Kaleidoscope

by madball
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.08
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.08
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.12
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★88%
A game about coins, enemies, disorientation and symmetry.

Use WASD/Arrow keys to move. Look at the guiding arrows to distinguish up and right. Hover mouse over your score to see your highscores. Press a secret button to skip levels. (Well, it's not really secret, it's hidden in the plain sight.)

Feeling dizzy yet?

(When you complete the game, you can paint tiles white. I spent some time making sure that every single tile is accessible, so I'd like you to at least know about it.)

Comments33

miguelmurca
miguelmurca8 Dec 2014, 16:04
Loads of fun (and extremely hard)! I do think the difficulty ramp should be adjusted, it starts out really easy (maybe one too many levels without disorientation), and suddenly gets super hard (disorientation and enemies at once).
pjimmy
pjimmy8 Dec 2014, 16:06
bravo, beautiful game, the way it changes the walls of the level instead of changing the whole screen fits the theme nicely. However, it's missing a Pause button, or is this also a secret :)
eruditespirit8 Dec 2014, 16:08
The rotating directions mechanic is really interesting, and it makes it incredibly confusing to actually navigate the levels (which look great btw). Thanks for putting in the level skip, I don't think I'd have seen all the levels without it!
inkeystring8 Dec 2014, 16:08
cool little game...I wondered why getting killed gets me to the next level though. I like the direction/orientation flipping..adds more depth to it
Random Abductions
Random Abductions8 Dec 2014, 16:12
Fun easy to understand game. The amount of levels is very nice and the controls feel responsive. Music is a bit repetitious but thematically ok.
Rozaxe
Rozaxe8 Dec 2014, 20:15
Great idea ! Really original and funny to play
SpartanIceCream
SpartanIceCream9 Dec 2014, 13:24
Great job. Easy to understand game play and decent graphics.
Diventurer9 Dec 2014, 14:05
Nice game, and it felt a bit easy at first - but the hard difficulty came way too fast. Impossible to play when it changed compass every frame. :S
I do like the animations and idea though. The game also works quite well in terms of functionality.
tMalicet
tMalicet9 Dec 2014, 14:09
Nice game. Quite simple and effective.
BtheDestroyer9 Dec 2014, 16:25
Clever idea. I'd love to see specific levels set out for this rather than random generation (don't know how much of this is random, but there is a bit) so I could try a speedrun ;)
grid96
grid969 Dec 2014, 16:29
Really awesome idea :D Really cool level changing animation and the decent use of color. Love these changing directions, confuses me a lot, but is very much fun to play. Have never seen a game like this before.
GGraca9 Dec 2014, 16:29
One of the best games in this edition
oskardevelopment9 Dec 2014, 16:31
Cool game! Thought it looked quite simple at first and I had no idea what was happening - though after a few rounds it grew potentially, when gravity started to turn the game was both extremely fun and hard. Great job and Merry Christmas!
ohmmus9 Dec 2014, 16:32
I'm really digging the concept! I have to admit at first I was just thinking "meh" that it was only a collect-stuff-avoid-other-stuff game, but when you switched up the controls I actually fell in love a little. <3 Great work on a really fun game!
local minimum
local minimum9 Dec 2014, 16:37
Insane controls and great fun. Some times it was just impossible to get my head around how to get from where I was to where I wanted to go and then when they all started spinning as well... oh so hard. Hard, but fun.

I think the game would benefit from more psychedelic effects, e.g. have the painting you do on the background work not directly on the seen background but as it would if seen through a rotating kaleidoscope.

It was a little too much trying to keep an eye on the lower right corner so maybe add an up direction arrow at the center of the screen.

Though nice that the enemies pushed you forward to the next level and that time's up didn't punish you more directly was a bit confusing, maybe better to have enemies spin the world orientation or something...

Great and well worked game. Had loads of fun playing.
cabezotta
cabezotta11 Dec 2014, 19:21
Very original entry! i really enjoyed it! Good job!
thopis
thopis12 Dec 2014, 10:06
Very nice idea!Love it!
sapermysz
sapermysz13 Dec 2014, 13:16
WOW , one of the best games for LD31!
Trite Games13 Dec 2014, 13:17
This game is lot's of fun. Very cool idea and interpretation of the theme. The visuals are simple but good. Well done :)
MrBadIvan
MrBadIvan13 Dec 2014, 19:59
Very addictive and music is catchy =)
Stending
Stending13 Dec 2014, 20:08
Super hard but damn fun! The controls are pretty innovative and play well with our senses!
And great use of the theme!
Loved it!
OctoTeam
OctoTeam13 Dec 2014, 20:41
Your game is really enjoyable. Saw it first on @TimTipGames stream and didn't expect it to be that hard, but after te first levels I found myself tilting my head in weird angles trying to figure out how to control the "character". And when the controls started rotating too.. woah!
Graphics and sound are good too, simple but with very good taste.
Great compo entry :)
Random Seed Games
Random Seed Games15 Dec 2014, 15:40
Simple idea that is well executed. Fun, but as others have said, the difficulty curve is pretty tough.
Cake&Code15 Dec 2014, 15:42
I had fun going through the levels, and I do appreciate that death simply moved the game onto the next level. When the game was over though it just displayed the title screen again, I wish I'd gotten a look at my time/score instead.
ohsqueezy
ohsqueezy15 Dec 2014, 15:59
That is a great effect, having the black lines rearrange every level, and the variations they make are cool. They make navigating the level fun even without obstacles. And I like the way the background becomes more colorful as you play. Impressive game!!
SecondDimension
SecondDimension15 Dec 2014, 23:17
A very cool idea, and a perfect fit for the theme
pht59x17 Dec 2014, 18:46
Simply excellent!
Aglavra17 Dec 2014, 22:01
Interesting concept. I liked the way how walls change their position. And yes, I'm feeling a bit dizzy now. ))
The Evil Cult19 Dec 2014, 11:53
A-maze-ing! Lots of fun, I really loved that the player ends up creating quite an elaborate background just through playing. The spinning direction change thing was unique and quite fun. Personally I enjoyed the levels without the red hazards, and just running around collecting stuff without too much worry. I thought it was an interesting choice that failing puts you to the next level, I liked that in that it was unique and lets you move on rather than getting stuck. Great work for 48 hours!
alyphen
alyphen20 Dec 2014, 15:46
It took me a little while to figure out what you were doping with my controls, but once I did, this was great. Ingenious little gimmick, with some graphical polishing and some more variety in the (already good) music, this could be something really good. Seems like it would do well as a web game (as it already is)
Valeour
Valeour26 Dec 2014, 17:05
Loved the painting mechanic, and the directional movement. Collisions weren't half bad either. Very fun, worth polishing. :)
eskivor26 Dec 2014, 17:24
Really original, I enjoy the last level with rotating directions, so much disturbing :P
Germanunkol28 Dec 2014, 12:34
Great game. It turned out very hard!
Well done. Best part is the level changes. They look really nice.
The difficulty level doesn't increase constantly, though. For example, in the first level you have enemies and in the second, you don't. Maybe switch the order?

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