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Vanishing Point

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio5932.64
Innovation6193.05
Fun6363.00
Graphics7262.80
Overall7333.03
Humor7372.24
Mood8232.62
Theme11432.66

Comments

davidb 2014-12-08 08:51

Controls (WASD/array) are flipped : up go down, left go right, ...

matthew-rayfield 2014-12-08 09:00

Cool mechanic! Haven't seen anything quite like it before.

However I found it super hard! I kept letting go of the keys when I thought I had moved and then I died. Probably something you'd get used to, but threw me off.

I also liked the scrolling text.

Something like this where you could also shoot would be gleeful fun.

evergreen-games-ludum-dare 2014-12-08 09:02

pretty fun but quite hard. needs shorter delay after losing

wandersenus 2014-12-08 09:05

nice game!

nuclearnapalm 2014-12-08 09:06

Very interesting mechanics! Need some time to get used to it. Especially flying through cubes. But then it becomes a good challenge! Nice job!

groydis 2014-12-08 09:07

Banging Beat, Game Super Hard, Great Work!

fonserbc 2014-12-08 09:45

Cool!
It took me a while to get used to where I was colliding though. I understood that I was avoiding in the blue grid, not on the camera itself.

tasteslikefuture 2014-12-08 19:42

Thought this game was easy till I slammed into a wall lol. Cool graphics, interesting idea. Nice job!

tiagojdferreira 2014-12-08 19:47

It was an ok game. Playable, hard, but repetitive after a while. The background music becomes irritating after a while.

natura-time 2014-12-08 19:53

Cool game ! The text is running a little bit too fast ^^

bcole99 2014-12-08 19:59

Very fun. It's really hard not to try and steer with the controls though. It took me several attempts to understand what I was doing.

ali312 2014-12-08 20:12

nice idea, wold look nice on mobile)

kalaskrysset 2014-12-09 13:19

Smart gameplay! And the feeling when being inside was really intense, I always pressed the wrong way. Challanging and quite the puzzle for the brain and fingers to work together. Well done!

xaedes 2014-12-09 14:48

Nice music!
Interesting concept to present the controls.
But it felt flipped - am I right?

codecranker 2014-12-09 17:34

control mechanic is quite unique but I had trouble understanding as to how to play the game. Also the game keep getting paused by itself, not sure why.

perfect-victim 2014-12-09 19:31

good game

dracomagna 2014-12-10 22:52

Nice game, I needed a lot of time to get used to control but it was fun.
Good job! :D

pjimmy 2014-12-10 22:55

nice visuals, but very unforgiving

ajopart 2014-12-10 22:56

I also needed some time to adapt. But good job.

hoqjed 2014-12-10 22:56

It took me about 5 tries to get used to the controls, then i managed to make it to 1.56x speed.

The blue square that shows different slots to move to is unessessary, as all it did was confuse me in the beginning. I thought the blue squares was my character, and it confused me why it moved in the opposite direction i wanted it to.

This is a cool game concept. I feel with some polish and testing it could absolutely be a fully fledged game.

rodobodolfo 2014-12-10 22:58

Great Game, hard as hell, challenging!

el-pepi 2014-12-10 22:59

Nice, simple and innovative. Very solid and challenging gameplay.

skipi 2014-12-10 23:05

This game is cool :D

Some of the orange thing spawn in unreachable areas, like right in front of a wall, but other than that it's solid.

I really liked how the text was done, too.

deepnight 2014-12-10 23:06

The controls are a bit surprising at first, but it's actually what makes your entry very fun to play :) Contrary to other tunnel games, you have to concentrate on your finger movements: which key to press and which to release.

The 2 main problems, imho are:
- the theme: your entry doesn't seem to fit it
- the fact that you reset the score to 0 as soon as the player lose! I don't even know what is my best score so far :(

asaratha 2014-12-11 20:47

Cool game. Hard to see your dude though

kualitygames 2014-12-11 20:48

Unique gameplay, nice design.

hippolyta 2014-12-11 20:48

Nice and hard game - I like ;-)

Good job!

raiyumi 2014-12-11 20:49

Not bad, the controls took a bit time to get used to, but afterwards it became a nice challenge.

ams 2014-12-11 20:52

This game is really cool, its gameplay hooks you pretty fast, well done!

ynots 2014-12-12 19:57

nice mechanics...
quite challenging..

yanisvieilly 2014-12-12 21:41

Pretty difficult, but the gameplay is interesting and I had fun playing it!

banana4life 2014-12-12 23:02

Interesting

miro662 2014-12-13 16:06

nice hard game, but controls might be different

garethiw 2014-12-15 09:48

Nice idea and engine, but the unique control scheme was really hard to get used to.

lovelock 2014-12-16 08:27

The controls also kinda felt inverted for me. And the intro felt a bit long every time I failed. Neat idea for the theme though!

alhvi 2014-12-19 06:43

Nice game, a really original mechanic. The controls are too difficult for me, always ended up hitting the walls. Good job though, nice graphics and idea. Thank you for rating our game :)

piscythe 2014-12-22 02:13

This was fun and challenging once I got the hang of it. That took a long time, because I really found that my own expectations and muscle memory were working against me here - I kept expecting more traditional controls and either releasing a button I shouldn't have or pressing the opposite directional button to go from the side to the middle.

donovanwu 2014-12-24 01:02

Cool game! The control takes some time to master. Currently I only go up to 1.56x speed, I think.