The Parasite

very polished game - the controls are precise as well

I liked it, one of my favorites so far.

Gorgeous game, instantly very captivating.
Easily the best game I have seen so far.
Its also freakishly hard, or perhaps that is just me.
It would be nice to see a video of how it should be played.
Great game though.

Very nice indeed. Only sounds could have been better (less agressive in tone) and some kind of music would help it alot.

Hard, but not frustrating. I died because of me, not because of the game, so it's "good" difficulty. Controls are spot-on and this whole hunger/stamina balance makes the game very interesting to play. Good work !

I liked it but man is it annoying to have to start over from the beginning every time. Cute graphics :)

One of the most playable games I've tested tonight.

The controls were rock solid and the game had a certain feeling of completeness.

very cool! I loved it!

I made a playthrough that i uploaded to youtube. http://youtu.be/Vx5XsO9myM4

This is very very well done. Audio and graphics are superb, and I really like the gameplay too. Great job :)

Love the feel of the controls.

Really hard, but in a fair way. I didn't feel frustrated by the system, I felt like I'd lost the game. That's the sign of a well designed feedback loop.

Cool game, really difficult, but really polished too. I couldn't finish but I will come back for more later. Good luck :D.

Awesome game - this is something I'd probably pay $5 for on Steam. I just wish there were checkpoints of some kind, or a slightly more forgiving hunger/stamina system in play!

Very nice game, difficulty was a very good level, I like it :)

Very good game-play. Similar feeling to the Super Meat Boy game. Job well done, nice graphics too!

So hard ! Thanks to the video playthrough, i could watch what is after level 2 ^^ Your game seems very complete and huge. For a 48h entry, its incredible. Have you plan to make this game before theme has been announced ?

Cool game. Did you used Setcyl for it?

Really cute and the graphics are incredibly nice for such a short time period. Especially like the wall sliding animation, looks smooth!

Good fun and cute characters, but insanely hard! I'd have played for longer if there were checkpoints rather than starting from scratch every time I think.

I liked this a lot - really fun, and super polished.

Pretty challenging. Nice style. :)

It's cool, but you could fix your steep difficulty curve by maybe saving the progress you make along the bottom when you die.

Fantastic - it took me a while to figure out what I was doing but after that it was an amazing game.

Quite fun. I was annoyed when I died of starvation while in the middle of the "go through the exit" animation. Feels like I was cheated out of winning the level.

Very good game ! A little difficult at first, but it's fun and original and the gameplay are good.

Liked the gameboy-style graphics. Well polished, though I must admit I didn't make it beyond level 3 at any point.

@hulahulahest Dying in the middle of the "leaving room" animation is a bug. It should not happen, but it can if your hunger is full. I will fix it in a post compo edition

@JokerDen I made it with As3 using the Flashpunk framework

@lotusgame No plans. I actually made something different the first day. But it was not fun to play so i started over :). So this was actually made in one day.

I thought of making checkpoints.. But the game is so short that it would defeat the point of being hard.

Great little retro g

Great little retro game, with excellent graphics, animation and sound. The stamina system can at times feel overly harsh though. I seemed to be beaten a few times by impossible deadlines rather than my control (controls by the way are incredibly slick and tight). A great and complete game!!

Excellent work!
Well made minimalistic fun game!
I impressed by game mechanic with hunger =)

Well done graphics and mechanics. Seems the hunger meter should start out slower as you are learning the game and get faster later?

Great game, it was hard only first three levels, and then became challenging (which is good). Could be harder to be honest. ;D

Very good. The stamina/eating/digging mechanism and the semi-random levels are cool innovations.

Nice graphics and gameplay. Would love a windows version to play offline. Awesome jobe!

Very nice entry! The controls are perfect and the graphics is very cool! I like the idea of eating blocks to survive. Well done!!

Nice game, really polished. The movement feels really satisfying and responsive.

it's great in all aspects except i need to start from the beginning after death :)

very nifty game, but tricky! great job :)

I really like your game :) Feels polished, the controls are very good. :)

Well-balanced and appealing graphics.. However, it does not motivate me to play for long.

Very cool game! Well polished and fun!:)

Great game, please continue developing this game it is one of the best games in the competion by far

This controls very nicely and is a TON of fun!

I hate you T_T This game is amazing, but insanely hard. But amazing. I down-voted "fun" a little because the hardness reduces the fun, but I gave you really good ratings anyway ;) Good job.

A bit unforgiving, I think - having to start from the beginning makes it a bit too hard for me.

Are the levels generated, or are they picked randomly from a pool?

The game is pretty, and the mechanics are solid.

Excellent, just excellent! I only wish a more easy start but well, the die-retry system is a cool one!

Very nice. Good fun.

Probably my favorite of the competition. Not ashamed to say that I played this for about and hour and a half before I finally beat it! Very impressive!

Excellent controls, very much like Super Meat Boy. Much harder than SMB, though, with the hunger/stamina mechanic. I tried a bunch of times but could only get halfway through. Watching the playthrough, there are some good strategies for getting through some of those levels quicker.

Very complete; I don't know how you did that in a day. =)

Really hard, but addictive!

I've actually come back and played this game some more after beating it, just because I like it so much! Do you have any plans to expand on it after the competition period is over?

Thanks for all the nice comments

@Kvisle, The levels are picked from a random pool. I wanted to have much more levels to choose from, but I did not have the time to design them.

@madlee, I do have plans to make this into a full game. Keep an eye on greenlight, it might pop up there :)

Fun platformer with neat 2D art! :) Inspired from Meat boy?

ooooh nice animations! the game is hard but the style makes up for that ;)

Eating blocks interested me. If you continue to develop this, at various screens I was not sure how to eat my way to the exit or what the timing was to jump and eat or if I was running out the ability to eat.

Nice graphics, very tight controls, cool idea. Shame it's another platformer though, and I totally suck at keeping track of 5 different things at the same time (running, jumping, eating, stamina and shooting).

Interesting, but a bit hard...

Nice mechanics, I like the random level idea. Yeah, it is very hard, but it is OK for me.

One of the best entries I've played yet, the concept is brilliant and it's creates an incredibly fun and urgent mood. Great work!

Nice ! Want to eat the world :p.

Loved the visual style whilst the general gameplay concept was actually pretty interesting and had quite a lot of depth and strategy to it.