growing snake

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.30
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★42%
Hi, I am SpiritJZL, and this is my work for LD34. This my second try of ludum dare, I think my performance is better than last time:)

The theme is "two button controls" and "growing", and I decided to use both at begining, and then I thought about what to make for a long time……The final answer is the classic "snake".

But my snake is not a normal one. It grows without eating! And what it keeps eating is actually diet pills which can reduce its tails.

1.←→ or AD to control, the Dir of snake is not always the Dir of monitor!
2.Head grows 4/s, tail reduce 1/s, 1 gem will reduce 5 tails!
3. 1 gem +3 points, head cross body -1 point each time, the wall is untouchable!

Sorry for the big size as a snake game, maybe this is the weak point of UE4. As the compo rules goes, the rar pack contains the src, but may need UE4.10.1 to open it

Comments9

Mechamism
Mechamism15 Dec 2015, 02:35
Nice twist on a classic! I like it!
crazya0215 Dec 2015, 02:49
Classic snake with a neat twist. Cool idea!
ItsFrank
ItsFrank15 Dec 2015, 02:50
Great execution, not as intuitive as you might think good job!
Enchae
Enchae16 Dec 2015, 03:32
Really nice. Pretty easy to understand, and the sound was simple and pleasant.

I do think hitting your own body should've ended the game instead of the points thing because it adds more risk. (and I had a little bit of trouble resetting after dying)

Other than that, though, really nice twist. Solid entry.
SpiritJZLauthor16 Dec 2015, 04:42
About the hit body, the reason I set it points is that when the body keeps growing, the head is easily surrounded by you body, and the game is ended in the begining.....
About restart, I forgot to say that the game will restart automatically 1s after dead
greenscreen16 Dec 2015, 14:06
Very nice idea of changing classic snake. I love that sci-fi/psychedelic style. The best thing in this game is sound. It is soooo creepy.
SpiritJZLauthor16 Dec 2015, 14:13
I didn't have time to make a bgm, only got sound effect done, so I didn't open the audio rate...Now the audio seems well liked, and I am so regret T_T
mockthebear
mockthebear4 Jan 2016, 18:50
Loved the idea about the snake keeps growingg without doing anything!

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