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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Anthill | compo | 583 | 2.73 | 2.35 | 3.19 | 3.46 | 2.77 | 3.29 | 2.47 | 2.57 | 50 | |
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Starlighter | compo | 484 | 2.38 | 1.63 | 2.00 | 2.38 | 2.33 | 2.29 | 24 |
I searched the island exhaustively and there only appears to be 4 pebbles. I gave up after an hour. Looks pretty and runs smoothly though so good effort there! I had to vote down on the fun factor though since the game was very slow and ultimately gets boring once you have explored the island once.
Yes, that's something I wish I had done given more time. I have moved the story text into the instructions screen in the build with audio described in the update but as the update states that build is NOT for judging for this contest. If you wan't to download that version to play just for fun go ahead, but please judge only the version submitted for the contest. Thanks for your comment! Your feedback is much appreciated!
@summaky There does seem to be a bug which causes instant game overs for some users. All the machines I tested on seemed ok, what setup are you using? I have linked to the version with audio which also fixed the bug for some users if you want to play the game, but as I said in the update, please only rate the submitted build (even if it didn't work for you, I'd rather the feedback be honest and negative than cheat to get better feedback).
@philhassey You need to install the redist package included in the game folder. See the readme file.
Cool idea but there didn't seem to be a penalty for allowing things to hit your planet. The way the physics worked was awesome though!
I can't seem to run the game because a dll is missing (OpenAl32). I tried reading the included text file but my French is quite poor, is there a fix?
Attempted French Translation:
Je ne peux pas sembler courir le jeu parce qu'un dll manque (OpenAl32). J'ai essayé lisant le fichier texte inclus mais mon français est tout à fait pauvre, il y a une réparation ?
Not bad! Although there was nothing to stop me breezing on out of the map and flying free as a bird :P It was pretty hard too but not annoyingly so.
I don't understand. I was offered to hear a story, then I'm careening down a road in a bus? The game worked well for what it was but lacked any real gameplay.
Wow! That was fun! Very challenging too!
Well that was downright disturbing! Nice work, the music was creepy as all hell lol
I can't find an executable in the folder :(
Superb! The music really made it complete, only downside was its short length but what a game!
If I learned one thing from this game it this: If someone ever offers me "science cheese" I'd be better off declining :P Nice work!
It looked very pretty but I couldn't figure out what I needed to do and found myself quite confused.
That was hilarious lol although I'm not sure Ride of the Valkyries is public domain music.
I have to say I don't think I've ever played a game made entirely out of hyperlinks before!
Not bad! Just needs more in the way of gameplay and some polish with the graphics, still for 1 hour's work it's not a bad start.
lol that was fun! "now get Mars, he was a dick anyway" :P
That was awesome! Reminds me of Thunder Blade back in the arcades :P
The game doesn't run. Presuming you made it in XNA you need to "publish" it in Visual Studio before deploying to other systems.
Good lord was that ever hard lol nice idea though!
lol how do people come up with this stuff! Not a bad game at all, quite hard and could use some sound though!
Cool idea! Pretty fun to play too :)
Weird and surprisingly fun with a second player. It looks amazing visually too!
That was pretty damned fun! Controls were a bit hard to get down but it worked fine :)
To answer the music question, it was not composed by me, so I can't take credit lol it was composed by a friend who works as a session musician and composer. You can find some more of his work at http://www.myspace.com/superstardefender. He composes a lot of license free music for newgrounds too which you can also check out if you need music for any projects :)
The music for this game will likely end up on there very soon too.
His name is Nikolai Husted if you want to search him. He has a claim to fame in that he was the drummer with Out of Sight before they split.
You can also find a bizarre video of us recording for a shoddy comedy film we did a few years back at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOtSzf0Nz60
The fanfare is open source and comes with Sonar as a demo. It pops up all over the internet on license free sites too. The in game music was composed by a friend as mentioned above.
@VDOgamez that was originally an idea I toyed with but it proved too complex to get working within the time limit since I had already invested so much time in getting the ants to move as a swarm. I added the ability to add grass tiles since the game became too hard if you had to rely on the ants alone to do it. Thanks for your feedback though!
@VDOgamez "You just erase all the enemy tiles and draw everywhere with your tiles". That's the whole point of the game. You have to keep up with the red ants when they spread out and clear the land they move out of and keep them in check when they retreat. The whole idea is that you can't control the ants and have to adapt and respond to what they do.
@cadin you gave a rating even though you couldn't play it?
@Izzimach the large play area with loads of tiny tiles was my take on the Tiny World theme, plus I figured ants are pretty tiny lol I just pulled the time limit out of the air as a decent amount of time, but thinking back it might be a little too long.
Very cool idea! Pretty fun and challenging too!
Weird as all hell (no pun intended) but pretty interesting! I like it!