Translation Points is a game where you must defeat your enemies, collect gems (and other things) with only the ability to move and create "Translation Points" that connect your world to one of the two neighboring ones. Controls are listed in-game, and can be seen at any time by pressing the "H" key.
A recent version of Firefox or Chrome is recommended for the HTML5 version. It seems to run best on Chrome. The JAR has been tested with a Java 8 JRE.
I really liked this one! I am surprised about the few comments! Liked the minimal style, the concept was really clever, too. Took me a while to get used to the controls but totally worth it. Great job!
Is there a win screen? I've been playing for awhile now - took me a long time to realize returning to the mothership would recharge your health. I've gotten the engine back several times now where it looks like it's been plugged back in, but then after 10sec or so a bad guy comes and steals it again and the game just seems to go on and on.
I finally got rid of the guys that were stealing the engine. The game was really cool except for that frustrating bit where enemies steal the engine over and over.
- Apart from counting translations relative to the mothership world (which is easy to lose track of), there's no way to tell where you are. It also seems like the thief ship can make a translation point to any world, thereby increasing the difficulty of tracking it down.
- The text is poorly positioned. It is very difficult to read, and some of the timing is too quick in the beginning.
- The control scheme is unusual. I should not have to use both the mouse and the keyboard to control the ship. Direction becomes useless; the only thing you can realistically do is move forward.
- The player can get stuck in a translation point -- moving between the two worlds repeatedly until the translation point decays -- rather easily.
Hi ! I agree with hoyt hoy and plash feedbacks. I'd add that to improve the game the most important thing to do, imo, is help the player get a proper orientation in the game universe. Which worlds are accessible from where the ship currently is and where in the world the ship is are unclear information. In the mothership world it's ok thanks to the purple triangle and distance, a similar indicator would help in other worlds.
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Nice idea, good use of Asteroids!
Really nice...
But the objective is difficult and confused.
A few issues in particular:
- Apart from counting translations relative to the mothership world (which is easy to lose track of), there's no way to tell where you are. It also seems like the thief ship can make a translation point to any world, thereby increasing the difficulty of tracking it down.
- The text is poorly positioned. It is very difficult to read, and some of the timing is too quick in the beginning.
- The control scheme is unusual. I should not have to use both the mouse and the keyboard to control the ship. Direction becomes useless; the only thing you can realistically do is move forward.
- The player can get stuck in a translation point -- moving between the two worlds repeatedly until the translation point decays -- rather easily.
The objective was a bit unclear but well done!
Thanks for the game !