Chroma is about shifting between different planes... The goal is to reach a portal in each of the 8 levels. To do so you have to use your chroma: the ability to shift in and out of these different worlds that are defined by the color spectrum.
The game was programmed from almost scratch in C++ (the base code was about 500 lines of OpenGL helper code).
Libraries used:
Box2D, glew, glm, glu, OpenGL, SDL2, SDL2_image, and SDL2_mixer.
Although the shaders messed up/hurt my eyes, they did indeed look beautiful, just like the rest of this amazing game. Not your average averag puzzle/platformer
Beautiful graphics, and I really liked the idea of swapping chroma. Gameplay was maybe a bit slow, and I think it might need a way to know which direction you're supposed to go in.
Grr !! This game has a concept similar to mine, but does the work better... Nice work. Good graphics (psychedelic touch), I like the music. Not knowing where to go is a bit confusing :-)
I really like the music and art. The gameplay mechanics seem cool too, but they feel like they've been implemented strangely. I kept using space on accident to jump, which was annoying. But mostly, I couldn't really tell what I was supposed to do; I'd just jump around and hope for the best, mostly trial and error. I feel like this would be amazing if it could be explained better
I wanted to give it some die'n'retry kind of gameplay, seems this worked too well... ^^
@Conk: yeah the sliding is a bit special, but I guess that makes the gameplay a little different form other platformers ;) (not talking about color shifting huh :D)
@Jupitron : Colors are always cycling in the same way gray, red, green, blue :)
I loved the shifting worlds in this that changed the gameplay greatly! Beautiful sound design, and the little block had more character than I expected! Great work
It's not the first time I've seen this concept, but it's still done rather well, nonetheless. Too bad I got completely clueless at level 4, and then after climbing very, very high on some green spikey thing I fell off and was falling... falling... falling... and I was never heard from again. >.<
You're right. This is a lot like mine, but yours has a lot more mood to it. I found it hard to figure out where I was supposed to go to complete the level. I don't like trial-and-error method of playing games much. :) Very nice work with the graphics.
Very impressive. Looked great and the music and sound was good :) It could use something to guide the player through so it'd be a bit less trial and error. But really impressive for a compo game!
I understood what you tried to do and how it would work but everything was unclear. I didn't get which color I changed the world into and where would be the platforms. The idea is also not very original anymore. I think you should consider dimming the shiny graphics too.
The music is really lovely! The game is a bit too hard for me though, maybe it's because enormous levels after the second or third teleport. I got lost pretty fast. Good job, I enjoyed playing your game!
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I feel like this would be amazing if it could be explained better
[ideally, a longer tutorial section would be useful, ie I died a lot...]
I wanted to give it some die'n'retry kind of gameplay, seems this worked too well... ^^
@Conk: yeah the sliding is a bit special, but I guess that makes the gameplay a little different form other platformers ;) (not talking about color shifting huh :D)
@Jupitron : Colors are always cycling in the same way gray, red, green, blue :)
Great work
I love the visual effects!
@Sunflower you can use R to reset the level :)