Well polished and well presented. On top of that, very fun and straightforward to play.Only one question: is it a bug or a feature that we're able to drop from the main scenery and just dive forever? Being unable to score makes this pointless, but I couldn't help but notice it :).
To be honest I was a bit disappointed with this entry. This is mostly due to me knowing your previous works as well as having seen the ideas you gave on twitter before the theme release. I enjoyed a lot the idea of "you're a monster under a city and destroy it by your shakes". I'm a bit disappointed you did not go that route. Also, isn't this game/concept a remake of an older NES game that's pretty much the same ?
I've had crashes trying to play your game in FireFox, but that's due to the gamepad API/plugin having issues there. Something to rely to Ashley or maybe even mozilla.
I've also encountered the "endlessly diving out of the play area without scoring" as well as the "stuck on upgrade icons".
Now for the good points, your art is gorgeous as usual, the global HUD as well. And from twitter I've seen it happens to work as well on mobile, so that's a great feature as well. It works very smooth and the controls respond as you'd expect them to.
Good job making a game during a week-end and submitting it to the jam.
Really fun game, nice graphics! I included your game in part 1 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out! http://youtu.be/2Ja__FAtoAQ
Note: with FireFox 29 the game is now playable without issue and the gamepad works as intended.
Had a second playthrough. It's still strange to be able to go "out of bounds" on the left or right side of the playing area. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it more than my first try, had a better control and did not got stuck on update this time.
Pretty straightforward mechanic but I like how it forced you to plan ahead since you couldn't drill sideways. When I drilled a frog on accident, I felt like a terrible human being
I must say that the style is good, I like puzzle games a lot. BUT I don't really get what I'm suppose to do. Of course there is a tutorial, or I think so. But I wanna get it kinda like right away.
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This is mostly due to me knowing your previous works as well as having seen the ideas you gave on twitter before the theme release.
I enjoyed a lot the idea of "you're a monster under a city and destroy it by your shakes". I'm a bit disappointed you did not go that route.
Also, isn't this game/concept a remake of an older NES game that's pretty much the same ?
I've had crashes trying to play your game in FireFox, but that's due to the gamepad API/plugin having issues there. Something to rely to Ashley or maybe even mozilla.
I've also encountered the "endlessly diving out of the play area without scoring" as well as the "stuck on upgrade icons".
Now for the good points, your art is gorgeous as usual, the global HUD as well.
And from twitter I've seen it happens to work as well on mobile, so that's a great feature as well.
It works very smooth and the controls respond as you'd expect them to.
Good job making a game during a week-end and submitting it to the jam.
Had a second playthrough. It's still strange to be able to go "out of bounds" on the left or right side of the playing area.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed it more than my first try, had a better control and did not got stuck on update this time.
BUT
I don't really get what I'm suppose to do.
Of course there is a tutorial, or I think so.
But I wanna get it kinda like right away.