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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Hopper | compo | 664 | 3.07 | 3.10 | 3.00 | 3.34 | 3.07 | 3.31 | 2.00 | 2.59 | 71 | ||
| 2011 | 20 | It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This! | Fish With Weapon | compo | 142 | 2.94 | 2.88 | 2.38 | 3.00 | 2.88 | 3.38 | 3.13 | 1.70 | 7 |
I thought this was great fun!
I liked the art style and the moving/shooting. The clouds gave it a nice feel.
My only niggles were that Zombies look like they need to be slightly closer before they should kill you (looked like it worked on some kind of collision detection? Which didn't feel right if you hit a zombie above you in my opinion) Otherwise all it's missing is a good chip tune to play along with it :)
Well that was fun :)
Great concept, feels like something that could be developed further into something quite special! I wasn't especially good at it once the police got involved though, these little ruffians don't run very fast...
Hey, thanks for the great comments Cybs!
Yeah there are 4 friends to rescue overall, there's a machine gun and a bazooka that you can pick up by rescuing them.
Thanks for the comments Fenmar! Different dialogues was definitely something I had planned, feel bad that I didn't manage it now.
Thanks for the positive comments, they're much appreciated :)
Endurion, I couldn't agree more! The music was done in the last hour I had available to work and, again, I really regret not having the time for putting in the dying events (not only for the main character but also a more interesting way for the bad guys to die.)
Thanks for having a go! :)
Kylerhoades, I'm so glad someone mentioned that, it was one of the original puns I came up with before starting on the game so I'm really pleased it's not been wasted :D
Thanks for your kind comments!
Thanks for the comments about the music Jack, I've certainly been writing music longer than writing games! (Available for music work if anyone needs it! *hint hint*)
hexygen, the collision detection issues were unfortunate. At least I know I should learn a better technique for this now!
Glad you liked the music! :)
Goods: nice idea, good mechanics, easy to pick up, loved how the tutorial text became part of the levels.
Bads: Repetitive music, too easy to kill yourself, lacks purpose (eg, compelling story)
Yeah very cool, enjoyed this. Not finished it yet on account of dying too often (think I may have been on the last level or close though!)
Very enjoyable overall. I agree with most of the other comments here, the thing that gave me a headache was the constant shaking of the screen when the boulders fell though!
Otherwise I thought it was very original and addictive.
I thought it was wonderful how the in game objects moved to the beat. I thought the use of the string for the health of the balloon was very inventive! Congrats on a great game!
I thought the guy's WTF face was brilliant. Great game mechanic, I actually like that it's unrealistic.
Missed having no music/sound, shame you didn't get any more time to work on this.
Yeah good fun that, shame there weren't more levels or at least longer levels. I only had to throw my crown once when playing, I didn't stick around to see what happened but I laughed when I thought I heard him getting beaten up!
Like others have said the concept is interesting but I just couldn't get into it. Didn't really know what to do when presented with the wall in front of the main character.
I think I get what you were going for though and it would be interesting to see when it's finished!
Crazy, just crazy. But somehow great as well!
Heheh nice. Although I'm sure it cheated. I'm positive that I won!
Great take on the theme, One of the most minimalistic games I've ever played. And it actually is a game still! WOuld have been cool to have 1 player, but on the other hand since it was just me here, I never lost!
Phew, took me quite a few turns to win for something so straightforward :)
Really enjoyed that, one of the best games I've played of the compo so far!
Liked this yeah. The talking head reminded me of an episode of Red Dwarf so that was a good start ;)
Then the gameplay itself was compelling. The regular upgrade system was a great idea. I only scored 2786 but found there's certainly a touch of tactical play involved in avoiding the herd of baddies.
it could have done with a slightly longer music loop, and perhaps some sounds on the "hymns" would have been nice.
Otherwise yeah not bad :)
Nice atmosphere but seemed a bit short unless I wasn't supposed to get stuck after going down the stairs (there didn't appear to be anything to click on and I suspected it was an ending screen because of the colour?)
Graphics were fantastic, but the music did get to me a bit.
Overall nicely done!
Coolies!
Felt easier once I knew I could go diagonally and got my head around the fact I could simply switch left/right without having to go through up/down first.
Nice music too :D
I think I just beat the matrix...
Seriously though that was quite the experience. I think my ears need to pop.
I wasn't entirely sure what was going on but there were coloured blocks to shoot so that was ok. The disorientation brought on by being hit was pretty cool. Don't think I could play it again right now but yeah, memorable!
Found 3 endings so far!
I love the fact that if you decide to kill everyone, more people appear to kill! Brilliant :D
Enjoyed it, nice entry!
I liked it - I was rubbish at it! But could see where the tactics came into it.
Felt a bit unfair that the enemy kept spawning loads of new chaps in.
Would have been good to play some missions with this control system (but where there were fixed numbers of enemies!)
Thanks for comments so far guys! Lovely to see you found it fun, and it's quite tempting to keep developing it!
Btw, my highscore so far is 73! I'm sure someone can smash that though ;)
Thanks again everyone, all comments are totally welcome. I'm working on this more post-compo and hope to have an improved version up and running soon :)
Clever stuff! Cool video before the game and enjoyed a couple of rounds. Kind of wanted it to get to my game so I could smash that up too!
Does it ever find your game on the site? Does it turn into the infinite smash lotusgame project? :D
Okay that was pretty awesome :)
I think I broke my mouse! But enjoyed discovering the different methods required to win.
Great entry sir!
Certainly goes with the theme, very minimalistic, liked the silhouetted style. The sound was a bit disapointing, no music and only a few beeps. Also there was no indicator to how I'd done on my two failed attempts (I had no idea if I was improving at all!)
Very smooth game play though, good feel to it.
Really like the way you incorporated minimalistic art into the game. The bugs are an annoyance but you can avoid them most of the time.
My biggest issues were that there wasn't any real indicator on how well I was doing other than the number of balls I had - perhaps the number of frames I'd created would have been a nice figure to have.
Also I couldn't get past the end game screen, not sure if I was pressing the wrong thing or if it's a known bug or what, but I just wanted to try again and didn't seem to have an option to do so.
Overall very cool :)
I also really like the idea behind the game. But there are a few things that made it trickier than it could have been to play.
Some tooltips on the actions would have helped. Being able to remove a single action from the list would have saved time. And in that case it could have recovered your last action list that didn't succeed last time when you restart the level.
Also there was no sound that I heard :(
otherwise it looked great and played pretty well - good stuff! :D
Wow, quite heavy that! I managed to get the good ending though so quite pleased.
The story did drag me in, I was definitely keen on finding out what had happened to Evelyn. I died plenty of times though :D
There wasn't much in the way of sound, not sure if that's because I'm on Win8 or anything.
Thanks for sharing your game!
Uh...ah...wha?
I think that was good, but I'm not sure. Is good bad? Or is bad bad? The voices confuse me!
Awesome work! Love the little messages along the way (especially that last one!) Great concept for a minimalist game.
Took me 3 attempts to realise I could fly through the building like structures. Then I found I could cheat a little by flying right to the top and shooting a lot.
The second part was a lot trickier for me though!
My only annoyance was the music, but that's probably just a personal thing ;)
Good stuff!
Very cool, got a bit frustrated that I had to start all over again once I experimented by jumping down one of the holes! But very nice to control and pretty fun!
Liked it! Very simple idea and executed well. I think had you added some sound (unless I just can't hear it) it could have added to the panic when things suddenly go wrong!
I did get to a point where I could manage the remaining blocks ongoing. Generally though I thought it was very cool.
Hey, well the controls were a bit frustrating. The text at the top of the screen saved the game a bit for me. I didn't get any music either (win8?) but had a listen in the assets folder and it was nice but very short.
Definitely scores high on the theme but otherwise needed something else to make it more interesting. Personally I stopped when I got to the shooting levels (when I somehow was slow enough to get shot and the whole level restarted)
Great stuff, I initially (stupidly) skipped the instructions but figured out what to do quite quickly. Some really funny bits in there, enjoyed it a lot :)
You don't mess with the internet!
Also agree that a little more needs to be added to the color to indicate their function. However nice way to incorporate the minimalist artwork!
Could have done with some music but enjoyed a few rounds of this :)
Good fun! Couldn't beat it (yet) but I think that's because I refuse to slow down! Must go faster!!
The game played really well, although a slightly further draw distance would have helped. Both the art and the music worked with the theme well :)
Really nice, very much appealed to my programmer brain!
Got very tricky very quickly though! Would help to see the initial velocity of the stream as I kept forgetting the angle it would start at!
Would have liked some music, but the various sounds made up for it. Very nicely presented :)
Very minimalistic, liked the idea behind the game. I found it to be a bit frustrating, even once I'd figured out what to do. It's a tad too unforgiving if you stray too far from the path in my opinion. Otherwise I liked the characterisation of the shapes and the music :)
WINN!
Okay that was good fun, if a little short. Bit more explanation would have helped. I found that constant clicking made movement easier for example and didn't realise until half way through that eating people increased my health.
Otherwise enjoyed it. Music and art very good :)
There was quite a satisfaction to be had by finding the tiles for sure! Although past that I did wonder why I was doing it at all :)
There wasn't much of a challenge, I half expected bad guys to start flying around so that it wasn't just as straight forward as finding the right square to activate.
Pretty nice otherwise, could have done with a touch of music imo ;)
Wow, enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would! These kind of puzzles always appeal to me though :)
Nicely thought out and fits the theme well, good stuff!
You definitely feel like you've accomplished something by completing this! The big spider puzzle was fun to beat, but the one just before was a bit of an annoyance ;)
Nice game!
Certainly fits the theme! Nice entry :)
Enjoyed this, had a bit of portal to it because of the laser stuff. The sound started off good when the lasers turned on, but I really felt that on achieving a door open that some kind of melody should have played in the same style/key as the laser sound. That would have been awesome.
Otherwise I enjoyed it enough to get to the end and it worked well as a minimalist game :)
34! The ripple idea made it a lot more interesting than I thought it would be :)
Really love the atmosphere to this. I seemed to have a few odd game-overs (couldn't see what I'd done to cause them) but generally nice to play!
Defended! Great stuff, enjoyed that and really loved the style :)
Not too hard once you know how to aim. Could have done with a restart option after being defeated the first time (or even when I won).
Agh that music! It's nice then it goes "aha, you're going craazy!"
Liked it but it begs for *upgrades* you can get by achieving long distances (something like learning-to-fly-2)
Silly balloons!
Yeah liked it :)
Love the idea here, a nice minimalist adaptation on chess.
It's a shame there was no single player mode, but I can imagine how tricky that would be for a 48hr compo!
Music got to me a bit after a few goes. Otherwise liked the game :)
Interesting entry, some errors in the collision detection (where bullets went through walls that were not visible) made things tricky but otherwise good fun!
The story texts were pretty cool too :)
Nice, won on easy mode, didn't go for the hardest mode (I felt clever by then and didn't want to ruin it!)
The attack sound effects were a bit lacking and in stark contrast to the music which was good.
Good stuff :D
Nice concept, simple but clean I liked it.
Few issues for me: Aiming was a bit annoying as it didn't seem to go where I was clicking. Couldn't hear any sound. Sometimes there were long gaps between the different waves in the levels.
Otherwise yeah, good stuff :)
Wow, kinda spooky in a way but I liked it! Had a level where only mines appeared and I couldn't progress but otherwise worked very well.
It was a bit tricky to see my character. I didn't feel I was being skillful as much as lucky most of the time!
The music could have progressed a bit further but the woosh by sound effects were good!
Otherwise it was all well put together :)
Good fun! Loved the level with the big set of steps and all the eggs were coming down. Bit of an :arghh!: moment, but in a good way :)