The Evil Tentacles | Featuring Cocos2d-js and Chipmunk2d. you play as the Kraken, wreck havok on the sea and eat surviving sailors. The game is 100% physics simulated.
The graphics work really well. The sounds are a little incongruous, and the controls don't always respond the way I expect/want them to, but overall good.
Great fun, would like to be able to get a little closer to the water line. Seeing the people spill out of tipped over ships and eating them was too much fun, good job! :)
I think I was getting too much fun, because eventually one of my tentacles got stuck somewhere offscreen (beneath the screen surface) and I couldn't move much.
I would love to see how it looks in replay with above-surface only looks, should be creepy! (multiplayer remake?)
Once you get the hang of how to control the kraken, its a lot of fun trying to get all the ships flipped over. I wouldve liked a way for the game to end/the kraken to die, so you could actually set meaningful highscores.
Simple by beautiful graphics and fun game play based on physics! I hope there will be some attacks from the battle ships(cannon, torpedo...) to make the game more challenging! Also, some blood while eating the sailors will also be a great add-on! Hope to see your wonderful HTML5 entry next LD!
Playing with physic is always fun! And what could be better to play with psysics as a kraken? It's true the controls are sometimes a bit confusing, but wrecking havoc is fun. I miss a possibility to loose or a reason to push my performance further. It's a great concept and I would love to see a post portem version.
The audio sounds a bit more like I should be collecting coins, not like I'm devouring hapless humans. I like the basic mechanic and the graphics though. It'd be cool if the battleships started dropping depth charges or something that I needed to dodge.
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I would love to see how it looks in replay with above-surface only looks, should be creepy! (multiplayer remake?)
Once you get the hang of how to control the kraken, its a lot of fun trying to get all the ships flipped over. I wouldve liked a way for the game to end/the kraken to die, so you could actually set meaningful highscores.
Still really liked it though, great job.
It's true the controls are sometimes a bit confusing, but wrecking havoc is fun. I miss a possibility to loose or a reason to push my performance further. It's a great concept and I would love to see a post portem version.
A good effort overall though :)