Reviews

Review by push32 all reviews by push32

A simple and short game where you catch hexagonal vinyls thrown by DJ (in contrast to MC) Escher on empty spaces of movable turntables with a target amount of records to collect. The mouse controls work well, moving the mouse super fast left and right will catch many records. It is fun, but only for a short time though. Some interesting other items to collect or avoid would be a nice addition.

Turning M.C. Escher into a super cool DJ is humoristic and may make you laugh to some degree. So the reference to M.C. Escher is there, but unfortunately not to his interesting works. Design and graphics are neat and fit well. The starting screen is quite appealing indicates the author's website, which fulfills the plug requirement.

The hexagonal tech rule has been implemented, but is not part of the game mechanics. The game is cross-platform and compiled without problems under Linux, plus the game even runs in the browser!

In total a very decent entry to the competition.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 4

Review by amarillion all reviews by amarillion

Meet DJ Escher! DJ Escher jockeys hexagons instead of discs. He throws them around like Wart throws bubbles. But unlike Mario, you should try to catch these projectiles. Which isn't easy and isn't hard. No matter what you do, catching discs is pretty much random. Sometimes you luck out, catch all hexagons... and then nothing happens.

I understand from the logs that you actually didn't have much time during TINS, so kudos for submitting something anyway.

Overall: 1. You can play the game or not, it doesn't really matter :)
Art: 3. I like the stylish color scheme. And there is a plug for dosowisko.net
Tech: 2. Yup, hexagons.
Genre: 2. Escher is there sporting cool shades. That, and the music, makes it somewhat funny.

Scores: Overall 1 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 2

Review by marcdev30 all reviews by marcdev30

The game is a little bit repetitive even though the concept is great. The music is repetitive. Keep it up!

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 2 Technical 4 Genre 1

Review by Kuros all reviews by Kuros

This is a goofy little game. And I like the idea of DJ Escher.

The game is a little bit too repetitive. Also for me it comes down to luck to catch the disks Escher is throwing. My hand eye coordination is not fast enough to actually apply skill in this game. But maybe that's just because I'm getting old :)

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 3

Review by Tijzz all reviews by Tijzz

When you boot up the game you get this very cool scene. After this, I thought I would be thrown into the main menu and it took me a few seconds to realize that it was the actual game.

I had expected more. The gameplay is basic and becomes boring really, really fast, because you do the same thing over and over again. No new levels, layouts, gameplay mechanics, anything.

Even though the concept of the game is very basic in itself, I think you could have done more with it. Created different scenes, different levels, spicing up the gameplay even a little bit.

The Escher rule is implemented by the DJ Escher character, who is cool and nicely made. The hexagonal rule is implemented through the hexagonal plates, which works, but is very cheap. Apart from the cool sunglasses that Eschers has, I don't really see the humor rule come back. I have also missed a plug for another game.

All in all, even though the concept is simple, I think your game lacks gameplay. The art is fine. Maybe DJ Escher could have been explored some more.

Scores: Overall None Artistical None Technical None Genre None