Slither Space

brimthegoat 2023-10-01 22:20

I love that you made this in Roblox! A game that was made in Roblox Studio was definitely not something I was expecting. It is a little challenging collecting the food because I feel like it fades a little quicker than I'd like, and a lot of the snakes tend to die at the stars so it's tough to collect all of it - though this could be because of the AI of the NPC snakes. I do like how the movement feels though, the turning and the acceleration/deceleration are all very smooth. Very clever of you to make this in Roblox, nice job!

vadzim 2023-10-03 01:18

I love that the game mad in Roblox! Have not tried roblox before, but now realized that it is a good platform for making games. Well done! Love the Art BTW

nicolasjl9 2023-10-03 01:35

Roblox lmao! Love it

matt-swieboda 2023-10-03 01:36

wow, this was a great game, cool take on the *.io games like slither as you mentioned, cool you implemented multiplayer in such a short time. Maybe it's easier with roblox? either way it's polished and controls and movement are fluid, nice work

matt-swieboda 2023-10-03 01:37

wait, what was the food? i thought i was getting a higher score by just surviving. I noticed the stars and enemies/other players, but not food

avi 2023-10-03 01:50

This is so cool!! I did indeed have to make a Roblox account + install the app on my computer, but I loved the game!

In fact I think i ended up playing on a server with you for a bit! https://youtu.be/3YdZmMz1MgA

Im an astronomer, so I do really love physics-y games :heart: Nice work!

croze 2023-10-03 01:57

@matt-swieboda Thanks! Yeah multiplayer is a lot easier to set up in Roblox Studio than most engines, still had to do some netcode, but overall pretty straightforward. When players (or bots) die, they leave a trail behind that you can pick up for more points, you can see them in Avi's clip :)

@avi Yup that was me! Thanks for playin, I'm glad I got the astronomer stamp of approval lol

avi 2023-10-03 02:07

I have always wanted to hack on multiplayer games, but was pretty off-put by setting up networking stuff. Hadnt appretiated that Roblox is a platform that makes this easy! Was the game coded up in something specific for Roblox?

vfrabasil 2023-10-03 03:00

Good Job using Roblox!

gamer-fates 2023-10-03 03:11

Cool looking game, just can't play it.

endurion 2023-10-03 08:12

Looks decent and interesting, but I'm not signing up all over the internet.

minjutin 2023-10-03 09:12

I've never made this much effort to play a Ludum Dare game, you know had to customize my new Roblox avatar and all, but it's nice to see games made in different engines

zealous-coder 2023-10-03 23:40

very nice, I enjoyed it for a while, though the server slowed several times and things started disappearing which was interesting because it added a bit of panic to my trek among the stars. Took me a bit to realize it had this tron thing going on where the tails could kill those running around leaving bubbles everywhere.

kennyklizzle 2023-10-04 02:41

I love how the snake seems to be impacted by the "gravity" of those little "planets". I was just learning about Bezier Curves and I have a suspicion that you used them here very intuitively. Great work!

anper 2023-10-04 11:21

Unfortunately I have no roblox account but graphic looks very stylish!

rusya-ink 2023-10-04 14:33

Played with friend, pretty fun for some time, but gameplay is too simple and worm is hard to control properly, Idea is pretty interesting)

7 dying snakes at respawn / 10

bogotolec 2023-10-04 14:33

First of all, it is fun. Look really fresh for roblox platform. Also multiplayer support is huge advantage. But controls are difficult to use :(

designernap 2023-10-05 21:32

Nice feel and flow to the gravity! Looks smooth too :)

ty-victorson 2023-10-18 11:12

Wasn't expecting to find a Roblox game here! nice work felt pretty good and having multiplayer in a Jam game is always impressive!

heuser 2023-10-18 14:53

The multiplayer element definitely adds a cool layer to the experience. Kudos for pulling it off so seamlessly in a Jam game—that's no small feat! 🚀

emma-ge 2023-10-19 03:14

Cool idea!

mao 2023-10-19 03:42

This one's really fun! Awesome interpretation of Snake, dealing with velocity and gravity wells adds a lot. I found it pretty tricky to get escape velocity at fist, but I found that turning into the gravity seemed to help.

darkwolf 2023-10-20 05:37

I know in your Roblox description you mentioned "otherwise controls may feel very unnatural". I thought they felt perfectly natural, it just took a lot more practice than I expected to stop crashing into everything after a successful turn, lol. After a few minutes I suspect the thing that threw me off the most is how gravity seems to change a little near the edges of the map. Despite not embodying the jam theme particularly strongly, though it is still there, you managed to really nail the feel you seemed to be going for. I like it, nice work!