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React!

By versatile-box

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness360
Fun1113.74
Overall1523.76
Humor1743.40
Innovation1873.61
Mood2003.63
Graphics3003.82
Theme3503.85

Comments

mintarcade 2015-12-14 22:23

Nice game

blancohugo 2015-12-14 23:08

Very nice graphics and mechanics! :)

gwakamolestudio 2015-12-15 03:12

Very fun :p

zulgot 2015-12-17 19:08

Wow crazy good graphics - really enjoyed this game :)

hotboxgames 2015-12-17 19:16

Nice simple game, good fun to play and can be quite intense. Best I got was 4:60. So fun I managed to break my keyboard for about 10 minutes!

auroz 2015-12-17 19:37

Fun idea, haven't seen anything like it before.

daveh 2015-12-17 19:45

This is great fun for being so simple! Great idea and implementation! Love it. :-)

crazi456 2015-12-17 20:19

That was great! Very fun and great use of the theme!

2015-12-17 20:21

This is wonderful! :D

Super fun and engaging. Delightful game.

crashmore-studios 2015-12-17 20:57

It's a nice little frantic experience. I love the graphics and the slight bloom-effect is a pretty nice detail.

The gameplay is frantic and really captures the mood of the situation, though I would've liked a little more strategy to this as it kinda descended into a bit too random button mashing. Possibly something in the manner of the instruction-sheet from Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, where you could actually read out certain tendencies and although hectic still deduce which direction it might go. I understand that might be a bit ambitious for the scope of a game jam, but I feel like something a little extra besides for the light might help.

Otherwise pretty nice game. Good job!

versatilebox 2015-12-17 21:22

Thank you, Crashmore! We do know it falls into randomness and luck, but this is what we could do in two days and we are already working in updates. We already added online highscores (by popular demand). Less "random" gamemodes (and even multiplayer, maybe?) are in the work.

Thanks you and every person who reviewed this game!

jimmothysanchez 2015-12-18 00:19

That was brilliant. It would be cool to see if there is a way to expand on this concept.

steboots 2015-12-18 21:57

Speechless, fantastic. Just wow.

troma 2015-12-18 22:03

I always die. It's so hard!

lawendt 2015-12-18 22:08

Good idea, but isn't a game that you can spend more than five minutes playing. The game is great in everything else tho!

onlyslightly 2015-12-19 03:31

I love how frantic of a game you've created. We were screaming at the screen trying to find the two buttons. At one point two of us were using the keyboard at once. You did a great job at inducing anxiety for sure. :) Also excellent use of theme. Thank you so much!

thesnake91 2015-12-19 08:57

so simple yet so creative, one of the best games that i rated so far!!

ajmalr 2015-12-19 19:35

The graphics are awesome, I think it could be really cool if you linked each keyboard key to a virtual button/switch in the game. And animated that virtual button/key when you press the corresponding button. You'd have the randomise what key links to what button but it could add some nice feedback.

kepab 2015-12-20 10:31

Fantastic! The blaring warning sound really takes a hold of you and instills a sense of panic! Took me a fair many times to succeed even once. Possibly rather short-lived after played a few times, but magnificent nonetheless, and excellent concept for a busy jam.

I had to pretty much trial&error the Unity resolution options at startup to get the game displaying correctly, though.

versatilebox 2015-12-20 13:41

We know about that UI problem, but it wasn't our fault. It was a Unity problem in version 5.3 and it got patched in 5.3.1. We updated, recompiled the game as it was and all the problems went away. I'm uploading a new version right now!

Thanks for the review

evanegibbs 2015-12-28 08:06

Hah that was really intense! It's really just the right amount of time to make it really difficult and stressful. It's such a simple idea but executed very well. I want to show this to my friends and see how much they freak out. :P

Nice job!

dx0ne 2015-12-28 15:23

This is so realistic - I die as I would in real reactor ;)

jupiter_hadley 2016-01-05 00:42

Challenging! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/R1E0Ch1WcpU