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Through The Wormhole

By psychomonster

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness298
Audio4732.82
Humor6112.24
Fun6612.92
Graphics7152.87
Mood8822.60
Overall9402.80
Theme10142.44
Innovation11711.90

Comments

stimpact 2014-08-25 04:31

Always good to meet other developers using GM :) Really liked the backing soundtrack to this. Controls handled well, spritework was good, especially liked the parallax background effect. Well done :)

tannernetwork 2014-08-25 06:08

Man, this is awesome! Simple and fun.

donan 2014-08-25 12:21

Fun game ^^

mrexcessive 2014-08-25 13:53

Hi. Played fine on Chrome/W8 in browser. Found it very hard, barely enough time to get through the holes!

psychomonster 2014-08-25 14:17

@mrexcessiv: Thanks for the feedback. Yeah it is hard. This is part of the challenge. I wanted to create a game like flappy bird or timberman... what was your highscore?

thesource 2014-08-25 14:28

Pretty good, but the sound gets a little annoying after a while

simileinchen 2014-08-25 14:28

So simple yet you got the urge to play it! Well done!

daanvanyperen 2014-08-25 14:29

18 lightyears!

psychomonster 2014-08-25 14:41

@DaanVanYperen: good job ;) Thanks for playing
@Bendix: the so called engine sound is way to loud... sry man

coffeemuggames 2014-08-25 15:56

It's fun but the sound is veeery loud :D

fera 2014-08-25 16:03

great idea to keep up with the theme!
its really challenging and i love the retro soundtrack. :D

joonamo 2014-08-25 18:28

I enjoyed reaching different celestial bodies. The move noise was too loud compared to the cool music...

hamsternator 2014-08-25 19:10

A classic concept =)
It was a nice touch to add the planets the player reached while playing.

losttraindude 2014-08-25 20:17

Nice way to link the genre to the theme :D

While I liked the backing track, the sound that the ship makes was a litte too noisy for my own taste.

The game reminds me more of Delta (Commodore 64) than Flappy Bird, which is a GOOD thing! Of course, it is not a shoot em up, but still.

elkiwydev 2014-08-25 20:21

Controls doesn't feel right.. in 90% of the try I died because it shifted of 2 when i pressed up/down only one time..

ofursnati 2014-08-25 21:43

Good game, the moving spaceship sound was too loud but apart from that solid. GJ.

psychomonster 2014-08-25 21:43

@LostTrainDude: Thanks, nice to hear this kind of comparison.
@elkiwydev: I know there is a lagging problem, causes the arrow keys to fire an movement event... Windows Version does not have this bug... Maybe you should try this version. Thanks for giving feedback

uberscientist 2014-08-25 21:47

That movement sound was grating, but great job on the graphics

andrewjamesadams 2014-08-25 22:32

Good game.

td5 2014-08-25 22:37

A basic but challenging game. The graphics are actually quite nice at fix together well, I just wish I didn't lose all the time! :P

kunonooni 2014-08-26 01:41

I loved the graphics, and yes the sound of moving the spaceship was kinda loud but other than that a pretty solid game.

oxeren 2014-08-26 04:32

Nice game. Simple, but fun. Also quite hard on first few tries :)

makio 2014-08-26 09:16

the spaceship is cute ! The gameplay is hard at the start and then we start to masteries it. Anyway I enjoy it and the sound "tieww tiewwww" is very cut and rythmic too :)

sneeuwpopsneeuw 2014-08-26 10:47

a realy nice space flappy bird style game

hexagore 2014-08-26 11:18

Surprisingly addictive and fun this. You'd think the stepping motion would make it easier but apparently not! :D

psychomonster 2014-08-26 11:33

@hexagore: Haha the gaps in the obstacles are exact as big as the player sprite ;) So stepping movement is way easier as a mouse movement or a pixel based movement in generell ; Thanks for Playing and rating :)

jaj 2014-08-26 13:32

Pretty basic, but plays well. I like the tile based controls, makes it a lot less frustrating than it could have been.

hypnohustla 2014-08-26 13:44

Loved the music but the sound effects were a bit too heavy. Simple gameplay that works. Good job :)

kibertoad 2014-08-26 22:10

There was certain charm in overall animation jerkiness and graphics roughness. Discreet movement of a ship provided a surprisingly different experience to usual smooth navigation.

dickpoelen 2014-08-27 09:32

Nice little game. Feels really good

ajopart 2014-08-27 09:34

Exactly what it is to expect for a 48 hours JAM : simple gameplay yet addictive. Working prototype, effective graphics and (maybe to loud) sound. Congrats

markusfisch 2014-08-27 17:41

A funny little game that is! I like especially the music which is driving but not annoying. Well done!

udo 2014-08-28 11:08

Loved this, minimal and fun :)

rehacked 2014-08-28 12:25

simple and fun and hard .Good job

szbeat 2014-08-28 13:13

You know I hate when nobody posts their score in the comments of games like this. 236 is my best. Game's fun and simple, only thing that bugged me was the volume was too high with no option to reduce from ingame

psychomonster 2014-08-28 13:51

@Otopkin :D Nice score ^^ Yeah was streaming and redecued the sound at the boxes on my desk... never recognized that it could be so loud ingame ^^... sry for this

Thanks for the nice comments so far :D

jukimv1986 2014-08-28 19:57

It feels like an evolved version of flappy bird, would love to play this in my mobile phone. Great game!

drcicero 2014-08-28 22:57

Wine did not want to run the exe and the web version did run a bit slow. Fun game anyway!

Maybe if we could see occasionally a world that we are passing by or on the game over screen, it would 'feel' more connected to the theme.

psychomonster 2014-08-29 09:00

@DrCicero: Hey there. HTML-Version of the game is a little laggy cause the walls of the wormhole are all active gameObjects (accidently)... I will fix that after ld cause, it would change the feeling of playing that game... jam is over :D Thanks this feedback... planets in Background wich would have been reached is a great idea!

elefantopia 2014-08-30 04:08

Great job! The controls worked well, but maybe forward arrow could be used to accelerate? Cool sounds and graphics.

icedvariables 2014-08-30 17:00

Kinda like flappy bird without gravity :). Nice work.

caranha 2014-09-06 16:05

Very neat little game - the graphics are decently done, loved the parallax background. Also the gameplay is on the sweet spot that will make me do the "just one more try" dance.

The collision was a bit iffy, I often died when I "thought" I had cleared an obstacle. One thing that would be cool would be to make a sound every time you clear an obstacle . This would be the beginnings of a rhythm game :-)

There is also a small visual glitch. When you go to the bottom lane, the entire screen slides down and you can't see the top wall anymore.

Thanks for the game!