As you age you get larger making it harder to avoid the obstacles of life. How far down the road can you get?
I CHALLENGE YOU TO BEAT 20! POST YOUR SCORES BELOW.
p.s. Thanks for looking and playing. Would appreciate any tweets pointing to the game.
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xstargirl29 Apr 2013, 03:50
ahh it's kinda hard but very interesting. I enjoyed the music and the causes of death :]
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DDRKirby(ISQ)29 Apr 2013, 03:52
Cute! This game is really all about reading the death messages. Did you really need to use Unity for this? xD You could have made the difficulty ramp up a little more slowly, but it's fine.
I died from an alien invasion of Earth before I turned 1. :) I like your music and your block animation. I think the art style fits perfectly with the theme. The concept of life choices is a good one - reminds me a little of my own mini-LD entry from a few months back - but way more fun.
The screen is to big for my netbook, and the game is also a bit laggy which make the control difficult. It's a pity because those death sentences seems hilarious I think I took time to check a lot of them but can't go through... well 1 yr. Maybe a smaller screensize would make the game faster ?
Benjamin, I never though about screen size. I just did it at 1138x640 which is iphone 5 rez. My bad. I suppose max size should be 800 or something for web games? re: lag, no idea there. The game should be 60fps pretty much on anything. It's not drawing anything, or running a lot of code. Thanks for looking at it.
I couldn't go past 3 years old, I've always sucked at this kind of game. Anyway the random death reasons made me laugh and I ended up running into obstacles just to read them :)
"You died of waiting for Firefly to come back to TV." ...too real, man. Too real. This is great, but I'm terrible at it. The music is really good too. It's obviously literally repetitive but it doesn't feel that way, it just sort of fits in the background. Nice job!
Very hard game. But wait... Life is no easy task, right. I can certainly live longer if I play slow, but it ain't no fun right? I need the speed! So I just keep my right arrow key button down and try my best. Too bad I died when I was 10 by laughing too hard watching Louis CK.
I like it the way you kind of animated the character walking and jumping. Adds up to the cool and fun factor.
"You died from playing with your dad's gun" oh my god George xD Liked the age concept (dying was both horrible and pretty funny) and the music too. Congrats !
Very nice. I've been playing for 20 minutes, and I only got to 16 so far. Criticisms: -I like all the death messages, but they're a little bit all over the place. The pure comedy ones take away from the part of the game about realizing how many people die at young ages and how ripped off they are. Then again, without them, the game isn't funny. My point is, you may want to pick one or the other. -I don't really like having to wait a few seconds to watch the instructions every new round.
@Puzzlem00n - yeah valid point on the messages, but i wanted to have a balance and not be depressing. Also a few messages are age inappropriate and in the wrong age range array. I may update that soon. Perhaps on a retry/restart I could just start you off a few feet before year 1. Good idea. Thanks for playing!
I couldn't make it past age 5. Good use of humor, and theme! :) I died a lot, but each time was fun and usually good for a chuckle when I died of [something]. Music was nice too. Good job!
I really love your entry, extremely smart and great use of the theme. And hilarious! It's one of the few Ludum Dare games I'm actually coming back to play more of.
The game is fun on its own, challenging yet accessible, and an awesome use of the theme. The controls are spot on and it manages to never seem unfair. But, above all, what I like about this game is how it manages to actually send across a couple messages about life. For one, you have to be patient in this game. You must learn when to move forward, when to wait, and when to take a step back. Getting bigger as time goes by, making obstacles more difficult to avoid is also a great design decision, both as a gameplay mechanic and as a comment on life.
Some of the death messages are a bit heavyhanded, like "You were beaten to death by your stepfather". Others seemed a little out of place, like "You died from trying to return the One Ring" - but still are funny as hell XD You must have had a blast coming up with all those texts!
All in all, it's impressively profound for a minimalistic game about a square jumping over triangles :)
Loved it and kept playing and playing. 15 is my best so far.
Lots of great little details in the minimalist graphics that make this work. And the cause-of-death adds a feeling of connection to my abstract character. Fantastic.
Great overall game, some of my funniest reasons for death was spending thousands of pounds on free to play games and dieing from playing this god damn game too long
22's my highest (gunshot in war). My ONLY issue is that I think the game would've been funnier if it stuck with "silly" ways to die instead of tragic ones.
Fun and simple concept that's harder than you think yet compellingly addictive as well. Liked the jumping animation of the square and I loved how the square grows as it ages plus some of the causes of death were quite humorous.
Very addicting game! Though ate too much glass :p at least i found my propper ending - the alien invasion. The game is perfectly balanced and the theme is summeried well.
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I like your music and your block animation. I think the art style fits perfectly with the theme. The concept of life choices is a good one - reminds me a little of my own mini-LD entry from a few months back - but way more fun.
Do they vary according to the age?
Simple yet brilliant!
Goo job :)
Nice job! :D
I can certainly live longer if I play slow, but it ain't no fun right? I need the speed! So I just keep my right arrow key button down and try my best. Too bad I died when I was 10 by laughing too hard watching Louis CK.
I like it the way you kind of animated the character walking and jumping. Adds up to the cool and fun factor.
Pretty humorous game as well
That's how I'd wanna go. At least I'd have diapers to contain everything... *cough*
Liked the age concept (dying was both horrible and pretty funny) and the music too. Congrats !
Nice concept. Simple and effective.
-I like all the death messages, but they're a little bit all over the place. The pure comedy ones take away from the part of the game about realizing how many people die at young ages and how ripped off they are. Then again, without them, the game isn't funny. My point is, you may want to pick one or the other.
-I don't really like having to wait a few seconds to watch the instructions every new round.
Good use of animations on the box, it really felt like I truly died from the hands of a priest.
By the way, you landed on a similar theme to me! Check my game out to compare notes! :)
Great job!
awesome game!
I consider it a victory.
It's got an addictive arcade quality. Death messages were really humorous!
For one, you have to be patient in this game. You must learn when to move forward, when to wait, and when to take a step back.
Getting bigger as time goes by, making obstacles more difficult to avoid is also a great design decision, both as a gameplay mechanic and as a comment on life.
Some of the death messages are a bit heavyhanded, like "You were beaten to death by your stepfather". Others seemed a little out of place, like "You died from trying to return the One Ring" - but still are funny as hell XD You must have had a blast coming up with all those texts!
All in all, it's impressively profound for a minimalistic game about a square jumping over triangles :)
Best score: 30 :(
Congratulations! :D
Lots of great little details in the minimalist graphics that make this work. And the cause-of-death adds a feeling of connection to my abstract character. Fantastic.
Very addictive and funny (in parts) game. Nice job!
Very Good Job ;-)