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Chromeshift

By diesel

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics4103.15
Humor4112.33
Fun4123.22
Mood4992.89
Audio5362.44
Innovation5542.96
Overall5783.08
Theme8442.58

Comments

arvydas 2016-04-19 02:02

This was a good challenging game! Wish there was moire to it! Good stuff

mutonizer 2016-04-19 12:14

Simple concept, not sure how it's liked to shape shifting, but it's fun, addictive and can be challenging.
Didn't even dare try using Spacebar as the shape barely had time to rotate in time by default.

As a note, I'd scale down a bit the overall resolution to make default simple blobs easier, allowing for harder versions of them in between.

Otherwise, does what it says it does and does it well enough. Kudos.

jjjanee 2016-04-20 21:48

This is such a simple but cool concept! I would totally get it for a mobile app. The graphics were simple, but really soothing. I love it!

fuchter 2016-04-20 21:52

+ The concept was simple.
- The box rotation too slow.
- There wasn't too much gameplay
- Fun for a only a couple of minutes
+ Very Polished
- Not very risky game
- Repetitive
+ Nice sounds, although there weren't many
+ Nice Aesthetics

casualcat 2016-04-20 21:57

I got a high score of 41. It's pretty fun! But I think you should make it to where the main object sets a target rotation instead of just rotating it 90 degrees in a span of time when I hit left or right. if you make a variable for a target and then have the input change the target, then the square will always rotate to it in Update() and then if you need to rotate it 180 super quickly, you can hit right or left arrow two times really quickly and it will rotate accordingly. Also maybe zoom the camera out a bit and make the square rotate quicker, or use Mathf.Lerp. But still its a good game, it just needs some tweaks.

mooncalf 2016-04-21 06:17

Liked the way it looked. I think it could be an idea that could be built upon.

zzapp 2016-04-21 06:17

Nice graphics and sound and a really clean look overall. The concept is simple yet challenging, I wish you could double rotate the cube a little faster though, as a color on the opposite side of you usually means death.
Nice work overall it was a fun game.

siryakko 2016-04-21 17:19

I want more! so sleek and fun, some minor improvements on difficulty scale can be good.

tomdeal 2016-04-21 17:21

Interesting idea, simple but compelling.

zerofaction 2016-04-21 17:23

The slight delay in turning the cube kept making me lose. But that is user error it would seem. Great game!

drkr 2016-04-21 17:44

Little too hard I think, if only you made each color play a different note it could have been a lot more fun.

torcado194 2016-04-21 17:50

nice game! liked the design, could be more to the game though.

fafastudio 2016-04-21 18:10

Neat game ! Maybe a bit difficult, and it lacked a little of audio, but nice anyway !

taviandir 2016-04-21 18:13

Nice design. Alright gameplay.

Would have liked more consistent rotation - sometimes it feels like it gets stuck when I try to rotate (even when i pause a little bit between strokes).

Good entry.

blackname 2016-04-21 18:15

It is simple but funny, I won't use the spacebar because the square rotates too slow.

ryjcio 2016-04-21 18:15

Very nice game! I see a harmony in this little thing. I wish I would hear some music! Maybe it would be nice if controls were more responsive.

bloodjohn 2016-04-21 18:16

Nice simple mechanics. Good Challenge.

God bless you for web game! (not exe)

sin-gaiiden2 2016-04-21 18:53

nice game. good idea. :)
try out our game please :)
dungeon of the shapeshifter
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=90749

plko 2016-04-22 06:21

Chrome logo? lol

indieyp 2016-04-22 07:25

Nice concept

conno1234 2016-05-01 17:30

Another difficult game, but another fun one! Nice work!

drpetter 2016-05-01 17:33

Looks good, and the concept is pretty solid for a quick little game. I had a lot of trouble accepting the slow constant rotation speed of the box though. Most of the time I feel like it's the rotation that loses the game for me, and not my inability to select direction fast enough. Would be better if it spun much more quickly (3-4x as fast) but that you instead ramp up the rate or complexity of incoming rays to keep a good challenge.

It also felt strange that the rays are sometimes allowed to pass inside the box before they hit, kind of like it's done to compensate for the added difficulty of the rotation delay.

gord10 2016-05-01 17:34

Controls could be more responsive. I died several times, because the cube either didn't rotate or was still rotating.

tompudding 2016-05-01 17:46

Very slick and well implemented, but super hard. That might be because I'm colourblind though, I found the yellow and green very difficult to distinguish

terop 2016-05-01 17:49

nice idea for a game. it was pretty difficult though.

3rdchance 2016-05-01 17:56

I love the minimal idea! Add some juice and it could be a great smartphone game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

leffe108 2016-05-01 18:03

Wished it was a bit easier at start. You could make it progress to harder, but currently it is hard already at the beginning.

One way to make it harder is to slow down the movement or make the travel distance longer so you as player get more time to plan ahead and there is room in the beginning of the game to make an erroneous movement without loosing. At least to me, rotating using arrow keys doesn't feel intuitive which one to use to turn in which direction. You could perhaps show an arc with arrows below or above the circle that illustrates in which direction the cube rotates using left and right arrow key?

The graphics was nice and clear. Audio was simple. Maybe next time try to add some music. (although if you like me isn't good at it, you can get reviewers complaining about the music not being the best part of the game :-) )

nightshadow0 2016-05-05 00:26

Damn, that starts off quick and stays quick, might want to introduce a slower difficulty curve, or increase the rotation speed. I'm color-weak so i had a little difficulty with the colors, found them a bit too desaturated. Solid entry regardless.

jni 2016-05-09 16:27

Really simple but nice idea! I enjoyed plaing, it wasn't to easy :D

tth2x 2016-05-09 17:40

ToT highest scores is 37.... really difficulty! but the space bar could help to get a high scores...always want to hit up/down buttons unconsciously!
i love this glow effect and hole tone adjustment. also it a little bit similary with my last ld game(about the mechanism,so very fantastic feeling to meet your game today)
love this solid entry with the high rhythm,i think it could exercise my limit of reaction rate, Cheers!

ainoraz 2016-05-09 21:48

The controls are a little too slow for my tastes. Very hard to do a 180 and very small gap for mistakes. Game lacks some sort of music with a beat as well. Would really improve both the audio and the mood. Other then that, the concept is great, the art seems soothing for a game this simplistic, and this could easily be implemented to touch, with a sick audio and a way to just hold down a finger and spin the block around, giving a lot more responsivnes. Idea has potential for sure.

danielilett 2016-05-09 21:56

I really like the gameplay - it's simple, but it's just stripped to the bare essentials. It's a really well-executed, distilled gaming experience. Same with the graphics - simple, but nothing is wasted - none of the in-game elements or UI is irrelevant. In that sense, if you removed anything, it wouldn't be the same game. Great job! I would say to make the box spin a little faster so that you don't *only just* make it if a colour spawns that's on the opposite side on the cube, but apart from that, there are no problems (although even that one is just me nitpicking).

onlyslightly 2016-05-09 21:57

Wow that was nerve wracking :) Clever simple mechanic which your simple minimalist aesthetic matched up to. I enjoyed things like the trail that followed the circles and the subtle glow of the shapes. Great job!