{"id":1865,"edition":10,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":9607,"name":"Crab Island","authors":[{"name":"Antoine Boisier-Michaud","twitter":"antoine_boisier","login":"Aboisier","gh":6698529}],"description":"

So your plane just crashed on this island. At least, you’ve got an ax. The island has trees. And crabs! Actually, the island is called “Crab Island”.

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You’re very hungry though. So, better not become too acquainted with those crabs, because you’re going to have to eat them.

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It’s a good start, I can see the potential but still needs a lot of polish. Also, crabs are spawning at random locations, including my “house” surprised me.

\n","games":["Cooking for Skully"]},{"at":315792848,"author":"Adrian Lissot","login":"Harmades","gh":12057914,"url":"https://harmades.github.io","twitter":"adrianlissot","text":"

I like how the world “lives” with the moving crabs and sea, it’s nicely done. Some assets would improve the clarity of the game! I also had a few unlucky spawns where I didn’t see any crabs :(

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This is one of this years’ best crab-themed games by far

\n","games":["Putt Putt Masters: die to win"]},{"at":316068156,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"

Unfortunately, can’t walk. I have “search as you type” in my browser enabled, so pressing a key brings up the search. You should call .preventDefault() on keyboard events to prevent this.

\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316148208,"author":"Jani Nykänen","login":"jani-nykanen","gh":8494458,"text":"

I have a feeling that “space” is not working, because it just moves the scroll bar down. Maybe preventDefault is required (as someone pointed out for other keys) to get it working properly?

\n","games":["Dying Dreams"]},{"at":316236098,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Ok, the idea is fun, and the graphics, for how minimal they are, are surprisingly cute. I love the pixel waves crashing on the coast.\nThere’s a problem where the page has a scroll bar. I think you are expecting a different screen than mine. This affects the Space action. I had to change my window size to be able to play.\nThere are some sprites coming off the tree when i cut them which is lovely, but almost impossible to see under the tree.\nCrabs don’t give me anywhere near enough energy for the trouble i have catching them haha. But maybe i have low patience. But also, my walls didn’t seem to work, they despawned when trapped.\nThis game would go great with some wave sounds.

\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316239868,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Pros\nSimple but effective graphics\nnice sea affect\nnice building mechanic\nNice water / swim fx

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Cons\nHard to stay alive\nCrabs a little random and fast\nNeeds more content

\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316334794,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"

the life counter went negative, apparently I should have died when it reached 0. The crabs are a bit too random, even if I build a trap, they vanish in there

\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"typ":2,"at":316390813,"author":"Raf Mertens","url":"https://crazygames.com","twitter":"CrazyGamesCom","text":"

Nice idea, and some of the visuals & animations are good. But the game needs more features + some sounds/music. The crabs were perhaps a bit too fast. I encountered some issues - on one playthrough there were no crabs, and the game crashed after my death on one occasion.

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The idea itself is very nice. Good start for a good survival game. Lots of features could be added, for ex. days and nights, starving indicator apart from lives, sleep indicator, some enemies to fight back, etc..

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Seems it requires lots of polishing. Crabs appeared for me only after third reload of the page. Sometimes when you hit space it does not interact with the wood, but time is ticking :( Catching crabs is too tricky.

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But i very like how the square graphics creates that real feel of an island with moving waves, how you can go into water, but not too far.

\n","games":["The Dead Don't Die"]},{"at":316646292,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"

I quite liked this but at times there where no crabs at all and it took me a while to realise i had to hold space to collect wood.\nFound herding crabs quite difficult though. Maybe could do with toning down the difficulty, always a difficult one to judge.

\n","games":["Death or Gloria"]},{"at":316657079,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

The game looks good, if a little low res. The idea was good, to survive on a desert island after being stranded.

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Despite reading the info, my first instinct was to try the cursor keys, this just scrolled the whole browser around, so may be worth having a preventDefault in there for that.

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When I played the OSD was off the bottom of the screen so couldn’t see my remaining time or health, unless I scrolled the browser down.

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I wasn’t able to “eat” any crabs despite trying for a long time, they were just too quick for me running away and always gave me a wide berth. Especially since they went into the sea where I couldn’t follow them.

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So I ended up dying pretty quickly each time I played. Maybe worth slowing some of them down to make it easier to get started.

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The game has potential.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"typ":2,"at":316837846,"author":"Paweł Skierczyński","login":"kesipyc","gh":1681481,"twitter":"kesipyc","text":"

It starts nice and clean. Clear graphics.

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Crabs run away so fast, it’s obvious I need to create some traps.\nI did, I managed to even get a few.\nThen they stopped spawning in my area.\nEnergy drops quite quickly.

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So either I didn’t figure out how to play, or it was just too hard.\nEventually, it would require more mechanics to keep the player’s interest.

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If judged as a prototype, there is definitely something here to follow.\nProbably some audio too.

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Nice graphics, but I haven’t been able to capture a crab.

\n","games":["The High Cost Of Life"]},{"at":317050596,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

Nice wave effect. I like how the water moves. The particle effects are also good, like when you walk on the water. The crabs are difficult to catch.\nWith some sfx, and improved graphics (not squares,) this could be a fun survival game. Maybe crabs could use the crab (🦀) emoji too?

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":317189600,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"

Love the palette and simple square aesthetics. Would have loved a run mechanic or something to make moving around faster.

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