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Color Bound

By charles-cox

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall304.0631
Fun453.9832
Innovation593.8631
Theme324.2531
Graphics224.3031
Humor4212.3624
Mood2053.3530

Comments

tschery 2017-12-04 11:52

Oh no you uploaded an empty zip file =/ screenshot looks cool but cant play

evan-polekoff 2017-12-05 03:32

Got 180200. It's a pretty fun game. The particles and effects are really flashy and cool. It was annoying that sometimes the ships sometimes didn't aim at the enemies that were closest to me. It was a implementation of the theme.

mahalis 2017-12-05 03:57

This is outstanding. Gameplay's smooth and intense - it felt like a ballet when I was doing well, and then I got totally overwhelmed around phase 7 and it became more of a frantic jig. Great visual effects; the pulses of color around things helped a lot with keeping track of what was going on. Some music to go with the visuals would have been a nice improvement, but honestly it works in silence too. One of the best games I've seen in this jam so far - great work!

mukult 2017-12-05 06:49

Wow!! This is a well made game. Its so smooth and feels easy and casual. Nice work!

charles-cox 2017-12-05 21:19

Thank you All for the feedback! @tschery I fixed the zip issue, and also there is a WebGl build you can check out as well!

nao 2017-12-05 21:26

Amazing gameplay! Love the simple colors, very smooth and addictive! Just had fun playing this game, congrats! Agree with @mahalis some sounds would have been great but really not mandatory with these visual effects! Great job !!!

twinghosts 2017-12-05 21:38

Probably one of the best games on here! Engaging and fun :) lovely idea. I did notice that the targeting AI put me in bad spots at times, but what the hell the game is awesome as it is right now!

michael-feldman 2017-12-05 21:59

Nice job. There's a lot going on, but the graphics are crisp. Web player works great. Nice job!

bradur 2017-12-06 06:56

I got 81k points! It was a little hard to understand at first but once I got it, it was very intuitive. The game would really have benefited from some audio :).

The graphics were very cool and the mechanics worked quite smoothly. The game really fit the theme and switching the "main" color was well done. It got really hard with four colors. Good job!

bradleysmith 2017-12-06 06:57

Pretty neat. :)

mercerbox 2017-12-06 06:57

Wow, Fantastic visual style, nice gameplay hook. Only real complaints being it was hard to lose, and there's no reason not to always be shooting, but those are really minor nit picks. Great entry!

grentacular 2017-12-06 07:01

Your models were simple but your effects made for graphics that felt super polished! I feel like this game would have really been enhanced with some sound effects, although through my own sound effect experience I know that's not always the easiest thing to do on a time crunch. The gameplay was really fun, although I did get screwed a couple times by the fact that the squad doesn't necessarily aim at the closest enemy. I enjoyed the game overall, though! Great work!

feips 2017-12-06 07:16

Very well made, I had a great time, the effects look very good. It would be nice if you had to aim or not shoot all the time (with a cooldown or something).

appl3 2017-12-06 07:26

Looks great, but not much difficulty to it (can spam right click and hold left click to breeze through everything!) Managing colours was fun until I realised you could spam right click though

eggshelldog 2017-12-06 07:33

That's solid and fun! I love that you set the aiming to automatic, if I need to aim myself, I properly mass up at phase 2 or 3 haha. If your game has a good bgm, that will be super awesome! that's sad you didn't get enough time to set up the music but that's still a great game!

bog13 2017-12-06 07:41

The good: - Original gameplay. - Very nice graphics ! - The game is fun.

The bad : - It lacks a quit button at the end or the possibility to quit the game during a party (escape for instance). - No sound nor music. I would have appreciated a good electro music ! - It isn't really easy to choose a specific target imo.

Good game even if it's just a prototype, well done :)

chong-lee 2017-12-06 07:53

Wow this game is so much fun to play! Feels very fluid and nice to control! The graphics look beautiful too! Great job!

angry-squirrels 2017-12-06 11:30

Only did 94650 :/

The game was really cool ! Great mechanics good gamefeel. Too bad it didn't have music and SFX it would have been perfect !

codechomper 2017-12-06 20:28

I liked this game, I too would have loved some electro type music. The controls felt nice. Fun entry!

paulhocker 2017-12-07 04:05

really good game - add some music and you got a winner

charles-cox 2017-12-07 04:33

Hey everyone! thank you so much for all of the feedback! I really appreciate it. I totally understand the disappointment from the lack of music. unfortunately I tried and failed at making something, so instead of putting something super mediocre I just focused on making the game better in general. I will definetetly get some sound in there when I continue to work on the project!

furet 2017-12-07 19:05

Cool idea, nice clean art style. There was an interesting variety of enemies, and I had fun playing. Only bug I saw was that I couldn't shoot mines that formed on the left edge of the screen. Being able to control the firing direction would be cool.

landford 2017-12-08 13:32

Beautiful shiny effects!

2018-01-16 18:44

Cool game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecGDWM6QdpE