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Upright

By boltkey

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness360
Humor553.77
Innovation983.86
Theme1844.07
Overall2333.57
Fun2783.43
Audio2853.08
Mood3473.16
Graphics8042.41

Comments

qwetro 2015-12-14 01:36

Interesting, but quite difficult.

allwoodgamedev 2015-12-14 03:22

Difficult, but addicting and fun

gallerdude 2015-12-14 03:23

Cool mechanic, but difficult to play.

ultravisitor 2015-12-14 03:27

This is a lot of fun. I love it. I really like the idea of the constant jibber jabber. The puzzles are quite unique and very playable. Well done!

iamspencer 2015-12-14 03:58

I love so many things about this, the minimalist graphics are perfect, the puzzles are challenging but fun, and the mechanic is great and you executed it very well!

It was super difficult, but the little quotes kept me from raging (too hard). Excellent job! :)

sanojian 2015-12-14 10:42

Love the help messages. They are hilarious. Great use of the theme. Very challenging

stanov 2015-12-14 10:53

Love it :) The design, the controls, the quotes :) But the difficulty is soooooooooooooo hard. I've done it to level 4.

larzan 2015-12-14 13:45

Haha, looks familiar a bit ;)
But wow, well implemented, love the humor and the idea with the two directions + bumping, very neat and well done (although the music sounded kind of familiar)
But really haaaaaaaaaard

pusty 2015-12-14 20:04

Had fun playing it!
Little bit of critic:
Maybe not using such plain colors (or atleast not red)
Maybe adding a option to skip a level as someone might
be stuck in one
Maybe making the text the square tells pop up more

jellycubestudio 2015-12-14 21:55

Thanks so much for rating my game!

Love your game too. A bit too hard for me but it was fun playing! Funny texts are really nice addition. Music is great.

Overall nice work there!

d_0o_d 2015-12-14 23:22

Interesting gameplay. The name is so good, when you played that game :)
But it feels kinda slow. Maybe if that game had something like coins in mario, that would guide the player that would help. And I also think the gamespeed could be a little higher.

I'm not that much of a fan of your graphics, but it is 100x times better than having bad textures (which is common around here...).

The box talking is fun, but I had hardly time looking at what it said.

dos 2015-12-14 23:39

Great touch with the dialogue!

themeorch 2015-12-15 04:29

I enjoyed this a lot! Surprising level designs that take advantage of the mechanic really nicely. As others have said, it can feel a little slow at times -- though having things move faster might make a difficult game even harder. If you could find a way to make that work, I'd love to see a larger collection of levels in the future.

The pixel's comments are a really nice touch.

paperboxstudios 2015-12-15 12:21

I love it. The little messages give so much character to the game. Levels are nice and tricky.

donengland 2015-12-16 00:15

The messages are a nice touch

eddynardo 2015-12-16 00:19

hard but in a good way :)

newbeings 2015-12-16 00:27

really nice mechanic, well done. - it's not that it's hard, it's just that the difficulty ramps up too quickly. I think the speed is also really infuriating, took me many times to beat 3 level but half the time spent was building up the bouncing far enough.

ointment 2015-12-16 01:21

I like the concept of only having half of your movement directions, but the execution suffers from some false difficulty at its core. The sluggish movement makes it tricky to estimate where you'll slide and bounce. While it was fun for a while, ultimately my patience wasn't enough to reach level 15.

You could try ramping up the speed or having some visualization of your expected trajectory.

The commentary from the player adds an extra bit of charm. The audio is listenable I guess, but those graphics kinda hurt to watch.

ointment 2015-12-16 01:27

Oh, and there's a fair amount of content, quite a bit of new twists in the later levels. I don't think most people will play that far because of the fundamental issues in control/difficulty curve, which is a shame.

With all that in mind, I see potential in this with some more work.

shaunjs 2015-12-16 20:54

Good job!

rd127p77 2015-12-16 22:45

Good difficult game. With good controls.

careless 2015-12-17 02:17

I am on level 5 at the moment and getting very angry lol, its a great game with a neat but infuriating game mechanic.

Well done oh and this:

"Hi random stranger... you are not supposed to read this, go win the game. If you are reading through my code, I am sorry for all the ugly duplications and similar evil things in my code. I am learning... But I am glad someone is interested."

mauludder 2015-12-18 07:46

Difficult levels (sounds familiar -.- ). But it's about the game mechanics and that's solid. Thanks for the post-compo release!

arzi 2015-12-18 12:27

Nice implementation of the theme!

scorched 2015-12-22 17:26

Nice idea, but requires A LOT of patience!

klianc09 2015-12-25 20:16

A lot of fun, but really challenging (and sometimes infuriating), had to give up at the level that introduced the arrows. The random messages kept it from getting boring.

blakeohare 2015-12-30 11:51

I'm always delighted to see nice, solid puzzle games in such short game jams.