Baldaquin 6 - Beyond the window

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.94
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.53
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.73
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★65%
Use your weapon to move clouds, gather them and make them grow.

The angels turn seeds to shit in the factory, use it to fertilize and plant in the desert.

Angels dislike big clouds.

Don't forget to water your plantations.

A lot of vegetation brings people from the city, empty the city to win.

Note : you can use your gun on seeds and crap to bring them where you want.

EDIT : The game becomes slow after a few minutes, it is due to the large number of sprites on screen.

EDIT 2 : Some bug fixed, game should be faster now.

Comments22

ambi20 Apr 2015, 13:53
It was sure an interesting take on the theme. I had a little trouble figuring out what I'm supposed to do and how but once I got it it's pretty neat.
leo_p_mahon20 Apr 2015, 13:59
An interesting concept, I was not expecting the angels! I liked the music at the beginning would have loved some ambiance to set the mood in the main part of the game :)
SmilingCat20 Apr 2015, 14:03
I liked the concept, though it could be easier to get the angels to drop stuff where I need it. Good use of the theme.
Ilseroth
Ilseroth20 Apr 2015, 15:17
A little obtuse and I was having a hard time to figure out what exactly I was supposed to do.
ManicMiner
ManicMiner20 Apr 2015, 15:23
Nice, wish it had audio - Also not sure how it fits the theme, and feel like it might have been a design for a different theme that has been retrofitted with a "gun"
Static 6420 Apr 2015, 16:00
Extremely fun and a unique concept, although very hard to control.

I also encountered a glitch where, after a while, the angels with fertilizer would drop it while leaving the factory, so I couldn't get it.

With polished graphics and precise controls, this would be a fantastic games. As it is, I still couldn't stop playing.
repstyle20 Apr 2015, 16:24
Nice idea.

The thing is that i get a chaotic feeling playing because of the too big amount of stuff i have to deal with on the screen.
With a better balancing this could be interesting.

Also, making clouds bigger is sometimes working sometimes not so i couldn't understand what was the best method to create them in order to win.
Tasteslikefuture20 Apr 2015, 18:20
Very unique game! Aesthetically was very interesting. I had a little trouble figuring out exactly what to do, but the game certainly fit the theme well. Great job!
chromebookbob
chromebookbob20 Apr 2015, 18:24
I like the graphical style, and it hits the theme perfectly. The game play is well balanced and scales well because as the game progresses you have to juggle more stuff. Well done!
hercludes20 Apr 2015, 20:56
Opener was very nice and I can see a lot of hard work went into it. Man, this game is tough. I got to about 80 people leaving but this game requires a ton of patience and multi tasking. You have to maintain the positioning of your clouds, as long as form new ones, and while having the mature clouds knock squirrels or something down to grow trees or something. I liked the concept and I would be interested to seeing it be taken a step further, I had something in mind too for LD with fighting against society, something about politics. Anyways, good game but needed a lot of polish on the difficulty and time scale.
sugarbyte21 Apr 2015, 00:02
Really cool idea!
Simon21 Apr 2015, 11:32
This is the most WTF game I've ever played.
Prowler
Prowler21 Apr 2015, 15:00
Full score for the theme!
Very good concept. Why am I thinking of a 2048 where you have to accumulate flying 2s. 4s, 8s etc.? :D
No, really nice game and the graphics remind me of the good old monty python games.

I like it!
nassi22 Apr 2015, 00:34
Didn't have the patience to see this trough, controlling those clouds was a tad too hard. Got to 80 something people. The windows version did indeed have some bad slowdowns (freezes even), but I feel like those were caused by garbage collection rather than the amount of sprites. I suspect this because the rain effect disappeared whenever there was such a freeze...
HotBoxGames
HotBoxGames22 Apr 2015, 12:49
Great concept, fits the theme well.

Controls/mechanics could have been a bit easier, but that's just how it goes sometimes with time restrictions. Also would have been nice to have some audio.

Good effort!
The4thCircle23 Apr 2015, 13:54
I like the idea but the clouds are controlled very erratically, needs some work on the physics- it was so hard to keep them under control.
RockhopperGames
RockhopperGames23 Apr 2015, 14:25
I loved the surreal atmostphere of the game, and it was definitely very interesting! There were a few issues with pacing, and the angels stopped bringing back poop after a while, but over all it was quite the experience!
AnnaGavaldaKedavra24 Apr 2015, 10:23
It's the best Cloud-moving-to-kill-angels-while-making-the-countryside-lively game i've ever played. But the moving clouds part is quite frustrating. ;)
Mase
Mase29 Apr 2015, 02:00
I didn't have enough patience to get everyone out of freedom city. There's a lot of randomness in the movement of the clouds and angels, and the gun feels imprecise. So the controls are not very enjoyable.
I like the gameplay concept though.
The collage graphics are strange and appealing.
Good work.
emmelineprufrock
emmelineprufrock5 May 2015, 19:31
Interesting concept if a little difficult to get the hang of. Loved the idea though.
frogcheese
frogcheese10 May 2015, 10:01
Great idea, but the mechanics are a bit wonky. Steering the clouds to where you want them is extremely difficult, so a lot of the game was spent bouncing a few clouds back and forth and trying to get them to combine with each other while they went off in completely unexpected directions.

Either way a nice take on the theme.

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