Pipe Wars

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%
Flappy Bird is stealing Mario's pipes. This means war! In response, Mario has torpedoed Flappy Bird's supply ship. Salvage all 10 pipes to give Mario back his mojo.

- Use the arrow keys to move.
- A and Z to surface/dive.
- Space to grapple or release pipes.

The game was created using PlayCanvas, the cloud-hosted game engine. The game is powered by WebGL and HTML5. You'll need a WebGL enabled browser to play it. Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE11 should be fine. Let me know if you have any troubles though.

Comments24

sirival28 Apr 2014, 08:10
Nicely done! It's actually pretty fun to go around and collect pipes and the balancing with the fuel is pretty good :D
rnlf
rnlf28 Apr 2014, 09:12
Nice. Another submarine game \o/ A bit hard to navigate with the big submarine covering half the screen, but i have no idea how one could fix this. Maybe allow changing the camera angle? And it is sooo hard. I dropped of 3 pipes, refueled after every one and ran out of fuel right next to the refueling station :-(

Definitely a fun game!
Crefossus
Crefossus28 Apr 2014, 09:57
The submarine feels great and is appropriate movement as a sub but it's a little stressful on the hand. Maybe mouse control? It also gets a little tedious searching for them but when you finally get them all there is some reward/relief.

(Just be careful not to press spacebar too fast!) Perhaps some extra objects/eye candy would help to keep the exploration feeling going.

Great work on the models/particle effects!
madhoe
madhoe28 Apr 2014, 10:01
It's a pretty fun and relaxing game! I like how the audio makes if REALLY feel like you're underwater in a submarine. The story of why you're picking up those pipes is really funny too.
monsterkillu
monsterkillu28 Apr 2014, 10:01
Really liked the sarcastic backstory .. Really interesting gameplay, but somehow felt a bit repetitive and didn't finished it. Good Job..
Kevin van der Burgt28 Apr 2014, 11:07
Nice, the submarine was a bit too big in my opinion, it covers a huge amount on the screen.
darkflamejam
darkflamejam28 Apr 2014, 12:20
Great fun! Up and down was a pain for my hands! It took me a while to realised about moving forward (I was holding down Left and Right!)

Great Fun!
Zutty
Zutty28 Apr 2014, 16:42
Awesome. Much respect for doing 3D graphics for Ludum Dare. Would have been nice to have some feedback for when you can/can't grapple a pipe.
Lizzip28 Apr 2014, 21:11
Awesome. I am not good at steering this thing...
IAmSpencer29 Apr 2014, 20:13
That was a really funny idea. A lot of fun to play as well, nice touch on making only one of the spinners rotate when you turn too, good detail. Nice job! :)
callidus
callidus30 Apr 2014, 16:26
nice little game, quite calming to play good effort :-)
Charimation30 Apr 2014, 16:28
The movement feels really nice in this game :) Cool concept too! Enjoyed it ^^
javifugitivo
javifugitivo30 Apr 2014, 16:29
Nice graphics and music, but the control seems too slow and its difficult to go where you want if you need to turn. Good game anyways ;-)
akymos
akymos30 Apr 2014, 16:32
Great 3d game. Well balanced gameplay and funny introduction.
marccspro
marccspro30 Apr 2014, 20:56
Nice game ! I loved the music
tuxxilla
tuxxilla30 Apr 2014, 22:42
I had quite some submarine fun playing this game, thank you!

It would be great if you added a textual information on how to play to your logo or HUD as some people, including myself, tend not to read the "manual".
td18011 May 2014, 14:51
Nice game ! It's fun at first, but get pretty repetitive soon. The graphics are nice, and I liked the mood :)
jomomomo
jomomomo1 May 2014, 15:17
Nice job! I think I might have to give PlayCanvas another look after seeing what you were able to accomplish.
pancakecity
pancakecity1 May 2014, 15:29
It was easier to control the sub than I expected! Good job!
capnramses
capnramses4 May 2014, 01:14
wow, there was a lot of sophisticated stuff in this game! my favourite bit is the way the propellers move independently. neat. the whole composition looks really nice. impressed that the physics and collisions all work really well!
MintArcade
MintArcade5 May 2014, 11:41
Very nice and fun game. Music is very cool.
davidB
davidB8 May 2014, 11:05
Well done but repetitive and not fun, I stopped to play before end. The backstory is the most funny part.
daredevildave16 May 2014, 13:06
Nice game. Great to see another PlayCanvas game!
wademcgillis
wademcgillis17 May 2014, 18:55
I had difficulty picking up the tubes because the submarine obscured most of the screen which prevented me from aligning the sub correctly.

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