Really enjoyed this one. My only complaint is that bullets' collision detection sometimes fails, so they tend to fly through enemies or get stuck in a wall when character is close to one.
@rot13: Yup i know.. bullets are Achilles' heel of my game, but really had no time to fight this "bug". You can use bombs (B key) to fight enemies as well ;)
This was the first game I played to completion because I wanted to, not because I felt it necessary to judge it fairly. It is very well made, I did not encounter a single glitch or error the entire time. It was short, but you did a lot with that time, and while the core mechanics were simple, you built on them a lot. My two complaints are that the graphics are fuzzy and it was hard to tell what direction I was facing, and that the 10 second theme seemed more like an afterthought. You could take it out and have much the same experience. Overall very well done.
Hello! Really nice that the game seems finished and has all the components you would expect from it. :)
Great sound and interesting graphics style, though at times it feels more blurry and less pixel-art. Though the blur makes it rather unique. Also it's sometimes difficult to tell which way your character is facing.
Gameplay is quite fun, unrestricted angle movement is a nice touch.
The bomb does damage through walls though, and can sometimes be illegally placed to crash the game. (Not 100% sure the two are related!)
One thing that is missing though, is the motive of the character. What is he trying to do? Even if the storyline is just one sentence, it really adds a lot for me personally, because then i can project what to expect in the future levels, or upon beating the game. It keeps players motivated. (Sorry, if the storyline is implied or revealed later, haven't finished the game yet!)
Can't stress enough that the game has a real nice finished feeling, lot's of detail and content. Great work!
Looks and sounds good, quite understandable and feels quite polished, but I have a really hard time to play it, partly because I can't distinguish the sides of the main character so I end up going in the wrong way :( But it's well made.
Interesting idea. I like the game itself, but I'm kind of annoyed with the graphics. It feels like if the assets were at twice the resolution they currently are at, it would look less ...blurry.
Mobs also seem to decide randomly to attack, and sometimes don't attack even when provoked.
Bullet collision seemed problematic, the bullet spawns in front of you at a certain distance, and moves really fast.
But these are all things that are fixed easily and don't interrupt the game too much. Good job!
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JoeDev_net26 Aug 2013, 16:46
I liked the game and the idea! Great job!
I found the blurry graphics detracted from the experience, at least for me. It just made it difficult to see which way the character was facing. Other than that, I enjoyed it!
+1 Your game is good, funny and the music catchy! -1 It's difficult to control the character and the images are too blurry. I was so disappointed when AbSolanum.exe crashed at the level 10(because I was firing on everything with the speed bullets) :'(
Pretty cool. It really felt like a finished game (although, as stated before, it was sometimes hard to understand, which direction your character is facing). Still, a very nice experience. Keep up the good work, man :)
First off I think the music is pretty catchy. I didn't particularly like the controls, it would have been much easier to control the movement of the player using up, down, left, right as directional input and using the mouse or another system for firing. I also agree with others that the graphics need to be crisper, at first I had difficultly understanding exactly which way my character was pointing. Finally, unless I missed something, I wished there was a way of disabling cameras - I thought that would lend something to it.
Great soundtrack, actual game was let down a bit by the spotty collisions, and I couldn't get on with the control system at all. It felt too fast paced for rotational controls.
Why was it so blurry? It hurt my eyes :( it distracted from game. Overall it was pretty good. Collision needs to improve. And the idea of controlling forward/left/right was a bit unusual.
I liked it! Although I found the secondary themes to be more important than the main one (I did not feel like powerups had that big of an impact over my playthrough). Graphics were cool, I like the blurry effect and the big pixels. Controls were somewhat hard at first because of being used to a standard WASD scheme. Nothing to say about bullet detection because I did not shoot a single ennemy in the entire game (adding a nice challenge to some levels).
Very enjoyable experience. Polish and content was very good. Very nostalgic of the DOS-era for me. I finished the game without even realizing there was bullets or bombs... I definitely need an achievement for that :P
I love the graphic style, and the music is very nice too. It's a nice idea to introduce more complex physics with the orange boxes, but it's easy to get stuck between a box and a wall =/ The movement was very hard to get used to, in my opinion it could be greatly improved. It's hard to determine precisely my orientation when I'm standing still. All this makes the game extremely hard (for me at least), and I don't feel inclined to continue. =/ But, as I said, I love the visual feeling and audio.
Really liked the pixellated-style of the graphics, and the possibility to move boxes.. Didn't liked the control scheme or the fact that enemies are very similar to my player.
The graphics were alright. I feel as though the game might have been easier to control using a mouse. I like the concept of the game, and the TNT was fun to use. Nicely done.
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Great sound and interesting graphics style, though at times it feels more blurry and less pixel-art. Though the blur makes it rather unique. Also it's sometimes difficult to tell which way your character is facing.
Gameplay is quite fun, unrestricted angle movement is a nice touch.
The bomb does damage through walls though, and can sometimes be illegally placed to crash the game. (Not 100% sure the two are related!)
One thing that is missing though, is the motive of the character. What is he trying to do? Even if the storyline is just one sentence, it really adds a lot for me personally, because then i can project what to expect in the future levels, or upon beating the game. It keeps players motivated. (Sorry, if the storyline is implied or revealed later, haven't finished the game yet!)
Can't stress enough that the game has a real nice finished feeling, lot's of detail and content. Great work!
Mobs also seem to decide randomly to attack, and sometimes don't attack even when provoked.
Bullet collision seemed problematic, the bullet spawns in front of you at a certain distance, and moves really fast.
But these are all things that are fixed easily and don't interrupt the game too much. Good job!
I found the blurry graphics detracted from the experience, at least for me. It just made it difficult to see which way the character was facing. Other than that, I enjoyed it!
-1 It's difficult to control the character and the images are too blurry.
I was so disappointed when AbSolanum.exe crashed at the level 10(because I was firing on everything with the speed bullets) :'(
Nice good though ^^
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Overall it was pretty good. Collision needs to improve. And the idea of controlling forward/left/right was a bit unusual.
Graphics were cool, I like the blurry effect and the big pixels.
Controls were somewhat hard at first because of being used to a standard WASD scheme.
Nothing to say about bullet detection because I did not shoot a single ennemy in the entire game (adding a nice challenge to some levels).
But, as I said, I love the visual feeling and audio.
I encountered some crashes as well.
Are you aiming for 1000 games rated?