Orb Defender

by acuity
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.37
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★28%
Air hockey with a twist! Score by hitting the puck of your color into the opponent!

I wrote the song for it in about 2 hours, it's here for download on my SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/acuitynpc/orbdefender

Controls:
WASD for Blue and Arrow Keys for Red. Both can hit the purple puck, blue can hit blue puck and red can hit red puck. The puck changes color each time it hits a wall.

Notes:
There are still some bugs - it's possible to spawn multiple pucks by having multiple collisions happen at once, and the score gets weird after that. It took me a while to figure out how to use variables from other objects, and I ended up doing a really convoluted way of keeping score (it's a variable on the purple/blue/red puck which despawns and respawns).

I'll actually try to clean this up and add stuff for a post-compo version later. The code is really messy and it's still buggy.

screenshot

Comments10

bnhw20 Apr 2015, 19:32
The controls seemed far too slippery and the pucks were flying too fast to reliably hit.

I'm not sure the puck changing colour is interesting. Might be better if each player has their own puck?
keddelzz21 Apr 2015, 22:26
Love the music and the simple look!
markusfisch
markusfisch22 Apr 2015, 21:55
Cool music! Quite a hard game to master.
MJaawa25 Apr 2015, 07:51
Nice one, fun multiplayer functionality is hard to do in such a short time, you managed well :)
SowiHowl25 Apr 2015, 08:01
It's quite a hard game to play, maybe adding an IA, for playing alone would have been nice but the time was short I know, is there a score limit showing a winner and a looser ?
fragileannihilator
fragileannihilator25 Apr 2015, 08:49
The controls are a bit frustrating and I can't see any inconventional weapons here. The music is nice, though
Jungle
Jungle1 May 2015, 18:48
Its very difficult to control. The idea is good, but need some polishment. Lacks BG image and UI.
freeholdgames6 May 2015, 16:08
Great audio, though I thought the pacing made it nearly impossible to play. Maybe if you had two mice controlling the combat? With keyboard, there's a real mismatch of control vs speed, imo.
AinoraZ11 May 2015, 19:08
After a while I had no clue on what's going on anymore xD. Loved the music. Wish I had someone to play with :c

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