In "Gravity Assist" players fire a particle through a map of gravity fields, repulsors and speed boosters, scoring by making the particle's trajectory graze as many objects as closely as possible without hitting them.
You only get one particle at a time to score with but can retry at will if you think you can do better. Each particle leaves a trail both to help you perfect your trajectories and reward experimentation by getting prettier the more you play.
I love, it's really addictive and showing the previous attempts is vital. Really difficult to figure out the optimal path in order to get as many points as possible!
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Interesting game, really had fun playing it. It's a surely kind of a "master it" game :) And those trails are just gorgeous! I'll take a look at the source to learn how to do those, hope you won't mind :) Great job!
Love this! My favorite so far! The concept is awesome, the game is addicting, and there are a lot of features in there. However, the theme use is weak, some music would be nice, and the retry/next options are rather ugly - these would be my only complaints. But the gameplay makes up for that, so full score from me!
Has that "addictive" special sauce for sure. I love these types of space-physics simulation games. Inspired by "Angry Birds in Space" maybe? Still, very nice submission. I like that you implemented repulsion fields too. Some of the forces (when combined with nearby ones) doesn't seem to make much sense though. It's like only the last entered force-field is applying its force on the projectile. Is that intentional, or maybe overlooked? Regardless, good job! :)
@hate-marina: That would be awesome! I'll stick it on my list of potential additions on my blog post ( http://bit.ly/19aRCph ) and hopefully add some bits!
@KumoKairo: It's just the Unity TrailRenderer component, it's super easy to use. At the risk of shamelessly self-promoting, check out the previous (and first...) post on my blog cos I talk about it briefly.
@Diptoman: Totally agreed on music and the UI - I only had time to use built-in Unity UI which is notoriously awful!
@chamberlainpi: It was actually more inspired by my day job (I'm an accelerator physicist) but it definitely ended up with rovio-esque elements. The forces are implemented in a fairly hacky way so, as you've noticed, it's a little... wrong in some situations! If I were to do this "properly", I'd be very careful with the physics code and start from scratch.
I got 25,888! It would have been nice to also see where the mouse was previously for each of the trails; it would make it a lot easier to tweak the trajectories.
Oh wow I love gravity games! And this one is awesome! Just one thing: on level 3, "the fastest way to the endzone may not be the best" is not true. I managed to send a particle full-blast through the big ones, just shooting straight. But this is addictive and fun, so top marks!
Nice idea! I also like that there are different types of elements that do different things. Visually it looks great to see all the trajectories of all your attempts to do better (a piece of art sometimes). But that also made it more difficult at some point to see my last attempt. I already had trouble recreating my last attempt especially with slow speeds (it's hard to see where you are pointing when there's only a small line). That made me feel a bit like shooting in the dark.
Some more indication of power and direction would be nice. Maybe not numbers, because that would make it too obvious, but maybe some circles around your dot as power indicators and lines radiating form the center at every 30 degrees to indicate direction? That way you could more easily finetune your last attempt ("I was somewhere between the first and second circle and next to the 30 degrees line").
Very fun (and difficult)! Also, the graphics looks pretty cool! The only complain I can make is about the lack of music. It would really help creating a nicer mood.
@xrm0: Thanks! The reason for the "next" button not having a key is mainly to prevent accidental presses, but this would perhaps be solved with better UI (e.g. a bigger button!) anyway.
This was really cool! I tried for high points for a while, but it got ridiculously hard really fast. And then my screen ended up looking like an abstract art piece. It's not often that I somehow manage to create something so beautiful by failing horribly at a task. I salute you ;)
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Guys.
Listen.
I have best idea ever.
Guys.
Once you hit nucleus, it should split!
And produce TWO more neutrones.
Guys, NUCLEAR EXPLOSION!
* Nice one, looks a bit like Gravity Wars.
And those trails are just gorgeous! I'll take a look at the source to learn how to do those, hope you won't mind :)
Great job!
The concept is awesome, the game is addicting, and there are a lot of features in there. However, the theme use is weak, some music would be nice, and the retry/next options are rather ugly - these would be my only complaints. But the gameplay makes up for that, so full score from me!
Some of the forces (when combined with nearby ones) doesn't seem to make much sense though. It's like only the last entered force-field is applying its force on the projectile. Is that intentional, or maybe overlooked?
Regardless, good job! :)
@KumoKairo: It's just the Unity TrailRenderer component, it's super easy to use. At the risk of shamelessly self-promoting, check out the previous (and first...) post on my blog cos I talk about it briefly.
@Diptoman: Totally agreed on music and the UI - I only had time to use built-in Unity UI which is notoriously awful!
@chamberlainpi: It was actually more inspired by my day job (I'm an accelerator physicist) but it definitely ended up with rovio-esque elements. The forces are implemented in a fairly hacky way so, as you've noticed, it's a little... wrong in some situations! If I were to do this "properly", I'd be very careful with the physics code and start from scratch.
I want more levels!
I also like that there are different types of elements that do different things.
Visually it looks great to see all the trajectories of all your attempts to do better (a piece of art sometimes).
But that also made it more difficult at some point to see my last attempt. I already had trouble recreating my last attempt especially with slow speeds (it's hard to see where you are pointing when there's only a small line).
That made me feel a bit like shooting in the dark.
Some more indication of power and direction would be nice. Maybe not numbers, because that would make it too obvious, but maybe some circles around your dot as power indicators and lines radiating form the center at every 30 degrees to indicate direction?
That way you could more easily finetune your last attempt ("I was somewhere between the first and second circle and next to the 30 degrees line").
Also, the graphics looks pretty cool!
The only complain I can make is about the lack of music. It would really help creating a nicer mood.
My only complaint is that the retry button has assigned a key (spacebar) but move to the next level not.
Very nice :)