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Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.16
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.96
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.17
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
Hey !

This Ludum Dare was very interesting as I made a complete game, with musics and a working scene management. The theme helped me a little because doing a minimalist game avoided me to make fancy graphisms and the base of my game was ready at the end of the first day.

So basicly this game is about a blue square trying to collect yellow ones, avoiding the red ones.

You'll find more help about the game and the controls in the readme file in the archive.

Don't try to resize the window during the game, it will make the coins disappear...

Also the Mac app is a wrapper of the Windows version, so it's bigger and it takes a long time to load the game. But it finally works, thanks to Monoquartz (http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/category/ld-26/?author_name=m0n0quartz) who helped me ;)

I hope you will enjoy this game ;)

Comments43

San
San29 Apr 2013, 06:37
Good answer to the theme, the music/sounds are really good, simple graphics, simple gameplay. What else?
SmallDeadGuy29 Apr 2013, 07:49
Kinda fun, a bit repetitive. Audio was quite nice
Xgor
Xgor29 Apr 2013, 07:52
This game just oozes minimalism, It's possible to get into unwinnible situations if you don't have the magnet though and that's really annoying
Xaychru04
Xaychru04author29 Apr 2013, 08:08
Thanks for playing !

I know I should have added more things but I was restricted by the 4x4 area which can be saturated rapidly.

As Xgor said, sometimes ennemies can block a coin in a corner as they appear at random positions, so the only way to get it is to have more than one life, or to have the magnet :/
Tahooey29 Apr 2013, 08:33
Nice game, is possible to get into unwinnable situation which can be annoying.. but fun
Dark Acre Jack29 Apr 2013, 09:21
Thanks for including the gameplay video. I might have called this one "Terror on the Dancefloor".
Komradus29 Apr 2013, 09:40
The music is great. And now anything I look at has a slight imprint of a grid.
attagcatc29 Apr 2013, 10:12
I quite like it. The only issue is that the red squares hide behind the coins which gets a bit confusing.
cmayhem29 Apr 2013, 10:24
Super simple with great 8-bit mood, yet still fun and addicting.
Mythalore29 Apr 2013, 11:25
Can't play, OpenAL32.dll error. :(
steve29 Apr 2013, 11:56
Couldn't run it, missing openal32.dll.
Xaychru04
Xaychru04author29 Apr 2013, 12:22
I'm so stupid, I forgot to put it on the archive ><

Should be fixed now.
Xaychru04
Xaychru04author29 Apr 2013, 13:14
I uploaded an other version, I changed the save file location, but I don't know if it fixes the bug as the Mac port was working all the time from the beginning...

So I think that if you have other problems with the Mac port, I won't be able to fix them :/

Anyway, thanks for testing :D
CptBubbles29 Apr 2013, 13:15
This is a quite fun in a frustrating, addictive sort of way :) I also loved the sound effects.
Holofire
Holofire29 Apr 2013, 13:58
Amazing game. Very simple an fits in with the theme perfectly.

An improvement would be to increase the items available in the shop. Encourages people to play longer then :D
Mythalore29 Apr 2013, 14:14
Wow, definitely worth the wait. Amazing game, really liked the music and art!
3.1429 Apr 2013, 14:55
Awsome!
ekuurh29 Apr 2013, 15:32
very nice game, would have rated 5/5 if i could :)

super-magnet pretty much wins the game, though. i just stand around in one of the four central spots and let everything come to me. if when another red guy comes i'm on his path, i move and keep waiting.
Xaychru04
Xaychru04author29 Apr 2013, 15:58
Thank you everyone very much for playing! :D

@Holofire: Adding objects to the shop was one of the things I wanted to do but then the game would have been saturated with objects (like bombs or p-ups), more difficult to understand and, of course, less minimalist. :p

@ekuurh: I know it's possible to just stand on a square and wait for the coins to be attracted, but I left it like that because after a lot of ennemies can appear and kill you.
Merkoth29 Apr 2013, 16:20
Couldn't run it under latest OSX, the game seems to open but never starts to run.
Xaychru04
Xaychru04author29 Apr 2013, 18:09
Infortunately, I can't solve the problems I've with the Mac port because as I said, it's working fine on my Mac. So I'm sorry for that and I hope it will be better for the next LD ><
Xaychru04
Xaychru04author29 Apr 2013, 19:47
Edit: Finally Monoquartz, a friend who has a Mac, wrapped the windows version into a Mac app, and it's working.

It's much bigger (60Mo), and the game is a bit long to load, but it works :D
argo1529 Apr 2013, 21:00
Liked the audio.
Crazi45630 Apr 2013, 08:18
Very amusing! Great audio!
Alphonsus30 Apr 2013, 10:21
Simple and fun and addicting!
ataxkt30 Apr 2013, 13:34
Really fun! I love the simple arcade mechanic - its repetitive, but I love it for that!
multitude
multitude30 Apr 2013, 13:37
NICE! More of this please. I would love to see some more upgrades and a bigger stage would be cool.
Jellycakes30 Apr 2013, 18:08
Pretty decent game. Very fast paced and the shop keeps you playing and holds your interest. Good job!
Entity2D
Entity2D30 Apr 2013, 18:18
Simple, yet awesome game, and it fits perfectly with the theme. Great work!
GarethIW
GarethIW30 Apr 2013, 19:05
Really fun game!
AestheticGamer30 Apr 2013, 19:17
A nice sort of rave-themed coin collecting game, the magnets make it a bit too easy but it still is a satisfying experience collecting the coins, and have a good sound effect and visual style to it to keep it interesting. Power-ups are a plus still, and it can be a fairly addicting title. Simplistic, but the style is really what is more interesting about it rather than how fun it is.
saampahlavan
saampahlavan30 Apr 2013, 21:22
Fun. Music is supa cool. I wanna dance to it.
ilovepixel
ilovepixel1 May 2013, 08:25
Very addictive I couldn't stop playing and shop a good plus!

Great Game!
rogueNoodle
rogueNoodle1 May 2013, 08:57
Great music and use of the theme. Pretty addictive gameplay, too - if you can find a good way to port the controls to a touch screen, I think this would make a great mobile game.
Ragzouken
Ragzouken1 May 2013, 12:54
Neat game, but the super magnet makes it very easy!
MinionStudios
MinionStudios1 May 2013, 17:52
Great fit with the theme! I love the music and sounds. Also, it's quite mindless fun to just zip across the coins. Great work!
PsenFilip2 May 2013, 15:20
Both concept and execution are great!

The music is awesome.

I do prefer playing it without any shop-items, even though there are places you cannot win at then end of the day. But hey, that's part of the deal.

Had great fun!
Thijsku
Thijsku3 May 2013, 10:28
Great concept! It's so simple, but very fun to play. Perhaps the magnets make the game a bit too easy, altough you still need to watch out for the red blocks! I loved the music.

Good job! :)
Xanjos3 May 2013, 21:58
This is a really simple concept that's executed rather beautifully. This game is really addictive and the music is pretty awesome.
Tyro
Tyro5 May 2013, 03:26
Simple, but surprisingly fun. The shop gave it replay value and I loved the soundtrack. Nice one!
EggDestroyer
EggDestroyer6 May 2013, 12:03
I felt hypnotized by the game, feeling an urge to play more and more. You did a good job.

Although, you managed to give the game a very frenetic pace thanks to the music and, well, the gameplay; yet you don't seem to reward speed skill too much. Maybe it would be great to have a "combo timer" of 1s or so, increasing each time you collect a coin within its range, and gaining extra coins & reseting to 0 when you fail to catch it, something like this, which would encourage the player to go faster and then hypnotize him even more.

Still, everything else is solid. Well done !

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