Ludum Dare #28compo

One Shot

by zzzev

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.87

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★58%

A simple web game inspired by flash chain reaction games and the pacifism mode of Geometry Wars 2. Please use Chrome to play on desktop; the game is untested in all other browsers, and known broken in some of them. You can also play on mobile (tested on iOS devices), where it works pretty well on recent devices (very well on iPhone 5S, playable but a little stuttery on iPad 2). Please let me know how it works on your device of choice.

The game is written in Coffeescript, using the Canvas element. I used fonts from Google Fonts, the Sound library from CreateJS, Compass for styling, Browserify for bundling, and Beefy as a development server. All the code is available and free for re-use (MIT license) on github.

Please let me know what you think! My email is [email protected]

Comments27

xgeovanni16 Dec 2013, 05:03

Got to 62 points.

Protip: Try to roll all the balls in to one huge one. It's easy to dodge.

Kettlecorn16 Dec 2013, 05:04

I like it a lot! (Actually my favorite so far, I'm a sucker for simple aesthetics)

I never really triggered the explosion though, most of the time I just collided with something by accident, which was a bit disappointing. Perhaps in a future build the player should just detonate when they hit something?

The feel of the controls and the aesthetics of the game are great though. Nice job!

Kettlecorn16 Dec 2013, 05:05

I forgot to write this is my comment about, but I think it'd be a lot more fun if the difficulty scaled a bit quicker.

DrPrettyPatty16 Dec 2013, 05:05

Pleasing graphics and sound, and fun to play! My score was 895752 :)

funselektor16 Dec 2013, 05:05

The minimal graphics are so nice and clean. I really like that style.

zconnelly1316 Dec 2013, 05:18

Pretty great game : ) I liked the style! I would have liked to see some different kinds of balls or something. As it is it's pretty OP to just move in a circle, haha.

Piat16 Dec 2013, 05:25

Wow, great execution, the style is really clean and the audio goes really well. Game play was really nice, though probably needs more challenge, I kinda bombed out on purpose to see what happened, not sure what I could have got too. 415k+ score, btw.

tiffi16 Dec 2013, 05:34

The game just looks polished, something you don't see often during LD48

jillytot16 Dec 2013, 05:52

Very nice, simple, clean, and importantly fun. I had a giant ball slugging around in the middle of my screen. Pretty cool to watch it grow.

funktor16 Dec 2013, 05:55

Extremely fun and well polished game! I can see this being ridiculously fun on a tablet

0x0961h16 Dec 2013, 06:56

Ahh, very pretty game, I like it. Simple, clean, yet challenging and fun! Great job! :)

sirival16 Dec 2013, 07:49

Really enjoyable game - very addictive

madmaw16 Dec 2013, 08:07

Nice game, I love that it's HTML5 and works on mobile. Would be nice if enemies with different patterns of behaviour emerged after you play for a while.

Crowbeak16 Dec 2013, 09:38

I like the missle command style explosions.

Edd Morgan16 Dec 2013, 12:46

Very smooth and a nice concept. Good job (works okay in Safari, too!)

Monoquartz16 Dec 2013, 16:32

Pretty enjoyable game and neat graphics - Interesting concept ! (Work well on my Xperia Z ;) )

xgeovanni16 Dec 2013, 18:32

Completely missed the part about the one shot at the end the first time. Went back and got a score of 1364992. Re-rated accordingly.

Static_boy12317 Dec 2013, 03:24

VERY fun, I have to say I would play again! Also, I thought the graphics were great, simplistic, but perfect for what you had! Don't have much time, but will be playing more tomorrow, want to see how good I do.

Lacutis17 Dec 2013, 05:21

Great game. I really liked the integration of the theme. Kind of addicting. Disappointed it didnt work on Firefox but worked well on chrome.

Good job!

Xaychru0417 Dec 2013, 14:55

Nice game, I had fun playing this! Simple art style, I just found it a little répétitive. Good job!

ittlebit19 Dec 2013, 20:41

I liked the simplicity. The controls worked well.

mcapraro20 Dec 2013, 20:59

wow, i really loved this, great job! loved the overall mechanic of it and the feel was so smooth. i got 684761088!

cardboard22 Dec 2013, 01:22

This was a lot of fun on a touchscreen! I died before I got a chance to use my explosion, so I only got 262. The game mechanics feel solid and the rolling animations are nice.