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Lodestar

By r

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio733.50
Innovation1773.48
Mood3662.76
Graphics5772.61
Humor5991.90
Overall6422.65
Fun6632.39
Theme7402.35
Coolness76240

Comments

r3ason 2012-04-24 05:05

Well that was not what I was expecting! Pretty fun! *goes and plays it again* Thanks!

mrevilguy 2012-04-24 05:09

This is a lot of fun. The music really gets me into it. And I absolutely LOVE the dieing effect. I'm not really sure what a lodestar is, but I imagine the experience would even be better with a starry background and a feeling of being in outer-space. Superb work.

bonezoner 2012-04-24 18:54

Not sure if this is a lose condition but when you miss a jump the level just scales down (I assume I'm falling?) until it's 1 green pixel. I'm not sure what's going on but I dig the music and the weirdness!

fenmar 2012-04-24 18:57

Well I'm not sure what I am supposed to do. I just pressed z and more tracks were added until I got CLEAR...

jfransham 2012-04-24 19:11

oh god this is cool (helpful feedback ahoy!)

jfroco 2012-04-26 01:26

Looks nice, but I don't know what to do :(

supersoul 2012-04-26 02:22

It took me awhile to figure out what was going on, but once I got it it was fun (actually it was pretty fun when I didn't understand). Great job! Happy to see some WebGL action.

30dogs 2012-04-26 02:25

Captivated me for several tries, but I couldn't grasp the rhythm aspect. I got to the third track, but I'm not sure how the 'groove' was tied to the gameplay. Also, the only way I could figure out how to restart after falling was to refresh the page, not sure if that was intended. Cool game.

rybar 2012-04-26 02:33

I too had trouble grasping how the movement/gameplay was tied to the music, but I enjoyed playing it nonetheless. Good stuff .

moth 2012-04-26 12:00

This looks really cool, but when I open it up I don't hear any music- do I need to wait a while for it to load? I can run around and fall just fine, and when that happens I do hear the loud noise that briefly fades in before going to silence.

Any idea what the problem might be? I'd really love to play it!

tacograveyard 2012-04-27 19:14

The music didn't play for me either :(

r 2012-04-27 21:24

Fenmar - Yes, technically you can finish without having fun. If you press up you will move forward and you will have to time your jumps
jfroco - Go forward with up, jump with z.
Moth - You need to jump from platform to platform with Z
tacograveyard - Try it on the latest version of Chrome. Chrome has generally had the best HTML5/WebGL support

xeeko 2012-05-02 10:16

Not really getting it.

kirbytails7 2012-05-04 05:22

Reminds me of Rez or Fotonica. Very fun!

heuermh 2012-05-10 06:12

Very interesting. Firefox wanted to intercept my 'Z' keystrokes for the page search though, the game worked better when I turned that off.