Kinda wish moving was a bit faster as it was frustrating to step on the crabs. I think sometimes the shell would explode right in front of my face right after kicking it which was annoying. Awesome new interpretation of an old classic especially with all the background text, sadly I the one time I was doing super well was when the game crashed on me.
Definitely inspired by the classic Mario Bros. title. Almost a bit too similar, it would've been nice to have some additional mechanics to mix it up.
The graphics and sound are the game's biggest strengths. It is visually consistent with nice background and sprites. The music and effects are fitting and complement each other quite well. You did a really good job on that.
Sadly the controls are rather weak. It is very hard to move the player around and hit the crabs on the head; given these constraints the time limit is simply way too low. However, these should be things that are easy to fix by fiddling around with the movement constants, so this could be turned into a fine game quite quickly.
A bug: When the time limit is below 10 and you get hit for a 10 seconds penalty, the game locks up completely and you have to force terminate it. Oh dear!
Beautiful graphics, and fantastic audio. It's simple but it all fits so nicely together. Rather difficult though, I found it hard to catch up to the crabs and relied on them going in my general direction.
Gameplay is very nice, like a classic platform, also the graphics are very good.
And considering that you made this in XNA you made a great job, because XNA is very difficult(I made a game once for university in XNA, it was a pain in the ass :D)
Yay! Good stylized graphics and coloring. Reminiscent of first mario arcade game. Chip tune style music and generally satisfying gameplay. Was a bit hard! Would love it to ramp up over time after a few satisfying easier levels of crushing slow moving crabs. But anyway a great job in the time allowed!!!
Amazing presentation ! It's polished, it looks good and it sounds good. I found the idea hilarious and had a great time playing this reallygood overall entry. Congrats, especially for a 48 hours solo work :)
The highscore system and camera style are both rather nice. However, the platforming is extremely laggy. It takes forever to start moving, and I had trouble just jumping onto a platform above me. When I did manage to jump on the enemies, it seemed random whether they damaged me or died. I think you put too much effort into the online components and not enough into designing the core gameplay to be enjoyable. Also, it's impossible to restart the game without submitting a high score. A "restart" button next to submit would've been very helpful when I didn't want to tell the world I got 0 points. On a less important note, the game froze up/kept spawning spiders after death/was generally randomly unstable. But that's to be expected from ld titles.
Very polished, this entry felt very smooth and complete. The sprites and animations are awesome, I love the little text that the crabs leave behind. Nice job with shaders, I found those pretty tricky in XNA. The audio was incredible and fit nicely with the style. Overall impressive entry, nice job!
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The graphics and sound are the game's biggest strengths. It is visually consistent with nice background and sprites. The music and effects are fitting and complement each other quite well. You did a really good job on that.
Sadly the controls are rather weak. It is very hard to move the player around and hit the crabs on the head; given these constraints the time limit is simply way too low. However, these should be things that are easy to fix by fiddling around with the movement constants, so this could be turned into a fine game quite quickly.
A bug: When the time limit is below 10 and you get hit for a 10 seconds penalty, the game locks up completely and you have to force terminate it. Oh dear!
Nice sound effects, good artwork.
I found it difficult to stay alive, but judging by the scoreboard I just suck.
Rather difficult though, I found it hard to catch up to the crabs and relied on them going in my general direction.
And considering that you made this in XNA you made a great job, because XNA is very difficult(I made a game once for university in XNA, it was a pain in the ass :D)
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However, the platforming is extremely laggy. It takes forever to start moving, and I had trouble just jumping onto a platform above me. When I did manage to jump on the enemies, it seemed random whether they damaged me or died. I think you put too much effort into the online components and not enough into designing the core gameplay to be enjoyable.
Also, it's impossible to restart the game without submitting a high score. A "restart" button next to submit would've been very helpful when I didn't want to tell the world I got 0 points.
On a less important note, the game froze up/kept spawning spiders after death/was generally randomly unstable. But that's to be expected from ld titles.