You're lost and need to find your way home. You are a bat and can only see through the use of echolocation. Send out sonar pulses and navigate your way through 6 levels. What will be waiting for you at the end?
Nice game with very good graphics. Unfortunately the game idea itself isn't very original (see http://www.squidi.net/three/entry.php?id=85). Nevertheless, I hope you do well in the competition.
Hmm haven't passed 4 level. Sound killed it :) Too annoying after some time. Game itself is not bad tough. May be mechanic is not very well polished. Probably in larger labyrinths it would be very easy to get lost. Needs some way to mark places for point of reference.
Graphics are great, and suit the game well. The 'plot' was fun and funny, and good. Game didn't last too long, held attention for the time it needed, then let go when the idea was over. Had some 'aha' moments which were fun. The echo could have been a bit more revealing, I was annoyed with it at times, because ti would black out the bits I actually cared about. Over all, fun!
Very nice idea. The seeing process is a bit too slow, though. Maybe it would add if the background would not scroll, because that's confusing a lot. And the echo should spread out until it touches a wall, no matter how far.
I like the dialogue and concept - it's cute - but the gameplay itself didn't do it for me. Sorry. It would be interesting if you added a couple of puzzle elements - possibly with more NPC bats?
Would have liked the echo to travel a bit further and linger a bit longer. Movement a bit slow and you seem to get stuck if you try moving along a wall pushing into it.
Music is very nice, but only seemed to play once, and is unfortunately drowned out by the sonar sound effect being so annoying and comparatively loud.
Awesome game, very polished and I really bonded with the little guy. Really liked that at the end when you pulse, your girlfriend/mom pulses back. Wish that it was just a bit easier to move around, I think if he were not so wide (even if he looked that wide, make his physics narrower) and being able to double-pulse your echo, or better yet have the walls stay lit for a short period would have made the game more fun. Super cute story, great level design, fun! Also I enjoyed reading your journal a lot during the competition.
Ah, I don't really have fun with this. It doesn't feel special to fly around in a 2D space where the only constraint is not to see much. Soundwise, the sonar effect was too loud, but otherwise good.
The sonar sound could stand to be toned down a bit. Had some great music that fit the dark and lost theme very well! It was a bit annoying to only see like 50% of your surroundings with sonar, but that was probably by design. Solid entry!
I really like the visual sonar effect, with the black waves inside (very tired of the non-visual part of it though!). Like other people said, the music was really nice when you weren't screeching. I had to give up on level 3 though because the noise was too horrible and I just couldn't see enough.
We had similar ideas but implemented them very differently (yours is far more playable, though). The only thing I really disliked was the echo sound, it gets very annoying but I know it's damn hard to make non annoying repetitive sounds.
I like the music a lot, but the sonar sfx are too annoying so i tryied to use it as little as possible. I didn't really enjoyed the gameplay, after first level it was always the same -- what i wouldn't mind to bear for the music, but once it stoped playing and i got lost, i stoped playing also, without feeling that i will miss something (maybe i had).
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Game itself is not bad tough. May be mechanic is not very well polished. Probably in larger labyrinths it would be very easy to get lost. Needs some way to mark places for point of reference.
I thought the game was pretty cool, actually. Very stylistic.
Music is very nice, but only seemed to play once, and is unfortunately drowned out by the sonar sound effect being so annoying and comparatively loud.
Silly muffin :>
I did get a bit frustrated on ~4th level, couldn't find my way onward.
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