Ludum Dare #33compo

Time Spill

by chronodrax

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.29

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★96%

You are the Wheel of Time.
People want to stop you.
Crush their hopes.

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For this Ludum Dare, I've added an extra challenge to myself : create a game that would require only the mouse wheel to play, and it worked !
I hope you'll enjoy playing it ;)

Sadly there's only 1 level since I spent most of the time improving the Level Design and gameplay (physics behavior, feedback, etc).

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Made with Unity 5;
Music made with Audiotool, sounds with bfxr.

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CHROME VERSION (WebGL) : www.teradem.net/LD/TimeSpill/WebGL/index.html

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edit : It seems that mac users have an issue with the mouse wheel. I don't own a mac though so it's hard to debug. If you are a Mac user, can you please tell me more about it ? Is it on the web player only or the downloadable/executable too ? On the latter, have you tried changing the controls ?

Other known bugs :
- Too many creatures spawn after 400 seconds
- For unknown reasons the wheel could get stuck between a ceiling and a creature without killing it, and make movements impossible.
I'll improve those in a post-compo version after the judging ends.

Comments31

zanenga24 Aug 2015, 02:29

Lovely game! I just think that scrolling the wheel get's a little tiring from time to time (love the idea of using it though!).

Perhaps using both mouse buttons or the X of the mouse when clicking would be better?

Birke24 Aug 2015, 02:36

Very original input scheme! The art and music is also nice. Level was a bit hard to get around in.

Chrome version fails to launch with a javascript exception pop up

Flygamer10124 Aug 2015, 02:59

Really nice! Pretty cool "Handrawn" Simplistic Graphics.

FerraWare24 Aug 2015, 02:59

Cool game!

Pros:
-Cool just to spare time
-Really fun mechanic
-Never seen a mouse-wheel control :P

Cons:
-The theme could've been displayed better
-Lack of objective

Deity24 Aug 2015, 03:05

Interesting mechanic and it works surprisingly well. The physics also made this more fun.

I did get tired of spinning the wheel so much however and a backup control system with keyboard (left/right keys) would have been nice.

Nice work!

panda24 Aug 2015, 03:05

I'd be nice to include keyboard controls too... I don't have a mousewheel on my laptop!

TheZiggy24 Aug 2015, 03:51

The mouse wheel didn't work for me. I'm on a MacBook and have a wireless mouse.

imdigitaljim24 Aug 2015, 03:53

Very unique controlling system. I enjoyed it =)

Empyrealhell24 Aug 2015, 03:54

Felt like cheating since my mouse has an unlockable wheel, but it sure made it fun. It's definitely a great start to something, with enough content and polish I could see this becoming something akin to katamari.

internetpaulicy24 Aug 2015, 04:23

This is a blast to play with a free spinning weighted mouse wheel. I think this is the first time I have seen this type of control. Really well executed. Top marks for innovation. The music is well done too. Super neato.

watupdb24 Aug 2015, 04:29

Took a while to get used the control scheme, but the idea is actually pretty damn cool. I think the physics worked really well for the controls as well.

iossif24 Aug 2015, 12:16

"use mouse wheel" - *looks at laptop touchpad* *cries*

LittleThor24 Aug 2015, 12:54

Very nice and unusual concept.
I really loved the way you linked sound and wheel speed.
Nice work!

HolyBlackCat24 Aug 2015, 15:54

Nice idea! And I really liked the physics and 'main character'. :D

Multiplexor24 Aug 2015, 23:05

I like a lot the controls! It's quite original! The game itself is nice,

Maybe a final objective other than gathering score would be nice, or maybe put some traps so you can die.

Really liked it :)

Laddo D24 Aug 2015, 23:09

cool controls

Arskiainen24 Aug 2015, 23:10

The gameplay novelty blew me away. For a good couple minutes. Scrolling is hard work.

mantis24 Aug 2015, 23:12

Really neat take on the theme!

Obvious_San25 Aug 2015, 12:31

I don't see the theme, but great idea : ) Also really fun to play for a while!

snooze8225 Aug 2015, 17:18

Love the idea - and I have a infite-scrolling-wheel \o/ Like the slow-down of the audio.

A_K_25 Aug 2015, 18:20

Game starts but I'm not running after. Web version on safari/mozilla

shimage25 Aug 2015, 23:40

I really enjoyed. It was comfortable that a wheel moves along a line. I got 86pt in 354 time. Very fun!

Felipe Tasca26 Aug 2015, 00:48

This is I call innovation...

raducumiczzz26 Aug 2015, 15:44

Art and music are cool. Love the idea behind the game. Congratulations

ireal27 Aug 2015, 11:00

Wow, I thought that was really clever, well done!

Nnnnneeeedddd27 Aug 2015, 16:17

I really liked the idea of the scroll wheel. The game was altogether very fun to play. My only problem with it, was near the end, I had loads of little guys standing around, and it got really laggy.

CheesyRamen27 Aug 2015, 17:56

Pretty interesting with your choice of input! I really enjoyed playing it using my mouse scroll!

CrunchyKingCrimson27 Aug 2015, 22:28

That's pretty innovated, I'm glad I have a scrollwheel. It's like some weird version of pinball, pretty addictive.

sorlok28 Aug 2015, 02:57

Fun and interesting! Decent mechanics; never seen a scroll wheel used for primary motion before!

daveh28 Aug 2015, 03:00

Really innovative control scheme. It worked wonderfully and has a zen-like quality to the gameplay. Good work!

Jishenaz5 Sep 2015, 23:57

I enjoyed rolling around the platforms with only the mouse wheel! I also liked the sound effects.

However, if you play long enough, the people seem to multiply quickly and slows down the game a lot. But that only happens after playing the game for about 10 minutes.

I did like that the health was integrated into the player and the colors change among the people when they want to throw a bomb.

Nice work!