thepaperpilot 2016-04-18 02:53
I'm on linux and can't install the unity web plugin. Could you use the webgl export instead?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → Black Heart
By luquio
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Audio | 134 | 3.47 | ||
| Graphics | 259 | 3.50 | ||
| Theme | 345 | 3.54 | ||
| Mood | 375 | 3.05 | ||
| Overall | 416 | 3.27 | ||
| Fun | 459 | 3.14 | ||
| Humor | 533 | 2.01 | ||
| Innovation | 621 | 2.87 |
I'm on linux and can't install the unity web plugin. Could you use the webgl export instead?
These graphics are really cool, nice polished game...someday I will achieve it
Gets a little confusing to choose shape...
Great game though, just could use better controls! :)
I really really liked it.
Until I was a few inches from Epilespy that is.
But really well done very good job on finishing the game at this point of polish.
I liked the graphics and the sound. Fun game.
This game was pretty good, though i wish i had individual selectors for the shapes, like asdf, for each shape, but over all this is a good game.
Interesting game but was way too confusing and you should assign shapes to specific keys (like triangle=1, square=2, circle=3) so you now which one you are switching to, not just the next one in the cycle.
Took me a while to get the hang of switching when I needed to, but very fun overall.
I really like the art direction in this. While simple, the graphical elements all fit together nicely. The flashing background was a little over the top though and made my eyes start to hurt after a while. It was also a little unclear as to what was happening the first few times, mostly because the instructions disappeared before I could read them. I also really liked the audio, the sound effects gave the hits a nice weight to them, and the background music was on point and really fit with the overall aesthetic of the game.
I haven't seen any epilepsy warning, though your game certainly can cause of epilepsy attack.
Very nice game! The easy mode was challenging enough for me :). Like the graphics and game play.
I like the minimalist but polished graphics, the music is pretty good too. It's hard to switch to the right shape in time, and hard to see in front of you to avoid black hearts, but it's good overall
I thought I might have a seizure.
Really solid entry! My only issue was that it was difficult to see what it was that damaged me. Other than that, nice entry throughout!
Excellent graphics!
That is one of the most awesome-est graphics I've seen on a compo entry. Very nice.
Thats a very cool game, and soundtrack really made me feel more excited while playing (mainly on the adrenaline dificult). I found the idea of shapeshifting very good, but i think you should better the camera view to make able for us to see the black hearts more easily, because, sometimes, these hearts is just in front of the player, making almost impossible to see then unless you move yourself a lot to the sides! And, at the tutorial screen showing the buttons, make it in a way the player has to press a button to progress to the game, because the instructions was passing too fast and i only could read everything on my 3rd try, where i finally understand everything in the game!
But i really enjoyed the game, music and the graphics of it, good job!
Very fun game. Good job!
really nice, I agree with having a dedicated button for each shape, and perhaps make the player slightly transparent as you can't tell when there is a black heart in the center
stylish animation/effects/sound
Nice music and visuals (but they're too strong, I can understand why people are talking about risk of seizures), and very cool idea!
As some have told you, since you can't reach all the other shapes in just one action (which puts you at risk of failing unfairly), perhaps it could be helpful to have specific buttons/keys mapped to each shape.
With that and toning down a bit the visual contrast you can have a very solid entry. Keep going! :D
Great game! The graphics and animation were awesome. Great mix of features to make the game challenging and engrossing. The sound effects and music were also well made! I liked the little touches, like the screen shaking when you take a hit, and the extra floating objects to keep the screen visually busy without being distracting. If there was one thing I would change, it would be a way to cycle backward through the available shapes, or pick particular ones like with the number keys or something. What a great game! I had a lot of fun. Thank you for submitting! :D
Good game! My eyes are hurting from adrenaline mode!
It would be nice to be able to see in front of you a little more. besides that, it's great!
The idea of this game is to keep moving your shape, so that way you'll be able to see what's in front of you... Otherwise u won't need to move! And that would be boring. Anyway I wasn't free the whole weekend and I couldn't do what I really wanted , but I'll keep working on it to make available on iOS/android. I was pretty happy to participate of the compo and I can't wait for the next one! :)
Thanx u all for testing my game and all ur comment will help to improve this little game
Hey! i really enjoyed this game! I think that it would be better if the shifting is made with different keys.. because i have very little time between one obstacle and the next, and sometimes changing the shape is not as fast as i need it to be!
But it was great overall! Great work!
Cool! If you want another take no the same idea... http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=26416 :D
Since I've worked in a very similar idea I can appreciate how hard it is to make this kind of gameplay easy to read and fun. Congrats!
The controls feel a bit lacking and confusing, I wasn't sure whether the shape I got was random or if it scrolled through them. This game is very similar to the first idea I had for the theme, and that I like :)
You did an awesome job. Great visuals, audio, and gameplay that felt challenging but didnt end in 5 seconds even if you're bad at it. Really fun time.
Solid good game, I'am the master of collecting black hearts ;)
Honestly bro, don't do this to peoples' eyes. It's seriously not cool and can hurt someone!
Cool game well done. Loved the music most. Graphics was also good. Had no issues running the game on windows nor did I struggle long to figure out the concept.
Prettttty crazy stuff.
Good fun, nice music and plays nice all in all. I think controls felt good for what the game tries to do but think would be better to have shapes on individual keys, not on a cycling pattern through the same key (though that adds a LOT of difficulty, which might be intended).
One remark:
- Black hearts are way too hard to see which leads to frustration (instead of just difficulty). Maybe change the color of the other particles around to avoid confusion or something.
Otherwise, nice game. Kudos!
I really like the graphics, the polish and the overall style. I really hate that the shape you get is random, why would you do that? Now the game gets hard because of the shape you get, not because you aren't playing good.
Thanx u all. SHAPES ARENT RANDOM they have a little pattern u have to learn... But it could change in the future. I will try to improve all the things that u all where pointing out. Thanx again
Hey, nice game, I like the graphics a lot, only thing I find annoying is that you don't know what shape you gonna get after pressing space and it can be a lil' hard to get the right one in time.
Congratz
Thank you for this very nice game :)
Nice graphics. (Except for the color flashing that is. I did not quite enjoy that)
A bit confusing shifting order (abcbabc...) at first.
The soundtrack is AWESOME, I love it :)
cool game
some feedback:
It is hard to see what's in front of me so I keep moving around like crazy to try to avoid the black hearts however I have a black tail or something that blocks my view.
The shapeshifting felt random or is there a way to know what shape I will become?
Made me really wish that I could choose the shape with numbers or something, rarely got the right shape I was expecting, when pressing space :D Made the game really difficult.
I had to turn off the game when the screen started the full screen color flashes, it's a bit extreme.
Very nice and polished graphics, shape-shifting require to remember how many times to press space between each figure because you have to do it very fast between 2 doors. 3 different keys would have been easier. not more interesting, just easier.
Also, dodging black hearts can be tough when they come from the middle as you have to move constantly.
Interesting entry.
duuuuuuuuuuude. amazing first LD game :)
awesome soundtrack to play with, shame about the impending seizure :)
The game looks awesome! Takes a few minutes to get used to. The music is great!
Good entry, sometimes a bit hard to see the oncoming shapes maybe some transparency on your own pawn?
FUNKY MUSIC no really good Graphics and sound also Gameplay is quite good, Sometimes couldn't look in front of my block
It was the most fun game I've played in this LD :) Well made sir. Experienced no bugs whatsoever.
Neat game, I love the art style and the mechanics. I wish I could choose which shape to turn into instead of having to cycle through them. Also, it's sometimes hard to see upcoming obstacles because they're blocked by the players shape.
The gameplay is a little bit difficult. I don't really know how to move through the shapes, the music is very good! btw. . . . you need to put an Exit button.
I am affected by this error:
http://superuser.com/questions/313663/what-is-encryption-loss-when-unzipping
epileptic tripy game. I couldnt understand at the begining but then the game was more simple than expected, maybe if i could see what coming in front of me or at least take out the shadow, because i hit stuff and i have no chance to know where and when.
The aesthetics are amazing! Very minimalistic and does its job.
The soundtrack too.
Overall, a really fun game!
Nice graphics and great sounds, nice ui and cool gameplay! But the view is blocked by the player... Anyways great entry!
Pretty nice game (graphics are awesome!), but I find it a bit hard for me.
Good game. Pretty polished too.
I danced a little
Great idea, although that background once you play for long enough gets really seizure educing. Would have been good if there were two buttons for changing shapes, instead of one.
Aside from that, really good use of minimalist design and a really fun and simple arcade game.
whoa, played on pc, it's awesome! I love the look and the sounds. I love how it shakes when I mismatch the shape... I will definitely try this game on drugs. 5/5! ps maybe that's the point but I found it very dificult to avoid black hearts because the small squares are also black. but anyway, it's great game, and hypnotizing like hexagon!
great graphics and audio, very nice concept. Two bits of feedback: it's very difficult to tell if there is a heart directly in front of your shape; perhaps don't spawn hearts directly in front of the player. Also, when your health gets low and the screen starts flashing, that makes it particularly difficult (especially for people with visual impairments) to see what's going on at all.
Wow! This gets really trippy, really fast!
I really enjoy this game. The music was spot on and the game was fun. I do agree with the others about assigning the shapes to different key, making the black hearts stand out more and I will add one more thing, when the game is over you should display the results to the player so he/she knows what they got and what they need to beat the next time they play. All in all though this is a solid entry. Well done!
Good game, but could use a slight zoom out so that the player can see upcoming obstacles.
I really enjoyed it, despite the headache I got from the flashing background at a few points :P
It looks nice, but it seems to be similar too most of the games in this LD.
Man that game was great, thanks!
I like the concept, but the viewpoint made it hard to see what was coming up because the hearts were so small and often blocked by moving to them. The sounds are a little grating but are nice. The graphics also look very nice.
Beautiful effects! I found it difficult to know what shape I was going to swap to, and the middle shape often obscured my field of vision. The graphics and animations though were very good for 48 hours. Good work!
this was very well made - the controls need some tweaking as i felt like i was alway crashing into something - over nice job
I really liked the mood you got going, flashing colors were a bit harsh on the eyes after a while, and I didnt get to grasp the controls completely. overall I liked your entry cool stuff!
Loved the aesthetics, sound design and graphics are great =)
THANX FOR TESTING!!! I would like to improve a lot of things, but as you know 48hs where not enough for me doing all the stuff alone... HERE IS A LITTLE help of how figures goes >>>cube>>> triangle>>> cube>>> cylinder... and repeats that pattern! If you remember it you could certainly make a lot more points. Also i read that some of u suggest to not place black heart in front of the player, but that way game will be so boring, cuz the only goal will be to swap figures with spacebar. The way i made the game forces u to stay moving all the time, mostly doing circles cuz thats the only way to know whats coming. Again, THANKS U ALL for your time playing and commenting my game! U are awesome and be sure that ill be taking all ur comments in the next update features!
Like!
Awesome aesthetic, and very innovative! Very original, but challenging. 5 star mood too! :)
Also my entry (the one where you punch dinos) works now so you can check it out.
Difficult, but fun game
Nice game matching the theme very well, liked the soundtrack a lot.
Love the gameplay nice game :)
Not sure if it was just me but the graphics looked nothing like the screenshots. Was also difficult to get the right shape but well done :)
Nice graphics and sfx.The game is simple and fun to play
This game is very nice and polished - I like!
The concept is very similar to our entry ;-)
Well done!
When i saw this theme shapeshift i knew its gonna be a load of these :D
Not a bad thing i love it, i too made one of these but completely different. :p
Awesome!
Cool game!
I had a similar visual idea. Needless to say... I like what you've done here. :)
thanks u all, ive tested all of your games ! Good work bros
Cool game, fun pattern matching. you can't see the centre shape that your going to run into. I like the music and sound design.
I really liked the game, very nice graphics, soundfx and a good idea. The only thing that bothered me is hat it's difficult to reliabli change shapes in time - it would be better if each shape had its own button.
The level of polish in your game was amazing! Good job!
It's a tad annoying when you cant see the blackhearts that are directly in front of you, and having to spam space to select the right one instead of pressing an individual button for each selection makes it kind of tedious. The sound is really good though, and the art is very pretty. Some more polish wouldn't hurt, but otherwise great entry!
Huge thank you for the warning! It's a great game, just not for some of us who can't handle blinking lights :) But we can always play Grandma mode!
strange and fun
Great colors and I like the abstract minimal style! It's fun but I got a bit annoyed that the black trail you leave when you move obscures your path, and makes it harder to see the black hearts. The little black dots also make it harder.
In general I feel it's better to make things that can damage the player very obvious, so that the player's skill and reflexes are tested.
Great game, the graphics are really nice. However it was really hard to see the black hearts that I supposed are bad to collect. So I was losing health constantly despite not knowing why...
well played! I think you finish your game concept in the best way. The music is a good companion. Only a tip-> put and epiletical advice on higher levels xD
Cool graphic!
Awesome game and made by just one person. Congratulations dude, keep it up. I really enjoyed this wild shaped rollercoaster of crazyness!
Both the idea and execution are pretty nice, yet there are some problems with the game:
- it would be much easier if the player could select the shape, and not just cycle through them. If cycling is THE challenge of the game, then I would also like to know the order in wich they are cycled...
- black hearts were lost in all the particles. And the player
- I didn't quite understand the right moment to change shape between two barriers. I took damage from one or the oher. Or both.
As for the art style... mesmerizing :)
I will try to make an update to fix all that! Thanks
Weird and psychedelic. I love it. The aesthetic is great. A funny game for a solid entry. Well done ++
Weird and psychedelic - fun pattern matching. I love it. The aesthetic is great. A funny game for a solid entry. Well done ++
Nice concept and graphics! Good job!
Way too flashy, but interesting nonetheless!
Nice beats! it was fun, grandma style for me
Oh wow, I love the graphic style and the presentation is really slick. the flashing could be toned down a lot (I could not play adrenaline) :) Would be cool to see shape rotation as another thing you have to match up? I agree that this would make a great mobile game. Thanks for your kind review btw!
Great looking game. Fun too! Good job
Polished game, nice mechanics. Overall is good.
Graphics are very neat, but I would have removed the black particles because black heart becames a bit confusing. But they are good anyways
Innovating game :) Nice job !
I like, but it's so difficult!! :D Good work.
Wow, cool game. Worked great for me. Great entry!
First of all I have to say that the soundtrack is beyond awesome. The visuals are nice and clean and yes, very flashy but it didn't bother me. At first I wasn't happy with the single key shapeshift but after a while it clicked. I think the sequence is actually pretty clever and makes the game more unique. Congrats!
Absolutely awesome game!!! The audio rocked and everyone here thinks so!!! Also, i like how you have it auto pause when you click off the screen. I need to figure out how to do that! Amazing job!!
Good job! I had a hard time grasping the concept, but the graphics, audio, and most everything was great!
The intro music really got my head bobbing, almost hypnotic! Gameplay was tough, but the graphics were very nice and the game seemed really polished, great job!
Awesome game! Very polished and complete. The only thing I would like to see changed is the black particles being less similar in colour to the black hearts.
Trippy! This was too much for my eyes and brain to process :)
Still a nicely done game, with good sound effects. I did have trouble separating my avatar and the oncoming shapes at times - probably because the graphics scrambled my brain.
Great effects, reminded me a bit of Super Hexagon. The randomness is killing me though.
Cool game but maybe too hard to fully enjoy it. Except of that it's perfect for all the graphics and audio part good job dude. What a compo !!!
Pretty fun gameplay concept plus I like the minimalist art style. As for faults, the flashing images tends to be more of a hindrance making things a lot harder. Also the field of view could be increased a bit as it was difficult to see anything in the middle. Finally it might be better to map two keys to change shapes (one for the previous shape and one for the next) unless you're porting this to touch devices (in which case it probably would be better to show which shape will appear next in the cycle).
@Xanjos yeah im working on the port to iOS! ive made a few changes as many suggested in the comments! 3 secret levels after adrenaline ends and a short of indicator of the 2 shapes that came after the one u are in.
Nice entry! I liked the smooth animations and music, they made a nice mood. Difficulty was nice, coordinating the movement and shapeshifting while moving side to side to see black hearts coming from the middle was fun.
Greetings, bruz
It felt like an acid trip. Nice game!
Wow! That was a very well-made game :D haha, it was difficult, but that was fun! :) I like the background music, keep it up :D
Hello! It is a well-polished game, has good sound, good graphics and a good, multitasking idea.
I did, however, find the gameplay kinda confusing. It's hard to see the hearts ahead and it was difficult to grasp the depth, and then the moment in which I had to change shape.
Overall, good entry, mate!
I liked it a lot, but I think it was a bit too punitive too add those black hearts, it's already hard enough to change shape in time. Also I was never sure of the order of the shape, you could have used 3 keayboard key and add a visual hint at the bottom of the screen for the player to remember which shape corresponds to what key. Othewise I really love the general aesthetics, art, sound and music all fits very well together :) Great job !
Really fantastic presentation and exciting gameplay. Between the shape defaulting to the center of the screen and the streak that it leaves behind when moving, it was very difficult to see the black hearts in the middle of the screen.
I'd be curious to see if you could find a way to make it easier for the player to memorize the order of the shapes that they switch between -- or make some way for players to switch directly from one shape to another, without cycling through them all.
This was fun, thanks!
Great game for this style! I liked the art, the sounds, the game gradual difficulty, the animations, the AI, the variety of enemies/attacks. Really nice entry for the LD! Keep it up!
Ops! I've written my comment on the wrong page. Please, ignore it. That's what happens when we open a lot of games simultaneously...
Could please export your game to WebGL (HTML5), so we can play it on Chrome?
Wow, good job! The game is polished, the music fits with the graphics and the flow. Nice one!
Same base mechanic as my game but very different implementation. Great audio, very hypnotic. All the best for your app store version.
This game was one of my favorites. Nice work on everything. Great Audio.
I've always fancied minimalist graphics... and this is dope, man! i love it :D
I am not comfortable with the controls or it might just be me xD
Very nice game tho... genius idea .. great job!
I enjoyed the minimalistic art style and the music a lot. Though the flashing lights part way in really threw me off
Great theme implementation! Audio is suitably, Love the part of collecting hearts. Keep up the good work!
this game was tough on my eyes. i like the polish, but it was tough to figure out where hearts would be, while dealing with the changing shape and the background. hard to really focus on the screen.
@SHLFStudios thanx i know the game is not for everyone, but ive wanted to take the risk of making this kind crazy looking colors, flashing lights and that stuff! :)
Nice Game :)
Loved the game! I feel like it was too forgiving and by the end I was hoping it would kill me so perhaps making it take more health, toning down the health you get back on heart and toning down number of hearts would help. Also, transforming was hard cause the order isn't displayed anywhere and you can't pick which to transform into. Aside from that well done!
Awesome audio, fun and solid gameplay. My complaint is that the black hearts are hard to see being around many black particles.
the animation and total feelings is awesome, good work was done.
Great, interesting entry! Glad to see so polished games on LD :)
Shape-shift was taken as "Make a game about triangle and square, maybe even circle" by so many jammers. But this one is really well made.
Such simple clean design that works really well. Liked the feeling of passing through and collecting the hearts. Would be nice if you could switch shapes with different keys instead though would help with the rapid pace of the game.
I really liked how the keys/instructions were presented, however it went by too quickly and I ended up having to restart it to catch what text I missed the first time.
The view made it difficult to tell where you actually needed to be to avoid the black hearts or hit the red ones or even when you'd pass the shape, as depth perception is difficult. Often my own character blocked the view such that there was no time to respond to incoming threats - I know this is intended, and it is not a huge issue on its own as you can keep moving but combined with the lack of depth perception it can make things frustrating. I think finding a way to convey depth to the player would go a long way toward helping here. I think the depth issue, rather than that your character can block the view a bit, is the main problem.
Changing the color of the particles might help, too, so the black hearts stand out better - especially as they're the game's namesake.
I tried all the difficulties, and definitely the flashing is an issue, even for those without history/risk of siezures it'll cause eyestrain and headaches.
That said, I do like the core idea here. And flashing aside, the graphics style itself is quite nice - minimalist, stylish, and clean. :)
The shaking and hit sound both provide good feedback to the player to show that you've been hit, without being overdone. I liked the decision to provide a reasonably generous health bar as a complement to the high difficulty.
Excellent music and UI, too!
On the whole, this is a nice Compo entry! Good work, and thank you for sharing it :)
Nice rendition of a match-the-shape game. The hearts are a nice touch that add another dimension. The black ones are a bit difficult to spot though.
The music is nice and the visuals fit your game well. The design is solid over all.
I feel that this genre really benefits from a control scheme where each shape is assigned a specific key instead of cycling through the shapes. I found going from square to circle to square to triangle instead a normal cycle between the three shapes a bit confusing.
Needs direct buttons for all shapes. Cycling through them gets frustrating. Fun game nonetheless. Great job! :)
Love that there was a lot of different tracks for each section. It was really fascinating to look at, and adrenaline mode was definitely the most interesting to look at.
Great music! and I loved how the world was in beat with the music. You were right adrenaline mode is the only way to play :) great job! Thank you so much for making this!
Very nice graphics and music. Overall a great game!
Those graphics almost gave me a fit. Also sometimes I got feedback that I lost a life even though I got the write shape. Get's confusing very quickly
It's definitely challenging, I think you could change it so you don't have to cycle through all the shapes to change. Maybe add 2 buttons for shapeshifting and they are linked to the 2 other shapes that you can change to.
Super nice job on the compo! I thought this was an interesting take on the shape matching "tunnel" games I've been seeing. I think if you want to keep working on this, you have a lot at your disposal to control pacing in a really nice way (for example, low impact segments being JUST about matching, medium being about matching and collecting, then hard being all three: matching, collecting and avoiding). Plus on top of that you can affect difficulty with how often you have to switch, etc. With all of those you can really make a specific pacing, which could be really nice. I had some difficulty understanding the boundaries of the shapes and when exactly I could shift without taking damage from the previous shape vs how soon I needed to shift to match the next one. I think there's a lot of different ways to address this visually. The black dots were a nice simple way to help convey depth, I think there's potentially lots of interesting visual stuff you can do to add to this. The health bar/distance were the only things that sort of stuck out from the rest of the visuals, I wonder if there would be another way of conveying health as part of the player? Might be worth exploring. minor note: let the player advance themselves out of the instructions ;) Good job on the compo!
It was a awesome game. Stunning music, and very challenging. Good job!