Discharge

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.11
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★69%
Marooned on a hostile planet, your enemies are trying to hunt you down with their thundership. Trees provide cover; mature trees release seeds when hit. Follow the trail to safety.

Fullscreen is recommended! The intro screen hints at an ending, but it's infinite play. Extra joy!

Only tested in Chrome, probably works fine in Firefox as well.

Features:
- a custom infinite procedural terrain based on fractal Brownian motion,
procedurally spawned trees,
- tree seeds that you can use to plant new trees,
- procedural lightning, also based on fBm, with a custom shader,
- an enemy with moderately crappy AI,
- a skybox with custom sky shader,
- shadows and light effects,
- particle effects,
- a HUD,
- 3D positional sound effects,
- heck, even some gameplay!

Post-compo fixes:
- Plugged a bazillion object leaks. Somehow Three.js documentation and examples never tell you to call dispose(). Probably this was what caused crashing tabs after a while.
- Clarified instructions regarding tree seeds.

Comments25

drakekin20 Apr 2015, 16:17
Great game! The decoy mechanic makes it feel a lot less "get run down by an angry cloud" although it's unclear why this cloud hates trees.

Fun little game, although the sound is a bit patchy after a while on Chrome 41 on Windows.
DrPrettyPatty
DrPrettyPatty21 Apr 2015, 05:14
Works great on Firefox! Wonderful low-poly graphics, cool idea, and challenging gameplay. Even more impressive is the procedural generation behind the scenes! Fantastic work, although after dying a dozen times I'm going to come back to this one :) The running and decoying really makes it more engaging than just running would be!
Fabraz
Fabraz21 Apr 2015, 18:20
Not bad! Cool visuals and impressive procedural terrain.
Hatsome
Hatsome21 Apr 2015, 18:20
Nice game and really good looking game, but it felt a little repetitive after a while.
jukimv198621 Apr 2015, 18:22
A thundership! Wow! Amazing take on the theme, great graphics and interesting gameplay. Thunder / Sky
HotBoxGames
HotBoxGames21 Apr 2015, 18:22
It looked really cool but it froze each time i tried to play :(
chromebookbob
chromebookbob21 Apr 2015, 18:23
I really love the low poly style, the gameplay is a tad confusing. Well done!
Hammer Games21 Apr 2015, 18:24
Nice game, graphics, but its necessary a better gameplay. Maybe some enemies. Congratulations!
MaesK
MaesK21 Apr 2015, 18:27
Great graphics, simple but beautiful! The procedural terrain looks good, nice job.
IDidGame
IDidGame21 Apr 2015, 18:27
the minimalistic graphics and audio work together nicely
very unique, great work!
Drauthius
Drauthius22 Apr 2015, 12:55
Interesting game, well done! :)
Techblogogy
Techblogogy22 Apr 2015, 18:09
Very solid game, well done!
Mouch22 Apr 2015, 18:09
Great concept and I like the graphics but the audio is really buggy on my system (linux , Firefox).
Taldius22 Apr 2015, 18:12
Nice concept! The art is really good too, my only concern is that the game becomes boring after some time because the difficulty stay the same.
Anyway, good job!
Bashabookoos
Bashabookoos22 Apr 2015, 18:15
Amazing! I really felt scared of the lighting cloud. wonderful environment, reminds me so much of Polyfauna, the Radiohead/Thom Yorke App. I would definitely recommend you check that out, they create a wonderful environment through Thom's trippy music. Throwing the tree was cool too. Good work!
Wevel
Wevel22 Apr 2015, 18:24
Fun to play, however when you learn how the thunder cloud works it seems quite repetitive.
Zayron23 Apr 2015, 17:46
Got my heart pumping running from the thundership! :)
x1212
x121223 Apr 2015, 18:39
Great game!
The graphics create a very fitting mood, there just seem to be some performance problems for me ...
leddkire24 Apr 2015, 02:52
You've done a lot of things that I hope to do someday at a high level: shaders, procedural generation, and particles, props. A charming little game, my dear chap!
jk5000
jk50003 May 2015, 10:27
Good idea and beautiful graphics.
Archonthewizard
Archonthewizard6 May 2015, 19:22
Well rounded game with nice art. It was a little difficult to understand for a beginner. Overall a fun game.
SeriouslyCrunchy7 May 2015, 16:05
Fun little game, like it as a complete package, and the visuals are really good. Of course, its lacking in depth so I got a little bored of it after a few minutes, but good fun while it lasts.
SecondDimension
SecondDimension10 May 2015, 16:06
Nice atmosphere, being pursued by the ship created a great sense of tension
anokta11 May 2015, 19:46
whoa really cool entry, great job! :)

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