boog33 2014-12-08 00:18
Amazing! I played it for like 30 minutes.
I did have to go into fullscreen to get past the first level.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → AntiPlane
By grenac
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 23 | 4.04 | ||
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Innovation | 36 | 4.17 | ||
| Fun | 68 | 3.79 | ||
| Mood | 99 | 3.61 | ||
| Theme | 149 | 4.01 | ||
| Graphics | 373 | 3.38 |
Amazing! I played it for like 30 minutes.
I did have to go into fullscreen to get past the first level.
Cool, I'm glad you like it.
Why did you have to go into fullscreen? Did the game go out of the screen boundaries?
A very solid game, I am impressed with how smooth it plays and how much you did in the time frame. Nice!
Yay ! if i could, i'll play at it longer D:
The transition are amazing. good game !
Man, that is a good game, couldn't get past the V staircase with the green glowy orb at the top. I love antichamber and could feel you referencing it all the time.
Wow! very cool. couldn't get to first boss. mind boggling
Someone keeps messing with my head!! Looks like a picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue! Nicely done. I got stuck under a green glow, couldn't quite figure out how to move past that spot but I did identify a lot of the triggers that cause the walls to move.
Only once have I seen terrain pop into existence.
Amazing game, I can't find anything wrong with it. (Per se)
Wow.
Wow... this is seriously incredible. Excellent use shadow and light and level design in general. The transitions were soooo good (some even better than Antichamber! but some were a bit rough too). Just SO much interesting content, really well executed, and even a cool narrative. All in 48 hours?? Insanely impressive.
I got stuck for a bit on the green light, but I figured it out eventually (going to the bottom left corner resets the level, so don't go there). That part is definitely confusing.
Great game ! Beautiful and fun to play. GG !
Great!
Very cool realisation and concept
One of the best I've seen here
But yeah, I stuck with the green light :(
And read instruction after closing the game
Really cool! Great feel to the jumping and sticking on things. Would love to see a full game with this mechanic and flow. Good job
Mind-blowing and amazing.
Really amazing. Played it till the end. The green part should be reworked because it really feels confusing, but othter than that its an awesome game. Good work :D
Very creative way of using the theme!
This game actually completely crashed my computer when I clicked start game. Sorry, can't rate it :(
I'm sorry to hear that hexagore, that really should not happen. Do you have any kind of log or chrash report, maybe it's something that can be fixed.
Really nice concept and execution, but that passage with the green light is really annoying !
Nice work anyway :)
I'm quite blown away, it actually works! Great take on the concept from anti chamber as well as the LD theme.
Really impressive work! Got stuck at the area with the green sphere but i will play this until i figure it out! I really like this one!
Really nice game :) i liked how when you went over a wall the world changed no loading (as far as i could see)
Should have some music though
Really interesting use of the theme, and visually stunning. Definitely something to be proud of!
Great. Movements could be more responsive but overaly very very nice.
I love the camera angles! :)
I am very impressed with the mechanics and visuals. Absolutely very Antichamber-esque.
I did it! :D
Love it!
Wow, amazing game. This game feels very unique like nothing I have played before. You never see how the level changes. However as soon as you reach the green orb it becomes very confusing, I reset the level several times and just did not manage to reach the end. Still the game is incredibly enjoyable and has a nice look and feel.
At the beginning I thought that the game was too much "linear" but then all of a sudden everything started to change and make more sense (in its own "twisted" way) :D
It's a very clever and nice way to cope with the theme and I am really impressed by the level design.
I'd love to see more stuff like this in future and hope that you could find ways to make this game (or games like this) more "puzzling".
Great job indeed! More polish and audio would have greatly benefited the whole mood, but it's great anyway :D
Great concept. All you could add is some nice background music.
Btw, how is this linked to the theme "Entire game on one screen"?
Oh, one more thing, will you continue to develop this game after LD?
Amazing use of the theme. High marks for innovation and theme usage. A bit frustrating at times as it wasn't always clear where I was supposed to go, but eventually I did get to the end.
@edve98 Well, the entire game is on the same screen, sort of =P I think it fits pretty well with the theme =)
And I'm thinking about turning it into a whole game. Judging by the comments there is definitely some interest in it. But I still have to see if I'll have time or the creativity to make a full length game out of it. I hope I could.
Very impressive, and a interesting take on 'all on one screen' only I thing I think would improve it is some soothing audio on the background!
Outstanding... graphics, dynamic instantiation of the level, shadows... just perfect... incredible job.
Wow:) Surprising idea. I also love the the play of lights.
Nice work with this concept! It was fun and surprising to see how things would change up on me. I'm curious if there's more you can do with this mechanic other than always going left and right to just reveal the next section. There were some problematic issues with the jumping that made some of the platforming really difficult. The lack of in-air control and no grace period for in-air jumping (like if I was trying to jump off an edge while moving in a direction, a few frames of grace period when I go off the edge would help a lot) made some parts really frustrating. I like how you got a lot of moodiness by putting the character way deep relative to the camera. I thought I was able to wall jump automatically without direction, but when I got to the part where the red dot closed the walls this didn't happen. Maybe some kind of stickiness to the walls could help here? Nice job!
Awesome game with an awesome graphic! I like the concept well done!
I really like the concept of changing the level while moving the ball. The feedback is really great ! however, the controls are a bit sloppy.
Great work.
I'm not too fond of the way the light grows when the level changes. I think some other effect would be nice (right now it kind of looks like a glitch)
Everything else is amazing. I especially love how you introduce and explain the entire game without a word. It makes the player feel "smart" because he figures out what to do "on his/her own".
Well done!
beautiful, innovative, simple, fun, great interpretation of the theme, one of the best I've played so far. 5 stars
Cool concept!
@Germanunkol
The light growing is a glitch =)
It was the best I could do in such a short time. It does not happen if the level is loaded fast enough. But since I calibrated the time it takes to load a level on the development rig I may have estimated it a bit too short. All that is going to be fixed in the full game, I already know how to fix it, it just has to be implemented.
Holy cow this is amazing. Immaculately executed platoformer with amazing concept. Dig it to pieces.
I'm trying to think of some criticism.
And that might be the click-everywhere-syndrome of adventure games - not knowing where to go sometimes, and just bumping every corner of every wall until something happens. So that comes down to providing more of a goal. Just a bit more, because yes the sense of wonder is great. Just not when I've circled the place 5 times :P
Stupendous work! :D
Pretty awesome game!
Awesome! I like how you managed to distill the elements of Antichamber into a 2D game. The graphics were amazing too! Great job!
Exellent game! Really Cool lights!
Awesome! I really like how you implement the theme! so innovative!
Wonderful, couldn't stop playing!
The best use of the theme that i've seen till now in the LD. A truly inspired game with great promise, my only annoyance was that the controls weren't very intuitive as our speed is quite different between walking and jumping. And the climb was very frustrating due to that reset point. Could only get past it after reading foolmoron's comment
Cool use of light to transition the room. I did not mind the lack of "graphics". However it was a little hard to be precise when jumping due to the high air acceleration.
Very awesome entry! This really gets the "wtf happened just now with the world?"-feeling from antichamber perfectly into a 2d Plattformer.
Controls are a bit hard though, especially in the "race" i had to try very often, since i did miss a single walljump.
Some Music and at least basic sound effects would be great.
Great game with an awesome idea. I want to see how this is developed into a full game. Followed you on Twitter :)
Game locked up my computer when I started it. Ugh :P
Game locked up my computer when I started it on my Mac in Firefox. Ugh :P
Sorry about that jmborden, I have not had the opportunity to test it out on Mac. When the full game comes out it will be properly tested. Have you tried with the standalone Mac version?
I lingered a while between a 4 and a 5 overall, but I've opted for the 5. The game was rough around the edges, admittedly, but your idea is really really solid and there's just so many examples of great level design in here, that made me go "oh okay that was just cool." Really really awesome job!
Nice work!
I am curious about your expansion plans :)
Awesome physics, great graphics, and just a great game overall!
Really really really could use a soundtrack!!!
Love the shadowy look, idk it might work even better in real 2d. Some minor "pop-in" visual bugs on the objects too but that's not a big deal.
I asked myself what it means because I don't know anything about AntiChamber game. Now I understand. It's a really good game, except some clippings when level evolves. Well done. One of my favorites ++
Very nice game! I liked, the lights and shadows are very nice.
Really nicely done. Great concept. I'd love to see what your level editor approach was for this.
Some criticisms:
Jump controls felt off. Landing precisely on narrow platforms is hard. It's frustrating to overshoot so easily.
It feels quite linear. It's interesting from an exploration point of view. But the player doesn't really get to make choices, so the current mechanic is limited in terms of adventure or puzzle solving. On the other hand, in the race and chase segments things get interesting; the platforming becomes a challenge, and the lack of player choice stops being a problem.
Good luck with your efforts to build on this.
Phenomenal use of the theme, really neat use of hard shadows to mask the changing parts of the level. Makes me think of sightlines, but as a sidescroller. I really like how you use changing perspective to keep the ball essentially bouncing around a single screen, but still convey distance, movement, and the perspective needed to pull off the primary mechanic.
Really neat mechanic. I docked a star from overall for the lack of sound, but the amount of content here was great, especially for 48 hours. Looking forward to your release. The lighting effects were really nice, and the level design was very clever.
Wonderful, very inspiring
Super amazing jump. It would have been even better if you had added some kind of small story to personalize the orbs. Amazing job though. I'd love to play a fully fleshed out version of this game.
Great game! Getting the green light part was not very fun indeed, in the end I have no idea how I got it, was just moving randomly back and forth, but overall it's a great experience.
Smart use of the theme (the map changes as you walk/jump). Pleasant use of the lighting and 3D-effects. A pity there was no sound. I got frustrated with the controls as over-shooting happened to me too easily.
WELL DONE. These are all minor quibbles/suggestions, since the game is highly impressive, but here goes:
I love the mixture of Antichamber/Closure style mechanics, but I wish that the game only changed the level geometry for regions that are not visible. I realize that loosening that restriction and allowing the geometry to "pop" opened up some more level design options within the short timeframe of the compo, but for me it took away a bit of the magic to see the transition occur.
Perhaps for the expanded version, you could introduce some player-controlled options for growing/shrinking your light radius, or switching the light on/off strategically to solve puzzles and progress? That said, I LOVE the use of occlusion and perspective to allow for an alternative method of hiding sections of the level beyond just the light radius.
One other minor aspect that seemed like a bug: the red dot enemy seemed to be drawing behind the back wall at times.
Once again, GREAT WORK! Can't wait to play the expanded version.
- dreamlogician
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the game dreamlogician.
Yeah, the geometry popping in is a bug =) the way I made it it takes about 0.2s for the geometry to load, which is enough for the player to catch a glimpse of it happening. I already fixed that in the new version. Stuff now loads instantly.
The red dot getting stuck on the wall is also a bug =)
And I'm liking the idea with shrinking the light on and off, there is a good chance that something like that is going to be in the game.
Thanks for playing, and if you want progress updates on the game as it's being developed you can follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/BitByteCode
Awesome all around! The one thing I noticed was that it is exceedingly hard to wall-jump onto high platforms, as in the race to the blue light. Other than that, there's nothing I wouldn't rate 5 stars.
Gratz on your #23rd rank, you really earned it.