In this game you control small blue dot, which should run through the maze and escape from the lava flow. To win the game you must complete 5 random levels. Control - arrows or WASD.
2011/09/09 Suddenly my primary hosting is down, so I changed the links.
I'm sorry, I'm too busy being mesmerized by the title screen slowly generating the mazes then filling them with lava! Tell me you are turning that into a screensaver!
I've seen similar done before, but you balanced the speed of the lava quite nicely to keep one moving but not domed if they pause for a millisecond on the corner. Five stages is pretty short, but works well enough to give some slight difficulty curve (I notice the lava gets a bit faster each time) without becoming completely impossible or anything.
Nicely done. Well executed idea with a solid mechanic. I have to echo the complaints about the corners, though I did find it easier once I started holding down the keys of whatever direction I was going to move in next. Well done :)
The lava's speed seems to be pretty well balanced - it was about 1 square behind me on the last level. I like how it kind of helps to show you the path.
Fun and relaxing. Could be interesting to take it further by perhaps making mazes that are locked off in various points, and providing the player with a couple of explosive charges to blow holes in strategic places. Making a hole in the wrong spot would create a shortcut for the lava and put you at greater risk. Maybe the bombs would actually be placed throughout the maze for you to pick up. Obviously with such a change the flow would have to be delayed or slowed down to make it all playable.
Cool. The only real suggestion I have for it is different generation algorithms, which might have made it harder / more appealing, more novel, etc. So that you could play it over and over and over and have a little more variance than with just this.
I played this over and over on the train home today and made many notes about how much fun I was having. The lava filling up the screen on the intro/game over screen has a mesmerizing effect. A lot like winning a game of Solitare on Windows. :D
It wasn't very hard, but it was enjoyable. I had to micromanage my player position while scouting ahead for the viable route. I found that the red lava was a nice contrast and gave me enough information via peripheral vision so that I knew where it was walling things off and it ended up helping guide me home.
Well done! Super polished and super fun. :) I like how the lava sped up. I barely made it!
I wish you had time to add some music and sound effects, though. That would have been the icing on the cake.
Cool twist on maze game! I had the same "corner" problem with everyone else. It will be interesting to see the basic idea being expanded.
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r00tbeer26 Aug 2011, 05:47
Nice basic maze game. Needs some panic-inducing music and sound FX that get louder as the lava approaches. Turning corner "sticking" into a slowdown might be interesting?
Well executed, but uneventful. As gameplay, it is basically a timed maze-game. Not really innovative within the theme. Not sure if 3 more levels are worth the ending screen, which is supposed to be great, unless it means automatically filling in the maze again.
Neat little game. I liked that the lava increased in speed between levels, as it helped to keep things challenging.
I agree with everybody elses' comments about the corners, though. I'm not sure that the current method of movement actually adds anything to the game (apart from frustration); you might want to consider making it tile-based instead.
It's a neat game. Pretty and fluid-feeling. Real nice. Only problem is that it's essentially just a simple maze, and mazes aren't generally all that fun. It would be neat if this expanded into a sort of Key + Door / Sword + Monster type game.
The mazes were a bit too linear, so there was more a matter of making turns in time than making right turns. A less linear maze would have probably not have worked out with lava though.
It's more race+lava than laby+lava ( which is a very neat idea ), most of the time there's only one path. The lava mechanic should still work with deeper branches of corridor ( player will just have to check his path while running ).
Simple, yet very fun :) I managed to get through the whole thing on my first try, but I made one slightly wrong turn on the last level - the last bit was pretty hairy!
I enjoyed the gameplay quite a bit, well done. A winrar is YOU ;)
Susan