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Electron Cloud

By evilion

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor1153.08
Innovation1393.57
Audio1453.20
Graphics1893.46
Theme1963.48
Overall2873.21
Mood3222.86
Fun3962.89

Comments

sheepolution 2012-04-23 07:27

Nice graphics! The gameplay is really innovative!

ratking 2012-04-23 09:40

Nice think, but a little bit too random. At least I couldn't find out why I never seemed to catch an electron. Ah well, such is the live of an aggressive atom, I guess. :-)
Interesting enough, it doesn't become dull after quite some time, even though all you do is clicking around. Cool!

marudziik 2012-04-23 10:36

Interesting gameplay, but I agree with ratking above. I liked graphics and the intro. Cool music. Where's the source?

the8donut 2012-04-23 10:37

Like the idea, and the gameplay is very original. Well done!

evilion 2012-04-23 10:57

It's a bit random yes ahah, I think I will work again on it later, to make better behaviour and polished gameplay. To reach a hight score, you must play like hit-and-run, or like a wise thief...

@marudziik : You can listen the music on my soundCloud : http://soundcloud.com/titouan-millet/the-atom-way (I composed it and recorded it during this LD), do I have to put in the download also ?

sdwil2k5 2012-04-23 11:15

Love the intro, really gets you in the mood. Gameplay is quite original and fun. Well done!

tumaini 2012-04-23 11:59

Nice and original game idea!
Also fits well with the theme.
Quite difficult though and it lagged a bit on my computer (Firefox 11, Ubuntu 12.04, Flash 11.2).

ncannasse 2012-04-23 12:24

The intro rocks !

v0id 2012-04-23 18:20

I really much like this game.
Although the windows download does not work and you have to include the source otherwise you break the rules.
I'll come back to rate you very positive if you do ; )

evilion 2012-04-23 18:54

Ok sorry I didn't know we must provide the source ! I fixed that, you can now download the archive that contains my three .as files (ActionScript3 classes)

arhpositive 2012-04-23 19:32

Great game overall. :) Fits within the theme well, too. Awesome graphics aswell. I noticed I couldn't play the game twice in a row without restarting, but I didn't try it again so it might be a temporary problem.

I'm going to second the lag issues. There was a bit of lag in my comp aswell.

v0id 2012-04-23 20:20

Now you got the best rating I gave so far ; )

marudziik 2012-04-24 09:26

Thanks for the source. :D

andrebeton 2012-04-24 10:18

Like the graphics.
And the intro!

evilion 2012-04-24 12:10

For the source, sorry it's not very clean...I program as a barbarian, with funny variable names xD

pirate-rob 2012-04-24 15:35

This game turned out very nice at the end.

v0id 2012-04-24 19:09

Maybe you should concider integrating Kongregate's Achievements and Highscore API and putting it up there? You could make money with it.

brus46 2012-04-24 22:31

This has been really fun to play with. Actually I got a similar idea some time ago, but you've done it and in a really nice way. Hope you continue the develop

azurenimbus 2012-04-25 01:21

This game is a success :) Great fun, nice gameplay.

evilion 2012-04-25 15:58

Thank you for all your nice comments !

The game is now on Kongregate, with highscore API ! I'll add Achievements later ! http://www.kongregate.com/games/Titoulion/electron-cloud

pabloam 2012-04-25 16:19

Not bad, but is not clear to me the mechanics. :S

v0id 2012-04-25 16:36

I would highly recommend a pause function as it goes quite long. A little bug: After restarting your last score is shown instead of 0. But with the exception of this it's great, I bet your highscore ; )

keirua 2012-04-25 17:11

Very nice game, it is fun to play and the intro rocks :) That's great that you made it to Kongregate !

However you should had the score on the game over screen, and give the directions in a more clear way (the "tutorial" screen is not placed in an intuitive way (you don't reach it when you click on play, and when you do that first there is not information on what to do. The information in the intro is not enough to figure out what to do).

tjhei 2012-04-26 13:49

The "web" link sends me to a strange facebook friendmaking page on kongregate and not to your game. Could not play.

drabiter 2012-04-26 14:42

Very fun and innovative mechanism!

zillix 2012-04-27 08:03

Great style!

zener 2012-04-27 12:50

Very good in all aspects, just it's unclear to me how to get new electrons

xeeko 2012-04-27 20:47

Very random, but pretty good.

mess110 2012-04-28 10:18

5/5 innovation

summaky 2012-04-28 10:38

I still don't understand when I can and when I can't steal an electron, but I had lots of fun anyway! The art and the music are really well done, and the game play is original.

evilion 2012-04-28 11:34

If you just have been touched by another nucleus, you are colored in red, you are invulnerable and you can't steal electron for few seconds. The rest of time, you can !

jrasmussen24 2012-05-01 05:11

Cool concept, but darn near impossible to play on a trackpad (unfortunately for me!)

pixel_3 2012-05-05 04:11

I like how the other atoms get pissed at you.

jedi 2012-05-08 11:50

Fun! Good graphics and music, too.

galman 2012-05-08 12:49

Nice game :-)
I really like the idea.
Ver fun game with great potential.
Sme more balancing would be great. Wel Done!

tyruspeace 2012-05-09 20:00

It's tough to control given that the entire control scheme seems to be based on moving the cursor quickly and trying to click electrons before your character catches up with the cursor, but that does lend a nice feel to the whole electron stealing process.

Funny intro, and the gameplay's amusingly fast, if imprecise. Nice work :).

wyzfen 2012-05-09 20:46

I liked the intro. I found it hard to click on the electrons. And once you get large, you cant get into other atom's clouds easily.

olav_st 2012-05-10 17:13

Innovative gameplay, but the controls seemed a bit unresponsive.
The intro was really cool though1

dr-pingu 2012-05-11 14:35

Really fun!

Nice work :)

puzzlem00n 2012-05-12 19:08

"And that, kiddies, is how atoms work."
Nice game. I wish the clicking had perhaps a slightly higher radius. I do think it deserves a lot in the fun category, though.