Nimin: A minimal sidescroll shooter by Haversack 2013-05-20T09:31:00
Nice one, although I found myself sending sine-waves of death at my enemies, the shooting could do with some kind of limit.
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Sanity | compo | 457 | 3.26 | 2.56 | 3.84 | 3.72 | 3.36 | 3.75 | 2.00 | 3.63 | 71 | ||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | rEvolution | compo | 17 |
JonRB leaves an average of 12.5 feedback comments each event.
Nice one, although I found myself sending sine-waves of death at my enemies, the shooting could do with some kind of limit.
I really like the art style, but as those before me mentioned, the game is a little slow. I found it really hard - Perhaps I'm not great at typing random numbers, I don't know.
I'm unfortunately afflicted with a line of red and yellow dead pixels down the middle of this screen, so the game became quite difficult at about 12. Frustratingly made it to 15 a number of times. Occasionally fucked up and pressed the wrong button and given the movement time it would be nice if it let you change during the glide.
The instructions weren't terribly helpful as to what I was supposed to be doing but I got the hang of it, and soon loved it. Spent more time playing it than I expected, great job!
T'is a bold man who uses vocals, but I think it paid off!
For some reason this reminds me of a nuclear reactor simulator I played/used once.
Could have done with some eerie music, but otherwise a great game!
A bit tedious but suitably minimalistic. The music, in spite of being a 3s loop, is quite nice and sets the mood quite well.
Wow! I love the feel of this game. It's fantastic! The level in the dark is pretty challenging. Running down corridors with naught but your own footsteps to accompany you...
404. Nice website, though.
Took me a while to grasp the controls, once I had them, I found them easy enough to use. Sometimes the messages didn't seem to stay long enough to read them. Overall great game!
Wow! Such a complex game with so few elements! Started off thinking 'well this is a little too easy' but spent ages playing!
Nice game, although the controls didn't seem to be terribly consistent. Reminiscent of a game I've played before, but I can't remember which. The levels could have been a little more challenging as they only really had one solution.
The audio really added to the mood! Strange game. The lack of context makes it weirder. I love it!
Not much to it but an addicting little game. I seem to recall having a similar game on my phone AAAAGES ago. The sounds became a little annoying later on when it's just beeping at you all the time but otherwise I don't have any complaints.
Lovely graphics! The music was so calming, which soothed my annoyance at the 'counting' system which counted non-movements. I got a little annoyed at the movement (I don't like things going the wrong way when I'm under time pressure) but it's hard to stay annoyed at such a nice game.
Well rounded game, but it became a little headache-inducing and tedious so I stopped.
The music is decent if a little repetitive. It occasionally had this strange blip when it started over but otherwise it suited the game well.
Nice graphics, I really liked the 'noise' overlay effect.
Lost seemingly randomly once or twice but otherwise a good game.
Great game. The music is great, the graphics are great. I like everything about this game.
I was particularly fond of the scrolling text slowly creating the colour codes, too. It's a little thing but I appreciated it.
I tend to avoid content that isn't 'Web' on LD (Because I'm a terrible person, and I like not having to clear out my downloads folder after each LD), but it looked good enough and the file wasn't terribly big.
Sadly, when I downloaded it I found myself unable to run the .jar file. I opened it from the command line and it spat out :
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path
Does that mean I need to install something? If so, please provide links.
Pretty nice game, the graphics left something to be desired although I suppose they were true to the theme. There is a tiny bug on the 'you scored too many points' screen where the arrows don't line up with the options but apart from that everything seemed to work just fine.
I love it! Really original idea (As far as I know, anyway). I found it pretty challenging. Instructions would have been nice, but apart from that a great entry.
Cute and indeed simplistic. Not sure how to handle both obstacles appearing at once.
Nice game, although the music gets quite repetitive... Pretty original way of platforming and a good game overall.
Great game! Eerie music and strange surreal graphics. My favourite!
2 players! What?! Love the game, can get a bit crazy. A distinct lack of instructions but it didn't take long to figure out. Very true to the theme and a pretty original idea.
Like the sounds but they get a little repetitive quite quickly. Lovely animations and the graphics in general are stunning.
I seemed to hit a dead end after playing this for longer than I had anticipated. Fantastic ambiance and it's great to see some vocal work too!
Great overall! A couple of typos but a fun and challenging game that manages to stay true to the theme.
Lovely! Wonderful concept! I'm a fan of RTS games as it is, this is truly superb! The audio leaves something to be desired but it's amazing how this minimal game can be so complex at the same time!
My immediate thought of the game was 'wow, I like the graphics'. I find the audio quite annoying, however, and I had difficulties figuring out exactly what I was supposed to be doing (I read your post afterwards and was impressed with the whole 'multiplayer' aspect.
Annoying that there doesn't seem to be any level scaling. I've been started off on 80s numerous times which I find near-impossible to complete. True to the theme although it could have done with a little instruction.
Strange, dark and poetic. Seems like there were plans to expand, it's a shame it didn't get finished (Either that or the game is staying literally true to its name).
Not bad, spent more time on it than I would perhaps have liked. Gets infuriating as I sometimes seem unable to avoid crashes. The sounds left something to be desired but it stayed true to the theme. Nice concept in general.
It's certainly minimal. I used to be obsessed with these kinds of puzzles. The character's brow probably closely resembled my own as I tried to figure out what caused what in the game. The cat is a strange turn of events.
Lovely surreal game. Harder than I first expected, but once I got the hang of it I found it very enjoyable. The sound effects were well-fitting and the ambient sound created a fantastic atmosphere.
It's alright, nice touches with the audio but I'm not really feeling the depth that other commenters seem to have felt. It is a little poetic though, I grant you that. Keeps well to the theme.
The music sets the scene really well and the levels are pretty well balanced. I love the strange humour. The graphics could be better but work well with the theme I suppose.
I like the combat combos and the dialog in particular.
10/10 would bang.
Certainly an excellent TD game.
I've played worse 'professional' ones.
It doesn't seem to be running on my browser (Chrome, win7).
From the screenshots it looks like a decent enough game and I'm looking forward to trying it.
Love it! I like the whole concept and the graphics are really well done. I did struggle a bit with learning to do things on my own but it's relatively intuitive!
I've been playing this non stop for about 30 minutes....
Love it!
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Esc by Crumpet 2014-04-28T14:14:00
I really enjoyed this game. It's hard to strike balance between making an enjoyable game and addressing a matter like this but I think you've succeeded.
I agree with some of the other comments that it's quite important to be able to finish the game, because this is definitely a game worth finishing.