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About This Game

Dodge is a minimalist arcade-style game originally made for Ludum Dare 26. Your aim is simple: To dodge the incoming squares for as long as possible. With music by Cameron 'The Brogrammer' Smith.

features

Play potentially infinitely on Level Infinity. Remember - losing is fun.
Highly customisable difficulty on Level Infinity. Adjust enemy frequency and more.
If you don't like losing, you can play 30 short pre-prepared levels and have a go at winning for once.
Don't like black-on-white? Change the colour scheme. We won't judge.

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Title: Dodge
Genre: Indie
Developer:
Yokcos
Publisher:
Yokcos
Release Date: 16 Mar, 2015

English

Review originally posted at www.apochs.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Apoch's Metal Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/b>

Despite all the advancements in gaming today, the indie development world still manages to turn out some fairly simple games for those looking for a breather from the big name franchises of today. This is the case with Dodge<\/b>, an Action\/Puzzle style title from independent publisher and developer named Yokcos. According to the official blog, it's a game that was "crafted in forty eight hours" through Game Maker<\/b>, as well as SFXR<\/b> to create the audio. The venture has received a fair deal of praise from users and the media alike for being an example of "minimalism" in a complicated world, but does Dodge<\/b> have anything to offer gamers today, or is it actually something far more pointless?

Dodge<\/b> is, by all accounts, a truly minimalistic experience. The core concept is simple: Avoid the incoming obstacles. You are presented a limited grid and are allowed to move frequently on it, as well as move off the edge to appear on the opposite side. There's also two different ways to play. The main allure is "Infinity", which is essentially a survival mode that pits you on a three-by-three field against various obstacles such as the bullets and random lines that can block your path to safety. There's also various short levels you can tackle, forcing you to stay alive until a rich block outline appears, which you need to let make contact with you in order to finish the stage. There is a total of thirty of those short stages.

Pretty much everything about this game screams the early days of Intellivision and Atari 2600 titles, just with a crisp presentation and a limited .MIDI soundtrack that sounds like a Punk song turned eight-bit against simple effects. The other dramatic alteration is more of a cosmetic one that lies within the Options menu, which manipulates the colors on screen. You have your traditional black and white\/white and black appearance, but there's also a "changing hues", "rainbow", both of which are about the same thing, and finally "seizure", complete with a justified warning due to the intense strobe light effect it creates.

But, all this said, is it fun? Well, it all depends. Are you looking for something relatively simple but with a growing difficulty curve? If so, then Dodge<\/b> is something you'll get a kick out of. The main killing point is that this release costs two dollars US at this point. While it does offer a good amount of replay value thanks to "Infinity" mode, the game itself does get incredibly repetitive pretty quick. Plus, knowing it was developed in forty-eight hours does make you feel as though you're being a bit overcharged. If you're tired of long, convoluted stories with complex controls and just want something simple you can pick up and play, Dodge<\/b> is worth grabbing, though worth waiting for a sale on if you can't justify paying the full price given the aforementioned blog post description dismissing an extensive development regime.

Overall Score: 6.5<\/b>\/10<\/i>. A short, casual little game. Short but entertaining. Suprisingly more difficult than i had expected! Has potential to be a much bigger game.. According to the price. A dramatically easy game to play and complete 100%. There isn't really enough content to be considered a game and I don't think this game is worth any money. I think there should be more content before I can recommend the game.. Fun, challenging, awesome. You are a square. You have tiles and you must move from tile to tile to avoid tiny squares of death from hitting you. At the end of each stage you must collect a hollow square. Not much depth and there's really not a lot to be had here.
Gets old really fast and the one song included will get annoying.
There are better games out there, for a dollar more you could get "Super Hexagon" or "Boson X", both of which are better games than this.
Would only reccommend to people who like arcadey timewasters like the games mentioned before, other than that there's not too much to be had.
. I beat the 30 levels in under an hour, most of the levels are fairly easy but some of them are extremely hard.