Dream forever, live once by Volute 2013-12-17T08:28:00
Awesome look.
As you said, sounds are a bit off (music seems not on the same speed as the game). I would have loved more feedbacks too (like how many mistakes are left).
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Komanska | compo | 770 | 2.93 | 2.40 | 2.87 | 2.87 | 2.27 | 22 | ||||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | MicroChess | compo | 275 | 3.49 | 3.26 | 4.30 | 3.68 | 2.72 | 2.64 | 2.63 | 58 | ||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Game Of Life | compo | 616 | 2.86 | 2.30 | 2.98 | 2.20 | 2.93 | 1.78 | 1.65 | 2.47 | 69 |
Awesome look.
As you said, sounds are a bit off (music seems not on the same speed as the game). I would have loved more feedbacks too (like how many mistakes are left).
Funny gravity ;-)
It funny, I made a compo entry based on game of life too on a smaller scale :-)
Keep it up!
I have to agree with others: really good looking entry (it just lacks a background music on art side) but the gameplay lacks any challenge at all.
Thanks for the feedbacks
@vinull: I'm happy that you life the simple look.
@TheThirdOne: you are right, I put mostly stable designs at start, and virus do not spread that much, so it's quite easy. I might add a customization tool to set the level of virality of the viruses.
Well crockid5, it's not somebody elses game, go look on wikipedia, game of life is not even a game at first... I used the basic mecanism, but everything else that makes a game (you know, player inputs, win/lose conditions, feedbacks, audio, graphs...) comes from me, and was started from scratch on saturday.
The theme interpretation is "You only get 1 cell to save them all", and I agree it's not very straightforward... like almost every other entry here, because this theme sucked big time (well, it's not even a theme, it's just a random sentence that gives no restriction on the game).
But I think you should warn now Richard Garriot that Blizzard just stole and remade Ultima with WoW.
Right zorfmorf, I should have put a setting for making viruses more lethal.
I can't really allow player to put more than one cell, it's the theme of the LD.
And you can disable hints with the "Tips" auto button. I should have labelled it "hints" instead, but the wrong word came to my mind :-(
@others: thank you for the feedbacks, I'm really happy to see so many enjoying graphics, it was supposed to be my worst speciality but simple is neat :-)
@Udell: what browser are you using? It works for me on Chrome, but maybe not elsewhere.
Nice game, reminds me of portal too. Only complain is that I feel like I move too fast, it's often hard to control.
It feels a bit rough, but the atmosphere and music are OK, and it could have been good with the theme gameplay you were trying to do.
Very nice looking, nice story, nice alien language, 5 stars ;-)
Good handling of the theme.
Great!
I wish there were different levels and more balance in the cards (the one to skip ennemies feels strong!), but it's fun.
Best game I4ve seen so far, and probably the closest one to the Theme. Graphics are incredible too. Congratz.
It looks fun, but it's a shame you didn't complete it :-)
First entry that made me play several times in a row to complete it flawlessly, good!
I only wish graphics were a bit better, other cars behaviour more... erhm... car-ish and horn had some kind of limitation (right now it's just spamming).
Fun & hard :-)
Nice game, fun to play, but very far from the theme :-(
Very nice entry. Everything is perfect apart from the theme flavour.
Funny idea, well done besides missing characters. And it's freaking multiplayer, so that's definitively cool.
FINAL SCORE: a lot
This single joke owned you extra star ;-)
Very fun game.
Great graphics and feel.
I think you only should tune down the difficulty at start a little bit (the controls are not very accurate, I tend to fall of platforms often).
Fun entry :-)
Good puzzlegame but the rotation is very unprecise, and frustrating :(
Really nice, maybe the well rounded entry I4ve played so far.
I have to agree with Ricklesauceur : it can be good, but it's a bit slow right now.
Really interesting idea. It's quite hard to beat the levels beyond 4/5!
Hard to figure out what I'm supposed to do :/
Basic but well done!
Really interesting proposal. It lacks content, but I think it could very well fit with a stealth game (yeah, a blind guy stealth game :-) ).
Well... it's slow but it looks good :-)
Nice game, really frustrating sometimes, but in a good way. I wish you put some real music notes on the blue/pink circles :-)
Good job, and I agree with you 100% with the recent themes (I only entered this week end, but I4ve been watching colleagues on LD for years).
Very nice, congratz.
I keep dying :-)
Awesome!
City building part is perfect (only dialog sounds are boring ^^) but castle could have been better (controls, level design and rendering wise).
Cool and full of humor, but I wish there were sounds or better graphics :-)
First impression is very rough too : it took me a while to realize what to do with this black screen (because of course I don't read texts...)
Cute :-)
IT seems like there are more bugs and crashes than expected :( Sorry about that, and thanks for still playing and rating it
Great entry !
Looks like a fun core gameplay. It can be good for a mobile "collect tons of characters to beat a map of stages" game.
As other mentioned, main flaws are lack of tuto and slow gauge, but everything else is great!
Nice polish and polished and casual, all my taste.
I can feel the inspiration from the snowman theme :D
Funny.
Well, I really don't understand much ^^
Really good game, and it looks nice. I just wished it was more theme related with something about the screen, but it does not matter, it's fun to play. Congratz.
Now more detailled feedback:
- I wish I could only satisfy contracts on areas I have a contact, because right now, the location of contracts is meaningless.
- you should make a smaller version for people like me that don't have a huge HD screen. I had the screen cut when playing, so I didn't saw any tutorial text on my first run, it was frustrating.
- I wish there was a goal or an end, right now I played 40+ weeks and stacked coins with my contacts.
A few technical issues (I evade a pirate by cloaking but I still take damage... is it on purpose ? It should be mentioned then. + traders agree to trade for fewer resources than what they ask for)
A few balance issues (food is useless, health is too generous, scanning is far too dangerous, just do nothing and wait when out of fuel)
But overall it's good :)
Great realisation, but the board is a bit too huge to make it fun for me. Happy to see another entry based on chess :-)
Very nice, and the theme is 100% here, well done!
Very Out there-esque, and I like it. Great work!
Hard to play but highly original. I wish your web version was working, just upload it on a site like itch.io
Hmmm, strange. I don't know what to do ^^
Really good looking and a classic gameplay. Good entry.
Too hard for me, but well done.
Quite fun but I don't find it much theme related, the screen is not very important in the gameplay.
Excellent idea, you should release a polished version on mobiles.
I suggest you use a smaller grid with less colors (like 3 or maybe 4) but force a 3-block combo to make it harder. And more things should happen on robot part of the screen so the player has to make smart choices of components at the right time.
Only drawback besides balance is that the theme is only considered as a limitation, not an inspiration.
Anyway, really nice, release it fast on mobile before I get tempted to make my own variation :p
Fun entry, and gorgeous!
There's a bit to do with the AI as you can just stick in the toilets, pointing at the door to survive forever and get kills slowly.
By the way, I got a bug where I could go though walls on the very bottom right part of the toilets, and my character got stuck outside the screen, see a screenshot:
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/647937StuckOut.png
You're right, the game is lacking juicy feedbacks on top bar where all informations are. Thanks for the feedback.
Best sound effects ever :-)
Great one, fun narration and good theme usage.