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Precarious Atoms

By turquoise-moon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8113.4725
Fun6103.5425
Innovation3583.6725
Theme1984.1325
Graphics11053.1725

Comments

samdemaine 2021-10-04 22:41

Clever Idea!

underdog 2021-10-05 22:10

this is very clever and underrated, hope you get more ratings man

brunozisman 2021-10-05 22:19

Very fun to play, the music only playing on one side desconcentrated me a bit but it's very good game!

daniel-malcher 2021-10-05 22:20

This is very neat idea and the game gets pretty intense in hard mode, really put my aiming skills to a test! The only issue I have is that the game song only plays on the left side of my headphones and all the rest of the audio plays normally.

quoc 2021-10-05 22:20

Simple and nice idea!

2021-10-05 22:22

Simple yet fun to play

ditam 2021-10-05 22:23

Nice, I learned a lot about science. Digging the 8-bit style, good art direction, the music, the sound effects and the visuals fit very well!

kyboon 2021-10-05 22:26

Creative! Some suggestion here: the electron is very hard to click on, not sure if that's intentional. Also, instead of having multiple difficulty levels, I think it's better to increase difficulty overtime.

lucas-kauff 2021-10-05 22:30

the hard mode really gets challenging at some point and that was great. in my opinion, it only lacks some way to feedback the time left before an atom goes up a level

turquoise-moon 2021-10-05 22:35

@brunozisman @daniel-malcher Oh that's weird. I hadn't tested it with headphones on. I have no idea why it would do that. Thanks for letting me know.

kuro917 2021-10-05 22:35

Very nice graphics and music, original idea. Good job!

neilkleistgao 2021-10-06 13:35

Simple but interesting idea!

johnsensei 2021-10-07 20:39

I was the boss of the easy level.

mhorth 2021-10-07 21:47

Wooo what an aim trainer! It's way more fun than any of the aim trainer games I've ever tried before, it kept me playing way longer than I probably should have. Wanted to pass 1,000 on hard. Hopefully that's a high score!

Screenshot 2021-10-07 172745.png

This is the kind of awesome game with a simple mechanic that shouldn't really be that fun, but you managed to make it fun somehow.

I think animations for the electrons going up and down rather than just teleporting would go a long way towards polish, if you wanna continue with the game.

turquoise-moon 2021-10-07 22:06

@mhorth Wow that's crazy! I think I only ever got to around 600. I'd definitely say that's the current high score.

sli 2021-10-08 21:59

Interesting idea. Maybe some power ups? Or some other type of progression, because it gets repetitive after a while. Maybe don't make difficulties, but rather start easy and then increase difficulty. Anyway great entry I enjoyed it :smiley_cat:

joeriri 2021-10-08 22:09

Simple yet fun game! My feedback is the same as @kyboon, a dynamic difficulty system would be a great fit.

timothy 2021-10-08 22:42

Interesting concept. It definitely fits the theme really well and the music was good. However, I did find that it was a little hard to click on such tiny moving sprites. Perhaps, you could increase the hitbox size.

inksun 2021-10-09 12:23

I love the concept xD

sirtobyb 2021-10-09 16:59

Cool idea and very addicting gameplay! Music fits very well and wasn't annoying even after some time. I've played two rounds and it took a way longer, than i expected because it was really fun and i wanted to improve my aiming and timing. Well done @turquoise-moon. On easy i didn't encountered any problems but on hard i was a way to slow. PrecariousAtomsScore.png

Beating 1000 on hard is really impressive @mhorth ;-)

quadtree 2021-10-17 07:43

Liked the simple, minimalist graphics. If there's one thing I'd change, it'd be to have difficulty scale up as you play so it doesn't just run forever (although I did appreciate having multiple difficulty levels, that was nice).

I liked the music as well, although I did encounter the issue where it only played on the left side.

xlambein 2021-10-17 08:00

I just love a good idea well done, and this game is exactly that. Excellent job! This was a lot of fun to play :-) wish I could've played more but the repeated clicking was risking to trigger my RSI 😅

Did you make the sound effects and music by the way? They're really good, but I don't see a rating option for them.

turquoise-moon 2021-10-17 20:00

@xlambein I'm glad you liked it! I didn't make the music. It was made by Matt J Hart. There is a link to the music on the itch page of the game.