One Pesky Yellow Orb

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.96
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.09
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.04
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.67
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★42%
The goal of the game is to find and collide with the pesky yellow orb. All the orbs give off a color matching their color, yellow gives off an extra bright yellow light around it. Also it makes a different noise than all the others.

WASD/ARROW Moves
Mouse looks
Space Jetpack/jumps

All you need to do is find the Yellow Orb and collide with it to win. But he is Pesky.

Dev Notes: So this game is what I threw together in just a few short hours, my previous ideas were much more substantive and good, but I ran into problem after problem just getting the different engines working. So eventually I just scrapped everything and made this. This is really just so I had something to share. Hopefully it's not too terrible.

screenshot
Genres: action

Comments18

Before Light17 Dec 2013, 05:33
I almost catch it, but it's too hard for me. The buildings level of detail is amazing.
glovecat
glovecat18 Dec 2013, 10:43
I love the buildings but I don't know what I have to do :S
Pixelfan Games
Pixelfan Games18 Dec 2013, 11:03
awesome graphics. But very hard to understand what i must to do. Catch the yellow orb? its hard anyways this go too fast and i dont get time to catch.
digihacker18 Dec 2013, 11:11
The building is nice ! But I don't know why the game play was laggy for me. Anyway, nice try !
joe40001
joe40001author18 Dec 2013, 11:14
I forced myself to just have something playable even if it was nothing like my original plan.

The goal is just to collide with the yellow orb, he does run away a bit and his movements are tricky to deal with, thus the "Pesky" title, but I can assure you colliding with him is quite possible.
windwalkerranger18 Dec 2013, 11:43
I touched the orb but doesn't do much I guess :) Loved the sound and visual clues. Detailed buildings too! I wish we could gain altitude a little bit faster, though, the orb is too fast for slow ascend :(
joe40001
joe40001author18 Dec 2013, 12:05
If you touch the orb with a moderate amount of force it will tell you that you win. I can patch it to raise the jetpack velocity a tiny bit, I kept it a little low so it created a sense of height to these huge buildings. Anyway thanks for the great feedback. :D Considering how this game is hardly even a game and just a super rushed thing I put out quickly because my main project feel apart I'm glad it has been received as positively as it has.
jjc180
jjc18018 Dec 2013, 12:23
Unfortunately this ran really poorly for me so it was almost unplayable. The models looked very detailed considering the time given.
Ariake8118 Dec 2013, 13:04
nice and original, loved the sound of the orb as you pass it! a bit slow on my old i3 laptop but i guess those buildings were fairly high poly so not surprising really
joe40001
joe40001author18 Dec 2013, 20:22
Thanks everybody! Sorry for the lag on older-ish computers.
JaymeeMak
JaymeeMak19 Dec 2013, 07:37
It was too difficult to catch the orb.

The mouse control was also too sensitive - almost gave me a headache.

It was also difficult to orientate myself at the beginning.
Ryusui
Ryusui19 Dec 2013, 07:48
That's a nice-looking city you've got there. And the title isn't lying: that really is one pesky yellow orb. XD
Bruno Massa19 Dec 2013, 08:19
nice building you get here! the game is hard to play due technical problems. :(
H-Bomb
H-Bomb20 Dec 2013, 14:19
Tried hard but haven't catch the orb! The game is laggy unfortunately...
Gamelabbers22 Dec 2013, 16:12
Love the architecture. The building designs are really nice and so is the lighting. Lag is a bit frustrating though, I guess you could get the polycount down by using normal maps and textures, but then we're not talking about a weekend anymore... :)
Tanser3 Jan 2014, 12:45
Nice concept.
Grafter6 Jan 2014, 23:26
Looks good, like the buildings!

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