Gnome's Well That Ends Well – Gnome dismemberment and carnage for smartphones/tablets

Hi folks!

I'm from Secret Lab, tiny indie team based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. We're working on a bunch of games at the moment, including this one: Gnome's Well That Ends Well.



We'd love feedback on the art style, as well as anything else you might spot. Here's some screens: http://imgur.com/a/8tlCK

Here's some GIFs/videos:


Same clips as videos:

• http://gfycat.com/TornNippyFlicker
  
• http://gfycat.com/GaseousOffensiveKudu

Find us on Tumblr, Twitter (@thesecretlab and @gnomeswell), and the web.

Cheers!
Paris

 

The death effects look very good
Art style is great
Is the game a really hard type game?

 

Just did a Paint over to show my thoughts. Hope you don't mind,



I feel like the objects are well polished but the tiles are lacking? For some reason I didn't like the blue/purple tiles.
I would saturate the buttons a bit (not too much) but enough that the player can see the buttons out of the corner of their eyes but still focus on the game.

 

Hi all!

@olaHalo It's not going to be super hard – we think the "fun" is mostly the different ways the gnome can die, rather than getting the objective (the treasure) at the bottom of the well. We're going to make a level editor eventually, with sharing abilities, and such!

@MBRogers Thanks for the paint over! This is great feedback, and you've conveyed it well. We'll definitely have a play with the visuals based on your feedback.

Would love to hear any further thoughts from yourselves, or from others. Thanks for looking!

Paris

 

I think the game looks like it could be fun to play. I actually liked the brightly coloured tiles.

 

I think you may need to add some blood to the death animations!

How many ways can the gnome die? If the 'fun' is the different ways the gnome can die there has to be a lot of variety, probably 8-10 different death types isn't going to cut it. Probably 3 times that many would be an acceptable number.