Ludum Dare #30compo

The Long way around

by nanocentury

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.91

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.57

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.22

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.19

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.15

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★40%

Some fool has gone and messed with the omnidimentional crystal and shattered the barriers between realities.

You must reach the crystal and fix it.

WASD to walk.

SHIFT and CTRL will let you peek into other realities.

Q and E will let you step between realities.

A few tips:

You can walk freely around green tiles and onto orange tiles.

Orange tiles will stop you walking but not stepping.

Red tiles will kill you if you step onto them, but you cannot just walk onto them.

Red tiles cannot hurt you when you are peeking.

Made using:

Game Maker: Studio,

bsfx,

GIMP.

Comments13

elkiwydev25 Aug 2014, 14:41

Too messy.. You can't put black text on dark blue background.. Also it's not intuitive and not even well teach how to play..I can't make a step without find myself dead.. I don't know what I'm missing

JNyknn25 Aug 2014, 15:52

Interesting concept, but graphical style was... confusing, shall we say.

dhargan25 Aug 2014, 16:09

my eyes! mate, I can't read the stuff. I just can't, and whenever I can, it says I failed. everything is too fast, too messy. but even with these stuff, I can understand the concept which is good.

Nanocenturyauthor25 Aug 2014, 17:12

haha, yea. sorry about the black on black writing...
I only noticed what I had done too the backgrounds when it was too late to change.
The trick is to 'Peek' into other worlds before stepping or to 'Step' while 'Peeking' for a 'double step' effect.

NnelGdaBandit25 Aug 2014, 17:13

Couldn't read the info with that crazy bg. I feel like I was missing something, I kept dying.

Lyszie26 Aug 2014, 16:50

The concept for this game is nice, but like other people said, I didn't love the graphics. Also, you mentioned you can step while peeking, but I couldn't do it, am playing on Chrome if that helps.

dix26 Aug 2014, 17:29

I liked the idea, the main page tho is a bit hard to read, the game itself was really hard at first, then I kinda got the idea of how to play it and I was enjoying it, but then I moved up while peeking with ctrl, and my chrome tab vanished xD
Nice job anyway :D I guess it would be awesome with LSD XD

ZeppelinCaptain27 Aug 2014, 21:34

Cool enough idea, but not that good of an execution. Learning how it worked was quite unclear.

imdigitaljim28 Aug 2014, 00:06

Great submission! I'm sure youll make it even better next time! If you get comfortable with GameMaker you should move onto Unity next. It's probably one of the next step game engines.

RaycoSantana29 Aug 2014, 09:12

Interesting, the graphics are bit weird but is a good game, good job!

borgi30 Aug 2014, 16:31

I liked the idea, but the implementation is not the best. But good effort!

Zathnic30 Aug 2014, 16:45

I like the idea! The controls were a little hard to understand, but once I got them, it felt like a good mechanic to build mazes with. The game would be more challenging if there was a limited number of worlds you could switch to, because you can keep switching until you reach a world that has enough grass tiles next to you.

Kojan8 Sep 2014, 17:54

I had a lot of difficulties to find out how it worked. Maybe some clear instructions would have been welcomed. The concept is interesting though