Comments on: Look At Those Tentacles: Blush Is Live

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:01:09 +0000

Am I the only person who prefers Flow? I like Blush a lot, but the time limit is frustrating and I love the way your creature evolves in Flow – you feel like a real badass when you’ve eaten enough and it really drives the one-more-level-down itch. The visual feedback from collecting eggs just isn’t as enticing in Blush.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:04:19 +0000

woo hoo, 7th on third try. a sea dragon fell into my cave

By: Valarauka

Valarauka — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:34:44 +0000

The tracks from the game can be downloaded from the artist’s website here: http://dbsoundworks.com/index.php?page=blush
They are quite excellent, as is his other work.

The game rocks; I too think it’s their best work (like it way more than Minotaur).

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:12:13 +0000

Holy fish cakes, I just got like a bazillion points for killing a sea dragon in some fancy fashion. I got like 3 achievements for it which might help me work out what I did but I don’t know where to find them.

I’m not sure how their tables work, because I’m apparently 14th today and all-time in the “Ranking” box, but the “Leaderboard” box has me at #41. Which is still good.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:51:19 +0000

“This just leaves me with bad flashbacks of trying to use the Dumptruck in Blast Corps…”

Funny you should say that, because that’s the first thing I thought of as well. It gave me a sense of stark contrast, though. Whereas the stupid dump-truck was awkward and fussy to use I was amazed at how intuitive arcing my tentacles around was. Flashbang managed a control interface which felt just right in a tiny development time- many many games don’t get that right in 2+ years.

By: Nero

Nero — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:30:36 +0000

Wonderful game. Fun to play, nice to look at and the music is fantastic. Hope there’s a way to play longer time some day because it’s a game that I want to play and play to grow and row.

By: RothnieB

RothnieB — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:39:32 +0000

Awesome game but the 4 minute time limit is too short !

I just wanna keep playing for hours on end until I have mile long tentacles and travel at the speed of sound.

By: Hmm-Hmm.

Hmm-Hmm. — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:28:24 +0000

I like this, a lot. It’s probably the game of theirs I’ve enjoyed the most, so far. I’ll have to echo what Bill Meltsner said, though, and that I would really appreciate a mode without the time limit.

By: Lim-Dul

Lim-Dul — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:20:44 +0000

@Matthew – confirming the GF8/DX10/Vista/whatever fix. ;-)
Sweet distortion effects! I didn’t know what I was missing out on with medium quality. ^^
Love the game. :-D

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:39:02 +0000

Yup – Hammerfall minus gravity. Also Pendulumania and especially parts of Coil.

It might be nice to have a tooltip or whatever about the damage model; I spent a couple minutes trying to get ‘better’ at attacking before I figured out that you break your tentacles no matter what when they flash. I had interpreted ‘watch out when enemies flash’ as meaning they were about to attack, which is also true.

By: BooleanBob

BooleanBob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:35:42 +0000

Easily my favourite game from these guys so far. Up ’til now, I’ve suspected flashbang of coming up with entertaining sounding names and deriving the entirity of their design from these funny sounding phrases. It’s proposterous to assume they are, of course, but here is a game that is unequivocally without a lame-joke crutch for people to delight in and to get in the way of your impressions of a game. If your milk-wet notsrils are still snorting exhortations of glee at the very concept of a minatour (that’s a bull, right!) working in a china shop, your potential disappointment at a game very light on effective action or strategy or even decent sight gags for that matter is going to be somewhat mollified.

There I go again, with my grumble trousers on. I thought this got on with the business of being a game quite splendidly, with the achingly beautiful aesthetic and most other concept-related guff merely a topping to meaty game pie. Ultimately I suspect that the time limit and the graceful-as-fuck motion of your charater combine to belie what seems may be a fairly shallow game, combo-hunting megascores aside, but I don’t want to begrudge them that because it was fun and I had a lot of fun playing it.

By: Gnarl

Gnarl — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:34:22 +0000

So no-one thought this became horribly repetitive after the first annoyingly interrupted go? Must just be me. Well done on keeping the planned dev time, though.