Saman is a combination of classic arcade inspiration (donkey kong/frogger/etc.) and an incremental game.
The game revolves around two worlds, who are distinctly unaware of one another, but effect the other in substantial ways.
//Summary In Saman, a creature lurks underground - a creature who has been taught that the sacred gems can save him from those that would do him harm. Alternatively, another world exists. One where a carefree creature of the light follows a road outside of his home, finding valuable gems which are known to appear from the ground.
//Gameplay You control an underground creature, while simultaneously you are responsible for capturing and farming the gems that he supplies to those above ground. The rook is too brittle to do harm to anyone, but can blend into the earth with great expertise, and looks for the gem-hungry gods to do his bidding for him, assuming he doesn't get in the way.
//Technical The game was created using Gamemaker Studio and the art using Adobe Flash. Sound effects generated through http://www.bfxr.net/ and music generated through wolfram tones @ tones.wolfram.com.
@AndyBrown I think there is a conflict with the newest version of chrome and the GMS HTML5 exports - I can get it to work in firefox but not Chrome. Unfortunately I don't have a work around right now besides downloading the full HD version.
The gameplay is fun. I like the graphics underground, especially the panic look on the player/creature. The overworld doesn't look as nice. I'm missing sound effects and I don't really like the background music.
For those commenting on the music, it was sudo-randomly generated (with some tweaking) from tones.wolfram.com. The sound effects in general are what I'm least proud of (which inspired me to make the mute button on the top right). In addition, the sound may have additional issues (other than just being bad) on the web version.
@Lysznie - Make sure you're utilizing your burrow(SPACE) ability to avoid boulders! While burrowed you are invulnerable to the bludgers (purple things) and boulders, but the bats things can still get you while burrowed. My second regret is not making better directions :)
Now that the controls and guide is up, this is much more playable. Sound is solid, art is great, overall a fun little thing, tho it gets a bit monotonous for me.
I think this game makes great use of the theme, but was having trouble getting the controls to work 100% of the time (or maybe i just didn't understand them)
The web version worked for me now. That was really fun! I died a lot from those flying things, but once I got used to where the gems were thrown from they became a lot easier to deal with. I like how it tied in with the theme, great job!
Nice mecanic, cute visual and the web version works great, nice entry, the only bad is we have to read the tuto, an image at the start explaining the control and goal will be nice, anyway nice entry ! :)
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(By the way, the web version made Firefox crash on my PC.)
For those commenting on the music, it was sudo-randomly generated (with some tweaking) from tones.wolfram.com. The sound effects in general are what I'm least proud of (which inspired me to make the mute button on the top right). In addition, the sound may have additional issues (other than just being bad) on the web version.
@Lysznie - Make sure you're utilizing your burrow(SPACE) ability to avoid boulders! While burrowed you are invulnerable to the bludgers (purple things) and boulders, but the bats things can still get you while burrowed. My second regret is not making better directions :)
Good job!