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Grimder

By craigduth, Heapsoffun, BenNotTom and Calliope

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3533.6143
Fun6263.1943
Innovation2243.5943
Theme8653.1443
Graphics3653.7742
Audio5183.0238
Humor813.8342
Mood4083.3242

Comments

zachw136 2018-08-14 00:25

I really like the idea from the sounds of it. Just currently have an iphone :(

craigduth 2018-08-14 00:27

@zachw136 would loved to have built for an iPhone, but can't release the packages without the app store :(

zachw136 2018-08-14 00:34

yeah i hear you apples gay like that

scott-purcival 2018-08-14 00:47

Great idea. Loved the intro with my bony hand XD. Game ran great and bug free. Had some trouble figuring out what filled the meters? was it only the wrong people? My idea of good and bad people seems to differ greatly from the developers XD.

pennycook 2018-08-14 00:56

Is there any way you can release this for web, or are the touch controls really integral to the gameplay?

sciman101 2018-08-14 00:56

I really enjoyed this! It's a clever concept, and reading the descriptions for some of these people was pretty funny. Might play this again in my free time. Also, not critical to the gameplay, but bonus points for having NB folks

craigduth 2018-08-14 01:00

@pennycook We can release for web once I've fixed the UI up so it scales well for widescreen :smile: @scott-purcival So the meters are filled with the difference between good and bad if you send them to the wrong place. Each trait has a value and adding them all up gives us whether they're good or bad. So if they're 5 good and 2 bad and you send them to hell, then it'll add 3 to hell. And yes! It's just our ideas of what good and bad is, nothing concrete! Most are just humourous :smile:

adultlink 2018-08-14 01:43

Upload some screenshots here! :)

craigduth 2018-08-14 01:47

@adultlink Done! :smile_cat:

lynn-young 2018-08-14 02:34

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Love it! Very funny and fun to play. Great work!

gao-ming 2018-08-14 02:47

The graphics are beautiful. Great work!

craigduth 2018-08-14 02:56

@lynn-young @gao-ming Thank you!

lexyvil 2018-08-14 03:58

It somewhat got repetitive after a time, but I overall liked it. The cause of death for some were funny.

beanslasher 2018-08-14 05:18

I think that it was a very nice game to play haha! It was pretty funny to me how it's just like today's dating apps. I think you all did a great job! The graphics really were great! I think it is safe to say Android Master Race hahahahahah I am just kidding to all Iphone users. It is all preference haha!

craigduth 2018-08-14 06:22

@zachw136 @pennycook We now have a windows version on the itch.io page!

kassjak 2018-08-14 08:25

Was kind of laggy on my Huawei P9

But the game was really great! I like it!

foomar 2018-08-14 15:31

This is really funny! I laughed out loud a few times when I read the death cause or just listened to your audio. The graphics are really clean and nice to look at. Nice one!

P.S. you should really edit your entry to show that there is a Windows version. I found it more or less by accident and almost would have never played it :)

raziyya 2018-08-14 16:52

Fun game and really made me laugh. Did get boring fairly quickly though. Great art and sound. The swiping of the card left or right felt really nice and liked the little effects that appear as you get closer to heaven or hell.

roidz 2018-08-14 22:37

Great idea and well worked out. Polished look, art suits the game perfectly. Also quiet amusing and good story telling on the cards. I enjoyed spending a bit of time on this game. Great job !

nam-nguyen 2018-08-15 00:13

I love the swiping haha. Very lovely artwork and the sense of humor is spot on. A solid entry, great job!

sekwah41 2018-08-15 02:40

Damn those are some evil people... Love the fact you can play this on the phone. The its a match page does take a while for if you want to do quick playing of just swiping as soon as you see an evil thing.

awix 2018-08-15 07:59

A good game idea, the music should be improved. The graphics are good. Try our game too, maybe you'll like it)

mochakingup 2018-08-15 14:19

I stare on the first screen for a good minute thinking the game is not responding. Didn't realize I had to actually tap the icon. hahaha. Great and simple idea, love reading those bios! Just being nitpicky here, but the semi transparent cards bother me a little bit, since the texts from the next card are showing through.

poffle 2018-08-15 19:12

Very nice presentation with good voice overs. Would have liked some music though. "Couldn't make just a bit of pasta" made me laugh out loud. Sometimes our morals don't align but I had fun. Nice work on a very polished little game!

pennycook 2018-08-16 00:19

Very funny, and a great take on the theme. Thanks for releasing a Windows version!

xphere 2018-08-16 10:06

Great! Funny to play, liked the concept and some causes of death are hilarious, haha. Thanks!

adultlink 2018-08-16 10:33

Ohhh goodie!

I'm impressed with this game! Very cool execution and unique concept. You took the theme but you didn't actually made it the core of your game, which is refreshing after playing so many games in which you just have to avoid falling off a platform, or getting hit by whatever.

What I liked: - Simple, clean UI - Great humor! I loved reading the cause of death - Laika :D - Color palette. I think it could be beneficial to add some more colors to the design, but it is actually quite good already - Soundfx - Level of polish

What I think could be improved, not much actually: - More "deeds". They get repetitive after a while. I'm on a road trip right and I can suggest "Frequently complains about other drivers" - The "It's a match" popup takes a bit too long to go away. Maybe you could try making it easier to skip, or just show it as a notification similar to the one that shows up when you make a mistake (but bigger, and I would keep the portrait). - Lack of background music. What about some light-hearted classical music?

All in all, this is a very good entry! Congratulations to all of you! :)

These are some of my favorites:

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This regretful litterer:

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And specially this poor little girl at a concentration camp working as a driver that missed her brother's wedding :(

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panurge 2018-08-16 11:24

Neat idea and really polished execution. Some very funny bits of text too. I got slightly annoyed with both God and Lucifer for questioning some of my decisions but that's half the fun! Also, really glad I got to send Laika to the good place... :) Excellent work, I thoroughly enjoyed playing.

yojammerjammer 2018-08-17 06:09

It was fun and a different take on the theme. Good job! <3

laura-angel 2018-08-17 17:49

Very interesting game! Love the color palette and how nice it looks, but I'd add more pet peeves since they get a lil repetitive, and also cut both Hell's and Heaven's space in half, since I never ran out of space for any, I really couldn't realize how it was connected to the theme. But great work!

justinmullin 2018-08-18 14:27

Hah, this is just great. I laughed when I got to Laika! Had a lot of fun reading all the prompts. =)

kaiclavier 2018-08-23 04:52

Very fun concept, was excited to play this one when I saw it come up. I just kinda wish the game would stop... moaning at me. Also I sent someone to hell for thinking being gay was a choice and the game punished me so uh... maybe removing the "correct choice" thing altogether would just be for the best?

dleanjeans 2018-08-25 15:05

The texts on the cards overflow. Maybe it's because my screen resoluation is 1366x768.

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ithildin 2018-08-31 20:45

Some of the texts are hilarious :laughing:

Nice take on Tind...the theme, and lovely art style. It can get repetitive eventually, though, but it feels super solid in terms of polish.

Great job!

ddrkirbyisq 2018-09-03 22:22

Hahaha, some of these are too real.

rkuhl 2018-09-04 00:24

It was really fun, but there was a one thing that bugged me, the cards occasionally had repeat attributes.