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Reinventing the Wheel

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cptbubbles 2016-08-29 16:58

Fun little game! I love his facial expressions! The music is great too. And a game in GO? Very interesting

jonpul 2016-08-29 17:04

I like it. Fun little puzzle game. Some weirdness with the hit areas, but nothing that made it un-playable. I probably would have preferred space bar or another key to jump as the up arrow with a l/r arrow is a little cramped.

leonardosantana 2016-08-29 19:16

good animations make your character!

doomista 2016-08-29 21:52

Great animations! And a nice concept too, but I couldn't get pass the third level with five stones, I wasn't able to stack them in the way to jump over the hole :(

gonutz 2016-08-30 08:25

Thanks for the great feedback so far!

I just made a quick change to allow SPACE for jumping as an alternative to UP.

As for the physics, the rocks still have rectangular hit boxes as I had no time to make them round ;-)
The puzzle in level three is a result from these physics, just try it a couple of times (use F2), you will get the hang of it :)

mine10blox 2016-08-30 22:00

pretty fun, a bit hard though. love the expressions! 4.5/5

nervous-composers 2016-08-31 14:14

Finished the game. Loved the animations, music, art! Would have preferred tighter collisions and mechanics though :)

quentinus60 2016-08-31 18:20

Good job ! It was fun i finished your game :p

rttstudio 2016-08-31 18:27

Fun game, the physics for the rocks should be a bit better thought I don't really know if I manage to solve the puzzles the good way or I just cheated my way trough. Good animation and music. Love it.

igorfel 2016-08-31 18:31

Nice! almost get stucked in one level (i though that i could grad the rock) but then i figured out xD good job! and i enjoyed the music haha made me dance a little :P

ianb96 2016-08-31 18:31

Great job!
It's wonderfully simple and has good music too.

mato26 2016-08-31 18:38

Nice one :D simple, cool music, funny animations of the player :D Good job

teamfireman 2016-08-31 18:40

Download link seems broken? Or is it only me?

gonutz 2016-08-31 18:47

@yotam180 I just checked the link, it took a while but then the download started. Maybe the FTP server is a little slow at the moment.

gipzo 2016-08-31 19:00

Awesome! Not very good graphics (apart from facial expressions), music, sounds.. But level design is awesome.:)
Finished the game :D

culturebosh_games 2016-08-31 19:05

Fun little game. Nice animations and I really liked the physics of the large boulders - they felt really weighty as the character leaned into them.

It would have been good to have some context for why the magic portals existed in such a prehistoric world. Also, a background would really elevate the overall graphics.

Good job!

thelaw 2016-08-31 19:16

Hero's sprites are funny. Stuck at Level 3

gonutz 2016-08-31 19:17

@TheLaw just try a little harder, I am sure you can do it without any help :)

vaiaphraim 2016-08-31 19:19

Very cool game! Loved the graphics (especially the face of the character xD)

The level design is quite straightforward, so a few other elements, apart from the rocks, would have been great, too!

Still, you did a decent job, and it was a good take on the theme, too. The music was also really cool, with the bongo drum loop :)

Well done!

paulopn 2016-08-31 19:19

Good job! It's simple and works perfectly well! Pushing stones is a bit too slow, though. I also liked the music, it fits very well with the game!

ajayajayaj 2016-08-31 19:21

Music is nice and the puzzles are pretty good. Wish there were more levels though. The jump animation is cool!

bloodjohn 2016-08-31 19:25

Drawings with character. Very hilarious. The cheerful music. Very funny happened. The learning curve is well designed.

2011petia 2016-08-31 19:31

simplr but funny, i like the facial expressionsa

mffking 2016-08-31 19:31

I LOOOOOOOVE the music ! The concept is very cool and the drawing are funny !

I couldn't go far as the 3r (?) level where you have 5 or + rocks to push in a big hole x)

qikcik 2016-08-31 19:34

Cool game , I have very fun when i play :D good job

insality 2016-08-31 19:39

It's written on GO
So 10/10. congrats :)
The game is nice, art make me laught and funny. Good job!

Nice entry!

peringo 2016-08-31 19:43

Very funny game, the puzzles are very tricky though. I loved the music :D

gonutz 2016-08-31 19:47

Thank you all for your great feedback so far, this is awesome.

Since many have asked about Level 3, here is a little hint (spoiler alert?) : you can stack the rocks ;)

kazik_210 2016-08-31 19:51

I was able to finish your game , but unfortunately it's really short game :< Also I really like soundtrack and graphic :D

aun 2016-08-31 19:55

I like the game it is funny and has good mechanisms. However, it is a bit short (2 min to finish it) so some extra levels would have been good. Otherwise, the physic is good, controls easy and the graphismes are nice :D
As it is coding from scratch, it is very good to achieve that result so quickly, well done !

gonutz 2016-08-31 20:06

@RttStudio thanks for the compliments.

I created the game mechanics first and the rocks still have rectangular hitboxes which is why their physics are not very accurate. However, I created the maps after the fact and with the mechanics in mind. I tried to make sure that the player knows what is possible and what is not and the way you solved the puzzles is the way I intended, I am pretty sure :)

mihaivdev 2016-08-31 20:33

Great interpretation of the theme, technology can't get more ancient than this :). Like the animations and the controls feel solid. The puzzles are a bit simple but all in all well done!

jk5000 2016-08-31 20:39

Love this game! It is fun and simple. I hope you will make more levels for this. Well done.

mvasko2 2016-08-31 20:48

I'm not entirely sure what to think of this.

Not-bad looking graphics, simple mechanics, which I didn't think was too much fun, and a couple of levels mostly consisting of pushing enough rocks into the pit so you can jump through... with an occasional twist :)

It's okay, but nothing special.

But, and it's a HUGE BUT - finally a game written in Go! I simply love the language, so you got my mad respect for that alone.

gonutz 2016-08-31 21:36

@mvasko2 Thanks, I also really love the Go language, it brought back the fun in programming for me a couple of years back. That is why I created a number of libraries to help create games in Go.

Most importantly, I created wrappers for Direct3D9 and a sound mixer using DirectAudio8. You can 'go get' them without any dependencies except a C compiler.

You can check out my github account if you are interested in using Go for your games as well: https://www.github.com/gonutz

mvasko2 2016-08-31 22:14

@gonutz I'm intrigued, I'll be sure to take a look as soon as I gather some time! I've actually made a Go game framework myself, but I haven't published it anywhere (yet), since I haven't been overly happy with it. It's currently gathering dust, but I hope I will be able to revive it someday.

Anyway, sorry for the offtopic, on with the comments :)

csanyk 2016-08-31 22:39

I like the primitive caveman animations:)

sunflower 2016-08-31 23:34

Fun to play for a little bit, even if it's not particularly sophisticated or long. I particularly liked the facial expressions. At the same time I feel the graphics were a little inconsistent; especially the portal effect looked a bit off against the clear-bordered cartoony caveman. The audio worked pretty well.

(gotta admit, though, the rectangular hitboxes were looking pretty weird on these rocks, with all that floating around and such ^^')

gambitsunob 2016-09-01 15:32

Nice game! Pretty cool getting it going in Go.
Are the portal things supposed to be like Stargates or something? Or more of a level transition point don't question it kind of thing :)

gonutz 2016-09-01 20:36

@Garrett Hoofman yes those are gates to the stars (R) that might have been inspired by a TV show... ;)

repstyle 2016-09-04 13:03

Small but nicely realised game.
I liked the style of the caveman and the music. But envirnments were out of aesthetic.

It was a bit long to push rocks and physics laws weren't really here.

Walking cycle can be improved a little.
Good work.

dollarone 2016-09-06 23:34

Nice graphics :) The cavemen seems very pensive. Good challenges and fitting music. Will have a look at the code - golang is cool!

gfm 2016-09-11 12:22

Didn't know it's possible to make games in Go... Nutz! ;)

epb9000 2016-09-13 04:30

Nice. I liked the use of the game's collision limitations in the level designs, and the music was a good fit. I would've liked a few more levels actually.