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Super Surface Shape Shifter

By phocker

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun2223.25
Audio2403.35
Innovation3443.07
Humor3822.53
Overall3873.18
Mood6032.62
Graphics6302.66
Theme7391.83

Comments

liens 2014-04-29 04:34

Interesting, could have been a bit faster paced though. Or gotten faster as the levels progressed.

phocker 2014-04-29 04:53

it does get fast after level 5

cogcomp 2014-04-29 05:29

Great music! and a really cool star field! Nice work!

pedro-thiers 2014-04-29 05:30

very different mechanics. I didn't expect that from the images but they were intuitive nevertheless. I also enjoyed your particle effects

chaoseed 2014-04-29 05:30

It was a little tough to figure out what to do. It needs instructions. Once I figured it out, though, it was all right. The graphics and sound were kind of simple, but they fit perfectly.

tikilittle 2014-04-29 05:31

Nice job. It's quite addicting! I kept playing until level 6 at that point I didn't feel like it got any harder. I kept trying to juggle multiple objects, but I didn't feel like I was rewarded for doing that. The challenge I feel should escalate maybe a bit more. Does it save your score even if you don't die and just quit by accident?

phocker 2014-04-29 05:59

thanks - no you have to submit your score - I did not feel like making it too hard until level 10 - maybe I should rethink that - adding combos was thought of, but no time to work the mechanics in - thanks for the feedback

gertjohnny 2014-04-29 06:01

I had a pretty good time with this actually. I didn't pick it up right away, but a quick trial and error made it super early to learn. I kept trying to save shapes for later, but it's tough. The difficulty curve felt a bit slow, though, overall.

wdebowicz 2014-04-29 14:22

This is addictive!
Nice idea!

pikkpoiss 2014-04-30 05:05

This was fun :) I do wish the controls were more obvious though - took me a while to realize I could drag the entities, and I should have read more carefully because I didn't quite get that I had to match shape or color right away. Felt like my wrist was getting pretty tired playing on my laptop trackpad so I feel like a mouse is very much needed for this game.

phocker 2014-04-30 05:08

better yet tablet - glad you enjoyed the game and thanks for the feedback

cr2crstudios 2014-04-30 17:36

Played the card game Blink before, by any chance? :D Really cool!

phocker 2014-04-30 18:27

thanks - and no i never heard of it before. i just looked it up and very similar. i hope its not on itunes!!

balloonsfor600 2014-05-01 01:18

It starts off a little too slow, but once it picks up it gets a quite fun.

dustoutgames 2014-05-01 05:19

Very cool idea. Who would have thought that just matching shapes could be so much fun or interesting. It's fairly addictive, and the music is a big help there. Very nicely done.

javadocmd 2014-05-01 07:28

There was something oddly very satisfying about this game. Well done! I like the soothing nature of the sound effects, good choice there. I would have kept trying for a higher score, but I think the star background was making me a little motion sick. Could just be because I need sleep.

xaychru04 2014-05-01 16:58

Nice idea, simple game but quite addictive, I liked the audio too! :)

petey123567 2014-05-02 04:59

The wildcard-star won my heart ;)

2hitadam 2014-05-02 13:49

Pretty good all round, could have easily started at round4 and I would have liked it to be 2 - 3 times as fast, not very challenging as is. Still, very cool and polished entry, great music and visuals, well done! :)

jupiter_hadley 2014-05-02 19:44

Quite the interesting game! I included it in part 9 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series if you'd like to take a look http://youtu.be/ln7f84GPnPg

phocker 2014-05-03 02:19

thanks for the review - sorry the screen was too big for ya.

gamertaters 2014-05-03 04:54

Star field effect was very cool. Love the shape spin flourishes when I fling them off to the side. Felt like I was waiting a very long time for shapes I cared about to drop sometimes. One suggestion I can offer, maybe if the shapes drop in waves of 3 or 4 at a time, then you have the challenge of picking a sequence of shapes that you can shift into in quick succession for a higher score? On the whole, good work. I enjoyed trying this one out.

phocker 2014-05-03 14:17

thats funny i was thinking about adding waves last night - great minds - glad you enjoyed the game - spread the word - thanks

er_dos 2014-05-04 04:36

I kind of though this was going to be a bit repetitive at the start but I ended up playing it for ages, I REALLY liked the audio, the music sounded like 80s electro pop music like new order or something, and the sfx were sweet!

shadow64 2014-05-04 07:04

The game is definitely fun, but I'm not sure how much it relates to the theme. I know you say it, but I think it's a stretch since it's pretty much just shape matching. That said, it's the jam, so it doesn't matter SO much and the game is still a lot of fun.

I liked the music, I liked the gameplay, and I enjoyed how it sped up. The art could be better, but that's sort of expected. A few of the menu options were empty, so I probably wouldn't have included them.

Those are pretty much all of my thoughts. Nicely put together, I think if you kept working on it this would be especially fun on phones so I'm glad you've already gone that far. :)

lyje 2014-05-04 10:30

Took me a while to figure out the mechanics but after that it was fun for a short time! I like the music and then screen shake effects.

kddekadenz 2014-05-04 19:55

The Desktop download link throws the following error:

"The requested URL /ld29 was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

phocker 2014-05-04 22:06

thannks @RickHoppman I will get that fixed - sorry folks

boodog 2014-05-05 04:20

Good work! Nice music!

copain 2014-05-05 06:50

good idea, but i'm not sure that the drag'n drop is the best mechanics for this idea (or maybe on mobil...)

soupwithbits 2014-05-05 07:35

Looks and sounds pretty cool, gets a little slow after a while.
All in all, pretty sweet game.

kunonooni 2014-05-05 23:18

I really liked the bells and whistles. Oh and the audio too, I could listen to that all day. Great job guys!

_waterman7_ 2014-05-06 17:10

The gameplay was surprisingly compelling, well done!
Pacing was a bit too slow for my taste, it never really got hard on me. I only died because I never knew when invincibility ended and got screwed right after.
Anyway, great job!

capnramses 2014-05-07 11:03

i played the android version on a nexus 10. it works really well. the music and audio are spot on for that sort of game. the touch controls work really well. i felt like it could have been a lot more challenging - or perhaps the easy levels can go by more quickly. the graphical effects are excellent. the high scores list is nice.

cambrian_era 2014-05-07 23:47

Sure, it's simple but a lot of fun and quite polished.

gwinnell 2014-05-08 21:02

Highscores? Neat! Nice transitions on the menus, but the options and about screen are missing! Music reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg9DBCZdTTc , which is to say it's awesome. First two levels were a little slow, and it seemed to reset the sector/level when I paused/unpaused the game to write this comment. :( Oh, and good use of Unity Cartoon FX pack. :p

edibletoaster 2014-05-10 22:30

Music's pretty great. Played the game for 10 stages and it didn't bother me at all. Nice easy to learn mechanics and overall good design. Was a bit too easy I feel, difficulty could be ramped up a bit earlier than it was. Keep working on this.

woodenrabbit 2014-05-11 00:53

You put in a ton of nice little details! I really got into it the more I played.

I really liked the music as well. Definitely a fun game. I played it on windows, but I bet it'd be a ton of fun as a mobile game. If I had an android tablet I would have tried it out.

You should put it on the android marketplace!

caranha 2014-05-13 06:44

Really fun, got up to level 10 and 200k points before giving up. The basic mechanics and the sounds are really solid.

I wish the game got a bit faster at higher levels, and vertical orientation might have been a better choice. Also, sometimes it felt that the touch hitbox for the enemies was smaller than I was expecting.

The flip animation when tapping an enemy was a nice touch.

icylava 2014-05-13 17:09

Really unique, I like it and it's pretty fun. The music and sounds were good and I liked the simplistic graphics. Good work :)

aelita1992 2014-05-13 21:52

Nice game, lot of fun playing it :)

Btw you can test our patched version of underwater engineer :)

teamflare 2014-05-14 14:22

Cool idea and a really fun experience. Could play this all day long. Great!

conormn 2014-05-15 04:43

Really great game, mechanics for sure lend themselves nicely to touch screen. Well done.

illugion 2014-05-18 23:58

Really solid and cool, would be great to play on android !

zanzlanz 2014-05-19 19:16

What a nicely polished game!! If the gameplay was balanced a little more (more threats, a bit faster paced), this would be a perfect game to market ;) Good job!