First LD for me! Not really looking to win anything, mostly just to finish something. I think it turned out alright, all things considered. Click and drag mouse to reveal the hidden shapes! Further instructions should be in the game.
Haven't tested it on mac/linux, but it's a runnable .jar, so it should work...
Edit: It totally doesn't work on mac/linux. Will fix asap Edit 2: Sorry if the white text is difficult to read sometimes. If you find the text too hard to read, or just don't like the colors, close and reload the game. It generates a random hue each time.
This now works on 10.8 MacOS, for me anyway. I enjoyed it! Not sure how I feel about it overall, I think a delay at the end of each stage would help me know whether I'd done well or found the shape, etc. I really like the idea though. Nice work!
Thanks for the feedback! The pause after each level is a great idea. I know ludum dare is forgiving for small bugs, but it seems like more of a feature. I did fix the screen resolution, and game-over bugs though. Here is the version with a pause, if anybody is interested: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20401860/Subtract_fixed.jar
I don't understand this game. Why would anyone not select the entire screen to show the shape? Pressing space does nothing. There are two negative numbers in the top-left hand corner; what are they? On my second try I lost on the first level for no reason that I could see. Nice sounds though.
A cool idea, however, there's nothing stopping the player from simply dragging over the entire screen. A limit on the size you can make your rectangle would be nice. Other than that i enjoyed the concept and the reveal effect with the spacebar was really cool!
The idea is nice, unfortunately it lacks clear score explaination and feedbacks allowing the player to make up a strategy (other than boxing the whole screen), the space bar doesn't seem very functionnal. It's quite hard to read the text too ! But you finished it, which isn't so easy for a first LD. Keep up !
I like the idea, though I had trouble figuring out how I might be able to score higher. Maybe some kind of feedback loop other than the score would help?
The color palettes are really lovely minimalist pastel selections.
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Nice sounds though.
@all above: You can cover the whole screen, but you'll get a negative score.
The color palettes are really lovely minimalist pastel selections.
My high score was -18866436.