Ludum Dare #23compo

Tiny Black Hole

by ymihere

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.27

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★32%

My first time entering an LD contest. yay!
Tiny Black Hole

You are a tiny black hole living in a tiny world. You hate it. You hate being the
smallest one around. Everything around you must die so that you can become the largest
black hole in the world. Start your campaign of destruction, but make sure you pick
on the little guys who are much smaller than you. If you even get close to a square
that is larger than you, he'll ruin a bit of your consumed power.

Use the arrow keys to move around.
Press the space bar when on top of a small triangle to eat it.
Don't run into the moving squares.
Try to eat as many triangles as you can to grow huge.

Comments14

wademcgillis23 Apr 2012, 16:55

On the first playthrough, I had no idea that I was being timed.

It would be nice if the game had some sort of scoring, like "Maximum size achieved" or something.

Permanent725 Apr 2012, 17:25

Pretty fun. I don't know how I feel about the timer. I think if you took away the timer and added some levels along with some sort of size goal for each level then it would be more fun. That is just my opinion though. :) Besides that pretty good for your first LD!!

BubuIIC25 Apr 2012, 18:20

Nicely done! I like the different color schemes, gets weirder and weirder :-)

MurrayL25 Apr 2012, 18:50

Was quite fun, and an interesting take on the 'eat things to grow' theme that many games have used in this LD. I didn't realise there was a timer, though!

Jezzamon27 Apr 2012, 12:26

Alas, this game doesn't work on my mac.

It looked interesting from the previews, though. :D

Cyboot29 Apr 2012, 18:29

good game, and congratulation for finishing your first ludumdare.

it reminds me a little of Fishy (http://www.addictinggames.com/action-games/fishy.jsp)

iximeow29 Apr 2012, 18:38

I had a lot of fun playing this! I sort of wondered what the white bar at the top was about until I saw "TIME'S UP" at the end, and proceeded to try four more times to not be a horrible black hole. I'm bad at being a black hole.

That said, I thought the timer was a fun challenge to work against. I didn't really notice, but does eating things give you more time? If not, I think that would be really fun. If so, I think they should give a bit more time.

A restart button at the end would be nice too :D

someone4 May 2012, 15:40

Failed to get it running on Linux.
Not sure why, got other games using lwjgl working.

pbackx4 May 2012, 16:02

Good fun.
Add some graphics and maybe levels and you've got a nice casual game.

samwoakley4 May 2012, 16:42

Had a decent time playing, but as others have said, a score of some sorts would be nice. But nice work; I love the idea!

robcozzens9 May 2012, 03:12

I would try it but I'm on an iMac.

Raptor8511 May 2012, 21:13

Can't test on linux since the required lwjgl wasn't packed with

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1738)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1028)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:73)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:66)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:95)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:112)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:135)
at pack.GLDraw.<init>(GLDraw.java:25)
at pack.MainWindow.<init>(MainWindow.java:14)
at pack.Driver.main(Driver.java:9)

Ymihereauthor11 May 2012, 22:52

Sorry everyone about the linux problems. Being my first LD, I had a hard enough time trying to figure out the proper packaging for what I do have.

@Raptor85, I did package lwjgl in the jar file so I'm not sure how that error could be coming up.

Thanks, anyway, to everyone who was able to play my game and rated it. :)

JellyFame13 May 2012, 21:53

don't have windows