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Polyose

By dylanilvento

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7693.2222
Fun5623.3222
Innovation4323.3222
Theme3523.7022
Graphics8303.0222
Audio1
Mood9572.6821

Comments

ghodan 2017-12-04 19:16

This is the most literal way to take the theme and it works super well. Love it dude!

sozey 2017-12-04 19:38

I love the art style ! The UI could have used a little more work, but it's just a detail, the game is really nice to play.

carlotaesca 2017-12-05 19:48

Really good job, it reminds me of Geometry Wars :)

dylanilvento 2017-12-05 20:07

Thanks for trying the game, guys! And I'm glad it reminds you of Geometry Wars, @carlotaesca. That was definitely one of my inspirations for this idea.

comatomatoes 2017-12-06 05:14

Cool! Reminds me of Katamari Damacy in terms of how the player grows in to a big ball. I only managed to get to 56 pieces. One visual comment I have is that the bullets were visually very similar to the particle effects. Maybe distinguishing them would make the different easier to see for the player. Good work!

adrenallen 2017-12-06 17:04

I really like this game. It was simple but fun. I did feel like it got extremely easy once you had a few shards collected, I was even attempting to kill myself at the end and was failing to do so. I like the mechanic where you lose shards later on as you get hit, but I think it needs tweaked to make it a challenge!

niklas988 2017-12-09 02:01

Nice game. Simple, yet fun, which is a hard combo to pull off. Could see it as an arcade game.

sir-syko 2017-12-15 16:07

Nice game! It was interesting to have to collect enemy parts and have them stuck to your ship :smile: In my opinion, the camera should be further away. Sometimes i was getting shot by enemies I couldn't see.

The camera was also a little sluggish when moving in the middle of the arena but as a fellow programmer I know camera issues are sometimes hard to tackle :wink: With a little research you will get it working perfectly!

Finally, I thought that my bullets were hard to distinguish from the background so I couldn't really aim! =P

Keep on the good work!

zeu31 2017-12-15 20:37

Interesting game mechanic. I think it needs more “juice” and be more challenging.

illabom 2017-12-18 15:41

Very nice game you have here! I like the graphics and the sounds are good. Great concept. Goodluck!

Check out my game if you like! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected

tuomo 2017-12-19 11:50

I thought shooting with arrow keys was bit clunky. Maybe a mouse aiming could have been better solution? Also when I had around 100 pieces movement started to jerk. Gameplay plateaued for me between 100 and 140 pieces. You could have added more enemies or harsher punishments as player gets more parts, as is I could have basically continued playing for ever. I liked the simple visuals. Only problem was tiny bullets, could have been bit bigger.

bros 2017-12-23 23:12

The theme has been implemented in a good way. Using Enemy parts as shield sounds absolutely brutal but they're just polygons anyway, soo....

Short but fun game.

One thing that bothered me was the background of the webpage. It was hard to distinquish between the game itself and the webpage. A minimap for the enemy location would also be very helpful.

lereveur 2017-12-24 05:39

I managed to get 143, but after that I stayed under 80, whatever I do I was surrounded or surprised, and lost more than I got. It was fun to try, and I spend more time than I planed at first, so, good job. ;)

ajayajayaj 2017-12-24 05:45

Wow I really like this game. I really think this would be cool turned into one of those mmo "io" games. I really like the idea, and think it's really cool having the shooting controlled by the arrows instead of the mouse.

My only suggestion would be to add some music and sound effects, but I understand the lack of time. Congrats!

dunin 2017-12-28 14:12

Nice idea,

Fun even bullets are hard to see in my little screen...

(my best: 84)