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Iceskimo

By purpoappo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall14373.2026
Fun9313.3326
Innovation14152.8326
Theme5073.9326
Graphics12433.3726
Audio11672.6826
Humor11122.4325
Mood14103.1026

Comments

adamsmccall 2021-04-27 13:54

Simple concept but nice game ! A bit too easy though, you can't die unless you really want to.

purpoappo 2021-04-27 16:26

@adamsmccall Thanks for the feedback! It is pretty unbalanced, I didn't do enough playtesting :slight_frown:

hypertheory 2021-04-27 17:25

Nice Prototype. The art style is great. More random items would make this game more fun.

le-slo 2021-04-27 17:26

Pretty simple game well done, on the easy side in term of difficult. The graphics are also consistent and fitting, I laughed at the idea of fire hidden inside the ice. The sound was a bit hard to listen to, thought, it would be my biggest complain. Good job and keep coding!

usecondsomskid 2021-04-27 17:27

pretty nice and simple game, i had fun playing it, i reached a depth of 60 the art style is nice and simple, well done!

gnevesdev 2021-04-27 17:27

The randomness of destroying a dark-blue block makes the game kind of unfair in my opinion. Sometimes it makes you warm, other times it freezes you. Apart from that, I liked the gameplay and the sound was not very bad too. The graphics are also nice.

purpoappo 2021-04-27 17:31

@gnevesdev randomness keeps the game interesting

mahalis 2021-04-27 17:34

This is cute! On my best run I made it down to 46. I liked the randomness of the dark blue blocks; unexpectedly getting a cold one made for an interesting challenge. It might have been good to have some more structure to the areas that you couldn’t dig through (I assume I wasn’t supposed to dig the ! blocks? never actually tried it), but it works without that. Well done.

cole-hutson 2021-04-27 17:36

I agree that the randomness kind of breaks the game a little. You are really taking a chance on living or dying. You might need a way to telegraph what's in the boxes.

rawb 2021-04-27 17:36

Nice game, really cool art style

purpoappo 2021-04-27 17:47

@mahalis you are supposed to dig the ! blocks. they break blocks around them

metalfox-dioxymore 2021-04-27 21:28

That was a really nice little game ! With some tweaks and a bit more content, I can totally see myself playing it on my smartphone in the metro ! icekimo.png

After a few attempts, a reached a depth of 107, then I got 3 ice blocks in a row and died instantly :/. That's the dark side of using randomness, it can create frustrating/unfair patterns. Of course, in such a short amount of time, it is the most simple solution to generate a level, but I think the next step would be to have distinct "fire-only" blocks that gives you a little bit of warmth, so using a "random" one would be a choice (and not a constraint ^^).

Anyway, I had a good time digging with my little iceskimo (I love the name btw), good job !

ds-nahogara 2021-04-27 21:53

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Fantastic little game!! I had ton of fun with it, the randomness is a great part aside what other users said, it brings tense and discovery, having 4 explosive blocks in a connected chunks is a blast.

Great game!

purpoappo 2021-04-27 23:01

@ds-nahogara wow! you got very far :flushed:

bruno-bombardi 2021-04-29 15:08

Nice and simple game. Reminded me a bit of Mr Driller! Graphics and sound are minimalistic but pretty. I can see potential if you choose to keep developing it. Congrats for a great entry!

pedrohph 2021-04-29 15:11

Nice game! I love these arcade games, and you made a fun game. I missed a progressive difficulty, it's a bit easy.

Anyway, great graphics and sound. Gameplay is easy to understand. Good job :smile:

marcoming 2021-04-29 15:12

Simple game but very addictive, I was confused at the beginning because I though I had to avoid the fire, but a part from that, nice game! good job!

wouter52 2021-04-29 15:40

I like your game a lot. I'm a bit tired today and these kind of games are just what I need :smile: A simple case of: simple to learn, hard to master :innocent:

The graphics are cute and the sound effects are fitting really well with this one

My highscore is 142

asue 2021-04-29 18:14

Simple and minimalist, I really like the art style! The sound when you dig a block scared me at first ahah

koalaura 2021-04-30 14:59

Simple but nice game! The sound was really loud though and jumpscared me haha! The graphics are very cute!

guimoliveira 2021-05-01 16:48

Nice game! It seems that the difficulty is constant, I think it would be more cool if it became harder as time goes by. Good job. :v: