To make sense of the world of minimalist art, you're going to need a mighty big laser...
[HINT FOR THE NON-PATIENT: go left!]
Once you've had a play, be sure to check out this hilarious "live mashup" of Zmore that Ludum Darer JellyCakes did on his live stream! Genius! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa-ggkJshUE
A lil' JavaScript on canvas. Tested in Firefox and Chrome - hopefully should work in IE10 too. maaayybe 9?
I liked the idea but found the game a bit too easy. Once you get the laser there's no challenge so It'd be interesting if the laser was harder to get. Well done!
This is good. As others have said, it's a bit easy mode once you have the laser. You could solve this by either limiting the ammo of the laser, or shortening those sections so they serve more as a reward and don't get tedious.
Very nice mood and sound :) I'll be stealing this idea :P
The audio was nice, and firing the laser to find a path was satisfying. Maybe for difficulty's sake the decals should remain for only a second or two? But it looks nice!
Really liked the graphics of the laser and shooting it was fun, but once you got it the levels seemed to lose a lot of their difficulty. Cool game though, nice job :)
Cool concept, it looks neat and it's pretty cool to scorch the landscape with my giant throbbing laser of death. My biggest criticism would be that there is no real challenge to it. The game just switches from "frustrating" to "piss-easy" once you get the laser.
Love the concept but also found it frustrating... conflicted? I know.
When I teleported I couldn't tell if I had completed a level or lost somehow. The sense of progressing (or regression...i'm still not sure) wasn't there to pull me along and keep me playing.
The music that played in response to what I did was brilliant. I look forward to reading your postmortem.
Really nice concept! I especially liked it when I noticed the unseen force, erasing away all my efforts to uncover the level. A shame it couldn't have been a bit longer or the concept explored more, but it's neat!
Love the laser sound. This reminds me of the 3D game where you run around with a paintball gun and have to paint the world to see it. Definitely minimalist. I feel like some sort of antagonist might add a sense of urgency or challenge to the game, but perhaps that's not in the minimalist spirit?
Fire this laser with my headset at 100% has been the coolest thing I have done today. I totally love the beginning of the game and your minimalist approach. Really good!
That was a lot of fun! Nice sound effects, but the game is way too short :< Neat concept that should be extended! I think the maps were spot on - not too difficult or too easy. Nice one
Pros: The laser-eye-gun-thing, excellent! Cons: Nothing really, perhaps something so do?
In the beginning i got the gun and then walked around thinking "oh, very minimalistic, but no graphics... annoying".. Then when i was aiming to close the windows i shot a red beam by accident. =)
wow! At the beginning was a little hard but when take the laser for the first time it become easier. Cool effects and sound with the weapon i really like it very much, and that synth sound is Awesome! Good job!
Got slow in Firefox once the things that eat the level came into play. Eventually couldn't play because it got too unresponsive (yes, I know, use a less sucky browser)
Very nice game ! No real challenge but it doesn't matter to me. Playing inside of that big canvas and revealing the world is really satisfying and enjoyable, well done.
Awesome. The first moment when you get the laser is especially fantastic--you didn't expect it to happen, it's really cool, the sound is good and surprising. I'm less interested with the game when it wants me to find the gun again.
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BTW have you played this game? :)http://www.kongregate.com/games/mofunzone/black-thing
I want more hard core maps now!
Levels do get somewhat evil later on :)
Very nice mood and sound :) I'll be stealing this idea :P
I'd like to play more :) (maybe the level design could be more challenging).
I really like the way you are highlighting the wall with your laser thing! :-)
My biggest criticism would be that there is no real challenge to it. The game just switches from "frustrating" to "piss-easy" once you get the laser.
When I teleported I couldn't tell if I had completed a level or lost somehow. The sense of progressing (or regression...i'm still not sure) wasn't there to pull me along and keep me playing.
The music that played in response to what I did was brilliant. I look forward to reading your postmortem.
I totally love the beginning of the game and your minimalist approach.
Really good!
Cons: Nothing really, perhaps something so do?
In the beginning i got the gun and then walked around thinking "oh, very minimalistic, but no graphics... annoying".. Then when i was aiming to close the windows i shot a red beam by accident. =)
The only thing I missed is some excuse to add some heavy beats on top of the laser bass :D Maybe an enemy shooting at you at a fixed interval?
Cool effects and sound with the weapon i really like it very much, and that synth sound is Awesome! Good job!
It reminds me of "Unfinished Swan" but in 2D, well done