Event Horizon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.72
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.99
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★82%
Play as the Ultimate Villain - a black hole! In this fast-paced arcade game, a fleet of ships is sent to stop you before you suck all goodness out of the universe. Through your cunning use of gravity, propulsive ion jets, teleportation, and powerups, destroy the ships by smashing asteroids into them.

Thanks for playing my game! Don't forget to vote!

Made with Lua, Moonscript, and Love2D for MacOSX and Windows.

tips for windows users:
-- you must extract the contents of the zip before playing
-- you must not move the executable away from the folder it's extracted to (shortcuts are okay)

Comments62

Petertiger159417 Dec 2012, 02:10
awesome
mr steaz muffin17 Dec 2012, 03:20
nice job
LeCherLich
LeCherLich17 Dec 2012, 03:33
very nice game idea AND very well executed!
solidplasma
solidplasma17 Dec 2012, 03:33
Very impressive, and slick. Slightly unclear how to play at first, though.
pfirsich17 Dec 2012, 03:35
This is absolutely great. This is why I participate in this.
Zillix
Zillix17 Dec 2012, 03:42
fantastic. great aesthetic and implementation.
feiss17 Dec 2012, 04:21
great job, loving the hexagons
Datw17 Dec 2012, 04:21
Nice, altough a bunch hard to play.
netgrind
netgrind17 Dec 2012, 04:21
That was a fucking sexy as hell hexagon effect you had going on.
monomanio
monomanio17 Dec 2012, 04:24
Very good! Spot on with the art direction and coherency, and interesting gameplay.
deathray
deathray17 Dec 2012, 04:34
Amazing concept and very polished!
Suggestions: Can i be gentler to the eyes without sacrificing the cool hex graphic style? Also an easy level to start would be good.

How are they even hurting a black hole anyway? :)
Falkreon17 Dec 2012, 04:51
Very hard to master, very visually appealing. Hard to believe it was a 48-hour.
karlin17 Dec 2012, 05:13
Really pretty game and a great concept too. Found it a little difficult though, although I'm generally not great at this kind of game.
Freakill17 Dec 2012, 05:16
Difficult but really neat game! Visuals at the end made me sick, but really nice looking and background music hehehe.
ripter17 Dec 2012, 05:18
Very fun! It took a few tries to figure out the controls and how the game works.
metadept
metadept17 Dec 2012, 05:19
Excellent. Graphics and sound (and gameplay) are simple but very well polished. Controlling the asteroids accurately is quite challenging!
enfyrneaux
enfyrneaux17 Dec 2012, 05:50
You had me at hexagons.
Scott McBee17 Dec 2012, 06:05
Very well done. Definitely one of the best so far.
SelectricSimians Friend17 Dec 2012, 06:31
Hey, friend!
Very incredible, had me hooked for half an hour with a final score of 2:27!
Controls are hard to learn, but once you get the hang of them they are brilliant.
Music is way too catchy. Seriously, music is WAY too catchy.
This is INCREDIBLE. I absolutely ADORE it.
You, sir, have earned a PERMANENT spot on my hard drive. :3
arkeus
arkeus17 Dec 2012, 06:36
Very cool!
leafo
leafo17 Dec 2012, 06:43
Really cool game idea. The entire thing is nicely polished as well. Great work.

Also glad to see someone else writing games in MoonScript! ;)
hints17 Dec 2012, 07:58
very cool, very addictive, very gorgeous.
MvT
MvT17 Dec 2012, 08:06
Great idea.
adnzzzzZ17 Dec 2012, 09:09
Pretty original with nice and simple graphics. Really good job.
jmk17 Dec 2012, 09:36
Really unique gameplay idea! And you're only thirteen? Very impressive; well done.
TomK32
TomK3217 Dec 2012, 09:46
It's loud, fun, quick. Great game but please get this destroying ships a little easier. Using astroids worked once or twice a round for me.
Cy4n1d
Cy4n1d17 Dec 2012, 09:53
really really nice. :-)
rasmusrn
rasmusrn17 Dec 2012, 11:10
I click "Instructions" and read "You are a black hole". What an epic way to start.

Took me a while before I understood how the green and red areas work (which is impressive considering I did read the instructions).

Very well done. My favorite so far :)
pl0xz0rz17 Dec 2012, 12:15
Awesome idea and graphics. Not the best audio, however.
Robotic
Robotic17 Dec 2012, 12:36
Although I didn't feel very villainous, the concept is ace ! oh, and that effect is wonderful, especially with the blue explosions. Will you blame me if I ever attempt to copy it ?
jsmars
jsmars17 Dec 2012, 12:53
Great game! Very fun, polished and hard to master.. a bit hard control scheme, I think it may be easier if the rotation was changed by a mouse cursor (in direction of mouse)
GeorgeBroussard17 Dec 2012, 12:54
>>Very impressive, and slick. Slightly unclear how to play at first, though.

Agree with this statement. Nice job though. Very slick and well done. There's something here that warrants you developing this further. Really cool visuals and music, imo.
gameXcore17 Dec 2012, 13:55
Very fun, although I feel the black hole should have move slightly quicker so as to allow the player to easily kite the mobs.
ParaPup17 Dec 2012, 14:15
Very nice game you made, Awesome graphics.
frogmaster17 Dec 2012, 14:48
Wow! New masterpiece. One of the games I will be playing long after Ludum Dare :)
Jiggawatt17 Dec 2012, 15:22
I do like the concept, but I only see asteroids like once every dozen ships, so I can't get much out of the traction mechanic.
SaintHeiser17 Dec 2012, 15:36
Fun game =)
I like idea with black hole. It's really unique.
Rex Peppers
Rex Peppers17 Dec 2012, 15:45
Quite a challenge to play, but fun once you get the hang of it...
jahlgren17 Dec 2012, 16:42
The game is simple but fun :)
pbdiode
pbdiode17 Dec 2012, 17:49
Had some problems playing it: trying to unzip it on OSX (Mountain Lion) results in a .cpgz file and using unzip from the command line results in this error message:

Archive: event_horizon MacOSX.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of event_horizon MacOSX.zip or
event_horizon MacOSX.zip.zip, and cannot find event_horizon MacOSX.zip.ZIP, period.
Mythalore17 Dec 2012, 18:16
The new (if slight more complicated) super hexagon! Great!
yokcos70017 Dec 2012, 18:28
Very fun. A bit bland and something I wouldn't play again, but fun nonetheless. Also, the difficulty seems to ramp up far too quickly.
Tapestry
Tapestry17 Dec 2012, 19:10
Awesome game, good job!
Spierek
Spierek17 Dec 2012, 20:07
Really cool game with a new, fresh mechanic. That menu effect is some slick stuff, and the gameplay itself kinda reminds me of Hexagon (not just because of the background).
dark_hunter17 Dec 2012, 21:36
Very cool graphics and sound. The gameplay is hard to catch on the first time. After that is becomes even more fun!
Crimsoneer
Crimsoneer17 Dec 2012, 22:56
Very cool, and new. Not sure how villainous I feel though :P
JaJ
JaJ17 Dec 2012, 22:57
This is a hard one to get the hang of. The trick seems to be to get the asteroids as close as possible for as long as you don't need them, and then proppel them away. I love the visual style. It's very original too.
Cat Burton18 Dec 2012, 00:51
Fun game! The art style is lovely - it looks great!
soupy18 Dec 2012, 01:27
This game is amazing. It's just what a 48 hour game should be: compact, fun, with excellent presentation, and a reason to keep playing. I wish the asteroids moved a little faster, though.
amassingham18 Dec 2012, 01:32
Nice game, I love the concept - Id suggest changing the colours, anyone with red/green colourblindness might have a bit of a problem!
drewfitz18 Dec 2012, 02:43
WOW. What a great game! I'd love to see this expanded into a more full-featured game.
Meep18 Dec 2012, 03:23
Beautiful :)
ilo18 Dec 2012, 03:30
Looks brilliant! Rather tricky but I started to get the hang of it.
saampahlavan
saampahlavan18 Dec 2012, 04:29
Visuals are pretty cool. Super Hexagon inspired? hmmmm
OU GDA18 Dec 2012, 05:19
really fun interesting idea. crazy hard though
Lashiz12118 Dec 2012, 15:18
Great game really liked it mostly sucked at it but what can i do 5/5
Rabbits...
Rabbits...19 Dec 2012, 04:42
Its visually amazing! I love it
ClownyBastards
ClownyBastards20 Dec 2012, 07:08
Great idea, compelling execution.
It took me about 5 tries to feel confident with the controls and mechs; and then you get the pleasure of control on controlling the asteroids. Very fun.
mokujin22 Dec 2012, 18:48
Hard to play, but fun) Innovative gameplay
sPe
sPe29 Dec 2012, 14:00
Had few disturbing game stutters but the gameplay is very interesting and tactical.
Benjamin5 Jan 2013, 02:52
Good concept and fun control. The asteroid spawn sequence is very chaotic. I guess that half of them starting in red zone is the problem. Maybe that gradual power for red ( repel ) could be the solution, in sort of in a max distance every hex turn green. Not sure if I'm understandable...

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