Pixel Trapper

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.94
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.56
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.61
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.83
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Given the theme "Entire Game on One Screen" I immediately jumped to the idea of having the screen itself change as a mechanic. I started by essentially reproducing Pong as a proof of concept, and eventually settled on a win condition of trapping the "ball" in the upper-left corner of the screen.

It wasn't until the last day that I discovered that most browsers won't allow the width of a page to shrink below about 400 pixels. In order to get around this, you only need to shrink the game to 400x400 to win on any level in a browser. If you play the game by downloading the swf and using a standalone flash player instead, the required screen size changes depending on difficulty level, adding a bit more challenge.

I mostly used this as another opportunity to work in an environment I'd never used before, this time Haxe using OpenFL in FlashDevelop.

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Comments14

pjimmy
pjimmy8 Dec 2014, 17:53
5 stars for innovation, the best use of the theme I've found so far.
naali
naali10 Dec 2014, 01:37
A liked the interesting game mechanic, but it was a bit hard to do on a laptop with a trackpad.
Instant Noodles
Instant Noodles10 Dec 2014, 09:44
Really good idea this a true use of web game :)
okkolobr
okkolobr10 Dec 2014, 09:48
Great take on the theme. Well done !
Simon10 Dec 2014, 09:48
Very great job! It's like playing pong with your browser. Great use of the theme.
Jyrkface10 Dec 2014, 19:19
Brilliant use of the theme, very innovative mechanic as well. I wonder what else you could do with it, given more time?
hypnoticbytes10 Dec 2014, 19:22
Awesome but hard! Amazing idea!!!
LMT10 Dec 2014, 19:31
Pretty awesome concept
dvdking11 Dec 2014, 17:26
Great idea!
Maurogik
Maurogik12 Dec 2014, 08:30
Interesting concept !
xaedes12 Dec 2014, 15:16
wow - really cool hit on the theme!!
hoyt hoy
hoyt hoy12 Dec 2014, 17:05
Wow, nice use of the theme!
Realy good work.
TheMeorch
TheMeorch16 Dec 2014, 00:25
Wow, this is really inventive. I'm impressed by the creativity on show here. Nice work!

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