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Escape Velocity

By murphy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation733.57
Community1043.13
Coolness1833
Audio1932.46
Theme2762.86
Humor3071.63
Fun3442.29
Overall4102.29
Graphics4281.86

Comments

mark_ffrench 2011-08-22 12:05

Aaaarrrgh... that S-shaped room (in the screenshot) is a killer. Couldn't get past it...Good fun though!

I also went with "Escape Velocity" as the name ... so I had to come scope out the competition ;)

hangedman 2011-08-22 15:42

A few bugs, but I could see what you were going for, and a few good moments of flinging myself about. I kind of wish placing one would kill the last one, although that might be integral to expanding the puzzles later. Didn't really feel like I was in complete control of where i was firing.

hanoran 2011-08-22 17:22

I didn't get very far, but I like the concept. Not bad!

puffee 2011-08-22 17:57

Already the 3rd web-based game that doesn't work for me, must be something wrong with my flash =/

Loved the music tho!

murphy 2011-08-22 18:24

There really are a lot of things I wanted to tweak more (e.g. the direction of the shot currently is not accurate), but had no time ): Maybe I'll revise the whole thing soon.

@puffi: Huh, that's weird.. what Browser (& Version) did you use? There's no flash in there, it's all Javascript. (:

puffee 2011-08-22 22:11

I was using FF 3.6.20 ( seems like I updated to 6 only on my laptop) which should explain a lot.

Runs fine on Chromium so I'll get around rating it.

trancelucid 2011-08-23 05:57

I should know better than to steal a black hole gun. ;) Riding an event horizon is hard, and this little guy can whiz through a dozen of them! Fun game, if rather buggy. The first time around I reached the end level without knowing it, I was just stuck in a blank grey level.

shigor 2011-08-23 10:30

Nice idea, too bad you hadn't spent more time on it and less on getting drunk :)

richmakegame 2011-08-25 00:03

great idea, i just couldn't play it very well :) would be good to polish up the gameplay

marudziik 2011-08-25 01:15

Concept is fine, but the execution somewhat lacking. Physics of the gravity-pull behave quite strange, at least under Firefox - I'm gonna try chrome later. I guess that's the beauty and the curse of JS.
On the other hand, this is quite a good entry, with decent graphics and background music, so it's fine by me. Congrats!

wonderwhy-er 2011-08-25 20:27

Concepty is interesting, sadly does not feel to play so good. Allowing to making many of black holes probably not a good idea. May be one with variable size/charge would work better.

Anyways good idea but somehow does not feel that good play.

codexus 2011-09-11 10:46

Nice idea but I couldn't control the effect of the gun well enough and got stuck really early.

gjarble 2011-09-13 02:01

I love the concept. I do want to let you know, though, that the controls don't work at all in Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. I tried it again in Firefox 5.0, and it worked most of the time, but going through the exit occasionally led me to an empty room where I couldn't move, and I had to restart the game. I think it happened whenever I went through a door with black holes on it.