Ludum Dare #26compo

ColorMeld

by threeup

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.12

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.76

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.91

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.39

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.12

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%

Color Meld is a game where you try to mix 4 different colors. But at this stage in development, it is more of an experiment than a full game.

I was inspired by some data graphs showing neighbourhoods with high racial segregation. What is a mixing of culture, but a mixing of color?

I hoped to make more paint brush effects on the floor but the deadline came so quickly! Nevertheless here is a fun quick experiment with colors. Press R to play again.

Comments12

sol_hsa29 Apr 2013, 06:07

21.8 seconds. I just put mouse on a blob and kept shaking, and something happened. Then I got a big black blob, and timer stopped.

NeverAutomatic29 Apr 2013, 06:09

I managed to get a time of 26 seconds on my first try, but wasn't able to beat that again. haha.

NAMKCOR29 Apr 2013, 06:09

It's worth noting that before the game starts, you can make a ball so tiny that it gets larger again, which causes Unity to crash.

Kom29 Apr 2013, 06:09

Not too sure where you were going with this but it's interesting to mess around with nonetheless.

Jaus_LXXIV29 Apr 2013, 06:15

It's not a bad physics simulation, but I don't really understand what's going on with the color combining and the balls breaking off. I played it twice, the first time it stopped at 71 seconds then started again (?) and looked like it would never end. The second run got to 200 seconds before the Unity player crashed, it looked like it tried to join too many little balls simultaneously or something.

OnlySlightly30 Apr 2013, 05:41

It's fun to play around with, but I don't know that I know what I'm doing

MaxSzlagor30 Apr 2013, 05:43

Interesting idea. I couldn't figure out how to reliably move the colors. The mixing concept is neat. Played it in the web player.

Lianne Booton30 Apr 2013, 05:48

Neat idea and such an interesting starting point in terms of the data graphs! Kudos for a unique approach to the theme :)

Ryusui30 Apr 2013, 07:17

I like the concept, but the actual gameplay is a bit clumsy - I'm not exactly sure how I'm supposed to control the color balls (even though I won; took me over a minute, though).