First, You Take A Potato is about a robot named POT4 whose sole function is to take and then put down potatoes. It is a simple life, but is it a good one?
I made this together with Chris Stallman. We used GameMaker, sfxr, musagi, and Photoshop!
Haha, this is awesome. Love the humour, the graphics, the atmosphere and the music. Can't really say it doesn't fit the theme, either.
The ending / what happened when I stopped playing to write this comment really surprised me. Really like the message there. Awesome! :D
Gameplay-wise, I think it'd been more entertaining / kept me playing for longer if the messages you get as a "reward" weren't randomized (of course that'd have to be done once you run out of messages). That way, it'd feel like there's actually some sort of progression.
Great animation and story. [SPOILERS] I love these post-simon-says games. Is there a genre-name for them I'm missing? Mondo Medicals, Simony, Pop, etc. are all great critiques of simon says.
The screen after the loading bar stays white when running on Linux using Wine. That always happens for me trying games made with Gamemaker - is yours made with it?
To kddekadenz, yes we used Gamemaker, and I'm very sorry that it isn't working for you. To everybody, thank you for the comments and feedback! We're glad you liked it, short as it is.
TAKE. A. POTATO. This game was ....well....not exactly a game... but it was one of the best i played so far on the Ludum Dare! (wat?) It was a very smart use of the theme and the non-theme. Also, i easily fall in love with peoples that do amazing pixel art. So you just earned a new fan ;D
Very nice. I should mention that for a long time I saw the text as coming from the other robot in the middle of the screen. But it didn't really detract from the experience.
Were you intentionally going for a "notgame" approach? :)
The humor is this game is astoundingly brilliant. I love how people such as yourself still seriously considered the theme "Potato" when developing for "Minimalism". Awesome stuff; would be cool if you added some audio though, and perhaps made a Mac port, because I played through an emulator (I let nothing stop me from playing this game!)
Oh yeah, that was awesome! The atmosphere, the use of both themes, the visuals and music. Just great. Sadly that you can't track how many potatoes every player took... that would be an interesting statistic.
Hey super nice design and story. I just regret the lack of interractivity even if It was the core idea I guess. Maybe a small escape sequence from the factory would have been enough.
Thank you everybody for playing and voting! We're happy that you liked our potato-taking adventure, and Chris and I hope to bring you more great games in the future!
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The ending / what happened when I stopped playing to write this comment really surprised me. Really like the message there. Awesome! :D
Gameplay-wise, I think it'd been more entertaining / kept me playing for longer if the messages you get as a "reward" weren't randomized (of course that'd have to be done once you run out of messages). That way, it'd feel like there's actually some sort of progression.
Fantastic story.
Also.. YOU take a potato!
To everybody, thank you for the comments and feedback! We're glad you liked it, short as it is.
Were you intentionally going for a "notgame" approach? :)
very well done guys :D