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Harlequin

By nizan

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Audio1553.44
Theme3863.85
Graphics4063.23
Innovation4073.26
Mood5242.90
Fun5863.00
Overall5913.11

Comments

aamatniekss 2015-12-15 17:49

Good game! Though it quickly becomes too hard, as too many enemies come, might want to make a better difficulty curve.

tomenluca 2015-12-15 17:51

Great minimalist game. I can imagine that some people would spend many hours playing this to get a highscore. Great stuff!

danex317 2015-12-15 17:51

A bit hard to get used to the strategy at first but it came out pretty good!

geoff10e 2015-12-15 17:58

Both challenging and fun, easy to pickup. I feel the projectile audio could be more subtle though and that something could be done with the black background.

sputnik 2015-12-15 18:09

Nice simple but hard game! Well done.

lucentbeam 2015-12-15 18:10

Pretty interesting set of nicely coupled mechanics. Great job on designing a solid little game!

uncade 2015-12-15 18:12

Fun little game! I really like the way you made the health bar.

piode 2015-12-15 18:12

Fun game but tricky! Really cool art!

spirit-2 2015-12-15 18:16

A really cool game ! It is a simplistic but innovative way to use arrows ! It is too hard, i think

n00basaurus 2015-12-15 18:25

The difficulty scales up a bit too quickly. I wonder if splitting up the controls, having one button control shooting direction and the other color, instead of both buttons doing both things, would help ease the difficulty curve.

rzuf 2015-12-16 10:30

Cool minimal style. Controls are a bit tricky at first. There are too many enemies, and it quickly becomes impossible to avoid them. (or maybe i'm just too slow and can't handle the stress :D) I think adding some predefined patterns for the Things appearing instead of just spawning them randomly would add much to the gamplay. :3
Good job, cheers!

raius 2015-12-17 14:48

Awesome! Love the simplistic art style it suits the simple mechanic perfectly, and I feel like the difficulty could ramp up a bit slower or maybe I'm just awful at it, but definitely a solid game :)

echa 2015-12-20 20:54

Uhh. This game is hard! Nevertheless it's a great use of theme.

31eee384 2015-12-22 22:26

Cool game! Not hard to understand, but I can imagine some interesting strategies coming out of it. I agree with others that the difficulty ramps up a little too quickly, and I think it would be more compelling if the enemies formed patterns rather than appearing apparently at random. The patterns would emphasize the strategy aspect rather than being a purely reaction-based game, I think. Neat stuff here.

One thing I wish it had was alternate controls--even just the left and right arrow keys. My mouse right now isn't the greatest, and it would be good to have some symmetric-feeling controls I think.

bocodillo 2016-01-04 18:15

Difficulty curve is a little steep but otherwise a great game. Love the music!