Shape Attack

by mechagk
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.11
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.52
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★41%
Shoot red shapes with arrow keys of WASD.
Hit as many as possible and don't let them escape.
If you hit a shape, you will move to their place and take their shape.
You lose lives when shapes get out of the screen. You gain points when you shoot or collide with shapes.
Pause with 'ESC' or 'P'
Mute with 'M'

Engine: Unity3D
Graphics: Paint and GIMP
Music: autotracker.py
SFX: bfxr
Font: Noto Sans from http://www.google.com/fonts/

Tested on Windows, Mac and Linux. Web doesn't work on Linux.

My third Ludum Dare Entry. Hope you enjoy!
@MechaGK

screenshot
Tools: Bfxr, GIMP

Comments10

MTO29 Apr 2013, 11:28
Interesting concept for a puzzle game. I think the shapes actually modifying the angles you can shoot at adds a lot of depth.
tonic29 Apr 2013, 13:22
Ideas in the game are pretty nice!
rujo29 Apr 2013, 13:31
nice idea, maybe it could be done better with more time, very basic at the moment. (but it fits the theme..:)
anjack29 Apr 2013, 14:21
Fun and I definitely like that different shapes fire on different vectors.
Shigor
Shigor29 Apr 2013, 14:42
Interesting and minimalistic - it could be used as a base for a good puzzle game (endless gets boring fast)
Gareth Jenkins29 Apr 2013, 21:12
Love the directional shift stuff. Didn't like that you could end up in a position of being vulnerable without an exit (and no ability to predict vulnerability).
mort96
mort961 May 2013, 22:04
A very interesting concept!
SmallDeadGuy2 May 2013, 10:27
Really confusing at the beginning, some kind of in-game tutorial would be nice. Fairly original, could do with more polish
Hamumu
Hamumu2 May 2013, 23:05
It's pretty unfair for two reasons: first off, sometimes I got hurt for no reason at all! Just a flash and a life went away with nobody near me and me not firing. Secondly, as somebody else mentioned, sometimes you switch bodies and find that you're trapped into getting hit by something, and you couldn't have predicted it, since the guy who hits you was offscreen at the time.

It's a very original and weird idea, which is cool, but it needs the brutality taken out. I think it would work much better as a pure puzzle, like non-moving shapes and you have to find the combination of shots that would clear the board.

I really appreciated the thorough menu with multiple game modes, that kind of polish is cool to see in an LD entry.
csanyk
csanyk18 May 2013, 21:36
Rather different.

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