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Atoms - Literally beneath the surface

By anny

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness365
Innovation1753.67
Theme8132.95
Overall9452.77
Audio10021.64
Humor10221.67
Graphics10342.42
Mood10732.33
Fun11182.28

Comments

tiffi 2014-04-28 03:02

I love the idea and enjoyed the game, but had to turn of the music ;)

mattv 2014-04-28 03:04

it was really hard to get the claws to actually connect

sfbtom 2014-04-28 03:05

Great concept! The music overlapping wasn't good, but didn't stop me playing!

dalbinblue 2014-04-28 03:09

I got to the third level, but couldn't figure out what to do next. The only thing I found I could make are Na2O and CaO but the game did not like that. Also, had a problem with the audio where each level would play a new song, but didn't stop the song from the previous level so you would here several songs playing at once.

afrosatan 2014-04-28 03:09

I got through a couple stages but then had a stage with 1 calcium, 2 oxygens, and 2 sodiums, but whenever i connected them in any fashion it just reset...
I didn't really understand what I was trying to do, but it was definitely outside the box.

porousnapkin 2014-04-28 03:18

Neat concept. Seems like the music might be bugged. It sounded like multiple versions of it were playing simultaneously. I got stuck on the third level. I tried multiple different combos but none seemed to work. I'm not sure why I can't combine some elements other than, well, you know, science. Would be cool if the combinable chemicals were different colors (like Oxygen being red) to make it more obvious what moves are available.

anny 2014-04-28 03:24

The music is awful I know, it's the first "track" i've ever made and did it literally half an hour before end time. Interesting the overlapping comment, I didn't test it, thank you for letting me know.

It just has 3 levels, I missed that on the explanation, so it "ends" on the calcium one for now.

boodog 2014-04-28 03:50

Cool game! The music overlapped and kind of hurt my ears, but this game is still really cool! Too bad I suck at science :)

gins 2014-04-28 09:59

This has potential. Could become a smart phone hit it you polish it up :D

papygaragos 2014-04-28 12:28

Hey! congrats on your first LD

foolmoron 2014-04-28 17:33

Cool idea for visualizing ionic bonds, but the music overlaps itself and becomes terrible

givemeallyourcats 2014-04-28 17:56

Nice idea, I wish I did pay more attention to chemistry in school though xD. You will get the most points for innovation!

move127 2014-04-28 18:30

Could definitely use more levels, but it is an interesting idea.

pancakecity 2014-04-28 19:18

Ahh, I wish there was more! This was a fun learning game.

mrshortee 2014-04-28 20:24

Nice concept. A bit more explanation and this could be really good. (I got lost an Level 3 -.-)

anny 2014-04-28 20:54

No, you didn't haha there are just 3 levels, I definitely should have added an extra screen to let people know. Thank you so much for your comments!

If you could please answer this: Do you think you learned something?

sharpcoder 2014-04-29 02:51

This is a really clever usage of the theme and I absolutely love how you've represented valances. I took a (single) chemistry class in college, so I didn't necessarily /learn/ anything new. However, this game has a lot of potential on a conceptual level. Nice job!

caranha 2014-04-29 04:35

I couldn't get it to run on firefox or Chromium :-( I just get a black screen. What are you using to make this?

anny 2014-04-29 20:48

It takes a little while to load. I used phaser to make it

redlightcollective 2014-04-29 22:07

Hey! No me salio nada de música :(
Me gusta el concepto, felicidades con la buena recepción que has tenido :)

P.D.: Tus gráficas no son tan feitas

xeke_death 2014-04-30 09:02

I won..! Interesting idea, not bad for 48 hours...

end3r 2014-05-03 14:25

Ineresting idea for the game and quite nice to play.

actionremix 2014-05-04 06:15

I did the last level like five times wondering what I was doing wrong, haha.

jeff0029 2014-05-13 02:11

I tried on Chrome and Firefox but no audio on two different device for me.

The concept was good but had greater potential. Like for example implementing energy required to create certain compounds. Thumbs up for a good attempt at a mixing of learning and fun :)

Watch more here on how to make the two fuse together and other great deal of wonderful knowledge on games :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmdx7ZL8OM

sevenkingdomssurvivors 2014-05-13 02:58

Neat game, I always like seeing educational games show up during Ludum Dare. I liked the way this one explained what the connections meant. I wish their had been more.

moosefly 2014-05-13 11:49

Didn't get any audio either. Not too engaging at the moment either, because the gameplay is so simple. Sadly, I did not feel like I learned anything. Should've gone even more beneath the surface and used elementary particles http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg ;).

Good job finishing something for your first Compo!

Anssi@MooseflyGames

anny 2014-05-14 01:08

Thank you so much for your replies! :D They have been really really helpful.