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The Flower

By sublustris

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics1473.85
Humor2872.79
Audio3272.98
Mood4163.05
Theme4183.81
Overall5703.13
Fun6652.90
Innovation7182.72

Comments

ittaimanero 2015-12-13 20:34

What a pretty cool little game! :D

sineglitch 2015-12-13 20:46

Everything works well together. Nice job!

mukult 2015-12-14 06:05

Niceeee art!!
Overall i had fun...
But sometimes...i just felt the controls were restrictive if I kept the game idea in mind :)

projectx593 2015-12-14 06:07

Constrols are a little bit janky, but pretty cool, very nice pixel art.

baknik 2015-12-14 06:08

Interesting image effects. It was difficult to figure out where to jump on the heads of the enemies to kill them.

jcmonkey 2015-12-14 06:10

died a few times and nothing was around me. the controls took a bit to get used to, but overall was ok game

floppya 2015-12-14 06:11

Nice looking game. I'm awful at it, though. The soundtrack is good but has a real bassy part that's a little overpowering for my macbook speakers. I like the little stuff like the dust clouds your character kicks up.

esayitch 2015-12-14 06:12

Hi! The game was strangely atmospheric, which I really liked. Graphics and sound suit it well.

Controls were a bit fussy, and I would add a restart button. Finally a game that doesn't use 6 buttons and calls it "2" buttons :P

superpokeunicorn 2015-12-14 06:13

Only being able to move forward provides an interesting twist. I like it!

xdigdoug 2015-12-14 06:19

Great graphics, great sound, very innovative.
My only gripe with this game is poor collision detection (seems to heavily favor the left side of the character)? The whole right side can be in an enemy sprite, and not die. Also causes death from thinking you can goomba-stomp an enemy, but will only work if the tail end of your sprite hits them. Overall very good game.

sublustris 2015-12-14 06:29

Thank you for feedbacks :)
I'll fix collisions in postcompo version.

mrjorts 2015-12-14 06:32

Looks very nice. The physics were a bit frustrating at times. The idea of only being able to move right is an interesting challenge.

jim3wg 2015-12-14 13:15

Nice twist !

dustystylus 2015-12-14 16:35

Tough little game, but beautifully realised. :)

koalabot 2015-12-14 16:36

I actually really enjoyed the restriction of only being able to move forward. But mostly because of the clever timing of enemy spawns with the beat, allowing me to plan ahead. I would think about continuing work on this idea post-compo!

svenfrankson 2015-12-14 16:39

Nice work :)

nexust 2015-12-14 16:58

I like the art style! The platforming is a little awkward. The jump key has will jump as soon as you touch the ground if held which makes for some tricky landings a lot of the time. Other than that, it is a charming, fast paced platformer with some lovely graphics.

veverichka 2015-12-14 22:00

I really love the art style and how cute the water is. It actually made me sad when it died. :D

ninjascript 2015-12-15 06:38

Very nice graphics, and great job keeping the concept simple while meeting both themes!

synthetic-entropy 2015-12-15 06:43

Loved it! Quirky and strange. Audio was *really* jarring though, only thing I would change would be the volume of the spawning noise.

geckoo1337 2015-12-15 06:46

Замечательно! Мне очень понравился гамеплай. Oднако я не понимаю почему ты добавил этот звук - как барабан. На самом деле, этот звон наносит непоправимый ущерб. Жалко. Тем не менее, я люблю :)
A pretty cool game with an amazing aesthetic - very nice pixel art. Neat ++

sublustris 2015-12-15 06:53

Звук пофикшу обязательно, в запаре уже не успел настроить громкости :)

I'll correct sounds, spawning was made in last hours of compo, and i did not have time to tune it.

budaniel 2015-12-15 09:59

At first I was thinking, "I look like a cup, not a flower." That's what I get for not reading the first screen more thoroughly, I guess. lol

The old 80's arcade look and sounds turned out well and it controls smoothly (the two button limit negating being able to go backwards notwithstanding), but despite multiple plays I never did manage to grow that flower.

sublustris 2015-12-15 11:46

You need 4 cups to grow first flower :)

gins 2015-12-15 18:55

Cool idea, but it would be more fun if the level got harder every time. Amazing graphics!

ajopart 2015-12-15 18:57

Great graphics. Disturbing to be unable to move backward ;-)

dinnerinthedark 2015-12-15 18:57

Pixel art!

tony-coculuzzi 2015-12-15 19:00

That audio was pretty aggressive. Other than that, the game was pretty cool

mockthebear 2015-12-15 21:18

The monster death sound was a bit too loud. But its funny and the graphics are awesome. Cool music also

zeezgames 2015-12-15 23:04

I really liked this game :) love the cup animation when sucking water out at plant :)

Well Done!!

x92rwzb 2015-12-16 14:19

+ Steady controls.
+ Good platformer.
+ Nice graphics.

- Audio is too loud when I use headphones!

nunesbarbosa 2015-12-19 02:11

Very hard and frustrating.. you have to avoid all those zombies? I gave up really fast.. couldn't get to the objective or flower or whatever.

justinooncx 2015-12-19 10:25

Surprisingly frustrating at the beginning when you find out you can't turn around. Unfortunately, once you find the most optimum path, difficulty doesn't scale further, making it repetitive. Still, a nice game! Perhaps a proper ending?

krafty 2015-12-19 16:44

This game was really cool, nice attention to detail! I liked the graphics and the music, although there was one part that was a little bit loud compared to the rest. I wasn't very good at this game, I kept getting stuck =P Great job!

peekotus 2015-12-20 16:53

overall i had fun

hadesfury 2015-12-20 22:00

Cool and pretty .. but seems very hard for me

Great entry

weeping-rupee 2015-12-21 06:12

The notes:
-wish that I got to move onto different levels as the plant grew.
-You managed to hit one-button theme right on and shoe-horn in the grow theme and I really don't think you needed to. It doesnt hurt but it doesnt help because its a little confusing when the theme category is being rated.
-as a musician i think the music is good but a little grating
- if you're going to be moving through the same level to grow the plant there should be rewards for finishing it faster since the strategy here (I think) is about learning the most efficient way thru the level

The praises:
-Great aesthetic and character design (I loved the machine that sucked your water out)
-thought out level design
-tough but fair (our game was only one of those things)

sublustris 2015-12-21 09:58

Oh!! Thank you for detailed analysis. I'm working on postcompo version now (would be mobile), and really appreciate your feedbacks.

loxo 2015-12-21 17:41

Seems like a cool game with good audio and graphics, but it's to hard for me. I like the idea though.

elit3dgaming 2015-12-21 18:15

Graphics were great and the game was really fun, loved the challenge

simon-parzer 2015-12-21 18:35

I like the happy little cup. I dont like the loud repeating thwomp noise in the music. More levels or at least making the level more dynamic would have been fun

hybrog 2015-12-21 19:11

Very fun little game, although I found one route and kept using that one once I was adapted to it. Maybe incorporate a system to force the player to take different routes each time, maybe rubble or root blockades would spice up branched path system. Graphics are fantastic. My one quibble would be sometimes there are weird collisions, especially in that one block jump over the spikes right before the flower.

puppetmaster 2015-12-21 21:56

You art and presentation is so cute.
I would like to love this game, but the first level is so difficulty.
You should add at the beginning some easy levels and than raise the difficulty.
Congrats, you have made a very cool game!

_benhumphries 2015-12-22 14:43

Cool game. I like the graphics. Overall I think it was a bit of a steep learning curve.

modoc73 2015-12-23 03:46

Good game, good art. Only shame is when you find an optimal path, you just have to time it right which takes away half the challenge. But good job, I liked the restrictions with the controls, as if you went to far you were forced onto another path and try and figure out where to go, and how to evade the enemies.

crucknuk 2015-12-24 15:19

Nice entry! I wish there could be more than one level. This way, when you grow a plant, you could switch level instead of repeating the first one indefinitely. Appart from that, it seems well executed and it is kind of addictive. Well done ;)

galvesmash 2015-12-24 17:28

Cool game, once you figure out the best way to reach the flower the game becomes easy!

claire1605 2015-12-27 12:24

Loved the graphics, kept bumping into platforms above my head though which limited my jumping a bit!

gunzil 2015-12-27 20:20

A post apocalyptic game about the never ending struggle between cups and mutants as the cups try to navigate a maze to maintain a single flower.

I found the platforming to be frustrating, both in the number of dead ends and how difficult it is to jump on enemies. You would think with only being able to move in one direction the collisions might be more forgiving, but that is not the case. I managed to get water to the plant once after about 10 tries and then stopped playing when I realized I had to keep doing it on the same level.

I appreciate the two button control implementation, only being able to move in one direction, but the platforming is already difficult enough that this makes it worse. Having a more normal, less maze-like level before the current level would have been nice. I realize the level is a maze so you can take alternate routes to the plant on repeat playthroughs, but that just seems like a symptom of trying to only have one level instead of multiple. Once I found a route that worked I only tried to use that one, anyways.

markusfisch 2015-12-28 11:52

Nice idea, had fun playing it!

littlebluefrog 2015-12-29 11:13

Nice little platformer, love the pixel art

brightstar 2016-01-03 04:25

I like this. Nice job.