Kylät

Posted by Derek Yu Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:28:00 GMT

Kylät

Sampe’s Kylät is the winner of Game Maker Games’s Three Word Contest, where entrants were asked to make a game based around the words “break,” “deep,” and “wing.”

In terms of its visual and narrative styles, Kylät follows proudly in the footsteps of popular Game Maker platformers like Seiklus, flapflapflap, and the games of Darthlupi. It definitely falls short of those classics, however. For one thing, there’s almost no pacing – you’ll go from chatting up aliens (who speak… very… slowly) to being dropped into the middle of a chaotic war zone where it’s not obvious what’s hurting you and what’s not, or whether you’re doing any damage to your enemies. The whole thing feels disjointed and incomplete.

The story is interesting (if somewhat stilted). But I can’t say I recommend seeing it through, because the ending is totally lackluster and feels like a rush to meet competition deadlines.

(Source: Soldat Movies)

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  1. JW said about 8 hours later:

    His name is Sampe, not Sampre. ;)

  2. Derek said about 8 hours later:

    Thanks! Perhaps I was thinking of Pete Sampras? ;)

    Maybe not…

  3. DrDerekDoctors said about 12 hours later:

    Haha, when I saw this I thought “Robert Lupinek is ALIVE!”. It’s dead Cleanery looking, innit?

  4. Pragma said about 15 hours later:

    The music in the intro is quite odd, but it helps drive home this alien and minimalist quality this game has. Was anyone else reminded of “Out of This World”?

  5. Nikica said about 17 hours later:

    Yeah smone thing are like in Another World !!!

  6. Stwelin said about 21 hours later:

    Gameplay was hideous. Shut it off without even attempting get past the first area (after 4 tries.)

    The other entries must have been piles of cowshit.

  7. Melly said about 22 hours later:

    It does seem like the game was rushed to meet a deadline, but it shows a bit of potential. I like the visuals and the alien critter designs, though yes, the gameplay needs to be polished. Also, being able to skip text should never, ever be forgotten. (I can skip the whole thing, but I’d like to be able to skip each sentence because I can read faster than a 2-year-old).

    Did anybody else feel the main character was just way too confortable with the whole thing? I’m pretty sure if I woke up with a creepy floating octopus thing with red eyes TALKING to me I’d crap myself more than once.

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