Running the game in a browser is possible, but cripples the framerate. I recommend running the executables or running the swf in flash player 9 not in a browser.
Edit:
There are two modes: Level mode and Free mode. Click: “Click to play” for level mode. And 600,1200 or 2400 for Free mode, where the numbers are how many oil spills there are. Note, if you by any chance run the game in the browser, the Level mode might not work and falls back to Free mode 600. If you see a lot of (N)’s around, you are in free mode. Go back (Esc) and click “Click to play” again for Level mode. (Xml loading issue)
Pretty cool game. Really fits theme well I think. Like others have said, miss the sound but I just made burbling outboard motor noises in my head.. ;)
Nice touch with the motor counter rotating with the turns! Wish it had a timed mode to add to the challenge as it is a bit too easy otherwise. Great for what it is in 48hrs though!
Wonderful game, good fun, quite innovative. Like others have mentioned, some audio would be nice. I love the little touches like the way the outboard engine moves independently to the boat.
Nice! I really liked it. I avoided the nitro until the end though, since it was more of a hindrance than a boon. Annoying that you HAD to get them to finish the level, but no big deal. Overall it was really great. Also -- you are a brave man to let those little girls eat right next to your running laptop. I would have given you a trophy for that if the picture worked well at 64x64.
Cool idea and gameplay. Was a bit boring after the dust settled. The graphical style was quite nice. I didn't seem to get into level mode, for some reason. The islands in the middle of oil spills kinda threw me off, too. Overall a pretty good package anyways. :)
I really liked this game. I wish it had some more variety in levels (yeah, minimalist, I know), and some music/sound. The environmental theme is nice. I didn't really find much use for the nitros, although I guess they provided something else to do other than decontaminating the oil. The speed boost wasn't all that useful though. Good journaling effort.
Impressive polish and smoothness. I'm curious as to how you did the whole loop-fill thing when wrapping up oil blobs. Can't see an obvious way of solving that, unless maybe the playing field is divided into a rectangular grid and you sort of floodfill the outline made by the divider... but then you still have to find out which side to fill. I did some stuff with concave polygon triangulation a while ago and it was pretty nasty stuff, but I guess that could also be a way to do it. Suppose the answer is in your code, might look some day. The controls and everything else turned out real nice in the final version, but it's still pretty lacking in gameplay and challenge. Might have to throw in some "enemies" or other obstacles to create challenge.
I like the concept, but the game is kind of tedious. Without a lose condition it's more of a "toy" than a game, much like SimCity. I like the artwork. It reminds me of Abstract Sea (http://crazymonkeygames.com/Abstract-Sea.html).
Neat idea, and a pretty fun game. Too bad it's silent, and it becomes really easy to clean up the oil once you get one or two bonus buoys. Still, I like what you did.
I played it for a while and it was fun, a bit too easy, but the physics are nice. At first I though the level was unsolvable because one "N" was completely unreachable (in the middle of an island), but in the end I got it by surrounding it with nets. The blue screen after completing a level was kind of disappointing though.
Wait, N is for nitro? How do I nitro? I thought those might be bits of net. Where are you people getting more information?
I didn't understand level mode at all, especially when I finally got all the Ns and it sent me to a blank blue screen with no boat.
But in the number modes, it worked great! I love those kind of pushy physics, and wrapping stuff up is always fun too. It was super easy (I guess it couldn't not be, what with no lose condition), but fun to control. I liked how to motor swung too.
Even running the stand-alone Windows version, I can't start the levels. I just get free mode instead. Eventually I got it working on Linux in a browser, but it was slow. I like the idea and the game is pleasant enough, but it got boring after a while.
Very cool game, fits the theme well and it has awesome graphics :)
I have not been able to run level mode though, and the difficulty in freemode doesn't increase or put pressure on you to hurry up. Other than that, it's a very good and polished game! Good work :)
EDIT: I played the browser version and levelmode works! I really like how the instructions float in the sea and the levels made it more intresting to progress :)
Nice touch with the motor counter rotating with the turns! Wish it had a timed mode to add to the challenge as it is a bit too easy otherwise. Great for what it is in 48hrs though!