PyWeek - 10 Roboticists from Santa Fe - feedback

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Nice production... it was a little difficult to play it with the touchpad.

Game play was too fast.

I like it, but is very hard.

nice style. short but entertaining. a bit too simple for my taste.

This is pretty good. Hampered by the having to learn the shapes of the robots but otherwise okay.

Nice game again guys! :)
So bad I couldn't finish the game and therefore couldn't see the "happy dance" :(

Very nice! complicated to play with a touchpad, though.

Amazing graphics and entertainment! It was too hard, After hacking myself some time it was cool.. but the last level didn't give any barrel, so I couldn't complete it. Very nice anyway!

Great game i loved to played. The music are great, congratulation guys. A pitty there were no more levels but, considering it was done in just one week i think is enough.

A nice game, too short though. But nice...

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Nicely done, but not really enough to it to hold my interest much.

Nice game. Would have loved to see some more relation between the guy drawing the robot and object selection.. like you select and place a piece correctly and the guy draws that part on the board kinda thing.. :)
Good work though

I love the opening movie, and the menu system is great with pleasant music.<br><br>

The help and story selections hare informative, but a "press esc to go back" would have been helpful, as clicking and pressing space and enter weren't letting me get out of those menus. It crashes when I click on Credits.<br><br>

The game is fun -- took me a little while to catch what was going on, but eventually I picked up on it and after a few tries I was able to complete the first level.<br><br>

I'm playing on a laptop, so it wasn't easy to grab parts in the air. It was particularly frustrating that I couldn't pick up parts off of the conveyer belt. I liked the variety of pieces in the game -- the quality of artwork is really high, and the music was appropriately funny as well. Great job with the game! Though I found it a bit too hard, overall I thought it was a very well done game. Good job! :)<br><br>

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Not bad. The gameplay got old kind of fast, though.

if you cant say anything nice, compliment the production!

To difficult!

very complicated

Beautiful artwork. I really liked the whole look of this game. I think the gameplay felt too random. it was too much about patiently waiting and hoping to be lucky enough to get the right pieces, and not enough about strategy or skill

Loved the artwork, but game felt like a flash game

THe Gameplay would be fun if it wasn't so hard to start. If it started off slower and built to a frantic pace instead of starting at a frantic pace it would be better.

Sound, music, graphics, were all excelent. I found it a bit too challenging though (level one
should be easier at least), and it's a bit frustrating to have to start back at level one each
time. I had trouble identifying that I needed a neck piece at first for some reason. Not sure
what the point of the conveyor belt was though, since I couldn't grab anything off of it - I guess
so you can get a better look at the pieces? I would suggest making the menu mouse
opperated/enabled, since the game itself is. Overall, very nice though.

Interesting idea, but I didn't enjoy it, just seemed unnecissarily frantic and way too simple
for my tastes. Great production values, feels very complete. Saw the fart thing on the video.
gross.

I like the game overall, but its hard to grab to parts and place them fast enough

Cute robot, good production quality.

Like a puzzle game for children, but too hard. I had to change the time configs in order to get through the first level.

Fun graphics, I like the intro menu. It was a bit too fast for me to actually play.. i guess i am no robot builder. Overall a fun concept, and clearly made with a great sense of humor!

I found this game mostly infuriating, why did things explode? I couldn't pick pieces up, was this supposed to happen?

Good work. Found it quite difficult :(
I liked the music a lot and I enjoy reading their workLog.

nice work!

Fun for a while. Having to restart from the beginning if you make a mistake in any level is mistreating the player. Nice music and graphics, I liked the mood.

The game is really nice, although I think it starts already too hard -- the pieces fall too fast, and it took me some time to notice the robot diagram on the right showing which pieces were still missing. Also, the it's difficult to put the robot's neck on the right position, since the mouse cursor is too big.

Regardless, it's a fun and original game, with nice graphics, funny details and great soundtrack. Congratulations! :)

Interesting idea, but blimey it was hard. Some pieces fell too quickly, and sometimes it was hard to know which piece you needed. There's barely enough time to build the robot if you make no mistakes, let alone get a couple of pieces wrong.

Very nice graphics, nice music, nice sounds.. but unfortunately the gameplay is a bit flawed. I found it hard to tell which pieces were needed for the robot. When you pick up a piece you cannot quite see how the piece is rotated because the mouse cursor is in the way. The game is nice but a bit short and frustrating at the same time. Gameplay just needs some polishing then it's great.

The art was really good. Why oh why can't you pick up parts from the conveyor belt? Gah!

This was a pretty fun game with great art, sound, music and polish.

A few niggles: The instructions could have been better. I had little clue what to do upon first playing the game. The game was challenging (which is ultimately good, not impossible either), but if you lost you had to start all over again. This was a bit repetitive, I felt. Also it was odd that in the menu you had to use the keyboard, while the rest of the game was mouse driven.

The game was fun, but had too much of a random feel for me to really give it the ratings it would otherwise deserve. The falling parts oftentimes were simply not the parts I needed to finish a level on time, and thus I would fail - even though I grabbed each piece I DID need immediately. This made it seem more like the game was based entirely on chance and not a bit on my own skill. In any event, well done.

exceptional production
great job!

I needed several tries to beat this game (and I am a little little little bit dissapointed of the "reward" / the dancing robot...) - This game is quite challenging (and frustrating!) - but the latter is more because the items are moving quite too fast and you do not really know what parts do you need - for example: it was not before the 3rd level nearly ended until I managed to understand that I have to pick up each individual board of his barrel... Further, it would have been nice if a piece you have in your hand would not explode after some seconds (2? 3?) - It was quite to hectic - picking up items from the lower part of the screen would also have been a nice step towards the player - some more levels/more robots to construct would also be a nice addition to it.<br>
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Nevertheless, the music is quite good and I love the artwork! :)

The first level was a little too hard. The art and animations are great.

This game is cool but it goes a bite too fast maybe.

Fun:
I had fun with the first level but after some time it was frustrating (especially level 2) that the pieces are falling soooo fast. Maybe you can implement some difficulties or an increasing falling speed over the levels. So i got frustrated and didn't finish level 2, despite the fact, that i was curious about level 3.

Innovation:
The game concept is a solid thing catcher, that is well implemented. But the graphics (that are really nice) are the only thing with that concerns to robots. So for me there isn't that much innovation.

Production:
Your game looks really well crafted, congratulations! The graphics are very nice and the sound get's never distracting or annoying. Also the idea with the robot scheme in the upper right corner, that shows which parts are collected and which are missing, is very helpful. Great idea! But on the other hand i couldn't figure out what the special parts are, that the help screen mentioned and how to use them.

Overall:
You have made a nice and challenging game with a gamespeed that is a little bit frustrating for me.

Cool idea, it got a bit too hard to soon.

The game was strangely enchanting for such a simple concept. What irritated me, though, was that you have to replay all levels if you lose. I want to see the happy dance!

Love it! I played it for about 15 minutes (which is quite long for me when playing pygames) and I quite enjoyed it. Nice work!

Very nice graphics, simple concept, well execution. I felt like the last level was a little too stingy with parts, the few times I have gotten close to winning, it took too long sending me the parts I needed. I want to see the dance!