Return of the Floppy! In this game you will return to an older time as you watch the struggle of a floppy disk. In this high score, catch items game, you will avoid viruses and collect files.
(Recommend playing at 800x600 even with standalone versions)
Controls: Left arrow to move the floppy disk to the left, right arrow to move the floppy disk to the right. You can also use a controller.
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Snail_Man8 Dec 2014, 03:19
Interesting game. The background was a bit noisy to see enemies on, but the movement was very smooth, and the difficulty curve was nice. Those purple stars are pretty hard to catch!
This was really well executed. It seems like you had a pretty good handle on what you could accomplish and stayed within those bounds. This is one of the more polished jam entries I've seen.
What a wonderful throw back to the days of the floppy, As I played I recalled all the times I would want to copy small increments of data to a disk. Great Work!
The distribution of the enemy feels random. Maybe you could tweak it so it's easy in the beginning and then harder as time goes by, so people would have the chance to familiarize themselves. Congrats on the entry though~
This was alright, I found it quite floaty to control, and the viruses were moving across the screen a little too much in my opinion, so it made them annoyingly hard to dodge, but the concept is pretty neat, and the music wasn't bad either. I wasn't a great fan of the graphics, because they seemed really basic to me, but it fits the theme well. Good job.
Nice little game, though from the screen shot, I got a different idea for a single-screen game, a platformer where your character is really REALLY small, and there's one level, but the level is big because the character is only one pixel or something.
Since the background was flat, it gave a sense of a lot of movement offscreen. I think it was a creative take on a dodge game. For future development, I would add a requirement to collect data. Otherwise, like someone else said, you can just hide in the corner for a while. As someone else pointed out with health, the file collection could also serve as a health meter where viruses make you lose data.
A really nice entry for a simple concept which accomplishes the challenge for this LD. I like the movement fluidity and the differents elements - friends or ennemies. Well done ++
Thanks for checking out Natquik and leaving me feedback! I definitely enjoyed myself here. I felt like the difficulty ramped up slowly but specifically. I was collecting stars and getting to the flow of things. The music reminded me a little bit of Primer's soundtrack. Job well done. Thanks for sharing and congrats! :)
I liked the simple and clean gameplay. Sometimes individual elements would come to a stop and then start up again after a half second. It really threw my timing off!
My high score was 16400 after I hit my stride on the second or third playthrough. I can see why we don't use floppy disks anymore!
Awesome job for a first time entry. Nice graphics and good use of sounds. Something I would have liked to see would have been to have a floating UI pop when you got points or lost a life. Great job bro!
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Nice game! Really simple but effective, kept me playing a while! This site needs to bookmark favorites, definitely one my favs.
My wife did a "Mum plays..." of this game: http://youtu.be/exE2rA3HscQ
I really love you background, you should made it not only a background :D
The enemy back and forth motion was hard to get used to, at first.
My high score was 16400 after I hit my stride on the second or third playthrough. I can see why we don't use floppy disks anymore!
BTW well done, a little too hard sometimes!