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Hyperbolic Space Fighters Extreme!

By gingerbill

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3963.2636
Fun4972.8036
Innovation1253.7437
Theme2333.7736
Graphics804.0238
Humor3432.3632
Mood4132.9335

Comments

peace-of-cake-games 2020-10-04 20:09

Fantastic! The gameplay is simple enough to learn it quick, but the art is mind-boggling. Great job!

jonathan-elliott 2020-10-04 23:22

Wow the art is amazing!

lestat 2020-10-04 23:24

Trippy. I like it! Good job!

firegamer3 2020-10-04 23:32

It was interesting, I was able to stay in one place for a long time and rack up the points

gevernus 2020-10-04 23:53

Are you fractals huge fan??))

aero 2020-10-05 09:48

Great art!

gingerbill 2020-10-05 10:33

@firegamer3 It's technically a flaw in the game because the closer you are the ring, the further things are away from you in hyperbolic space. A side effect of the space.

bereg 2020-10-05 13:08

The art is fantastic. It's mindblowing to predict what will happen in this looped topologic conundrum.

shan-hsgames 2020-10-05 17:04

Interesting game. Gameplay is smooth and art is beautiful. It was a fun 10 minute :smirk:

jharler 2020-10-05 17:36

This is definitely mind-bending. Fantastic visuals and a very intriguing concept. It's difficult to determine where you are and where your shots will go, but that's also what makes it interesting. I think some sound effects would have gone a long way, even just simple ones for shots and exploding polygons.

skelleroznik 2020-10-05 18:00

Wow. Such an amazing idea! Art style is fascinating. Still feel the lack of audio and any kind of effects though. Also very impressive that you made THIS kind of game with YOUR OWN programming language. But overall, I like it a lot.

cyberfrank 2020-10-05 21:37

Looks amazin! I imagine it must have been a lot of fun and challenging doing the math for this! Enjoyed it.

ale 2020-10-05 23:21

Wow that was trippy! The gameplay was pretty easy but that effect looks awesome, and it's super impressive that you even did it in your own programming language and (presumably) engine! I've tried on two past occasions to finish an LD submission using a custom engine, but both times I failed to meet the deadline. So props for pulling it off!

One tiny quality-of-life improvement would be to tweak the gameover screen so that pressing space and WASD doesn't restart the game. If you're mashing the spacebar to shoot while playing, and then you die, you may accidentally skip the game over screen and restart the game without even seeing what your score was.

tygrak 2020-10-05 23:21

Hyperbolic space is trippy! Having the score be represented with letters as a I guess base 26 number is pretty cool too! And creating a game using your own programming language is incredible - you are amazing. Good job - fun game :).

indivicivet 2020-10-06 00:09

this looks super cool but I don't have openGL 4.5 :( is this a graphics card thing or just a driver thing?

testuser 2020-10-06 03:26

Beautiful game! I think this is the first game where I'm more interested in the code that made it than the game itself, especially when the game itself is pretty good.

jrevel 2020-10-06 07:56

So beautiful ! Now I want to learn how to do that kind of generated art...

phillserrazina 2020-10-06 12:57

Aw man, I really wanted to try this but I don't have OpenGL 4.5 unfortunatelly :/

igaryhe 2020-10-06 15:49

I'm always obsessed with hyperbolic space games! Really interesting!

2020-10-06 22:09

Awesome Hyperbolic rendering! Works great on linux with wine.

justin-klinchuch 2020-10-07 13:10

Love the background visuals! Gameplay is pretty simple, but I was enjoying it as a chill game to relax with.

leora 2020-10-07 18:11

Great art, sometimes my eyes got too sick of looking

100th-coin 2020-10-08 18:40

Woah, I feel like the game could benefit by having a more relaxed color palette, but the hyperbolic space idea is super cool! Great job, it's really neat.

coderaurus 2020-10-09 13:35

Very nice idea! I haven't played a game like this before. Gameplay was smooth and graphics beautiful. Bonus points for using your own language!

olima 2020-10-11 20:29

THE COLOURS!

geckoo1337 2020-10-19 21:05

What a beautiful background! Great art - clever gameplay. Thank you ++

ptsnoop 2020-10-24 17:03

Very nicely done. Just one downside - the nature of hyperbolic space means it's possible to effectively park off towards the edge, shoot towards the centre, and never get hit by any of the fragmented enemies. There's so much more space around the outside, so the likelihood of actually being hit by anything goes way down. Not sure how you'd fix this without breaking the geometry though!