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Review by Timorg all reviews by Timorg

All the art in the game is hand drawn, although the mixture of styles really takes away from the polish of the game. The hand drawn font is a nice touch. The sound is quite sparse, but all the sounds are voice recordings.

The game displays the source code used to produce it from the main menu, allowing you to browse it; it is not integrated into the game, and does not add anything into the game experience. Polymorphism is used for replay recording and playback, but is also used through the code via inheritance.

The genre has been applied to the game by making the player character (Quetzalraulcoatl) and the NPC (Tezcatlifolepoca) gods. You are required to collect hearts from human sacrifices and place them in the sacrificial pot. The theme does not add anything to the game, but it does explain why the main character can fly and why he is picking items up and putting them in a location.

Overall this game is ok considering the time limitations; it reminds me of early console games, simple but solid gameplay, and artwork that fills the criteria. I did have a horrible time trying to compile the code, the provided makefile is not complete (under windows at least) as it required me to edit the makefile to specify the libraries to link with and the link order, (it was the link order that caused me the most suffering.) The code does not compile at all cleanly, but it does compile with no changes to the actual source.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 4

Review by victorwss all reviews by victorwss

Nice and simple game. Very challenging and interesting. My best score was 58500 in level 9.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 4