Expander

by iossif
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★81%
Enjoy the Expander!

Follow the never-ending stream of blocks and expaaaaand! The closer you get to the edge, the higher your multiplier gets!

Created by @iossif in 5 hours.

Watch me create this game in this 9 minute time lapse video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8rtVLG1HeA

after the gamejam i continued to work on the game. follow this thread to get updates: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=187987 (the version on this page ofc is the gamejam version)

Comments28

jijaweb28 Apr 2013, 19:21
Original gameplay. Good work.
tonic30 Apr 2013, 14:18
Pretty nicely done & fits theme well. Could get faster a bit faster (eh eh).
Split82
Split8230 Apr 2013, 14:22
Interesting.
thatwhichis
thatwhichis30 Apr 2013, 14:23
This music. Makes me want to bust phat poetry.

Fun, simple play! I cannot express how many A's I want to add to "expaaaaand!"
Awennor30 Apr 2013, 14:24
The music was great, the sounds a bit annoying but did their job, the mechanic was really good and felt unique, spot on! I think this could be quite a hit as a mobile game. Best Overall game so far!
SmilingCat30 Apr 2013, 14:33
Very interesting concept, simple, yet engaging. This was a lot of fun to play.
Haversack30 Apr 2013, 15:42
Great Fun! Would make an excellent iPad game with a little adjustment and polish!
JustinMullin30 Apr 2013, 15:43
Nice execution, difficulty ramps comfortably. I wasn't sure how the concept of fitting to frame affected overall score. Overall fun. Thanks!
Avrec30 Apr 2013, 15:45
Quite liked it! Definitely nailed the minimalism feel; and the difficulty curve makes it very easy to get in to, yet very satisfying once you've lasted for a while.
Gravel
Gravel30 Apr 2013, 15:46
Nice realisation, I like the camera and the graphic design, it pushes me to play.
Then the gameplay is interesting and engaging.
Good work!
Gareth Jenkins2 May 2013, 16:27
Great -- would like more ramping in difficulty or just quick/faster in general.
badlydrawnrod3 May 2013, 20:45
Simple, yet very effective. Good work.
yokcos7003 May 2013, 20:46
While the music was repetitive, the unique and simple gameplay had me coming back for more several times. Good job!
zkenshin
zkenshin3 May 2013, 22:41
Pretty fun for such simple game play. Good work. :)
garygreen
garygreen3 May 2013, 22:44
I really liked the quirky 3d camera angle and music.
SecondDimension
SecondDimension3 May 2013, 22:50
Really nice coherent game, good risk/reward for the multiplier
Sylvain.p
Sylvain.p3 May 2013, 23:13
I like the expand mechanics, good idea in this kind of game.
TuxedoFish4 May 2013, 19:28
really addictive and fun it was really enjoyable and had the nice contracting and expanding thing which really made it a whole lot more enjoyable because you were so busy with that and not dodging the thing ;). really nice game. Although i feel the jump could have been improved.
Cosine6 May 2013, 02:04
You lucky gun got cached by Google.
MinionStudios
MinionStudios6 May 2013, 15:59
Awesome entry! The expanding takes time to get used to... but is really fun. Love the music too.
juaxix10 May 2013, 23:08
It's funny and requires skills to go further, well done creating this game,...have you thought in expanding it adding some features like shape morphing, add short term goals with some kind of little puzzles and so on?
iossifauthor11 May 2013, 09:55
i played with morphing in the last days but i ran into problems with the controls.
i also work on it at the moment since i want to ship it to mobile asap. on the toucharcade forums i started a thread to report about my progress.
Benjamin11 May 2013, 16:06
Rather unusual gameplay. If you can hold jump to stay in the air I would call the action "fly" it would make the action more unerstandable for the new player. Changing colors for up and down level is a good idea it really make the level more readable. For the expand and shrink part I was a bit confused at first but it's playble. At first I was thinking that I had to fly and expand max then I realise the multiplier was not incrementing.
rezzish
rezzish16 May 2013, 23:00
That was a really wonderful short little game
kazukishida18 May 2013, 14:31
Deceptively simple, yet lots of fun! I didn't expect the gameplay to be addicting. The color based on whether the block was up or down was a really nice touch as well. The expansion and contraction concept is good, but the incentive of a higher multiplier (from what I understood) for expanding isn't too visual -- perhaps change the way it works?

Nonetheless, this got me hooked! Add in some more catchy music, and possibly an online leaderboard, and you've got quite a game. :D
ataxkt19 May 2013, 19:14
Cool idea! Not seen this one before!

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