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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Lost in space | compo | 691 | 2.55 | 2.40 | 1.93 | 2.17 | 2.17 | 3.03 | 3.48 | 2.65 | 71 |
Awesome. The gameplay reminds me a lot of VVVVVV. It's more difficult (4 directions), but opens the way for many things : more puzzle, finish the level with the smallest amount of movements/time, and so on. Please keep improving it !
Too bad the game is so short !
Nice game ! The cheap pictures do not remove anything, the game is fun to play (even though I can't stand the purple thingy, really hard to avoid !).
Very nice game, it is fun to play and the intro rocks :) That's great that you made it to Kongregate !
However you should had the score on the game over screen, and give the directions in a more clear way (the "tutorial" screen is not placed in an intuitive way (you don't reach it when you click on play, and when you do that first there is not information on what to do. The information in the intro is not enough to figure out what to do).
Very good game ! It's entertaining, fun to play, challenging, complete, close to the theme and beautiful. A bit hard to control though, but I loved playing it ! Maybe some highscores would add something to the challenge ?
Really funny idea ! The style is really great.
Really great !
The game's mechanics are really great, and the polish is great.
There is something weird with the rockets though; they seem to turn for no reason (maybe that's normal) but they can shoot at the player even though they are not aiming at it.
Really good !!!
That's really not an easy game, but the art is among the best I've seen in the indie game world
I love the graphics, the intro, and the conclusion. The spider is really scary ! That's just too bad movements are a bit glithcy (sometimes you can't move the way you'd want too. Give us a longer game ! :)
Great game ! The concept of crafting in order to modify one's stats is really good. I really enjoyed playing your game.
Some things though:
- We you are small, there is one adamantium level where you can't jump, but you can walk vertically.
- the player is sloooooooooooow in the lab room.
- the level randomization is not good. I played 3 times in a row the same level. It would be nice to avoid this in other to keep the player entertained.
- Maybe the great scientist could have a notebook with the list of recipes he found ? and of the reactions he already made ? I was small, then big, and had to get some catonium and forgot how to get small again, and didnt feel like starting again to look through all the reactions, and quit.
I'd love to see a more polished version (maybe with more levels ?)
Congratulations anyway !
That's creepy, yet interesting. Please, make the guy move faster !
Clearly inspired from a quite famous indie game for the action part, however mixing it with another famous game for the building part is very clever and interesting !
Right now it's a bit messy though, maybe the player should have a minimap. And have a faster initial speed. With better graphics, background music, etc, i could be much better game. Right now, something is lacking to make the action part entertaining. There is no really interesting challenge right now. I'm sure all of this can be fixed but this start is already very interesting, thanks !
And to the guys saying "good idea, bad implementation" : thank you, you are being very useful.
Too bad the game is not finished, the realization is very original. I have not seen anything similar on LD, and I don't think I ever played a game like this !
Funny ! The idea of the guy who has to pee is good. The improved version is better. Good postmortem as well :)
I really liked the story and gameplay (even though its unforgiving). I also loved that you took your inspiration from old snes games (in the graphic style, the tile stuf, and even in the credit screen...).
However i'm really not fond of the story. "A new Island" "another new island" "now I can leave". Ok... but why??? Why are they appearing ? why did the original island start moving ? how comes she can build a spacecraft/a plane ?
That's the only detail. Gameplay could be slightly improved yet your already did something really great.
Rah, you clearly have a lot of imagination and a great talent for making pretty pixels, but why, WHY ?!? Why did you make such a classic plateformer ?..
Anyway the game is really complete, good and consistent, not too easy/not too hard, and quite old school (yeah, maybe that's the reason).
I'm impressed by your talent anyway.
I loved the game, but controlling the 2 characters at the same time never felt right. However the realization is very good and the game fun to play !
A very interesting idea... any plans for the future ?
Interesting idea, but like KevinWorkman, I did not manage to get past the 2nd level. It lacks in game explanation, without what is said in this page, you have no idea why the game is behaving like this
Wow. Graphics here are really original !
Even the title is funny :)
I can't believe there are not more comments !
This is very fun to play and original. Maybe a bit confusing ?
I'd love to play it as a multiplayer game, anyway this is already very very good.
The intro screen is very nice, the characters are beautiful pixel art. Maybe the actions are not very clear at first but this is easy to understand afterwards.
Keep up the good work !
Yeah, I wanted to have something finished (intro, menu, credits and stuff), but in the end I did not have enough time to make something fun to play.
Yep, a friend of me told me that he had the same issue on Firefox. I tested on Chrome and Firefox before submitting, yet did not had the problem.
I did not have time to investigate, but I guess it's related to the state of the canvas which is handled differently and which is more permissive in the latest versions of browsers.
Awesome idea, and very well realized ! It took me about 20mn too reach the end, that's a very nice duration for a game made in 2 days. Definitely one of my favorites.
Funny to play, but I don't see the point of the basic gun, it is really useless. And jumping sound is reaaaally upsetting. Anyway the gameplay is pretty good, the idea for giving the player information is good even though it's very classic.
Funny game ! It costed me my eyes to play it though, but that's the price for having a game very close to the topic.
The idea is good, that's just a bit annoying that the player is so slowly moving... but in the original zelda game it was the same.
I especially loved the dialogs, they are very entertaining !
Wow ! The minimalistic style really does magic here !
Wow.
I felt so frustrated when after the 3rd level I was brought back to the title screen !
The dashing idea is really nice, the style is awesome (the enemies gets blue when they are hit... but in very polished way. I love how much attention you put into this detail).
I would definitely pay for a longer version.
Thanks for the postmortem which is also very interesting for the technical details. Is there any place where we can follow some more of your stuff ? Games or anything !
Loved it ! The gameplay is a classic, but the realization makes it fit really well the theme. And it's very fun to play thanks to the idea of zoom levels ("oh no, how comes they made it to this level, I have to get rid of them... oh no, some more are coming on the other side... ahhhhhhhh !")
Simple, interesting story, nice graphics, very good realization... the only place I did not put 5 stars was innovation since it reminds me a lot of Zelda.
Your game is really good though and I really felt frustrated when I reached the armory :D
I loved the story thing with the rain. It works very well with the sound of rain in the background (and with "clouds be blessed !" that someone says east from the start).
I also liked the different level of zoom depending on the location. This is a nice feature.
However:
- the game is a bit hard or maybe the shooting ennemies are too strong
- the player is too slow IMO, same for the shooting frequency
- it's not very clear at first that the "branches" of the player represent it's amount of life.
- having to click in a game that you control with the keyboard is at first annoying, yet makes sense when you get the weapon
Keep up the good work !
Great story. I really enjoyed the dialogs and being in the brain of the girl :)
Awesome ! Very fun to play. A bit though to figure out at first, but this is very good ! I did not get at first why I could not orient the pieces the way I wanted, there is no explanation that the will only go in one direction. The camera is also a bit not the way you would expect it... maybe would it be better with the possibility to rotate the view or something like this ?
Anyway, I really enjoyed playing your game.
And what is more the concept can easily be improved with more levels, more shapes, and so on. Are you planning to do a larger version ?
Just wow.
It's incredible you made such an amazing amount of nice things in 2 days : graphics are really nice, storytelling is awesome, gameplay is pretty good... and your productivity on the timelapse is impressive as well
Definitely one of the best games I've seen here ! Awesome idea and realization !
Very beautiful ! I love the idea, love the game mechanic and the realization. However, I did not quite get how to make a high score....
I love the take on movements. Some bugs on collisions, yet it's beautiful. Oh, I love the music and the graphical style too !
Very polished, but a bit too easy. Maybe levels are too long without much challenge ? I gave up after during level 3 because of it.
Anyway the realization is very good, the title screen is the best i've seen so far.
Really beautiful graphics !
However the directions for the player seems not very clear to me (keep your balance ! ok ? how ?)
Oh and I love the picture with the iPad :)
Haha, it looks like whe had a very similar idea; however your game is much better than what I did, and the story is much more crazy :D
Wow. The realisation is impressive, I really love the music and the graphic style. It's really done in the spirit of the classic point and clicks, and it works very well.
You guys are really talented ! And you kept the secret that you were doing something that awesome on the IRC channel ! I'm definitely looking forward to see some more of your stuff.
Awesome. The gameplay is solid, innovative. The realization is very good ! The tutorial is very polished, the game is easy to pick up but probably hard to play efficiently.
Now like the others, I wish there where some real cards to play the game with my friends :)
Are you going to developp this game further ?
It was I was "pff, another mario clone". And then I was "Waah, I want moaaaaaaar" ! Quite a fun game !
Wow. you really managed to scare me :)
Good concept, too bad the physics is a weird hard to play with (but that's not very surprising, physics is really hard to tweak, especially in 2 days...). I guess it also lacks explanation and stuff that would turn your proof of concept into an actual game, but I'm already very happy with what you came up with.
Good realisation, original gameplay and idea ! In a way I really felt connected to my weak soldier haha :)
Really hard game. It lacks a proper tutorial, but wow !
Please keep improving it, it's already really nice !
I think you win the prize for "the game concept is the closest to the theme". Too bad the player is hard to control :/
Looks good, I love the idea of programming your player before hand. However as many said it's a bit hard right now, maybe you should separate your game into different screens in order for the player to be able to understand ? There is too many information at once. The interface is also not very intuitive, you select the strategy on the right but start the game with a smal button in the upper left corner. Anyway I'd love to see the improved version you are talking about !
It doesn't matter if there is a login thing and people think it is not in the spirit of LD. It totally is. You got ideas during the weekend, you probably learnt a lot and this will make you go on in the future, so in my opinion this is, for you, totally in the spirit of LD.
Same as robbiehunt. I would have played much longer if there were a bit more direction on which things does what. How are we supposed to do stuff and so on.
For instance, we can't really measure the effect of better stats. There are too many possibilities but too few basic pointers on where to start. For instance, at first I even closed the game before doing anything. Then I read your presentation here (so outside of the game) and figure out that the arrow keys allow us to see some more stuff.
Great job for 2 days anyway, you've been quite productive, there seem to be really a lot of possibilities
Nice game ! Quite hard, but well executed and the result is fun to play (even though I didn't manage to go very far)
Really good ! That's very innovative. It's must have been a hell to developp. How did you came up with such an idea ? I have never seen anything that look like this, even by far !
That's a bit hard to play though, since for some sections the effect is not very clear. And i'm still not sure of what really happens.
I can't believe there are so few comments :/