Lodestar

by r
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.90
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★40%
Lodestar is a rhythm-based action game. you are trapped in the gravitational pull of the lode star. Achieve a high enough groove to escape, or fall into the core and be lost forever in silence.

Lodestar is best experienced with sound on.

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Comments15

R3ason
R3ason24 Apr 2012, 05:05
Well that was not what I was expecting! Pretty fun! *goes and plays it again* Thanks!
MrEvilGuy
MrEvilGuy24 Apr 2012, 05:09
This is a lot of fun. The music really gets me into it. And I absolutely LOVE the dieing effect. I'm not really sure what a lodestar is, but I imagine the experience would even be better with a starry background and a feeling of being in outer-space. Superb work.
s0ulcrusher24 Apr 2012, 18:54
Not sure if this is a lose condition but when you miss a jump the level just scales down (I assume I'm falling?) until it's 1 green pixel. I'm not sure what's going on but I dig the music and the weirdness!
Fenmar
Fenmar24 Apr 2012, 18:57
Well I'm not sure what I am supposed to do. I just pressed z and more tracks were added until I got CLEAR...
Jack24 Apr 2012, 19:11
oh god this is cool (helpful feedback ahoy!)
jfroco26 Apr 2012, 01:26
Looks nice, but I don't know what to do :(
Super Soul26 Apr 2012, 02:22
It took me awhile to figure out what was going on, but once I got it it was fun (actually it was pretty fun when I didn't understand). Great job! Happy to see some WebGL action.
30dogs26 Apr 2012, 02:25
Captivated me for several tries, but I couldn't grasp the rhythm aspect. I got to the third track, but I'm not sure how the 'groove' was tied to the gameplay. Also, the only way I could figure out how to restart after falling was to refresh the page, not sure if that was intended. Cool game.
Rybar26 Apr 2012, 02:33
I too had trouble grasping how the movement/gameplay was tied to the music, but I enjoyed playing it nonetheless. Good stuff .
Moth26 Apr 2012, 12:00
This looks really cool, but when I open it up I don't hear any music- do I need to wait a while for it to load? I can run around and fall just fine, and when that happens I do hear the loud noise that briefly fades in before going to silence.

Any idea what the problem might be? I'd really love to play it!
tacograveyard
tacograveyard27 Apr 2012, 19:14
The music didn't play for me either :(
runsintowalls
runsintowallsauthor27 Apr 2012, 21:24
Fenmar - Yes, technically you can finish without having fun. If you press up you will move forward and you will have to time your jumps
jfroco - Go forward with up, jump with z.
Moth - You need to jump from platform to platform with Z
tacograveyard - Try it on the latest version of Chrome. Chrome has generally had the best HTML5/WebGL support
kirbytails74 May 2012, 05:22
Reminds me of Rez or Fotonica. Very fun!
heuermh10 May 2012, 06:12
Very interesting. Firefox wanted to intercept my 'Z' keystrokes for the page search though, the game worked better when I turned that off.

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