prelucid 2013-04-29 23:02
Awesome, I loved that effect of the explosive. Hard! I got ambushed hahaha...
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD26 → C [DOT][DOT][DOT]
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | 131 | 3.74 | ||
| Innovation | 158 | 3.32 | ||
| Fun | 171 | 3.16 | ||
| Overall | 200 | 3.32 | ||
| Theme | 251 | 3.32 | ||
| Mood | 352 | 2.69 | ||
| Audio | 383 | 2.31 | ||
| Coolness | 1720 | 30 |
Awesome, I loved that effect of the explosive. Hard! I got ambushed hahaha...
Great! The art style is really neat.
Graphics are great and the game is fun. The only problem I see is discrete movement of the camera. Make it fluent and it will be awesome :)
Awesome graphics idea, check! Though -- for not smooth movement, just bothers eyes too much ;(
Fun, check!
Theme check!
Audio, minimalistic check! :)
No humor, check :D
Mood, I like how other balls gang on you, as if they are trolls, check! :D
Nice simple game ;)
Awesome explosion effekt :D
Thanks for all the feedback ( Am I allowed to post replies here ? I'm not breaking some weird etiquette rule I don't know about ? Ah who cares, I'm hardly going to ruin my chances of winning ).
@Split82 yeah it looked really nice with that chunk tile scrolling, until I put the baddies in with smooth movement, and it just makes them look so bad. I just didn't have any time to fix it. Lesson learned.
@Everyone thanks for taking the time to play it and comment, means a lot, cheers.
I'll have to say what everybody else already told you: the explosion is awesome. I had a little bit trouble understanding what the game is about though and it would be nice the movement of the ball would be more fluid.
Thanks mate. Yeah I really made a mistake not smooth scrolling, I badly regret that ( I also hate it that I don't really do anything when you lose a life, it's just so nothingy and wrong ).
Thanks again for giving it a play.
I liked how you did the environment, is it procedurally generated?
Was the game supposed to move like an MSX shmuppy? I got the strange impression that it was intended to scroll in the choppy fashion I experienced. I did notice some lag too, but I suppose that's what I get for running this on cheap hardware. The graphics were appealing, save for the choppy scrolling, and the audio worked fine. The simplicity of the game mechanics was pretty cool too. Overall, this was a fun entry. Nice job!
Quite like this one.
Love the effect when you drop a bomb - makes the act of doing so rather epic.
Only thing I'd really change would be the scrolling - the fact it was tile-by-tile instead of a smooth scroll made it feel a little odd, but besides that, there's certain a great little gem here which you could take further :)
@techmonkey Thanks. Yeah it's just a height map generated from perlin noise. I figured random was the way to go rather than hand crafting levels, even before coming up with the iso background idea.
@Potentialing yeah it was always meant to be a chunky tile scroller. Without the baddies on there it does work really well, it's just with them... not so much :)
@robc I'm picking up a vibe about the scrolling, don't know what it is ;) Thanks mate.
Thanks everyone for the continued feedback.
This has a nice retro feel to it.
It's pretty gripping, in the beginning I was a bit annoyed by the scrolling and that it wasn't always easy to see if a emitter was on my path (sometime I was circling an emitter),
BUT you get sucked in and try to get all the emitters and bomb all the enemies. it was FUN.
Thanks mate.
Yeah lining up with the emitters was harder than it should have been, the downside of the iso landscape.
I guess it should really have some sort of force field around the player so you only have to be within a tile or two of the emitter to destroy it, but then I would have needed a proper destruct sequence for the emitter ( I really wanted the colour to be removed slowly rather than just disappear, and that would have helped things ).
Glad you liked it, and thanks again for taking the time to play / post.
Impressive ambition, very jittery - perhaps due to letting engine do all the obscuring for the hundreds of extruded squares... nice colour patterns on the prisms.
Cheers.
There are only 25x25 tiles, which Flash seems to cope with fine. I think the jitter you're experiencing is a combination of the scroller chunk scrolling one whole tile per move whilst the baddies are smooth moving.
Either that or it just plays badly on your machine as the code was knocked out quickly :)
Oh my eyes =(
Good concept, anyway!