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Bot escape

By corbak

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2233.7535
Fun643.9835
Innovation4293.2536
Theme8542.9736
Graphics7703.1636
Mood5813.2834

Comments

zampi 2019-04-30 04:51

Not too innovative, but great implementation. I love it

ryan-westby 2019-04-30 04:59

Nice job! I liked the introduction of the mechanics and the music!

zhaojun8443 2019-04-30 05:06

It doesn't seem to fit the subject, but I feel that the game is very interesting, especially when it's a flame is so cool.

rakowu 2019-04-30 05:08

The controlls feels really smooth. The music reminds me of the old gameboy times :D And it is just a little thing but i like a lot how the player moves by himself trough the finish line. Good job!

danga 2019-04-30 05:11

That game is hard! I agree the introduction of the mechanics is perfect. Great job, loved the game! I wasn't too sure how "saving" the energy worked or what that did, but the rest of the game was legitimately fun!

squirmonkey 2019-04-30 05:23

Well done! I really enjoyed playing this game, and I like the audio as well. In the end though, it was too difficult for me >.<

josh-mcmillan 2019-04-30 05:34

This was very well designed! Simple mechanics, but adds a whole lot when paired with great level design. Some of the puzzles had me thinking. Splendid work!

rafa-braga 2019-04-30 05:39

Hi guys, how r u doing? First of all: your game is so funny, i had a great time playing that. I just managed to reach lvl 6, but its so hard hahaha ill try finish it again after review more games. I just love the lvl design, so much challenges. I got some references like portal and maybe some Super meat boy. Good music chice you did. Maybe you can work more in the graphics, i mean, i dont feel like the drone had so much charisma, but, anyway, the game is awesome. Maybe with some rework, you can try make it comercial, the mechanics is great. Good Job!

corbak 2019-04-30 08:33

@zampi Hello and thank you for your nice comment :) It means a lot

@ryan-westby Thank you very much for your nice comment :)

@zhaojun8443 Thank you for your commentary, actually yes we had several ideas to implement the theme but at the end we finished to make a puzzle game where actually we didn't exploit the theme to its fullest, still we are happy to have produced something like this as a first try :) Hopefully we will do better next time regarding theme implementation

@rakowu Thank you for your nice words! Seems to like automation much! :D Actually there are a bit of collision here and there but nothing too shaby. The music is not made by us but by MrNightVarga, you can chek him in the credits :)

@danga Thank you for your words :) But yeah we didn't use the theme to its potential unfortunately, hopefully we will do it better on other occasions. The game is rather difficult as a die and retry, patience and perseverance!

@squirmonkey Thank you for your nice word :) Yes it's a bit difficult sorry about that, but you know nothing comes easy! :)

@josh-mcmillan Thank you for your nice words! Actually it's rather just a 1 day job rather than "splendid work" you are being too nice! :D But we are flattered if you already have fun playing it, thank you for that and posting a comment.

@rafa-braga We are good thank you! Hopefully you too! Thanks for your nice words and your recommandations. We will see what people think about it and well if there is room for improvement we will walways do it! Thank you for having playing it!

mateusboga 2019-04-30 11:53

I like the concept, and I think you pulled it off quite well! I do think that you lose energy too quickly and makes it really hard to reach places (or maybe I just suck). Great work!

nyandev 2019-04-30 13:11

Fun and well designed levels! No issues with your game :)

coder-channel 2019-04-30 13:27

Pretty interesting!

adam-clayden 2019-04-30 19:59

Nice game and nice level design. I feel like the audio is a bit too harsh but other than that it's a good game

peachtreeoath 2019-05-01 05:59

Surprisingly challenging lunar lander game! First off I really liked the general gamefeel. The ship felt good to control, but the vfx and sfx actually made it even better, especially the effect you produce when you recharge your batteries. How did you make that effect anyways? Was there a simple way or did you actually just make 8 particle systems spew out or something? Secondly, you are an evil level designer :). The first shocker was at level 4 when I just went full speed into the 2nd set of spikes. I started playing much more carefully after than but I liked that each level had a clear theming to it. Very solid game w a lot of content for a solo project!

khaoz-fang 2019-05-01 10:11

Really nice idea!

oktarian 2019-05-01 10:14

It took me 3 tries to manage level 1! Am I that bad? :) Loved the game - good job!

myrmyxo 2019-05-01 12:03

Nice idea ! The controls of the bot are very smooth and it is a joy to make him fly. However, I think that some levels were a bit too mean, I mean when you are almost at the ned and there are spikes everywhere and you climb carefully to avoid them and you suddenly run out of power one tile away from the end is a bit frustrating. I had a bug, when I was on level 10 I died and got back to the first level. Great game though !

sir-syko 2019-05-01 14:42

Hey congratz on the nice game! Overall it was very good!

scofflaw-games 2019-05-01 16:46

Games tough as hell!! Rage quit!! Good times, thanks!! <3

icxon 2019-05-02 02:58

Great level design, and it appeals for speedrunning. I've got a couple of glitches but overall I spent 30 minutes playing it.

Here is my playthrough:

https://youtu.be/X2u25g-CXnQ

vulpineblazeyt 2019-05-02 04:21

You did a great job and this game was hard! Coasting into a charge at 4% like `phew` lol

quasar47 2019-05-02 19:12

Pretty chill game, and the music really fits to it. the puzzles are not too head-wrecking and I like the fact that you can keep some of your momentum to save some fuel between plugs. With that said, the link between life and currency is not really the best example here : I think (in my opinion) that trading life for fuel shouldn't be mandatory, and should be something that helps you clear your goals in exchange of a handicap, rather than something than inevitably slows down your progression and force you to refill your fuel meter.

But that's just a little complaint from me, and apart from that, that's a pretty clean job ;)

corbak 2019-05-06 17:10

@mateusboga Hey hope you are doing good! Thank you for your comment! Actually yeah it's a bit difficult at some places, we always do difficult games but I don't even know if we do it on purpose ahah. Might nerf it in the future if it's really too hard. But you can finish it!

@nyandev Thank you very much for your nice comment :)

@coder-channel thank you very much for your time :)

@adam-clayden thank you very much for your time and comment, we didn't balance very well the sounds that's true

@peachtreeoath thank you very much for your comment! Sounds effects are found at opengameart.org, I just took some of them and selected the ones that were nice. It's not from us, but the particle system, the effect, was made by us :) Glad you enjoyed it a bit, thank you again !

@khaoz-fang Thank you very much :)

@oktarian No of course you are not bad! You are just not used to the control and it comes with practice that's all! Don't be worry! thank you! :)

@myrmyxo thank you for your play and comment! Sorry to have made your play a bit meany. The game is mean indeed at some point but well we didn't balance it very well, we had a difficult game jam so we couldn't focus too much, but the idea, the essence is there! :) Sorry for the bug, it is knowned that sometimes you start back at level 1. We will look into it. Thanks !

@sir-syko Thank you very much for your comment :)

@scofflaw-games Yeah I saw that rage quit. LIVE. gotcha! :D thank you for your stream and time!

@icxon Ohh thank you so much to have made a little let's play video, you shouldn't have! That's very nice of you! I could see that you struggled at some point, I felt really bad watching haha! But thank you for your time and play and video and comment, that's really nice of you! :)

@vulpineblazeyt Yeah it is at some point! Sorry for that and hopefully it gave you goosebumps! :D

@quasar47 Thank you very much for your nice comment, that's too nice from you! :) We did as much as we could despite a difficult weekend as we were 2 but on different timezones. But hopefully you had some fun challenge and a good time :) It's nice to see that you enjoyed the gameplay and the flying feeling. It's not that perfect but it works well and that's a good point to start with. The theme wasn't really well implemented on this one, your opinion is a good example on how we could have changed that a little bit and adapt it more to fit. And you are right with what you say. We will keep progressing and be able to have a better workflow! thanks again :)