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Prism

By tapestry

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation7132.93
Fun8072.71
Theme9463.11
Audio9851.86
Overall10182.71
Humor10571.33
Mood11252.21
Graphics11502.21
Coolness131647

Comments

sanguine 2013-04-29 09:44

Doesn't run for me, I double click the .jar and nothing happens

tapestry 2013-04-29 14:26

Sorry to hear that. I have tested it on three computers and the game runs on all three of them. Are you sure you have the latest java version on your computer?

tapestry 2013-04-29 15:11

I uploaded a different version (Windows-fix).
If the Windows link is not working for some of you, try downloading the Windows-fix version. Don't forget to extract the rar contents before running the prism-post.jar
Sorry for the incovenience. :(

floatingghost 2013-04-29 19:08

Nice twist on the snake genre - to the person having problems, try going into command prompt and using java -jar <filename>

martze 2013-04-29 19:10

Hmm, the controls are a bit off from regular Snake.

chrstphrschulte 2013-04-29 19:12

It was a really cool take on the very minimalist game of snake, in that you added the color (which makes the objective harder to accomplish) and that you gave the player a choice in what to pick up (2 or more pickups instead of just the one).

kratorspore 2013-04-29 19:16

An interesting snake variant. I have to say this is way more fun than the standard snake game!

eshredder 2013-04-29 19:21

The first windows link worked fine for me.
Graphics stay true to the theme, minimalism.
The twist of the good ol' classic Snake was fun and kept me playing for a time.
Although, I did found some issues.
1) If you turn around too quickly you turn into yourself and lose.
2) The stones(?) would appear in inconvenient places. Eg, under the tail and in the boxes.
Overall. Twas a good, fun game.

tapestry 2013-04-29 19:45

@eShredder: I'm aware about these two bugs. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time to try to find a way around them.
Thank you for the input people, really appreciate it.

hertzila 2013-04-29 20:54

Pretty interesting twist with snake-games. Controls pretty fluidly too, although a couple of times my snake tried to turn backwards and died instantly.

orange08 2013-04-30 16:59

Nice idea. You should have enabled the use of arrow keys instead of WASD-only, though.

sanguine 2013-04-30 19:02

Cool innovative idea, I liked the idea, but maybe the levels should be slightly shorter so it is not that frustrating to die.

snakeeater 2013-05-01 11:44

I don't know if I'm missing something here, but it played like a regular Snake-clone :S

eggdestroyer 2013-05-01 15:30

A bit hard too early imo, and I was a bit confused about how the color mixes work. Also I think the color rhombuses-thingies shouldn't appear on the snake (they're behind him and you can't see them). Otherwise, well made, more interesting that the regular snake and fun :)

mikeware 2013-05-03 04:34

Interesting take on the traditional snake. Took a second to notice the twist. Think it could benefit from a bit tighter control, seemed like there was a tiny bit of lag when pressing keys and seeing movement. Also, progressively increasing the snake speed and starting with fewer prisms to fill would be good. Also, was tough when I needed a final color and had to just spin around to collect/dump colors until the one I needed was there. Similarly, it was weird when I had no color that I would erase my previously saved colors.

yakka 2013-05-03 13:59

Interesting concept.

diamonde 2013-05-04 18:53

This was too hard for me, but I liked the concept alot!

sylvain-p 2013-05-14 20:47

Interresting idea, good work.