First thoughts about the theme: "Yeah easy going!". Wrote a design document, then I started to develope. After hours I recognized that the game was not funny... cause it was crap. Then I started to think about alternative ideas. After a few minutes I started working on PlanB... a few hours later... damn... game was crap too. I decided to give up...
After playing one or two rounds of COD:Ghosts ambition was back again. Cause time was running, I thought about some really simple ideas.. basic gameplay, simple story, some challenging elements like achivement, a highscore and a progression indicator :)
Here it is: Through the Wormhole
Controlls: up and down keys to move the spaceship
What to do? You are flying your ship through a wormhole. In the wormhole are some gravity cascades you have to avoid. For every cascade you will travel one lighyear... If you traveled a special count of lightyears you can see wich star (reale ones, you can find them on wikipedia) you would have reached... There are many stars, nebulars and blackholes to discover... start your engines and play :)
If you want to play the most performant version of the game, you should download the windows version. The HTML5 Version is visually a little bit different (some animations removed)... use Chrome or Firefox please :)
Always good to meet other developers using GM :) Really liked the backing soundtrack to this. Controls handled well, spritework was good, especially liked the parallax background effect. Well done :)
@mrexcessiv: Thanks for the feedback. Yeah it is hard. This is part of the challenge. I wanted to create a game like flappy bird or timberman... what was your highscore?
@LostTrainDude: Thanks, nice to hear this kind of comparison. @elkiwydev: I know there is a lagging problem, causes the arrow keys to fire an movement event... Windows Version does not have this bug... Maybe you should try this version. Thanks for giving feedback
the spaceship is cute ! The gameplay is hard at the start and then we start to masteries it. Anyway I enjoy it and the sound "tieww tiewwww" is very cut and rythmic too :)
@hexagore: Haha the gaps in the obstacles are exact as big as the player sprite ;) So stepping movement is way easier as a mouse movement or a pixel based movement in generell ; Thanks for Playing and rating :)
There was certain charm in overall animation jerkiness and graphics roughness. Discreet movement of a ship provided a surprisingly different experience to usual smooth navigation.
Exactly what it is to expect for a 48 hours JAM : simple gameplay yet addictive. Working prototype, effective graphics and (maybe to loud) sound. Congrats
You know I hate when nobody posts their score in the comments of games like this. 236 is my best. Game's fun and simple, only thing that bugged me was the volume was too high with no option to reduce from ingame
@Otopkin :D Nice score ^^ Yeah was streaming and redecued the sound at the boxes on my desk... never recognized that it could be so loud ingame ^^... sry for this
@DrCicero: Hey there. HTML-Version of the game is a little laggy cause the walls of the wormhole are all active gameObjects (accidently)... I will fix that after ld cause, it would change the feeling of playing that game... jam is over :D Thanks this feedback... planets in Background wich would have been reached is a great idea!
Very neat little game - the graphics are decently done, loved the parallax background. Also the gameplay is on the sweet spot that will make me do the "just one more try" dance.
The collision was a bit iffy, I often died when I "thought" I had cleared an obstacle. One thing that would be cool would be to make a sound every time you clear an obstacle . This would be the beginnings of a rhythm game :-)
There is also a small visual glitch. When you go to the bottom lane, the entire screen slides down and you can't see the top wall anymore.
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@Bendix: the so called engine sound is way to loud... sry man
its really challenging and i love the retro soundtrack. :D
It was a nice touch to add the planets the player reached while playing.
While I liked the backing track, the sound that the ship makes was a litte too noisy for my own taste.
The game reminds me more of Delta (Commodore 64) than Flappy Bird, which is a GOOD thing! Of course, it is not a shoot em up, but still.
@elkiwydev: I know there is a lagging problem, causes the arrow keys to fire an movement event... Windows Version does not have this bug... Maybe you should try this version. Thanks for giving feedback
Thanks for the nice comments so far :D
Maybe if we could see occasionally a world that we are passing by or on the game over screen, it would 'feel' more connected to the theme.
The collision was a bit iffy, I often died when I "thought" I had cleared an obstacle. One thing that would be cool would be to make a sound every time you clear an obstacle . This would be the beginnings of a rhythm game :-)
There is also a small visual glitch. When you go to the bottom lane, the entire screen slides down and you can't see the top wall anymore.
Thanks for the game!