Yeah, that's my first ludum dare project! I've created it in about 10 hours and I really like my game. This is the little arcade with simple rules. You should get as much points as possible. There are 4 types of blocks: red, green, blue and pink. If you step on red or pink block, the game will be ended. Blue blocks show all red blocks on the map, when you stand on it. And that's all! Good luck and enjoy playing!
I love the music! The game play is iffy though. The thing is, the mechanic necessarily leads to situations where you get killed by things that you never had a chance to see. It's the "first 5 seconds of minesweeper" problem. One thing to try might be giving the red squares a fade out instead of cutting them off the moment you get off a blue square. I never felt that I had enough time to process the information.
Also, controlling isometric games with WASD is hard p_p
Fun, but perhaps a little frustrating by design. Catchy music! The controls were fine for me, probably due to how many years I've spent playing isometric games with the arrow keys.
Controls take some getting used to, and not being able to stand still makes things very difficult when you have to think about which button to press :D
Yeah, my biggest issue with the game are the controls I think. I'm more used to the other orientation, where "up" means "top right". Other than that, nice idea, although I think the speed should scale based on how many blocks you've uncovered as green.
That was an interesting concept. As "nintendoeats" said, I think it would be a good idea to have a "fade-out" timer on the blue squares.
Also, as someone mentioned, you cannot use music from "free music sites", you have to either create your own music, or use some program that automatically generates sounds.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/rules/ > For Jam games, you are free to use whatever artwork or content you like (preferably something you have the legal rights to), but you must accept all responsibility for its use. The license of this track allows everybody to use it in noncommercial projects.
Very minimalist, but the game seems ridiculously hard as the red squares flash up for a very short time, making it impossible to commit to memory. Otherwise a solid concept.
My main issue, as a lot of people have said, is that the controls are rotated by 45. That, and it'd be nice to have your starting place surrounded by blue squares or something. I had a couple of games where I started with reds within two squares of the starting point (On easy).
The isometric view is nice for the graphics, but terrible for the control schema. Other than that, this has a nice pace, a neat simple mechanic, overall pretty fun to play.
It's fun, and the music is seriously cool. I'm guessing you might be left-handed as the controls were quite the opposite of what I'd expect for an isometric game. I think the standard would be to use the arrow keys and have "up" correspond to northeast (rather than northwest).
Nice idea but the controls/view makes it hard to play. Also took few tries before I understood exactly what to do, would have been helpful with some kind of introduction.
Very nice twist on the Minesweeper mechanics, with cool music. Two suggestions: instead of just changing the grid size, give options to change the player speed. It goes too fast and it's hard to make the right turns. Also, sometimes the game starts right besides a red block and it's an instant game over. Maybe clearing the starting area around the player?
Simple but challenging mechanics. I struggled with the controls more than anything though, making it a somewhat frustrating experience. Sleek audiovisual presentation.
Is it intended that the player can just keep going back and forth between around 3 blocks and patiently try to position themselves? Kind of breaks the frantic feel, but I guess it feels fairer though.
The main menu was a bit confusing, I was trying to use the keyboard to select options at first and nothing was happening. Also, you should make the full line select the option, I was clicking to the right so nothing was happening for me either.
The game itself is pretty interesting, but really hard. I feel like your cube needs to move a bit slower at first and also snap to the grid. It's really hard to tell exactly where you are when you're floating between squares.
Wow this game is so hard. Even "Easy" is really really hard. Would have been better if the red squares were added gradually one by one, learning curve was a bit too steep. Good concept.
Very nice idea. Sort of like dynamic mine sweeper, or something. I had fun playing. I did find the controls a bit hard to grasp, as I am not used to using WASD in an isometric view like that. But overall, great. Excellent music, and nice use of the theme here.
I like this idea, although it could be somewhat expanded. The isometric view is nice, but it takes some time to use the controls correctly. To make this game even better, I would add at the start of each level the possibility of visualizing the trap squares for a brief moment, so we would not begin the game completely blind. Still this concept can be worked into something even more amazing =) Kudos for the soundtrack too!
I felt a little uncomfortable with controls, and i really needed an animation for the moving cube (like edge), but apart that i really liked our game. Well done for a first entry!
Great idea. It's hard as hell but I like that I constantly learn map == learn to survive. There could be some "story" mode with non-random levels so it would be like learning Mario levels for speed runs.
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The isometric view made it a bit difficult to control for me, as I'm not used to orienting in that perspective.
Also, controlling isometric games with WASD is hard p_p
Nice little game
cool game though, and nice music
error message "excpet violation"
Pretty fun otherwise
Also, as someone mentioned, you cannot use music from "free music sites", you have to either create your own music, or use some program that automatically generates sounds.
Cheers, and thanks for the game!
> For Jam games, you are free to use whatever artwork or content you like (preferably something you have the legal rights to), but you must accept all responsibility for its use.
The license of this track allows everybody to use it in noncommercial projects.
http://i.imgur.com/mnCIuNk.png
The music is plagiarized from http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hot_Fire/La_Boite_A_Sons_-_Contest_Contributions/Them_Never_Love_No_Bans_-_DnB_Mix_Germany
Very nice prespective :P
good entry!
Also took few tries before I understood exactly what to do, would have been helpful with some kind of introduction.
Good entry overall!
I loved the music!
Is it intended that the player can just keep going back and forth between around 3 blocks and patiently try to position themselves? Kind of breaks the frantic feel, but I guess it feels fairer though.
Nice work. :D
The game itself is pretty interesting, but really hard. I feel like your cube needs to move a bit slower at first and also snap to the grid. It's really hard to tell exactly where you are when you're floating between squares.
There could be some "story" mode with non-random levels so it would be like learning Mario levels for speed runs.