PyWeek - Gin & Pythonic - feedback

not fun at all for me.

reasonably nice graphics, and nice music. The gameplay gets boring after a bit.

Unique idea, but a little jerky when playing.

Quirky fun. More feedback for the combos is needed; the combo HUD is too far away from where I'm looking to be part of the action.

liked the idea of using monty python's flying circus' foot :) (it's... :P)

Nice game. Good production values, startup menus, nice monty python styling, including appropriately annoying sounding music.

Innovation-wise not much new: a bit like space invaders with a twist (rotation). The combo concept is nice, but unfortunately it only gets you a higher score, not some fun in-game effect.

That is really a Python game. Good work.

I loved the graphics and music. Very nice style.

Haha, awesome music guys. Seems like the game was a very cool idea, I do not know if it was intentional to have the flipping and the foot at the same time, but it made it sorta easy to flip and foot, flip and foot. But the combos thing made it a bit better. I would have liked to see something more to it than pop the balloons, get points, maybe some way you could die besides running out of time? I like the graphics a lot though, very cool evil devils.

Really neat idea for a game, I found it a bit difficult to really understand what I was doing, or
how I would lose, but the quality of everything was excellent! Good job! Oh, it ran my CPU at
close to 100%.

get's a bit repetative and wild stamping also does the job pretty well and by accident you even
get combos every now and then. very good production value!

weird...

There you go. Wholly exceptional. I love the music.

reminds me of space invaders, if you flipped it upside down.

I really like the graphics and sounds, but I don't understand what you have to do in the game. All I do is pop balloons in order to get combos. Game screen is too big for my screen, too.

I really like the music!

It was a little hard to see the 'cloud' that denotes which column you're about to stomp with the foot. (I think it looks a little too much like the regular clouds in the game)

The way combos work could be explained better -- it took me a while to figure out what was going on there.

Is there any penalty for letting balloons escape , other than the lost scoring potential?

Aww, pushing buttons so fast hurts my arm. Not my thing I guess.

Stomping on balloons is really not that fun.

Graphics and overall polish is well done but somehow the game itself is not quite there yet. Just playing for 3 minutes for a highscore seems a little pointless.. Some kind of time bonus for a combo would be nice and something to mark the current position of the foot (when it's above the screen) would be very helpful. Just some small additions to the gameplay and the game would be (sorta) finished.

Love the music and the feet!

Wow, I must say this game is extremely creative! I reminds me of a mix between Strongbad, Monty Python, and Dogma. The look and feel of the game is consistent throughout, which says great things for creative direction. The graphics, sound, and music all flow together really well. I like the whistling/humming renditions of 99 luftballoons, not only does it add to the hand-made feel, but it nicely avoids any potential lawsuits or copyright infringements. Well done!

Very good potential for a "new" type puzzle game. The combo system was interesting, but there wasn't much challenge to being able to use it, so the game got repetitive.

I enjoyed your graphics and title screen.

the sound was good. I didn't like that the game was locked into a window slightly bigger than my laptopscreen.

Haha, monty python foot. Coolness. Lacks depth.

Really nice production values, but I thought that it was annoying when the balloons kept going up constantly while I was trying to look for a combo. I think it would be more interesting if perhaps the balloons went up after every move or something. Then you could plan your moves to get lots of combos.

One crazy idea and a nice variation on theme block-puzzle-game theme. Well produced.

nice music ! :)

Very, very weird. Like the graphical style, but smooth animation on the balloons when they float upwards/get rotated would really help give a concrete sense of what's actually going on. As it is, it's difficult to tell what's going on on the playing field.

nice production, i liked the music.
but where is the gameplay? WTF with those devils?

One of the best games I've played. The only thing it is missing is some sort of challenge or way to lose.

Awesome game! funny!

Polished and fun. I absolutely loved the style of this game.

really nice screens, game a bit dull :)

nice music.

Nice game. Good crisp sprites. Overall fun game to play.

It was some fun to try this game out, but this game was not able create some addictive game-play.
Graphics are ok, but the voice for "Combo", "Highscore", etc. was rather disturbing (my
opinion)..

What a cool game! Took me a while to realise I didn't have to worry about the balloons going off
the top of the screen so I could then just focus on the combos. Love the stompy foot! :) And cool
music. And overall coolness for graphic design.

Hey, the graphics were great, the game, was... not fun.

This is one fine looking game. The graphics are great and have a very distinct, original style.
The gameplay itself is simple, but works, and the idea of a huge foot from the sky stomping hot
air balloons was able to cause a few chuckles. The music is pretty fine too in its own, special
way. You also get a few bonus points for a working and professional-looking Windows
installer, though making it install the final version would've been nice. One thing I really
missed was a mouse-driven interface - it would've fit both the game and the menus so much
better. The game could also work better as turn-based with more emphasis on puzzle solving
than fast-paced action.

Great presentation, great idea, fun to play, pretty nice music, high score and awesome graphics.
One of the best entries :)

Looks and sounds pretty nice.

Nice graphics and sound effects. The game itself is too simple I thik.

Very nice game! I really liked the graphics and sound and the game was generally fun to play
although I still haven't figured out whether you're supposed to try and hit every balloon or
whether it's worth going after every combo. I think it would have been nice to show the points
for the combo to give better feedback (maybe faded out in the background). I also think the
combo scores are somewhat unintuitive; I felt like the game was in the Tetris or Dr. Mario
genre, but other than the Combo ribbon, I didn't really feel like there was anything intuitive
about scoring the combo.

Great graphics and great music. Not sure what I was doing half the time, but rather enjoyed the game. Thanks!

Nice game, hard to make a combo but rewarding...Didn't get the purpose of hurricans...But still a solid cool game...

The foot was fun :)

Great soundtrack and sound effects. Nice graphcs. Very different gameplay, but turns out the game is too difficult for me. =|

That music really got to me after about 30 seconds of playing. It also seemed the combos weren't really worth it - I felt it was more effective to line up a big bunch of them and stomp them all at once.