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Rainbow

By ix

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall104.06
Innovation14.77
Fun243.79
Coolness371
Audio493.55
Mood783.44
Graphics1473.58
Humor1863.08
Theme5532.76

Comments

singpolyma 2012-12-16 22:51

This is awesome, but also really hard

boxerbomb 2012-12-17 01:11

I agree

ecool377 2012-12-17 06:05

awesome, but hard

cdata 2012-12-17 06:05

Hum, I can't seem to run the game. Looks like one of the sound files is timing out?

neverautomatic 2012-12-17 06:13

Very unique idea.

lekiy 2012-12-17 06:14

It's unfortunate that I can't give Innovation 6 stars...

diventurer 2012-12-17 06:26

And life was never the same again... Fun game. :)

bneutral 2012-12-17 06:28

Lovely concept!

davidwparker 2012-12-17 06:29

Super unique game. Love the use of shaders. And math. And awesomeness. Very cool.

Did you use any tools to help you design it (shaders, frameworks, etc?)

ix 2012-12-17 06:50

davidwparker,
No frameworks, but I did look at the webgl tutorial on mozilla's wiki for a basic intro (I think the URL is in the source code). And the javascript console in Chrome is really useful for (e.g.) figuring out how to control various elements by just typing in commands.
Really, this is the first big-ish thing I've done with javascript/HTML5, so it's all kind of a mess internally.

cdata,
try shift-reloading, and/or in a different tab. I've had this happen to me in Chrome and I'm not really sure what the cause is. (Out of curiosity: was this in Chrome or Firefox? Were you using the live version from tchow.com or the dead version from the zip file?)

dustystylus 2012-12-17 09:56

What a fiendishly clever game! :D Love the humour and art style aesthetic as well.

hume 2012-12-17 18:00

I'm going to hold off on rating this, because it looks like I need to play the crap out of it first.

blockbrains 2012-12-17 18:27

Looks super neat, great the idea and the gameplay is pretty fluid :D

alexfili 2012-12-17 18:51

Fun little game, it's really hard though!

felix20 2012-12-17 18:56

Great game, fun and audio was great. Graphics were also great but the level background and walls were bland.
Wouldn't run on Firefox 17 for some reason but worked in Chrome (Windows XP 32-bit)

zanzlanz 2012-12-17 19:53

Thought it was a cool game! It ran nicely and I didn't notice any flaws besides the flickering of the rainbow.

bitbof 2012-12-17 22:34

I really like this one. Interesting gameplay mechanic, and awesome how unique the levels look after solving them.

bitbof 2012-12-17 22:39

Also got to mention that I don't think this game is hard as people portrait it in the comments. I never got stuck.

dwrensha 2012-12-17 22:49

Very pretty.

nolacoaster 2012-12-17 23:31

Wut? Awesome. I love the game mechanics!

hume 2012-12-18 04:19

Curse you, Dan.

Very polished presentation. When I was down to one frequency, the game was more line drawing than steering and I considered that it might work well on a tablet.

With a name like Dastardly Dan, I could imagine player piano music when Dastardly Dan's dastardly plan was introduced.

lur 2012-12-18 07:43

Very cool concept.

h8urf8 2012-12-18 11:55

Liked it. Cool concept.
Also I see where you're heading with the theme. But stil I don't really feel, as I'm the villain with my superfriendly rainbow. ;)

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-18 15:56

Full marks for this one! Cheers, it made me feel excellent.

sheep 2012-12-18 19:35

Fun to play, very addictive. :) I love it -- Makdaam

voidstar69 2012-12-18 21:54

Great gameplay concept. Well done for dreaming this up, and bringing it to life.

chocobyte 2012-12-18 22:28

great game!

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-18 23:54

Uhh, that is a lovely mechanic!

schnerble 2012-12-19 01:02

Really nice work. Certainly the most original game I've tried so far. May stretch the definition of "villain" slightly, but that keeps it interesting ;)

elisee 2012-12-19 01:08

That was fun! I managed to finish it, didn't make me rage quit but it wasn't too easy either. Really nice job.

eelfroth 2012-12-19 02:02

Wow, nice mechanics. And the visuals are so trippy. :-)

christinaneofotistou 2012-12-19 04:11

very innovative and fun! also hard :))

michaeljlong 2012-12-19 12:12

Clever, I like it.

raincole 2012-12-19 12:29

So cool so hard. Very innovative.

krasse 2012-12-19 12:34

Very impressed by the idea.
High innovation score from me!
You could add some more easy levels if you do a post-compo version!

wan 2012-12-19 13:28

I've fallen in love with this little gem, minimalistic yet really original and interesting to play.

It has a huge potential to be turned into an awesome smartphone/tablet game. Just add a few gameplay elements, clever level design and some more eye sugar, and you're good to go :)

quill18 2012-12-19 13:45

This game is screaming for an iOS/Android version. Sweeping a rainbow around with a finger would be fantastic.

pythong 2012-12-19 17:39

such a nice game! loved the concept and the music!

alwaysinbeta 2012-12-19 19:42

Got frustratingly hard quite quickly for me. Enjoyed playing though and found it refreshingly original. Please keep working on it.

jomomomo 2012-12-20 03:10

Couldn't get it to work on mac w/ chrome or safari

brighterorange 2012-12-20 05:40

This was really good and a nice outlet for the melancholy that you were cultivating. :) I was impressed with the quality of the rainbow graphics given it was running in the browser and made a mental note to try out whatever you did some time. The art and music and story are great. I made it through several levels but when I came back to it in the morning the game was not responsive (maybe just a Chrome problem), so I still need to play through the whole thing. It desperately needs an undo function or some way to zoom in or slow down time, because most of the time when I lose it's just because I held the mouse button for 1ms too long in some tight situation. Really creative though, great overall.

nate427 2012-12-20 22:33

Really cool game mechanic!

leafo 2012-12-21 08:36

This is a great game. This is one of those games that I end up playing for way to long considering how many I want to rate.

great job. the audio is good too.

benjamin-soule 2012-12-21 21:24

Wow, great dead ! I made mistakes many time by moving the wrong path. Maybe making the controlled lines twinkle, or glowing would help.

milo 2012-12-22 19:08

Wow! This is a really pretty game and a fun concept. I bet you could expand on it to make a really awesome puzzle.

komradus 2012-12-23 00:48

Great game but really challenging.

aare 2012-12-27 10:39

This is easilly one of the most innovative and well executed games on this compo. Excellent job!

zelen3d 2012-12-27 23:41

This felt like toothpaste. I got stuck on the level with the 6 people in the two towers. Too hard. Also, the music gave a headache after some time.

zelen3d 2012-12-29 21:44

Oh, sorry for that comment. I've just realized how rude I must have sounded. Your game is the most innovative one I saw and one of the best executed.

sestren 2013-01-02 23:21

Great concept and some really neat puzzles to go with it. A little weak on theme, but still an awesome entry.

chrismwaite 2013-01-05 12:23

Such a unique idea and lots of fun. Like others I found it very hard.