Zeriver - keeping the leaderboard alphabetical I guess ;)
http://i.imgur.com/m4g4qjR.png 60

Did you get the idea from Multitask?

I love how you have the player flailing to use different buttons - numbers, WASD, Space, and arrows. Really challenging but really fun! Definitely a thing you could get better at with a lot of practice and patience. An in-game scoreboard would be fantastic - I'm sure it would get more people really into it. :)

Also, I love the track you made for the game!