For my first ever Ludum Dare, I present Monochrome: a platformer where your world changes as you can only see and be in only one color at a time.
It was created in as3 with Flashpunk in FlashDevelop, and for content creation I used Ogmo Editor for levels, Inkscape and Photoshop for graphics, and sfxr and GarageBand for sound.
- Edit: Replaced Web link to play on browser. Thanks guys for your feedback and nice comments, there's lots of good ideas to improve the game! :D
The getting stuck inside blocks was intentional (not on corners, sorry about those), I wanted the game to have that memorization side, associated with jump timings, maybe should have made it more obvious there, sorry.
You guys are totally right about there being a preview on the next color blocks, and I'll probably do that to improve it when I get the chance to continue to work on this after the compo!
The game is easy to understand but very difficult to play, I didn't succes to go to the forth coloured bloc. It could be a better game with feedbacks of where the next bloc will be exactly. The music and the avatar are cool.
I enjoyed playing! It was a relaxing environment despite the difficulty. My only concern is that I would get stuck on the walls if I happened to be at a ledge or block as the color changed. It wasn't a big deal but it did slow me down. Overall though, great job!
The difficulty curve is a bit too high. There isn't really much indication what the next move is, so I found it came down to rote memorization. The colours were nice.
Nice interpretation of the theme. The platforming physics felt a little over-responsive, though - and the character had a tendency to keep moving when jumping, even if you'd taken your finger off the arrow key.
Nice game and concept! It was really hard, since the game is not very forgiving. ;) I frequently got stuck inside the walls. An indication where the next blocks will be would help a lot. Good work though!
Love the concept and the player art. Maybe some fade effect for the next colour in an 'easy' mode would be cool. I was too slow to get three platforms high. :p
I agree, this is very easy to understand and very difficult to play. It would be great if you could continue standing on a block through the color changes so you don't need to be midair on your way to a block you can't see when it changes. As is, it's more a game of memory. I also was able to get stuck (temporarily) within a platform. The music was nice. I'd also suggest making it more like a rhythm game so that the color swap can be anticipated a bit more easily (like the music beat levels in New Super Mario World).
Awesome job for your first entry! I really liked the color changing mechanic. The controls were a little bit too sensitive for my taste. Also, the second level was not very engaging.
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Mostly that some feedback on where the next color blocks would help a great deal, and the physics need a little tweaking.
Also the spikes seem very unforgiving with regards to how close you can get to them before dying.
I like the background music a lot.
IMO better not use 0.x seconds,
btw the audio fit well. great..
An amelioration could be show in transparency the hidden block :)
However, funny game and good job!!