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Dust in a ray of sunshine

By ildr82

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3232.3336
Fun3232.0236
Innovation2762.7536
Theme3062.6036
Graphics3022.4235
Mood2872.6535

Comments

sudocoffee 2024-10-07 19:53

I like the visual idea. I gained energy for a little while, but nothing happened. Is there a win condition?

dhim 2024-10-07 20:34

I don't really get it, on what the ball are bouncing ? they sometimes seem to just randomly bounce

custodi 2024-10-07 21:45

Pretty curious idea, but lack of polishing. Good enough for the first entry!

ildr82 2024-10-07 23:44

@sudocoffee Yes, you can win the game, you need to gain more energy for this. The display will be in the form of a more yellow background. It was necessary to make the energy scale at the top left, as planned.

ildr82 2024-10-07 23:48

@dhim The balls fly away from dark places in the beam and from dust particles. The dust motes should have been made a little darker. With a set of energy, they will be better visible.

ildr82 2024-10-07 23:49

@custodi Thanks for the feedback

sviborg 2024-10-08 09:03

Interesting concept! 🌌 The visual style of the game is eye-catching and I like how the balls bounce off different objects. 😊 The game offers a unique experience that could be improved to improve the gameplay. I would like to see clearer victory conditions to understand how to achieve the goal. Regardless, great job! πŸ‘

ildr82 2024-10-08 14:58

@sviborg Thank you, for your feedback, it's very nice to hear that.

sabrina-palmer 2024-10-09 04:21

I like the mechanic but it's hard to tell what the goal is. Cool game!

dragonmain 2024-10-09 05:54

very chaotic

game-dynasty 2024-10-09 11:55

i like the idea of ​​this visual style, you should work on it better and make the elements more readable! Too bad there are no sounds, if the particles collided with each other with a funny sound, it would be much more fun to do :)

pyrocks 2024-10-09 11:57

i like the graphic theme of the game, it's minimalistic but still pretty. Nice little game !

leothecoo1 2024-10-09 13:33

couldnt figure out how to launch πŸš€

raivk 2024-10-09 15:08

Simple but really nice graphics, it's quite cool, congrats!

ildr82 2024-10-09 16:20

@dragonmain I wanted to achieve the effect of chaotically flying dust in a ray of sunlight

ildr82 2024-10-09 16:23

@game-dynasty Thanks for the feedback, very helpful comments

ildr82 2024-10-09 16:24

@pyrocks Thanks for the feedback!

ildr82 2024-10-09 16:28

@leothecoo1 When two flying balls collide, energy is released that charges the ship. It takes several collisions before the ship is fully charged. You can see how charged the ship is by the yellowing of the background.

ildr82 2024-10-09 16:29

@raivk Thanks for the feedback

ildr82 2024-10-09 16:33

@sabrina-palmer The goal is to gain energy from the impact of flying balls and fly away on the ship. Thanks for the feedback.

cpaz 2024-10-09 16:34

Some nice ideas in here, but more attention to detail is needed to make the mechanics understandable! The win condition is not clear - I would make sure that it's clearly stated in the intro how you win the game. The yellowing of the background is a bit too subtle :) Make sure that you have time to playtest before you release! Good job overall!

bacalear 2024-10-09 20:44

Very cool unexpected graphics.

arstotzk 2024-10-11 05:28

There is some work to be done. At first it seems that the balls will be cast randomly, but there are colliders there, they need to be made more readable. And you cant win the game, I think the player needs some kind of goal.

nazariglez 2024-10-11 10:09

The art style, which feels like watercolor, is interesting! It was tricky to understand how it works at first, but once I got it the concept was really cool. Gj!

coderaurus 2024-10-11 20:02

Interesting visual style. I had to double check the objective because I didn't understand what was going on at all... :D

Perhaps the balls could slow down faster. Now it gets little boring to just see losing all the energy while the balls are going and going.. The game started without actually clicking the play button.

Nice work!

ruthiepee 2024-10-13 22:06

The abstractness gives it a relaxing vibe. The mechanics are pretty simplistic but I didn't mind, it's fun to just watch the orbs bounce around.