Ludum Dare #30compo

Alter Axis

by sylarisbest

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.43

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.41

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.87

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.87

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.87

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%

Alter Axis is a Input Coordination game where you control two characters that are connected via a rod.
The rod holds the two characters at a fixed distance, so in order to move and rotate you must move both characters in unisin.
The goal is to get past all the obstacles and reach the end.

Controls:
WASD: moves the blue character up/down/left/right
Directional Keys: moves the green character up/down/left/right

Credits:
Font: http://www.dafont.com/forced-square.font by Drawperfect

Change Log:
+ 'R' key resets game back to checkpoint

Comments41

nbilyk24 Aug 2014, 20:54

I love it. Well done!

One suggestion - add a hotkey for restarting from checkpoint.

Toestee25 Aug 2014, 09:30

Brilliant concept, I love the mechanic.

goffmog25 Aug 2014, 09:46

Puzzle games like this never fail to impress me, such apparent simplicity but I never in a million years would have thought this up for this theme!

sam137325 Aug 2014, 10:26

Great concept, very fun game.

PapyGaragos25 Aug 2014, 10:40

The firsts few challenges might be a bit too hard, that's were I got most of my deaths because i wasn't used to the controls.

Great mechanic

Kuupu25 Aug 2014, 11:12

Very nice concept. The controls are quite unusual, so it takes a while to get used.
Great work, congratulations.

steve25 Aug 2014, 11:53

Nice concept, would have liked to have seen a few more checkpoints ;)

Cruion25 Aug 2014, 13:12

Good entry. Was fun to play and quite challenging. Hope you continue to develop it.

JaJ25 Aug 2014, 15:16

Nice concept, really hard!
I didn't like the sound of the shooters. Too loud. Had to mute after a while.

JaJ25 Aug 2014, 15:16

Nice concept, really hard!
I didn't like the sound effects of the shooting things, they were too loud. Turned my sound off after a while.

The Lag Pack26 Aug 2014, 00:27

Interesting game.

CivvyThePandaTM26 Aug 2014, 00:52

Interesting game, but the audio can't be turned off (it was way too loud) and the controls are a bit hard to get a hold of. Otherwise, it was really fun to play.

mattperrin26 Aug 2014, 01:47

I've jamming R over and over to keep playing. That's a good complement by the way. Totally digging it. :)

TeamOnBack26 Aug 2014, 02:02

Nice work!

Oxeren26 Aug 2014, 04:37

Great gameplay mechanic, I guess I haven't seen one like this before. Music is also nice.

zillix26 Aug 2014, 04:59

great idea! the relaxing music added to the experience, and I was thankful for the frequent checkpoints :)

mclewis26 Aug 2014, 05:01

Super fun and super hard game

Cake&Code26 Aug 2014, 05:25

Very fun! I love games with cool control schemes like this one :)

hazzahazzam26 Aug 2014, 06:59

First 2 levels too hard, but great game otherwise.

Lizzip26 Aug 2014, 07:31

Great concept and executed really well. Thank God for checkpoints in this, it's hard!

mrexcessive26 Aug 2014, 09:55

Hi there. Nice mechanic. I found it too difficult when I reached the guns, but I'm bad at that sort of thing! Death seemed a bit abrupt. Good game!

Trilby26 Aug 2014, 12:20

Brilliant idea. Very hard game.

locknic26 Aug 2014, 13:20

Fantastic entry. Close to perfect. I didn't manage to finish it because at one point the checkpoint gets spaced too far apart. The main gameplay concept just works so well. The graphics while simple are tasteful and work well. The music, sounds and movement speed worked together so well to make this super zen ambiance.

darklightteam26 Aug 2014, 13:39

Addictive game, good work!

Eero Tuovinen26 Aug 2014, 15:54

Very good. A solid kernel of a dexterity puzzle game. The idea works, and is ripe for elaboration. The implementation is very good for a competition quickie: attention has been brought to the correct parts, and the product is more whole than can rightfully be expected under these constraints.

Kiwiboi26 Aug 2014, 16:19

Excellent entry! Very well done and awesome concept! Great job! :)

booyaa26 Aug 2014, 17:15

i love this game!

hogtrick26 Aug 2014, 17:26

Very nice game. I liked the gameplay very much.

rogueNoodle26 Aug 2014, 17:43

Nice! Has a bit of a Two Brothers vibe, but with a much more hardcore difficulty. Awesome entry :)

dix26 Aug 2014, 18:09

Nice game! I found it really hard, but really nice :D
Nice music aswell!

Vallar26 Aug 2014, 19:23

This is a really nice and interesting game. It was fun playing through it. It gets harder as you progress and the difficulty curve scales nicely.

I liked the music as well although the sound effect of the turrets was higher than expected.

All in all a very interesting and good game :) well done!

TabloidA26 Aug 2014, 19:26

Its a great game but I'm pretty sure this concept has been used before around Nitrome or somewhere.

jawm26 Aug 2014, 20:24

great game, difficult. nice use of the theme

Josh H26 Aug 2014, 20:47

Cool mechanic in this game. It was pretty tricky to control both at once. Well done!

CoderMusgrove26 Aug 2014, 21:54

I suck at it, but it's really fun!

kibertoad26 Aug 2014, 22:02

An interesting fresh gameplay mechanic. Wish it wasn't that unforgiving, though :).

blindfox27 Aug 2014, 00:01

Although the controls feel awkward at first, it's clear to see how they add to the challenge, and a few levels of practice make the thinking shift from the controls to the puzzles themselves. Nice game!

Sandcrawler28 Aug 2014, 05:20

I made a YouTube Video of your game, for my series of Ludum Dare 30 Games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnifKpjT1NU

Rage Paint29 Aug 2014, 22:04

Super fun! Not sure if it was stated anywhere, but wish I had known earlier that the link between them could be touched, just not the balls themselves.