Siphon With Style

marcenat 2017-07-31 13:06

The game is cool (but lack audio), it's hard to read and play at the same time but it's a short game so I've tried multiple times ^^

xavierseal 2017-07-31 22:24

Cool game.In the end I realized you have to use the enemy's collision to get to the yellow dot. It's hard to read the story.

quantumpotato 2017-07-31 22:37

Thanks! I wanted to add more audio - there should be explosions when you are hit and a sound when you harvest a rip and a new rocket appears.

Sorry that you had trouble reading the story - I kept the color same as your ship hoping it wouldn't be too distracting.

The enemy's collision was actually somewhat an accident - I planned to have a 1 hit = 1 life mechanic , but since I used [https://quantumproductions.itch.io/combo-rockets](https://quantumproductions.itch.io/combo-rockets) as my codebase, the collision + inertia physics were kept in. I laughed when I got hit by a rocket and saw it was still there, so kept it in.

quixx 2017-07-31 22:47

I made it :) I really like the particle animations when colliding. The text is a bit hard to read while playing. But overall a realy good game.

drachmor 2017-07-31 23:24

The controls took a little getting used to, but once they clicked, I found myself really enjoying the game! As short as this game was (as these games typically are), I liked the mood that the simple graphics and story created.

selftitled 2017-08-01 11:58

The controls fell a little imprecise for me. Also wasn't really sure what the green bar at the side was. Nice simple game, well done.

ava-skoog 2017-08-08 08:14

I won! I never thought I would. It was tough. But not unfairly so! Good game. The controllers were a bit confusing at first, but after playing for a bit I see why you did it that way. The only real issue I had with it was the sometimes painful precision needed to capture the dots—would've been nice to have more forgiving collision on those than on the enemies. c:

The little story was a neat way of adding incentive to complete the game even when it felt too difficult, to see the rest of it, tho sometimes it was difficult to find the time to read in between enemies and the time limit. I did find it difficult to keep track of the power sometimes, so a sound effect just before it depletes to give me some extra warning would've been nice.

Some suitable music would of course have been cool, but what can you do? c: Overall a cool game and a nice entry!

franklins-ghost 2017-08-18 15:03

Nice simple mechanic well executed. Do wish the movement was a bit smoother but was still able to play and achieve victory which was fun to do. Liked how the enemies kept increasing as you collected more continuum rips.