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PopcornShift

By tegu

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness352
Humor1263.21
Fun4463.17
Innovation4473.13
Overall5503.12
Mood6472.64
Graphics6632.65
Theme7902.77

Comments

kristophtg 2016-04-18 14:25

Was kinda fun. Gotta make sure the popcorn is evenly cooked.

qu2 2016-04-18 15:13

Damn those are some hungry plants

pokipsy 2016-04-20 10:11

A pretty fun little game, well done ! I just think you could simplify controls by doing the rotation of the popcorn canon according to mouse position, it would be smoother imo.

arvydas 2016-04-20 10:12

Fun game!

tegu 2016-04-20 16:26

pokipsy: Thanks for playing and good point! Only switching that could be confusing, though, because the mouse button would shoot with a different thing. But now that I think, it would be possible to make the game mouse-only simply by using right and left mouse buttons. For example, microwave still on left mouse button and the cannon on right button. I don't know if it makes easier to misclick, though. Might need testing.

g12345 2016-04-20 21:30

Looks great, fun too.

The only problem i have is that they dont seem to pop, even if i frantically hit the mouse button.

Still, a small interesting little game.

tegu 2016-04-21 22:16

g12345: Oh, I should have mentioned that you have to hold the mouse button to cook popcorns. However, don't hold for too long, you don't want to burn them.

paulgami 2016-04-23 11:22

This is a really charming game. There's something satisfying about popping that popcorn too. I agree with the other comments about the controls though - could definitely use some simplification.

drgy 2016-04-24 10:49

Nice game

srakowski 2016-04-24 14:50

Interesting use of the theme. Those plants are hungry!

takadimi 2016-04-24 16:42

Clever idea and actually really fun game mechanic! I only had my track pad so it was pretty tough, but I enjoyed it

lanestp 2016-04-24 16:50

Fun one. I echo the mouse only comments. It was one of the more unique takes on the theme!

mementogames 2016-04-25 00:49

Simple and fun!
Damn, those plants are hungry!
It felt kinda weird to use keys to rotate, but overall, nice entry!

zateamplay 2016-04-25 06:16

"The sound effects are my recordings"... It's just soo cool :D Really like the music and the sound effects in this game. Good and fun atmosphere.

ceosol 2016-04-25 20:02

Thanks for the incredibly detailed feedback on my game. I will check out your game when I get a chance. :)

mayank-technical 2016-04-26 20:51

Really nice concept great graphics. Its really fun gameplay

keyboardmonkey 2016-04-27 05:19

A fun game, the plants get hungry and wither quickly. Good job and nice entry.

biliogadafr 2016-04-29 20:26

36290 :) Nice gameplay. First I tried to shoot up into the air and hope that randomness will split all the popcorn among the plants but this was inefficient. So I ended up just shooting directly into the plants. It was fun and quite challenging at the same time. Maybe you could increase difficulty slightly over the time :). Good job.

tegu 2016-05-01 18:27

Billiogadar: The difficulty actually does increase over time but maybe too slightly. :) It's just linear with quite a low coefficient. I didn't really have time to balance it. Or, to be honest, I'm not really sure what would be a reasonable way to increase difficulty. It shouldn't be too quick but probably not too slow either (like now). Thanks for playing, though!

rock-eaters 2016-05-01 20:03

really like the concept, could be nice irl

walnoot 2016-05-03 20:46

Nice game, like nothing I ever played before :)