As it's been said the game oozes charm. It's a pacman/zelda/gauntlet/space shooter bastard child, or something. The game is pretty easy as far as battling goes (maybe too easy), and the controls are fairly nice. I love the art style of it.

Blocks can be cumbersome and get stuck in odd places screwing you over.

I wasn't really sure on how to affect my status. I was always on coward, though I'm sure I was killing everything on sight.

I can see lots of potential for level design.

Keep it up.

Those elements are all there to make the world more believable. Since the world doesn't feel as fake you can immerse yourself into it with less effort. It's all in the small details, really. Things half of the players might not even notice, but subconsciously having those details around helps you become more attached to the world, even if you're not focusing on them.

Ah, the gentleman way of doing a manhug. Very informative.

I feel the speeding!

Why not 3D hats? 3D hats are awesome.

>Takes the opportunity to do your recently learned Crocodile Final Smashing Throw move, aiming to take the gloves in a flurry of amazing leg action.

There is a reason why so many of the first 3D games were crap. They just jumped on the novelty bandwagon. Megaman went back to 2D cause the 3D game was crap. Same with Castlevania.

What about various famous games being made into lo-tech roguelikes? Doom and Castlevania come to mind (DoomRL is awesome, by the way. And addictive as hell).

Two ancient warriors are brought to our time via inter-dimensional portal that breaks the time-space continuum into tomato sauce, are trained by monkey ninjas is the use of firearms and 167 forms of martial arts dealing with poo-throwing, and are minituarized by venusian aliens, who send them on a dangerous and epic mission to enter The Void, find Mother Brain, and destroy it from the inside.

I also predict cameos by Jackie Chan during a massive monkey war and Rinkuhero during the time-space portal scene, appearing in his new immortal path defender form.

I`d suggest copious use of pasta and styrofoam.

>Drinks the sauce straight from the phone's skull (if cellphones can even have skulls) in a grotesque, animalistic fashion.

IVAN is all about the Reaper.

He has become... immortal.   

Bad Photoshops-r-us.



Never enough Highlander.

That made me laugh so hard.

What about one-hour game making competitions held live on TV? 

>Search cellphone

He's in Pathspace, shooting down alien ships headed for Earth and making pretty colors on the sky.

>Take pity on the mailbox, for he knows it rarely ever leaves its spot. Ask the mailbox whether it would like to accompany him in his journey for the Flaming Boxing Glove of Destiny.

>Learn how to do as many of your everyday activities as possible using your feet and legs, incluging legs-only crocodile wrestling.

I have played Earthbound, and though I'll probably be linched and sodomized by the rest of the indies around here, I gave up on it after being stuck in an area I found really, really annoying and boring. I don't remember much about it, I think it was underground or something. When I think of getting this game again and trying to beat it, I think of that part, and the urge goes away.

I think you should have probably left out any HUD's and words, cause they basically already tell us a lot about the game concept. I already know it's a space themed game where you can battle with your ship, trade, level up in some way, communicate with other ships/races/whatever. It's probably much like Star Trek.

So yeah, half of the figuring out fun is over in that one, for me. 

Must not forget the puppies! Then again, dogs don't like hugs. But my pillows do. *pillowhugs*

*humanhugs everyone*