April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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Gladiator fan fic. Because Maximus was not a Minimalist.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 87% |
| #184 | Humor | 2.97 |
| #599 | Innovation | 3.07 |
| #703 | Audio | 2.45 |
| #1094 | Fun | 2.34 |
| #1113 | Mood | 2.24 |
| #1234 | Overall | 2.38 |
| #1264 | Theme | 2.54 |
| #1284 | Graphics | 1.93 |
Comments
Interesting concept, a bit frustrating trying to play tetris with not-great feeling interactions. Thought the tiger jumping was pretty hilarious though.
That's a pretty cool game concept. The ledge-grabbing mechanic is actually a certain degree of genius. I also quite like the music. And yes, the tiger is hilarious.
Weirdly, I can't actually think of anything bad to say about it. I guess you should with the LD.
That tiger kept things interesting. He was easy to shut down after a while. Only took me 2 tries to win. Not bad. Doesn't fit the theme in anything but name, to me.
Fairly interesting, but it was a shame that it wasn't too stable. I had it crash when I got stuck inside pieces and after I got to the end and killed the boss. But setting it to run in windows XP compatibility mode seemed to help (running Windows 8 x64). There were definitely some cool ideas in there though :)
The main concept is good, yet a bit off the theme.
The controls feel a bit weird at times and the collision response on the blocks is awkward. I don't really get what the tiger does.
Great Game man! Lovely tiger keeps attacking me while I try to put an end to Maximus head! D:
Woah alright - liking the music! Weird how I just get stuck under blocks, but I enjoyed it, nice work!
The idea of climbing a stream of falling Tetris blocks was pretty good. If that was all that the game was about, I would give it much more marks.
Regardless of the theme, this is an example case where putting a lid on your source of ideas, and working with what you already got makes things much better.
The tiger (while hilarious) distracted a lot from the main idea (climb tetris), and makes the game looks poorer - the semi-realistic sprites also don't help much.
I think if you remade it as a very minimalistic (ha!) game about an abstract hero climbing down a tetris wall, it would have been superb.
Congratulations on the idea, anyway, and see you next LD!
Nice mechanic, but it's not coherent at all with the setting. This combination makes it pretty funny though.
Because of this game, I made a boo-boo.
***END TRANSMISSION***
No but really, this has some clever things, like playing Tetris from inside the game and the ledge-grabbing. Not sure if genius or madman.
That's kind of a bizarre game, indeed, but with some nice ideas worth exploring further. I like the idea of this kind of inverse-Tetris mechanic, and I think the tiger keeps things interesting by pushing you around in what would otherwise have been a pretty easy game.
On the other hand, I don't feel this game fits the theme that well. Having simplistic sprites that do not match the rest of the game, or nothing but a plain colored background, along with the plain ugly head that floats around makes it look underdeveloped, not minimalistic.
The poor implementation doesn't help on that front, either.
All in all, I think there's enough potential on the main idea to keep on working on this game beyond the constraints of the LD.
Congratulations! :)
I love the overall gameplay concept - climbing a growing Tetris sculpture which you can reshape to an extent. It's well worth polishing into a full game.
Weird game - perhaps I just don't get it. That's ok, I completed it, at least :)
Hah, hilarious idea! I found it hard to play (got stuck under blocks), but it was original...and funny :)
Neat mash-up, could benefit from tuning but good concept.
Very interesting idea. I got buried by the blocks pretty quickly though XD
Interesting concept although I didn't find it fun to play, I can still appreciate the idea behind it
I found the game to be good... unusual... very unusual... but good :)
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well -- you get extra points from me for using maximus in the title -- too frustrating trying to get to the top -- killing the tiger was fun too -- nice effort