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Definitely casual. 

Kept exploring. Kept not getting interesting. Stopped.

Good music though. Reminded me of DK64. 

Spoiler:

Did I just go through all that work to eject into the sun?

 

Yes, and so did I. 

so...the goal of the game is to view more pixels? 

Not enough of a point to the game for me to like it. Music was nice though. 

BOOOOORIIIIING 

Someone just take a screenshot of all of the pixels on each level for me. Thanks! 

The controls just piss me off, can't jump right after you start moving. 

Good start, but needed more guns. 

^agree
I'm stuck by the ocean. After I "kill man with sword" should I "give man lamp"? 

that was fun!
reminds me of Shadow Complex... 

eff 

M E H 

What a cool idea! Thanks for link 

i dont care if it was just colored threads and it was as simple as it was. i enjoyed that game 

I really enjoyed that, that game gave me better sense of escaping into another world then many high end games do, the 8-bit graphics worked very well and soundtrack was awesome too. 

Very artistic, in an 8-bit way. Amazing what people can revert to. 

Iulus Cofield said:

Spoiler:

Did I just go through all that work to eject into the sun?

! I thought you were kidding ! 

I thought it was neat. It's meant to be casual and it delivers.

Reminded me of Super Castlevania IV. Without all the whips and undead. 

I think the term 'charming' comes to mind. The 8-bit art was pretty nice, as was the music. Not the worst way to waste 10 mins at work! 

Expose little parts of your map as you explore.

SpunOne, did you have to make the description so pedophilish? 

"Casual" gaming needs to choke and go die somewhere out of my sight.
Reminded me of Jet Set Willy 2 and yet it managed to be less fun. 

pfft! the smasher thingie never turned on so I could become small enough to go through the little gaps! WEAK! 

will667 said:

"Casual" gaming needs to choke and go die somewhere out of my sight.
Reminded me of Jet Set Willy 2 and yet it managed to be less fun.

How about just avoiding "casual" gaming, instead of asking it to die?
It's what I do with Rap. 

nice find, i always check out jay's compo's, and hadn't spotted this one had given up on teh ones i did try.

those missing the point of the game, the first bit of text was something like "theres too much noise". 

I liked it. Good music for sure/ 

Makoto said:

SpunOne, did you have to make the description so pedophilish?

haha yeah, wtf? 

The last few front page threads have ended up in pedophiliaville so eh, why not.

Plus your 'character' in this does kinda look like a dong. 

I really enjoyed this for the 10 minutes I played it. I like the small diversion aspect of it.

Someone asked earlier for a screenshot of the levels, but that really doesn't do the game justice. The slow unveiling of each level captured my imagination ... At first I thought it was going to be four seasons, then I realised that wasn't just winter and I got a whole new impression of the dynamic.

At music - at times soaring, other times undertones of sinster - perfectly captures the mood. While you are exploring on the one hand, and the vistas of your long forgotten prehistory can be beautiful, it's not always pleasant what you come across.

Thats the story I got anyway, and I'm sticking with it.

P.S; could someone explain the red level to me? I was a little confused. Dinosaurs? 

i knew there was a reason i stopped posting on the FP
ben awaaaayyy 

Awesome game. 

youdontknowjake said:

so...the goal of the game is to view more pixels?

Again. 

Am I drunk, or is this Metroid without the fun or surprise it-was-a-chick-the-whole-time ending? 

I programmed a game like this on my TI-83 back in highschool. Good times. Had the same crappy jumping mechanics. I liked this one, even if the ending is ridiculous.

"Written by"???? 

Why was there a key for "down"? Did I miss some part of the game where you go down, as opposed to falling off an edge? 

Snooj said:

Why was there a key for "down"? Did I miss some part of the game where you go down, as opposed to falling off an edge?

That's how you get all the coins, duh. 

That was wonderful. Loved the music, loved the gameplay, loved the art direction.

Thanks. 

Awesome game.

 

Pretty, but pointless.
No wait, make that Pretty pointless
also it just restarted on me. not sure i wanna go thru it all again 

also it just restarted on me. not sure i wanna go thru it all again

That wasn't the end of the game?
I went through 4 rooms (4 gems) and then the bottom pod thingy flew off with my character. I figured I won. Did you guys get further than that? 

At first I thought this was one of those "screamers" pranks, so I played to the end hoping to get scared. I felt a different emotion entirely when I reached the end 

Me likey 

1) Any game I play, I explore everything I can. There wasn't a single pixel of the maps in Mercenaries I hadn't seen twice, and I went everywhere in Fable 2 except two of the friggin' demon doors. This was a nice diversion, made moreso by the total lack of anything that can kill ya.

2) WTB the music from the red zone.