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Ghost in the Machine

By bmacintosh, Alexis Korb and Matt Hansen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3343.4845
Fun5033.0045
Innovation1783.5145
Theme4183.4845
Graphics3483.7245
Audio1653.6343
Humor2952.6840
Mood2883.4643

Comments

lovro-kalinovcic 2017-08-01 05:01

Very nice graphics and audio! The controls feel quite satisfying too. :slight_smile:

ekarnopp 2017-08-01 05:14

It took me a bit to figure out what I had to be doing but this is really unique! I really want to play more of this with my gal when she wakes up tomorrow! Great job guys!

chris-coe 2017-08-01 05:21

Cute concept. I had a bit of trouble figuring out what each robot was meant to be doing. The ability to transfer power was very helpful for sure. Nice!

donvermo 2017-08-02 05:55

I'm a sucker for puns so you get extra points for that. The game is cute and witty and the concept has some nice potential for further exploration.

jahndis 2017-08-02 06:28

Man this is a really polished entry. I wish I had someone to play it with as controlling both robots hurt my brain :P Great job!!

spice135 2017-08-02 06:35

Polished and really well made :D Absolutely love the music, gave me chills

maskinmask 2017-08-02 06:45

Cool game.

asofi 2017-08-02 10:02

Was interesting to play!

pfeyffer 2017-08-02 23:22

A very good game, higly polished, great art style. Controlling both robots single handedly is quite challenging and fun.

timothy-hoffman 2017-08-03 00:33

Awesome! Just played with my brother, and we loved it!

pkenney 2017-08-03 05:02

This is *really* well put together. It looks nice, and I especially like the shadows and lighting from the robot. The sound effeccts and music are all really great, too. Also, the whole thing is just distinctive, which is great.

I think for my personal taste the overall pacing was too slow for me, but that's obviously not going to be true for everyone. I would have preferred to have regular movement instead of tank movement because it was a lot about waiting for the robot to turn. I wanted to zip around the levels more and tank controls make that very hard, especially when I'm doublefisting (I played single player). I also lost a lot of patience when I solved level one but instead of having to move one item to the end zone, I had to go back and forth six times. For a puzzler it was like, well I already solved it and now I have to go through the motions... I would have strongly preferred to move immediately to the next thinking challenge.

But I can also see another way to look at this pacing: the mood is there, you've delivered, so it's okay to languish and have a pace where you spend some time in this evocative space. I also see that the tank controls delivered a real feeling of being a robot.

So the pacing stuff is not necessarily against the game, just the impression of one guy who likes everything to go faster all the time.

Really nice entry here with a lot of quality.

michaeltwg 2017-08-03 05:14

Well done, the two characters system is cool and the music is very nice.

wesley-werner 2017-08-04 19:35

This game is captivating. Great use of shadows to bring out the nasties, polished graphics and smooth controls. A very solid entry!

antaresvaldemar 2017-08-06 19:53

Awesome game, I had to play it on my own so it probably didn't feel as great as it would with two people, but it was still enjoyable. I don't really have any criticism, it's very high quality and everything seems to work as it should. I'm not very bright so for a while I was frustrated trying to find out how to get the batteries back from the blue robot once I had given them to him. You might want to consider making that more obvious, just so it's idiotproof. Or perhaps not :) In any case, great work!

pixel-game-wizard 2017-08-07 05:48

I agree with @pkenney above on the points about the pace of the game and turning. Otherwise I think it's really well-designed, I like how each robot has unique skills. Graphics, audio are spot-on.

I *really* want to try playing this game with someone, and I might just come back to it again. Good job!

evbo 2017-08-07 06:08

This is a really well made, unique game. I agree with the other commenters saying the pacing needs a bit of work, but this was a very pleasant experience nonetheless.

I think I would have preferred a single set of keys for single player with a button (maybe space?) to toggle between the two, since I was rarely able to move both robots at same time without confusing myself.

If you polished this up and sold it, I would pay for it. Great work!

pilly 2017-08-07 06:43

Unique game - I played through it partway by myself, but definitely think it would've been more fun with someone else. Impressed with the level of polish, and especially the graphics - important items stand out, which takes a lot of guesswork out of figuring what to interact with / how to interact with it. The pacing was slow, as some have mentioned, but think that would've changed with 2 people playing. Overall nice work - I especially like Beep and Boop, with their distinctive designs and cute walking animations. Nicely done!

ruerob-hyky 2017-08-09 21:08

Whoa! This game is so awesome!! Thank you! Everything was great! Nice graphics, nice gameplay, nice sounds! Everything about it was awesome! hahaha!! You've done a very great job here!

klianc09 2017-08-09 22:19

I feel the same as @pkenney, I got pretty frustrated by the controls. There is a lot of back and forth in the level design and a huge part of the "challenge" was just to move from A to B.

Otherwise amazing audio design and really good mood.

g12345 2017-08-12 00:03

I reached the end of the (tutorial) level and I have no idea what to do.

I have no idea what any of those tutorial things on the floor meant, either.

It's probably a good idea but I have no clue what's going on.

Perhaps I will try it again later.

skosnowich 2017-08-12 09:58

The tutorials were pretty confusing, the sadly didn't really help. I thought I grasped the game idea at the end of the first level, but I was pretty lost in the second one. The music and the sounds are very good, I like them a lot. Maybe it would've been better, if I played together with another person.

chadivision 2017-08-13 02:12

My son and I played this game together and really enjoyed it. It looks really polished, especially considering the timeframe. I like the co-op mechanics. Everything was really well thought out. Nice job.

abductedplatypus 2017-08-17 14:36

Really fun game. Reminds me a bit of Monaco, but with some graphics that are easier to the eye (though these are a tad small). I liked it a lot, though there was some fighting over who got to use the recharge battery. (btw, It would be great if you could disambiguate the battery types a bit more for gameplay) Music was really good too. All in all a very good entry!