There's Always a Bigger... by Jerre
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GAME
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There's Always a Bigger... is a combination of some known mechanics into something surprisingly fun and addictive. Controls are [Space] and [Enter] (so two buttons ;) ). Eat the smaller green fishes, and avoid the larger red fishes, at least until you've outgrown them!
Please post high-scores!
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PERSONAL
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Between my grandmother's 90st birthday and organizing a babyshower for men I'm glad to say I've managed to still squeeze something out this time. And it came out surprisingly fun.
My focus was on fun and theme: both growing and two button control inspired me to combine some known mechanics into something new.
I've used a linkshortening service to track download count.
GAME
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There's Always a Bigger... is a combination of some known mechanics into something surprisingly fun and addictive. Controls are [Space] and [Enter] (so two buttons ;) ). Eat the smaller green fishes, and avoid the larger red fishes, at least until you've outgrown them!
Please post high-scores!
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PERSONAL
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Between my grandmother's 90st birthday and organizing a babyshower for men I'm glad to say I've managed to still squeeze something out this time. And it came out surprisingly fun.
My focus was on fun and theme: both growing and two button control inspired me to combine some known mechanics into something new.
I've used a linkshortening service to track download count.
Ratings
| Coolness | 35% | 1888 |
| Overall | 3.50 | 278 |
| Fun | 3.67 | 137 |
| Graphics | 2.36 | 825 |
| Innovation | 3.05 | 548 |
| Mood | 2.75 | 633 |
| Theme | 4.48 | 11 |
The graphics are quite simplistic but the background circles make the whole thing work. And the controls are tight too.
Overall it's a really nice, minimal take on both themes, congrats :)
I love that you took the angry birds theme and turned it into an arena style game! Addictive and surprisingly fun :)
Hi-Score: 94913 (If you don't believe me, watch the video ^^)
The first: not being allowed to get offscreen for a moment. I could understand not getting too far away, and maybe it's just my take on it, but maybe allowing the player to hop a little offscreen would be okay because some of the fish would be really near the edge. This one was a bit annoying, but not that really..
The most annoying thing was the bigger fish spawning on top of me... After it happened three times I gave up. They should definitely not be allowed to spawn near you inside a certain range so that there's no instant-death the moment you eat a smaller fish. It's really annoying to just have executed a quick-grab of a meal and then a bigger fish spawns on you and you lose. (You can even see the bigger fish still growing in the frozen screenshot.)
Other than that, it was a nice game. I would keep playing but that spawn "feature" got a little antagonistic. :P