POST COMPO: DIFFERENT COLORS, NEW POWER UPS/POWER DOWNS, MORE MUSIC, AND MULTIPLAYER! Check it out! c:
I will probably keep updating it though too.
*Fullscreen tends to work better by the way.
This is my 8th Ludum Dare. If you were here for the last Ludum Dare, I made 'Perspective.'
Arc is a Simple, Classic, ARCade Game (see what I did there). Escape from your Arc before it closes on you! Don't crash into another Arc though. Dash to another Arc for score, and collect Gold for extra score. Get the Power Ups, but watch out for the Power Downs. The Power Ups and Power Downs are filled circles but with each one a different color. Which one is which you ask? Figure it out yourself. c:
Funny thought; my name is Noah, so this game could also be called, Noah's Arc.
INSTRUCTIONS: Left, Right, Up, and Down Arrow Keys to move, and P to Pause.
THEME: I already had the idea for this game before LD, so I didn't even really care about the theme. Feel free to rate theme though.
I'm planning to make this game for Mobile Devices including iOS and Android.
Let me know what your High Score is in the comments please! You may not believe it but, my Best is 54. c:
And if you've streamed this game on Twitch already, let me know in the comments.
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Thanks for fixing the firefox bug. This is an awesome game approach and is pretty addicting. Although I wouldn't say it fits the theme, using 4 buttons.
Cool, fresh idea, driving music (would be nothing without), simple, but effective graphics. Only downside is it's only very loosely based on the theme. Doesn't matter too much. And I find it pretty har^B^B^Bchallenging. :-)
The game is really hard. Maybe, you should prevent circles from closing, as it kinda breaks the gameplay : sometimes, when you're jumping, you get "killed" because the circle grows between you pressing the key and your avatar going through.
Nice arcade feeling overall though, makes you want to try hard.
The music is awesome, but the theme and it doesn't seem to relate. It has this sinister circus theme, but I feel the art could be pushed further to tie it to that or some other theme.
Also the game is really hard. A health system would have benefited I think.
GOOD GRAVY THIS IS HARD. I think my current high score is like 6? I'll be coming back to this again later when I'm more awake/less exhausted. Your presentation is excellent though! Graphics are crisp and smooth, and the music is catchy. Nice one :]
A nice looking game, with a simple but efficient gameplay. No bugs and great work on sound. Good job! And yes, that's too difficult, but that's what make this game so cool!
Amazing entry overall. Great music, great mechanics, great aesthetic (the logo is awesome, and not a lot of LD games concern themselves with branding, but I think it really paid off for you).
Great job! You should continue with it and release it on mobile!
I like the hypnotic atmosphere and the gameplay seems to me really interesting, but I cannot play. When I press a key to start, nothing reacts. Sometimes I lose quickly, but the R key doesn't work. I don't understand where is the problem. I wait before to evaluate your project ++
Don't really care for having to remember which color is which power-up, but this is otherwise perfect. I will definitely be coming back to this after the judging period.
I'd like to see an AI play this... I'm curious if it's possible or even likely to get into unwinnable situations.
This game is punishingly hard! I think on the whole that fits its style very well, but some progression would be nice - perhaps have it start slowly, and make the whole game world accelerate with each point scored?
It's super addictive, though, and looks and sounds great. Good job!
Fun idea. The kind of game easy to learn and hard to master. I was a bit disapointed that it didn't fit the theme, but you have been honest with it, good point for you! Thanks for the game.
So hard! I could get about 4 before I got trapped in, I enjoyed it though. judged on stream at http://www.twitch.tv/meep706, watch the highlight to see me play
Didn't see much of the theme here, but it's still a fun game.
My high score is 5. I think because the game is so difficult, a lot of people (me included) don't see everything the game has to offer.
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Jwatt17 Dec 2015, 02:56
A no-bullshit arcade game/reflex test.
The fundamentals check out, it kept me trying for a while. The visual style has a distinct personality to it, and the palette is fairly tasteful. Music's alright, gives this a fittingly tense touch.
So yeah, this is a solid entry. It's just that I can't really see a connection to the theme(s).
SUPER hard, and I'm terrible at video games. But an incredibly creative concept, brought to a polish not usually seen in Ludum Dare games. The GUI when you lose is beautiful and different. Crazy (and awesome) music that fits the crazy gameplay. Some feedback (like a sound or screen shake) would really aid the game feel when you lose, though. All in all, a solid game. Nice work!
Now it works. I like this minimalist gameplay and background music. Maybe too hard. You could decrease difficulty and increase it progressively. Overall, it's really good ++
Loved the concept! Soooo hard but fun! Loved the colors you used and the music. You did a great job at capturing frantic anxiety driven chaos. Great job!
This works as a prototype of a mechanic - I don't recall ever seeing it before. Whether it really works in this visual style, with this music, as a sort of ultra-hard rage game I'm not so sure though. I found it to be basically too irritating to want to keep playing, which is sad because I feel like the underlying mechanic could be a lot of fun to practice and get better at.
Obviously you already realise this doesn't fit either theme, at all.
So, basically, top marks for innovation but I hope you can work on accessibility for future games.
I like the presentation of this game. Good sense of graphic design. Nice soundtrack too. I would say it starts off too difficult, I think it needs to gradually ramp up as you progress from the beginning.
That's a clever idea and neat implementation. For a more finished game though you need to control the difficulty. Maybe some arcs will be more open others less.
Woah, that music startled me. Maybe turn the volume a bit down, and I'm not sure it entirely fits the game. The concept reminds me of another mobile game, I think it was called "one more dash", just thought maybe you wanted to know. The game is really damn difficult and that power-down that reflects the player back always killed me, so I just started to avoid all power-ups/downs. My best score was 16.
Addictive game! My high score (so far!) is 15. I don't think it's too hard at all; it's really fun when you start getting in the zone and making decisions quickly. Three small bits of feedback... feel free to ignore them if you want, the game is really fun as is! First, the Power Downs make "exploring" less fun, since you don't know whether something's a Power Up or a Power Down until you touch it. It would be nice if Power Downs looked different, like a spiky ball or something. Or maybe you could try leaving them out? Second, the collision detection feels pretty strict. Making it more lenient could make close calls more exciting. Third, I wish you could restart the game immediately after dying (like Super Hexagon :).
Anyway, super fun game: I think it would work great on a mobile device!
Intense, frustrating, difficult but I couldn't turn away. It sucked me in and wouldn't let me go until I proved to myself that I could break a score of ten. Great music too!
wow soo addictive, great idea and execution, loved the music too. Seems to be a good game for mobile doing swap to the sides and no theme (yeah I know you put it on the desc xD), you made me laugh at desc also lol.
This game starts out difficult and gets even harder. The power-downs are especially brutal. I got caught hitting the very edge of the arcs sometimes, it would have been nice to have more lenient collision detection when you just barely tap one of the sides.
The music and brutal-fast gameplay make for a very hectic arcade experience. Quite nice.
This is great! Clear idea that turns out to be really challenging to play. The art's simple, but it's clean, and the music adds some tension to it as well.
Whoa, this is a game. I mean, if people want to play a game, people should play this game. Totally irrelevant to the theme, but just look at it. This game. This is a game and nothing but a game. Whoa.
Fun, but very challenging. Things moved extremely fast and for my first few tries I didn't hardly make it anywhere. There was also a bad imbalance in the amount of powerups vs, powerdowns and as such I often went to what I thought would help me only to lose my run to it. Fortunately, being able to restart as quickly as I was prevented losing from being irritating.
The graphics were interesting however, and the music was excellent; very much enjoyed listening to it.
Overall, great entry - would love to see it continued.
Oh man, this game is hard, but the good kind of hard! To be honest, I felt like I was too slow to make anything hit right. Still, a really good idea. I liked the game a lot. The bright colours, plus the style of the graphics really matches well with Helvetica.
Compo games typically provide source code with their submissions, so I've left the Overall score as N/A for now. If you add the source link, please let me know and I'll rate it!
Great concept, intuitive design, overall well done! It's just too fast for me... and the music doesn't help either. :P An easy mode to practice would be nice.
Simple, fun, challenging game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/ONV56vKkbDk
Jesus effing Christ this is hard. Brilliant game concept and it feels pretty tight, although I'd 100% make the music less obnoxious because it felt like some dude was prodding my brain with a needle while I was trying to concentrate super hard. This game rewards patience and the music made me insane :P
Great job though, solid concept and it's devilishly addictive despite making me cry for 5-10 minutes. I got 5 as my best score, pathetic but I ain't got the patience for this!
pretty interesting! the music is nice but doesnt really fit in my opinion. dying is pretty anticlimactic, could feel more powerful. and also i have no idea how this related to either theme otherwise it looks and plays interesting!
Gosh, why so hard? Increasing difficulty progressively would have been more welcoming, but hey, masocore is all the rage. Great music, I see you used FL Studio.
WOW. This game is a masochist's dream come true!!! Harder than Dark Souls! Really love the idea although it has nothing to do with either theme!! Pretty awesome!
Gah! Game had me rhythmically banging my head in frustration. I guess the key is to slow down and not get impatient waiting for the holes to line up :P I don't see how this relates to either theme, though?
I'm back. Got 35 points. It's kinda disappointing that off-screen objects despawn. I guess that was made to avoid situations when the player traps himself, but I often find myself making a detour to collect many powerups, and I don't want them to despawn.
I'm not sure what I think of the powerup system, but I don't think it should be about guessing or remembering which colors do what.
I had to play in Chrome because there were lag spikes in Firefox. Your post-mortem didn't work in Firefox at all o_o. Everything worked fine in Chrome though.
All in all, great little game! Best of luck!! Hope to see this on mobile ;)
I really enjoyed it - and liked how the arc got smaller, preventing me from sitting in a circle waiting for the "perfect" time. Very Hard, but actually quite fun. The audio is VERY good - sets the right mood, happy with a little frantic. Very good.
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Martin Vilcans4 Jan 2016, 22:32
I'm no fan of gameplay based on waiting and timing your moves (old platform games tended to have parts like that). So... this has too frustrating gameplay, and not bothering about following the theme... But I like the visual design and the music fits the stressful gameplay.
Not much relation to the theme (which is kind of missing the point of Ludum Dare). I found this really fun-- like Super Hexagon but not crazy hard. Kind of a snake-y sort of challenge to it too.
This game is super simple and loads of fun. If it was on mobile devices, I'd play it all the time.
The music fit very well, and the use of the growing theme was also very creative. Two-button controls could have been added easily, but I think it's better that you didn't include that theme.
I am so terrible at this terribly good game! Well done on everything (sans the theme as you mentioned). I like the arc closes on you forcing you to make your move fast. Great design. Good job!
Audio was great, but kinda clashed with the mood. Did set a pretty anxious tone though! Great arcade style gameplay. Powerups were trolly, but discovering them was fun. Thanks for putting this together!
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hard and awsm!!!
It's freaking good ! And hard ! ... but good !
And the music is juste awesome ...
Only downside is it's only very loosely based on the theme. Doesn't matter too much.
And I find it pretty har^B^B^Bchallenging. :-)
Nice arcade feeling overall though, makes you want to try hard.
Also the game is really hard. A health system would have benefited I think.
Overall though, nice job!
Graphics are simple but suit the game type perfectly, controls work great.
I think this would work well on a mobile device, would seriously consider porting it was very addictive. The screen shake added to the difficulty!
Will keep playing only at a best of 11 at the moment.
Good job! And yes, that's too difficult, but that's what make this game so cool!
Great job! You should continue with it and release it on mobile!
My high score is 5 :S
Well done!
I'd like to see an AI play this... I'm curious if it's possible or even likely to get into unwinnable situations.
It's super addictive, though, and looks and sounds great. Good job!
I was a bit disapointed that it didn't fit the theme, but you have been honest with it, good point for you!
Thanks for the game.
judged on stream at http://www.twitch.tv/meep706, watch the highlight to see me play
Insanely difficult and very fun concept. It doesn't really fit the theme, but the entry is awesome.
My high score is 5. I think because the game is so difficult, a lot of people (me included) don't see everything the game has to offer.
The fundamentals check out, it kept me trying for a while. The visual style has a distinct personality to it, and the palette is fairly tasteful. Music's alright, gives this a fittingly tense touch.
So yeah, this is a solid entry. It's just that I can't really see a connection to the theme(s).
Downloadable version would be nice, cause when run in browser UP and DOWN scrolls the page... that's not right.
This game is certainly hard, though. I also can't really tell what are power-ups or power-downs, or what any of them do. :P
Obviously you already realise this doesn't fit either theme, at all.
So, basically, top marks for innovation but I hope you can work on accessibility for future games.
The game is really damn difficult and that power-down that reflects the player back always killed me, so I just started to avoid all power-ups/downs. My best score was 16.
Anyway, super fun game: I think it would work great on a mobile device!
Music is very very cool! Difficulty could be at the beginning a little easy.
Great game, love it!!
My max: 7 ;-;
Great job!
My highest so far is 11.
Wishlist:
- instant restart (or at least less than .25s on death screen)
- 3 speed/difficulty choices, with current difficulty at medium.
Definitely consider selling this for mobile devices.
The music and brutal-fast gameplay make for a very hectic arcade experience. Quite nice.
The graphics were interesting however, and the music was excellent; very much enjoyed listening to it.
Overall, great entry - would love to see it continued.
Compo games typically provide source code with their submissions, so I've left the Overall score as N/A for now. If you add the source link, please let me know and I'll rate it!
My best was 10!
Consistent game with nice concept!
Congratulations!
Great job though, solid concept and it's devilishly addictive despite making me cry for 5-10 minutes. I got 5 as my best score, pathetic but I ain't got the patience for this!
otherwise it looks and plays interesting!
Music was my favorite part.
The music is awesome. Gameplay is great, too.
It's kinda disappointing that off-screen objects despawn. I guess that was made to avoid situations when the player traps himself, but I often find myself making a detour to collect many powerups, and I don't want them to despawn.
I'm not sure what I think of the powerup system, but I don't think it should be about guessing or remembering which colors do what.
I had to play in Chrome because there were lag spikes in Firefox. Your post-mortem didn't work in Firefox at all o_o. Everything worked fine in Chrome though.
All in all, great little game! Best of luck!! Hope to see this on mobile ;)
The music fit very well, and the use of the growing theme was also very creative. Two-button controls could have been added easily, but I think it's better that you didn't include that theme.