Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Gravitwister
By drury
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 173 | 3.81 | 24 | |
| Fun | 282 | 3.56 | 26 | |
| Innovation | 78 | 3.89 | 26 | |
| Theme | 716 | 3.35 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 178 | 4.10 | 26 | |
| Audio | 49 | 4.04 | 26 | |
| Humor | 504 | 2.77 | 24 | |
| Mood | 389 | 3.34 | 25 |
This is pretty challenging! The controls feel much nicer with a controller, so it would be cool to be able to use a bottom face button (or something) for magnetism. I really like the black hole's distortion effect. Great job!
A pretty fun game once I realized where I/the player is positioned :D Maybe at the start of the game, let it freeze until you press a key so that the player can see what's going on :)
Nice job on the twisting effect and the music that is synced with the black hole. Overall a very nice entry!
Interesting game! It feels overwhelming at first but once you figure out what to do it's nice. The graphics are amazing, the black hole effect is really impressive. The music is also very fitting. The controls were a bit too floaty in my opinion but that's a minor thing. Awesome work!
@thecodeinside Thanks for the feedback! I didn't test with a controller, but I think you might be able to map magnetism to a controller button in the launcher? It's called "Tether" there.
I thoroughly enjoyed this game. I especially liked the art and the great use of audio. A higher difficulty where you have keep the space station and spaceship from getting sucked into the blackhole would be really cool.
Fun and original game. I like it!
Cool game idea! Very polished visuals and sound! Thanks for bringing it by the stream!
@erebus Thanks for having me and the honest feedback 8)
Pretty challenging game, it took me a bit to realize how to use the magnetism properly but no matter. The music was really nice and I loved the black hole's distortion effect. I also love the small detail of having the mouse cursor stuck inside the black hole. Nice job.
Original game, with great music and graphics!
Briefs E.T. looks so content, this truly is the look of a man who has accepted his role in the universe.
The visuals were really impressive, seeing stuff fly around the black hole is fun, especially near the end when there is a lot of debris and unfortunate aliens. Audio design was top notch as well, both the background music and - the underrated star which nobody has mentioned yet - the blop sound when something gets sucked into the black hole. One thing I'd found is that the magnetism effect is not as useful as just ramming stuff into the hole, maybe that could use an upgrade. At first I also thought it was too easy, but then I died unintentionally two times in a row, so I guess so much for that. I also played with a controller and indeed remapping tether to a face button works.
All in all, cool interpretation of the theme and cooler execution.
Visual Effects and Audio were great. I did have a problem where I would leave the screen and didn't know how to get back a few times.
Whoa I really like the black hole shader, not an easy thing to implement and tweak, I appreciate it man. Nice music, graphics is great too. I thought the black hole should grow up slowly after it has reached the score instead of an abrupt change in size. Some button feedback in the main menu would be nice too. A bit weak on the theme.. Much appreciate the lightning from the black hole in sync with the music, it is everything in this game man, 5 for music! Overall, a very fun and well-made game. Got to know your solution for that in the stream, thank you very much! It will be in my next game!!! I have always been in love with effects in sync with music, and in my game I had to do that manually LMAO
The overall idea of the game was well done. The objective was simple, and the graphics were simple but got the point over and I found them funny at times. The floatiness of the controls was not too much to impact gameplay in a bad way. One bad thing I want to say, is that I think there should be more feedback visually when you get closer to the black hole. I seemed to have fallen in many times since there was a lot going on on the screen and I lost track of my player. Visual feedback when getting close to the black hole would have improved the gameplay also allowing you to think how you are going to launch the item you have in your hand.
The graphical effect is really cool! Art and audio is nice, simple controls and relatively easy to acomplish goal. I feels it mises the theme a bit, since you are runing out of time.
Great art, but as your biggest fan, I have to admit that the gameplay isn't very challenging, and a little basic. The mechanics are solid, but it could be expanded a little. Like maybe you have to avoid getting hit by debris, cuz you're a fragile little astronaut. A combination of my game's damage mechanics and your game's magnetism and objective would be pretty sick.
@batmanasb Hmm true, to be frank this was a bit of an attempt at making a very simple yet polished game, so I didn't make very elaborate mechanics on purpose and instead focused on getting what little I had right. People who've played seem to be all over the map in terms of whether it's easy or hard, and I'm cool with that.
I haven't completely given up on complexity, don't worry. Maybe next time we'll make something with multiple levels, a difficulty curve and all that. I've just been doing that same thing over and over again I felt I just wanted a break I guess.
The gameplay is simple but combined with the music and visuals makes it a hectic experience! I like how the music is synced with the electricity and by itself the music is great.
The syncing to the music blew me away! This game was a total bop. Stunning graphically too! Thanks for sharing this with my stream! Here's a link to the vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297569760?t=03h07m46s