Improv by benderbinary

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made by benderbinary for LD24 (COMPO)
Not really sticking to the theme, but since this is my first entry I'm fully satisfied. Hopefully you'll also be. Over and out (Too tired!)

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 2.42 637
Audio 2.43 368
Fun 2.04 670
Graphics 3.06 323
Humor 2.34 278
Innovation 2.36 575
Mood 2.67 352
Theme 1.57 732

Feedback

Punga
26. Aug 2012 路 23:27 UTC
Game looks good but I think gameplay its too poor.
eyehawk
28. Aug 2012 路 12:08 UTC
erm, that was quite strange - I couldn't understand what the objective was.
dr_soda
28. Aug 2012 路 17:58 UTC
Hey there, I didn't want to rate it just yet because it seems that the space bar doesn't work. The toothpick never jumped when I pressed it. I think you'd be fine submitting a patch if it really is broken. Has anyone else seen this problem yet?
馃帳 benderbinary
28. Aug 2012 路 18:10 UTC
@dr_soda (SPOILER) - go left :)
michax
28. Aug 2012 路 21:51 UTC
Strange gameplay. Can't fully figure out what to do.
mottmatt
29. Aug 2012 路 00:37 UTC
I made it to the final stairs that climb off into the distance and couldn't figure out where to go / what to do next so I went back, jumped in the pit, pushed the ball, broke the structure, then got stuck, so then I quit.

The atmosphere is bizarre. While no effort was given to the theme I appreciate the randomness. The combination of high and low fidelity art assets was off putting at first but it I felt it fit the random nature of the world. Physics were buggy but easy to get the hang of. The invisible bounding volume of the sprite makes jumps awkward. It was worth playing and exploring and I had fun.
mcc
29. Aug 2012 路 05:27 UTC
I couldn't seem to get this to run. I am using Chrome 21.0.1180.82 on a Mac. After a long time the title screen came up, but it seemed cut off within the box somehow. When I pressed play, the game area went black for a long time and eventually Chrome popped up the "this page is not responding" error.
馃帳 benderbinary
29. Aug 2012 路 05:40 UTC
@mcc strange - but can you try it in firefox (thank you)
BNeutral
29. Aug 2012 路 05:43 UTC
What did I just play?
Can't really rate it because it's so odd.
馃帳 benderbinary
29. Aug 2012 路 05:47 UTC
:)
Benjamin
29. Aug 2012 路 07:32 UTC
Wow that was psychedelic ! When I had double jump, I could climb to the... roof ? but after that I continued to the right, went on a strange white platform. At this point music stoped because I think there's no loop. And then when I was really sure I was out of the bound of the level, there was this strange elevator going up at very high speed. It bring me up to some weird place and on my first jump the whole ground disappear with nice clouds, letting me falling in the orange sky. For ever.
馃帳 benderbinary
29. Aug 2012 路 07:42 UTC
@Benjamin: I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar. (thank you for playing)
monkeymad2
29. Aug 2012 路 22:05 UTC
This feels like what happens to normal games when they go all glitchy but you keep playing to see what strange things'll happen.
Porpentine
30. Aug 2012 路 00:11 UTC
love the visuals, especially the flowers. movement is way too hard but i appreciate that you made this game about a plucky hairy little stick...
juaxix
30. Aug 2012 路 00:37 UTC
The graphics are beautiful, you have to improve jugability...and the music , thanks for your work
darkstarmatryx
30. Aug 2012 路 01:00 UTC
Needed some form of instructions or anything to tell you what you were trying to accomplish. Also to easy to get stuck on objects.
daydalus
30. Aug 2012 路 01:42 UTC
Wow, this game is drugged out ;) Definitely had an original style, reminded me a concept album art for a 70 psychadelic band. The platforming gameplay didn't work very well though, and couldn't tell what the objective is. But great work finishing, visual style is great.
zatyka
30. Aug 2012 路 03:17 UTC
I'm really not sure what I just played.
wizbane
30. Aug 2012 路 04:04 UTC
Quite a strange looking game. Could use a bit more than basic platformer mechanics to be interesting gameplay-wise, but it's quite a good first attempt!
ConflictiveLabs
30. Aug 2012 路 04:08 UTC
acid trip FTW!
Switchbreak
30. Aug 2012 路 06:07 UTC
Really like the music and the look of this, but I can't see what's going on and it makes it really difficult to hit all those moving platforms.
Siegfur
30. Aug 2012 路 07:20 UTC
Is it this "new" art or just an acid? Dunno, but this is weird.
EatThePath
30. Aug 2012 路 08:03 UTC
...did a large peanut man just... body slam me to death?
馃帳 benderbinary
30. Aug 2012 路 08:13 UTC
@EatThePath He's supposed to be a slipper!
Sgt Squirrelly
31. Aug 2012 路 01:15 UTC
Completely random.
NateNaterson
31. Aug 2012 路 01:26 UTC
Best acid trip I've ever been on.
vilya
31. Aug 2012 路 02:08 UTC
That's really rather odd... but there's some great ideas in there, the visual style is really distinctive and the music pretty decent.
TheSarcastic
01. Sep 2012 路 18:22 UTC
didn't work here
Jedi
02. Sep 2012 路 11:25 UTC
I love the style!
Too bad the gameplay is so wonky. You really need to get the controls perfect if you're going to require such exacting jumps and have such punishing falls.
Please improve this, and make more games like it! :)
infernet89
05. Sep 2012 路 16:58 UTC
Weird. But it's amazing how you drawed so many things in 48h.
davidwparker
14. Sep 2012 路 15:16 UTC
Neat graphics, but I was a bit confused.