The Good Ship Higgs Boson by Jezzamon 2012-04-28T05:58:00
Absolutely great! Tight controls, just the right amount of polish, and my brain likes what this game did to it.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → scgrn
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Finally! An effective treatment for male pattern baldness! | jam | 4.00 | 3.50 | 3.75 | 4.83 | 4.00 | 3.25 | 4.66 | 4.00 | |||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Tunnel Digger: Artifact Man | jam | 518 | 2.96 | 2.92 | 2.24 | 3.44 | 2.88 | 3.27 | 2.38 | 2.80 | 44 | |
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | ROBOT JUNKIES | jam | |||||||||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Amoebae | compo | 335 | 3.14 | 3.00 | 2.61 | 3.30 | 3.54 | 2.89 | 3.07 | 3.13 | 64 | |
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Limbus Kitten | compo | 668 | 1.70 | 1.67 | 1.89 | 1.78 | 2.22 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.43 | 22 |
Absolutely great! Tight controls, just the right amount of polish, and my brain likes what this game did to it.
Looks and sounds nice, but I'm kinda jealous of all the people that were able to spot their pixel lizards. I'm not one of them.
Slow paced, but nice game.
Not bad... it could be the beginning of a cool game! I didn't rate on audio because I only played the web version. Running away from zombies is always a good time!
Could use some polish, but nice concept!
Nice action and very polished, but needs more enemies. Lots of fun!
A solid, challenging shooter. Very nice!
Fun despite the lack of a challenge!
A bit confusing at first, but very cool, polished game!
Ran fine on Win XP. I like the switching mechanic. Good times!
Good stuff!
Nice game, it's cool to see Android games on here!
EXCELLENT!
I like the mechanic but thought the control was difficult. Overall very nice. The victory song was incredible!
This was a lot of fun!
Just WOW!!
Neat game mechanic and lots of fun!
No download link...
Cooool. Congratulations!
Great visual style, mechanics, visual style, and audio.
Tons of fun to play, with a great visual style.
This game fires on all cylinders, and also has a great visual style! The only thing lacking is theme.
Runs fine. Needs some polish, but a really, really cool game!
I'm gonna run it again while I take a break from LD games just so I can jam out to the music!
Totally weird. I like it!
It took me a minute or two to figure out what was going on, but after that I enjoyed the hell out of this game. The camera and controls need a little work, but this is a really nice, stylish game with a great concept.
Closed immediately under XP
Not bad... interesting take on Asteroids. I didn't like left/right click for fire because it kept making me think I could aim with the mouse cursor. Requiring me to install a font on my system is a bit odd. I like the colors!
*** Next LD please consider making a game that is playable ***
Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I knocked this thing out in about seven hours after scrapping my original idea. The lack of time should explain the limited gameplay, but I think it worked out well.
As for the blowfish effect @aquasheep mentioned, I originally wanted to render the amoebae as a group of ellipses so when they got stretched it wouldn't take up half the screen, as happens with circles. Unfortunately love2d doesn't support ellipse rendering and I didn't have direct access to an OpenGL context. The effect actually grew on me after a while.
I'm glad the options screen is such a big hit! :p
In hindsight it would have been trivial to add hotkeys for toggling fullscreen / audio. Oh well.
Thanks again!
Once I understood it, it became fascinating and immersive. Great audio!
This is the game that I secretly wish all video games could be.
Good job! Nice to see text adventures created for LD. Five humor points for making me type "LISTEN BREAD"
Nice idea, but I couldn't really get a grasp on the gameplay. Completely awesome that you made it on device!
AMAZING!
This game is 100x better than E.T., and it gave me a good laugh remembering how bad E.T. actually was. Well done.
Very nice puzzle mechanic, but a button to restart the current level would have make it so much better!
Great puzzles and excellent mood!
I had no problems with the controls. Looks promising!
Awesome concept! The controls were a little awkward, I should be able to move horizontally and vertically at the same time, right? This could be an awesome little puzzle game. Great presentation!
Interesting concept and I like the graphical style.
Nice art style, very atmospheric. Nice audio!
This is gorgeous! I'd love to play a longer version.
I'm a huge Descent fan, and this is absolutely mind blowing! The low-pass audio filter while viewing the map was a nice touch.
Cool idea and nicely polished!
I had some difficulty with the control but the level design was very nice. Great job for your first LD!
Music would have been nice, but this is an awesome little shooter!
This game has really cool visuals and was a lot of fun to play, although it is geologically inaccurate. :p
My only criticism is the challenge. The difficulty ramped up slowly and seemed to plateau at a certain point. After a while I while collecting tons of hearts with no real threat of hitting the rocks.
Otherwise, great concept, audio, and graphics. Good job!
I love it! It's just like real life!
It was a cool concept until I encountered the shoddy gameplay and weird, racist stereotypes.
This is absolutely amazing!
Looking good, feeling good!