Vanishing Point

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.66
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.80
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.24
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
Collect the wreckage of fallen spacecraft to find your way home.
W,A,S,D or arrow keys to dodge.
ESC to quit.
P to pause/unpause
SPACE to skip text at the start.

Engine - Unity
Textures - GIMP
Audio - AudioTool App
World - Procedural

Postmortem: http://ludumdare.com/compo/?p=425226

Comments38

davidB
davidB8 Dec 2014, 08:51
Controls (WASD/array) are flipped : up go down, left go right, ...
Matthew Rayfield
Matthew Rayfield8 Dec 2014, 09:00
Cool mechanic! Haven't seen anything quite like it before.

However I found it super hard! I kept letting go of the keys when I thought I had moved and then I died. Probably something you'd get used to, but threw me off.

I also liked the scrolling text.

Something like this where you could also shoot would be gleeful fun.
Evergreen Games8 Dec 2014, 09:02
pretty fun but quite hard. needs shorter delay after losing
Nuclear Napalm8 Dec 2014, 09:06
Very interesting mechanics! Need some time to get used to it. Especially flying through cubes. But then it becomes a good challenge! Nice job!
Groydis
Groydis8 Dec 2014, 09:07
Banging Beat, Game Super Hard, Great Work!
Fonserbc
Fonserbc8 Dec 2014, 09:45
Cool!
It took me a while to get used to where I was colliding though. I understood that I was avoiding in the blue grid, not on the camera itself.
Tasteslikefuture8 Dec 2014, 19:42
Thought this game was easy till I slammed into a wall lol. Cool graphics, interesting idea. Nice job!
TiagoJDFerreira
TiagoJDFerreira8 Dec 2014, 19:47
It was an ok game. Playable, hard, but repetitive after a while. The background music becomes irritating after a while.
Natura-Time8 Dec 2014, 19:53
Cool game ! The text is running a little bit too fast ^^
ben_pxlplz8 Dec 2014, 19:59
Very fun. It's really hard not to try and steer with the controls though. It took me several attempts to understand what I was doing.
goodbadokay8 Dec 2014, 20:12
nice idea, wold look nice on mobile)
Kim9 Dec 2014, 13:19
Smart gameplay! And the feeling when being inside was really intense, I always pressed the wrong way. Challanging and quite the puzzle for the brain and fingers to work together. Well done!
xaedes9 Dec 2014, 14:48
Nice music!
Interesting concept to present the controls.
But it felt flipped - am I right?
Anshul Goyal
Anshul Goyal9 Dec 2014, 17:34
control mechanic is quite unique but I had trouble understanding as to how to play the game. Also the game keep getting paused by itself, not sure why.
Taldius10 Dec 2014, 22:52
Nice game, I needed a lot of time to get used to control but it was fun.
Good job! :D
pjimmy
pjimmy10 Dec 2014, 22:55
nice visuals, but very unforgiving
hoqjed
hoqjed10 Dec 2014, 22:56
It took me about 5 tries to get used to the controls, then i managed to make it to 1.56x speed.

The blue square that shows different slots to move to is unessessary, as all it did was confuse me in the beginning. I thought the blue squares was my character, and it confused me why it moved in the opposite direction i wanted it to.

This is a cool game concept. I feel with some polish and testing it could absolutely be a fully fledged game.
ajopart
ajopart10 Dec 2014, 22:56
I also needed some time to adapt. But good job.
rodobodolfo
rodobodolfo10 Dec 2014, 22:58
Great Game, hard as hell, challenging!
el-pepi
el-pepi10 Dec 2014, 22:59
Nice, simple and innovative. Very solid and challenging gameplay.
Skipi10 Dec 2014, 23:05
This game is cool :D

Some of the orange thing spawn in unreachable areas, like right in front of a wall, but other than that it's solid.

I really liked how the text was done, too.
deepnight
deepnight10 Dec 2014, 23:06
The controls are a bit surprising at first, but it's actually what makes your entry very fun to play :) Contrary to other tunnel games, you have to concentrate on your finger movements: which key to press and which to release.

The 2 main problems, imho are:
- the theme: your entry doesn't seem to fit it
- the fact that you reset the score to 0 as soon as the player lose! I don't even know what is my best score so far :(
Asaratha11 Dec 2014, 20:47
Cool game. Hard to see your dude though
Crosstales11 Dec 2014, 20:48
Nice and hard game - I like ;-)

Good job!
Raiyumi
Raiyumi11 Dec 2014, 20:49
Not bad, the controls took a bit time to get used to, but afterwards it became a nice challenge.
AMS11 Dec 2014, 20:52
This game is really cool, its gameplay hooks you pretty fast, well done!
ynots12 Dec 2014, 19:57
nice mechanics...
quite challenging..
yanisvieilly12 Dec 2014, 21:41
Pretty difficult, but the gameplay is interesting and I had fun playing it!
miro66213 Dec 2014, 16:06
nice hard game, but controls might be different
GarethIW
GarethIW15 Dec 2014, 09:48
Nice idea and engine, but the unique control scheme was really hard to get used to.
Lovelock16 Dec 2014, 08:27
The controls also kinda felt inverted for me. And the intro felt a bit long every time I failed. Neat idea for the theme though!
alhvi19 Dec 2014, 06:43
Nice game, a really original mechanic. The controls are too difficult for me, always ended up hitting the walls. Good job though, nice graphics and idea. Thank you for rating our game :)
Piscythe22 Dec 2014, 02:13
This was fun and challenging once I got the hang of it. That took a long time, because I really found that my own expectations and muscle memory were working against me here - I kept expecting more traditional controls and either releasing a button I shouldn't have or pressing the opposite directional button to go from the side to the middle.
DonovanWu
DonovanWu24 Dec 2014, 01:02
Cool game! The control takes some time to master. Currently I only go up to 1.56x speed, I think.
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