Now that's what I call a simple game. It's fun, but not for very long... :) Also, there's something funny going on with the collision detection - one can jump into the terrain, sometimes. I do like the art style, though! The audio fits the game pretty well, too.
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acatcalledfrank29 Apr 2013, 08:24
It would be cool to have different kinds of fireworks/bombs and explosions! Different timers/colours etc?
Weird choice for color, the blue tiles of foreground are hard to distinct from the bacground one. The game itself is simple but it works. The collision are a bit glitchy but you need that glitch to let player "climb" and avoid to be stuck. Would have been more tactical if falling under the screen was death. Had some buggy bomb that never trigger and stand in place forever.
Cool, you can never go wrong with explosives :). I had some issues with the controls, is it normal that you need to press the key several times to keep the character moving?
Not bad. Like most others I felt the controls wer pretty rough, and I found that if you just spam bombs while moving right then they don't explode when they get offscreen.
the core of this is good because it's really just "have fun, blow stuff up". I think that's quite bold to try to explore the theme with 'minimal gameplay' because it seems like there's not much to it, which can't be good. But, you really managed to make a lot of fun with a very little. Downsides have already been said, I agree with Benjamin about the colours - maybe a desaturated foreground, or background, would make the player more distinct. Also I somehow didn't realise that bombs need to be touched to go off, at first, and my first instinct was to just ran in a straight line placing hundreds behind me... :)
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Need more sound effects!
The game itself is simple but it works. The collision are a bit glitchy but you need that glitch to let player "climb" and avoid to be stuck.
Would have been more tactical if falling under the screen was death.
Had some buggy bomb that never trigger and stand in place forever.
Like most others I felt the controls wer pretty rough, and I found that if you just spam bombs while moving right then they don't explode when they get offscreen.
Also I somehow didn't realise that bombs need to be touched to go off, at first, and my first instinct was to just ran in a straight line placing hundreds behind me... :)