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Earth and Water
by Gassa
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Review by darkbits all reviews by darkbits

In this game you control some sort of a water being fighting earth for world domination by drowning everything in your way.

At first the game is a bit tricky to understand, it\'s not obvious how the game play works, but after a while you realize you have to kill each earth being to advance to the next level. Killing is done by simply colliding with a being.

As the player strives for world domination the world domination rule has been covered, although I find the battle between water and earth a bit lame as a world domination theme. By killing earth beings, and covering earth with water, the destruction rule is covered, but you never really get the feeling of destroying stuff, more a feeling of painting a window with a blue palette. Between each level a text message is displayed insulting you as a water being which I guess covers the dialogue rule, although a simple text message isn\'t really a dialogue, it\'s a monologue as there is no reply from the player (automatic or by the actual player). The art and gfxs of the game are not very impressive but serves it\'s purpose.

One thing that bugs me with this game is that it doesn\'t seem to have a decent timer implemented, as it sometimes changes running speed from running very slow to running very fast for a short time, but most of the time it runs terribly slow. The game would have been much nicer with a faster pace.

The good thing about this game is that it\'s actually a finished game! There are a set of levels (I think it\'s four, I\'ve always died on the fourth level so I\'m not sure), there is a high score list so you can beat your records and the flow of the game works nicely. A complete game in TINS is always impressive!

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 2

Review by Timorg all reviews by Timorg

This game wasn\'t really clear on what you had to do, after reading the readme again, and thinking about it, it became clear that the builders wouldn\'t kill you if you touch them, and it made a heap more sense. I found the game quite slow paced, but it was functional, and when you slow down you cover a larger area with water. The game was quite well designed in that respect.

Overall: 3. The game played quite well, I just didn\'t find it that exciting.

Artistical: 3. The graphics were quite limited with the object sprites being a circle with a line in it designating direction of travel. The water and land effect was quite nice though.

Technical: 3. The code seems quite complicated, but atan2 is used quite a few times. It provides its own random number generator, so if I ever need one, I will know where to look.

Genre: 4. The game directly involves destruction of the world, which really does classify for world domination. The gameplay was also quite original, I hadn\'t seen it before.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 3 Genre 4