Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Sasurai
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Phase Shifter | compo | 985 | 2.75 | 2.65 | 2.63 | 2.55 | 2.05 | 2.20 | 41 |
Really like the concept and the three screens mechanic. Maybe a bit too easy on the balancing side.
Couldn't get to destroy any asteroid by shooting at it though, the missiles just went through. Do they need a lot of hits? If this a bug?
As someone said, it's kind of confusing at the beginning, I felt like I was fighting the game to figure out what to do xD. Aside from that, I really like the idea and once I understood how to play it was fun.
@donut345 first off thanks for the feedback :). Panel color generation is random, and I'm aware it can lead to just dying, I'm not sure if I want to prevent that, so it was kind of a design decission.
About hitting your own color being more rewarding, I thought about it, but due to the way I implemented collision/going through (using layers) I had to do some additional coding to give points for going through, and I didn't have time. I will probably do it after the evaluation though, since I plan to keep working on the game a bit.
About particles and stuff, I want to add that at some point, as well as sounds, but again I didn't have time to tinker with the particle systems Unity has and I'm not familiar with them ^^"
Thanks all for the feedback!
Scoring was based on movement to force user to move instead of just standing there switching colors. I thought later to make it score for each panel you went through but that required some changes I didn't have time to make. As for the movement, it is intended that the ship is kind of hard to stabilize and control.
Seraphic Media, you can see the score in the upper right side of the screen :)
You don't get points unless you're moving, so if you stay at the edge and spot colors you get no points, unless I'm missing something ^^"