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Bat Dose

By serval-games

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4593.1542
Fun4473.0341
Innovation5822.5741
Theme5902.7542
Graphics3633.2343
Audio1623.4341
Humor4422.2933
Mood1773.4040

Comments

wibblymat 2017-12-04 01:52

Game started in full screen and was just black with the music. Had to Alt-Enter to get the game to work. (Windows 10)

serval-games 2017-12-04 09:55

Thanks for the quick response I fix the Game already I hope there will be no more issues

adrien-dittrick 2017-12-04 12:41

Nice chilling music :) I didn't see how the game got worse as I grew bigger though. Everything seemed much easier after a certain size!

scott-r-howell 2017-12-04 13:33

a lovely feel good game, thanks for this, put a grin on my face to see that cute little fat dude fly off into the world, would have loved to take it on adventures

larto 2017-12-05 19:02

I'd really love to eat that big guy at the end :) As mentioned earlier I didn't see that the bigger you are harder the game is. When I achieved 10k points the bat stayed in place for a few sec as a game frozen or sth and only then there was a ending screen. Good job anyway!

nammflow 2017-12-05 19:06

It looks like you've got a great working game with a unique setting and art style! I thought it was kind of funny how I was bigger than the snakes but couldn't eat them :p. I do agree with the commented above about how the game didn't feel like it got worse as you got bigger. The only thing that got was worse avoiding the big bats. It would have been interesting to see if your size affected more things than just your hit box. Great job though!

jajo 2017-12-05 19:07

I like this kind of game, with all the growing and that. Adorable graphics. Best of luck :)

iamtalin 2017-12-05 19:10

This is the way to do minimalist graphics that actually match the mood of the game, well done! :)

gassasin 2017-12-05 19:15

This bat its sooo cute! And music wow. Nice job and respect:D

oxrock 2017-12-06 14:00

Switching to fullscreen just causes the game to be stuck in a black screen for me (on windows 10). It's a simple cute game with nice audio that fits the theme pretty well. Pretty good for the amount of time allotted.

eri0o 2017-12-06 19:50

Whoa! Nice audio! Making him fly at the end felt rewarding! I liked! :D

alottabit 2017-12-07 01:41

That is one fat bat. I enjoyed playing, but it ended pretty quickly and didn't get much harder as I got bigger. Good work on the art though!

mahalis 2017-12-07 03:48

This is great! The idea is simple, but the art and music are really charming - they make it sort of a peaceful, contemplative experience (though I was pretty alarmed when the HUGE owl-thing first showed up). Nice job!

dead-jester-studios 2017-12-07 03:56

Great game.. LOVED the audio :) really well done!!!

nnnikki 2017-12-07 21:10

I don't understand how it got worse as I got bigger. Also, why do the snakes always kill you? And what does the mother bat do? I want answers.

fluidvolt 2017-12-08 23:54

Love it. Love the squishy, wibbly-wobbly bat animation. The tutorial is really simple and smart. And I like the music too! Very relaxing but kind of hopeful too. The ending is really cute, though I wish it didn't kick you out of the game so soon! I wanted to stay on that screen for a little bit and enjoy the vibe and be happy for that little (big) bat :)

tobia88 2017-12-09 11:27

Well done for the bat animation, but sadly for i see it's nothing related from the theme. It's just a typically agar.io with some intentional expressing. I've quite confuse for i cant eat the snake even i was almost 10k score, and disappointed from not able to kill the king bat.

daragongames 2017-12-09 20:00

Great Game! I really liked the soundtrack. But there isn't any real challenge or difficulty. The graphics were simple but looked kind of cute and the game had an overall nice atmosphere. The ending is a bit too kitschy for my taste. Nevertheless great game.

svr-audio 2017-12-09 21:52

Pretty simple but cool game, you did a great job, the art is good, the gameplay is fun and the audio is just amazing, I loved, congratulations !

marjoriep 2017-12-10 00:18

The music felt really relaxing! The only thing I'd say is that the difficulty needed to increase a lot more for it to work well with the theme. The bat was getting larger, but I didn't feel any more in danger than I was when I started. That being said, the first sighting of the larger bat spooked me.

gilborn 2017-12-10 00:52

Nice music and beautiful calm mood.

darkgrisen 2017-12-10 02:35

Fun game!

I think it would be more fun if you could dash to catch the other bats and to make the game endless.

automatonvx 2017-12-10 15:19

Pretty cute and a nice ambience from the music and graphics, but a bit lacking in challenge. As @darkgrisen said a dash attack or something would have made it more interesting.

ciaranw 2017-12-10 19:09

That music was so soothing, and it was a really relaxing, calming game. I remember I used to play a game similar to this when I was a kid (except it was with fish), so got the nostalgia firing :P

I liked the controls were simple and precise, and the graphics (although simple) were well done and suited the atmosphere of the game. Nicely done!

pvtroswold 2017-12-11 00:01

I really liked the cutscene/story in the beginning. It also served as a tutorial, and worked very well. I agree the atmosphere was really calming and nice. And maybe if the game were a tad more complicated with some abilities or extra threats even. A nice game to play!

piscythe 2017-12-13 08:13

This was nice and relaxing, especially after I realized that it wasn't possible for me to get big enough to eat the snakes. I was a little worried that the owl was somehow going to pop out of nowhere and mess me up, but that never really happened. The difficulty was too low for the core mechanic to come into effect, but I'll give you points for style.

philstrahl 2017-12-17 18:06

A very zen-like game, I liked it. If you're interested here's the video in which I also play Bat Dose: https://youtu.be/BgkQxnrr8sU