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Midnight Inertia

By michcioperz

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics5473.04
Mood6112.81
Innovation7732.85
Audio8222.24
Theme12412.62
Coolness128448
Overall13132.11
Fun13271.57

Comments

umu 2013-04-29 03:20

I don't quite understand how to bounce, and the "throwback" button chucked me into infinite blueness. I like the LSD-ness of the aesthetic though.

taylorlunt 2013-04-29 13:27

Cool graphics.

areskye 2013-04-29 13:29

I wasn't able to bounce, but sure the graphics are original!

fabienporee 2013-04-29 13:48

I'm afraid I really don't understand the controls :)
All I can do is rise up into the air until the game ends.
Graphics are beautiful though.

metadept 2013-04-29 14:24

As others have said, there doesn't seem to be a way to bounce, so I just enjoyed the ride. Nice aesthetic.

egos 2013-04-29 14:25

sorry . i think i understand the base but after 4 tring i didtn see any difference just a arrow growing .

nice trip

michcioperz 2013-04-29 14:28

Throwback is actually a time slowdown to help with precision. LShift pushes you to the ground. WASD pushes left/right/forward/backward. Speed is shown as a vector.

By bouncing I meant just crashing with the terrain :)

michcioperz 2013-04-29 14:29

Also, gravity is minimal to give player almost full control of speed.

jaj 2013-04-29 14:40

Like others have said, music and visuals are really interesting, but I couldn't figure out what to do

michcioperz 2013-04-29 14:48

Try holding Space for a while, quickly braking with Q and then holding LShift to crash with the terrain. That should give you some points. (Score is shown after time is up)

cake_catastrophe 2013-04-29 17:27

I am also confused. I was able to bounce, I think, but the game ended with what looked like an error message. Although that may have been a score in units I didn't understand. Looks nice though.

michcioperz 2013-04-30 05:41

There are no errors in-game GUI shows. It was a score window, containg a 42 reference written with binary numbers, and your score written in hex numbers.

michcioperz 2013-04-30 06:45

Added the description and a video.

killedbyapixel 2013-04-30 07:31

Best use of the theme so far! Maybe unintentionally though because it seems like the controls don't work. Nice visuals though.

biscuitdough 2013-04-30 07:32

This is one of the most confusing experiences I've had, if that was the intention, great, but yeah, some interesting graphics, even with your video, still not sure if it's a kind of joke or something.

michcioperz 2013-04-30 07:35

There is no joke. That's the 3rd Ludum Dare I joined, but the 1st I finished. Confusion is an unintended side effect. I hope my next game to be better.

solokix334 2013-04-30 07:50

I had no idea what was going on, but i liked the graphics

edocentrique 2013-04-30 08:00

Like the others, i find this game really hard to control, even after reading everything and trying a few times ! But that's a nice overall design !

leginar 2013-04-30 08:01

The game looks interesting but the controls don't respond... Things seem to move very very slow...I was able to move down quickly once.... but moving any other direction has been impossible.

michcioperz 2013-05-01 09:11

Moving is a problem with the jME engine. Bullet physics aren't synced with graphics updates. I tried to run it in parallel thread, but it didn't work well. As these are deep bugs, I'm going to fix it for a post-compo version.

Jeremias 2013-05-01 11:30

As the others said: I tried to follow the instructions but I can't get the thing crash into the terrain. But I will have a look at the post-compo version if you made one and Ludum Dare rating ends :)

daanvanyperen 2013-05-01 12:34

Wish the controls were a bit easier to use.

psenfilip 2013-05-03 21:10

I understand the instructions but controls are unresponsive. You sure can go up and down but in 30 seconds all I manage to do is to 'bounce' once. Best case.

The graphics are pretty original, to say the least. Very trippy color scheme on there.

HelkeGames 2013-05-05 19:14

Nice game, i like the concept and the art! Well done :)

minionstudios 2013-05-07 15:47

Very strange game. I ran into 0 FPS on my decent GPU. Love the colors!