Minimality

by nightshadow0

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.41

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.59

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.85

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.19

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★77%

I followed the theme very loosely and ended up with a game where the main mechanic involves shrinking your character.

EDIT: Removed from compo, i didn't realize you couldn't use CC stuff.

EDIT2: Uploaded a post-jam, improved version that i'll keep working on. If you want to rate the game, please do so based on the original version. But try the new one afterwards!

Comments24

jolle29 Apr 2013, 20:46

Music is very, very loud.

Takes a while before there's any challenge. Being able to shoot would probably be more fun, but not as minimal I guess.

jolle29 Apr 2013, 20:46

Music is very, very loud.

Takes a while before there's any challenge. Being able to shoot would probably be more fun, but not as minimal, I agree.

psychomonster29 Apr 2013, 20:46

Needs a little bit more speed... but i like the pacifistic gameplay...

ToastyAbraham29 Apr 2013, 20:47

Great spaceship graphics

Cosmologicon29 Apr 2013, 20:49

Clever mechanic, it really made me hate how big my ship was. It was fun getting the hang of shrinking down and maneuvering around obstacles. I wish it were a bit faster, is all. It took a long time for it to really get going, I felt.

Norritt4229 Apr 2013, 20:49

I like it but the mouse for movement would have been better. Since that would make it easier to move. And there is no way to shoot right? But over all i like it and the sound is grate.

jolle29 Apr 2013, 20:50

Sorry for the comment spam, wasn't meant to be two comments to start with, and I can't edit them apparently, and I need to say that the music thing was my flash player being really silly. Volume is fine!

finefin29 Apr 2013, 21:11

the asteroid looks like gollum!

multikorv29 Apr 2013, 22:12

No sound in space, except for thumping dance-techno.

NightShadow0author30 Apr 2013, 09:03

Thank you all for the comments!
I agree that the game takes too long to take off, will tweak that after the compo.
And i thought everyone knew that stars radiate techno music :)

ataxkt30 Apr 2013, 13:10

No sound in space, but there's a techno soundtrack? ;) Takes a while to get hard, which is a shame, I like the core idea.

Yacodo30 Apr 2013, 15:55

Can tell I it slow or if my computer can't run it ? Really slow :/

qdowngames30 Apr 2013, 21:57

Well it's very slow to start, wish there was a tad more feedback to the player and "feel" to the game. I can see what you were getting at though!

Hypnohustla30 Apr 2013, 22:07

Good effort going on here :)

RobProductions30 Apr 2013, 22:15

Fun but slow and graphics could use animation

AdventureIslands1 May 2013, 11:30

There is no sound in space. Except for very loud techno.
Pretty well done game. It could be a lot faster though. The shrinking effect was done well, but there could have been a bit more situations to use it for instead of just the blue walls.

GarethIW3 May 2013, 19:04

A little slow to get started, but not bad thereafter!

sekaru3 May 2013, 19:07

Liked the concept but yeah definitely needed to be a bit faster-paced.

pvwradtke5 May 2013, 02:24

Shrinking the space ship, now that's something different as far as shmups go. I also like the humor to justify the lack of sound effects. The background and asteroids need some work, but the ships designs are well done for a 48 hour effort.

NightShadow0author5 May 2013, 18:25

Thank you all!
I should clarify that the ships and asteroids aren't mine, i got them off OpenGameArt.

TheSarcastic5 May 2013, 19:59

Isn't weird that once I let go of the spacebar my bar still goes down?

NightShadow0author6 May 2013, 20:34

The Hold bar is how long you'll stay shrunk and is always decreasing, basically the more you shrink the less time you'll stay that way.

Milo6 May 2013, 22:26

I like that the theme in this game is a tool available (or further, essential) to the player. I'd love to see it developed further (since at the moment, I only have to use it with the beam obstacles and it'd be cool if there were more challenging uses of it that were necessary), but it's a fairly solid game as it is.

RawBits17 May 2013, 20:53

Boring - action comes very late.

The music is nice but isn't fitting the slow paced action.

The shrinking mechanism is a pretty good idea but the implementation could use some more thinking. I can't put my finger on it though, sorry.