This is my Ludum Dare 34 Entry for the two tied themes:
Two Button Control and Growing.
This game will trick your mind, test your reflexes, and
Put your hand-eye coordination skills to its full use,
Made by one man in span of 48 hours.
*PLAY STORE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE*
*WEB-UPDATE* -Now You can use the collected orbs to continue with another life. -Added How To Play Tutorial
Rules are simple:-
Black cant touch white, White cant touch black.
But beware, Don't Grow too big as the other might shrink out of existence
Press Z to move Orb Anticlockwise,
Press X to move Orb Clockwise, and
Press Z+X to Switch Orb's places, Change color of the orbit.
Added Second Binding-
Z- Left Arrow
X-Right Arrow
If you are having difficultly understanding the game mechanics, READ THIS :
Try Concentrating on the color of the orbit you are revolving around.
Growing Shrinking Mechanics - Explained Its like if you only pick black ones and ignore all white ones, the black orb will swell up and white orb will shrink. If one orb gets too small you will loose obviously, This is to prevent players to camp on only picking one color.
You can actually change the color of the big circle(orbit) by pressing Z+X, So if your one orb(black or white) gets too big you need to ignore those color incoming projectiles by changing the color of big circle(orbit) to maintain the balance between black and white.
Thank you all for these overwhelming positive reviews :)
I played a LOT of this game - which is a good thing! I was terrible at the start but it definitely motivated me to keep trying, to get to know the controls better and to beat my highscore. A really good score-attack game, and I think it would work really well on mobile devices!
I still don't quite understand the growing/shrinking mechanics though - but that might just be because I'm dumb!
@SeriousCreeper Ya i was thinking about adding life's lets see if more people find it too difficult i will do so :) Thanks for reviewing
@NirabazGames Thanks for time :) Glad you enjoyed it
@Neoludo Well yeah i plan to release this on mobile devices quite soon, :) its so good to see people enjoy your games isn't it. Sorry about that growing shrinking mechanics maybe i didnt explain it quite well, its like if you only pick black ones and ignore all white ones, the black orb will swell up and white orb will shrink. If one orb gets too small you will loose obviously This is to prevent players to camp on only picking one color.
Hope its clear :P Thanks for your time.
@bessdlan Sorry if its too hard :P ill try and tweak if lots of people find it too punishingly hard xD Thanks you for the review
I liked the concept. Great realisation. I have two concerns tho: a second binding for non-qwerty keyboard would have been nice (like the arrow key) I'm not sure I understood all of the defeat conditions, dunno if it's a bug or a lack of feedbacks.
Fun game. The pumping style is awesome, an audio-visual treat :) Found the game pretty hard, and punishing, but I can see myself enjoying it if I sunk the time in
I liked the graphic style and the music. It's a creative take on the two buttons theme. As others have said, it's quite challenging. At times I felt like it was impossible, but I think that's probably just due to not mastering the switching mechanic. Overall it was still a fun and interesting game, good job!
Hard as hell, but I like the idea. It just seemed bit weird to me of how can you manage the growth of the circles, if you can't miss any of the middle projectiles?
@Jace239 Yes, a few games are required to get proper hold of controls, Thanks for reviewing :)
@MisterMortal You can actually change the color of the big circle by pressing Z+X, So if your one orb(black or white) gets too big you need to ignore those color incoming projectiles by changing the color of big circle to maintain the balance between black and white.
Okay, had a few minutes on it, got up to 18. You weren't kidding about this being hard :P Took me a while to work out how to play. What I can't quite figure out is why sometimes missing a sperm doesn't cause a game over, but sometimes it does? Otherwise, yeah, just the ticket this :)
@hexagore Actually to make it fare its like you can miss the sperms (as so you called it xD) of the same color as the big circle, and you can switch its color by pressing Z+X "Black cant touch white, White cant touch black." But white can touch white, and same for black :)
This is a very interesting idea. Great Job. I loved the look. It took me a bit to realize that going backwards meant moving into the opposite color trail.
Excellent. It's a lot more challenging than it looks at first. :)
I know the theme is two-button controls, but I think having a third separate button for the switch would make the game a bit less frustrating. Maybe consider releasing a post-jam version with an extra button?
It's hardcore, only 1 try and controls lack a little of smoothness to movement of this spheres, quick click moves them for quite distance. But anyway it's nice reaction based hardcore game,good job =)
Very nice concept. I really dig the minimalist vector style you got going there and the animations are really smooth.
Gameplay is also simple to grasp, but very challenging and addicting. Really speaks to my own bullethell/twitch-game preferences.
The only nitpick I could really comment on is that sometimes, it felt a bit too sensitive on what constituted a failure. At a few points I was right next to the projectile and for some reason it called it a missed. Might've been that I was a little bit too far away, but still felt a little bit sensitive.
Fun but hard! Black and white trails are a bit confusing. I tried a few times and get 10 as maximum score. Audio is very repetitive, but obviously intended this way. Well played.
Ow, congratulation for your game! I love the sound, fluid game play and very hard, hahahaha. I would like to take this opportunity to ask a favor. You already rated my game, but I was not allowed "innovation rating." Please could you assess this item now? Take the opportunity to play with some corrections. Very thanks:http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=36629
Hey, visually it looks simillar to the game made by us! :) But your mechanics is different. And if honestly I don't really understand why I die all the time. More instructions maybe?
@Dejvo Maybe ill tweak the difficulty in the future :) Thank you for playing
@BulletsArePeopleToo Yeah sure man i am planing on releasing it on mobile stores with many more new controls features enemies xD and planning boss fights xD hilarious Thanks
This game is well made and the concept is quite interesting ^^ Try to export the game on other platforms (at least a WebGL or Win version). I had to open Internet Explorer to play! :o Good job! :)
You're right, it's a mind bender. Though I think unnecessarily so. Games like Super Hexagon works because it's simple enough to go into autopilot and rely on your intuition. When you have to start over logic-ing and its super fast 's it becomes not fun.
It doesn't feel consistent as to how to lose. Sometimes I miss blobs and it's game over immediately, sometimes I miss and nothing happens. Can't tell what's going on.
The trails are confusing too. The colours in the back are too, it feels like they means something but I can't tell what.
There's just too much going on to be simple enough for a good reflex game.
@Tuism Thank you for your honest words i hugely appreciate it, Yea you are right i guess i made it little too confusing for players to understand, Or i really failed in giving proper instructions on how to play, Really sorry about this i am going to add full how to play tutorial first then move on improving the game Thanks :)
I think you came up with a really cool concept! Needs a lot of tweaking, but definitely worth experimenting with. It would be pretty cool to watch an experienced player playing this game.
I'm not sure I understand why you have the growing/shrinking mechanic depend on the color. I think it should either not be a mechanic at all, or depend on the ball, to encourage switching. I don't know xD
Not sure why dos said it wasn't a web game... it is. Anyway, good luck with the post-compo version!
Excellent, fun and very stylish. I was a little confused about why I was getting a game over sometimes though. Sometimes you can let one through and other times you can't?
@Zanzlanz@randomhuman Thanks mates :) Really appreciate the kind words, i have been getting this problem that many people didn't get the mechanics, mostly because i didnt explain it well quite frankly :P So, i started working on post compo version with tutorial on how to play and stuff +playstore version coming soon! :D
I cant connect left&right to the clockwise，I mean it alway get opposite result as I thought it to be when I push the X or Z button. I think its why the game is difficult, and i think it will be better on the touch screen. amazing graphic btw~ good work
pretty fun but I feel like the two button control theme ultimately works against this game as I think a dedicated button would be easier to use when swapping the colours, but there is nothing really wrong with how you have it so good work :)
Nice game, enjoyed it and I've never seen this idea used before. To improve: make it easier to stay alive, simultaneous orbs made it hard to collect them.
Nice, simple, fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/3B2_gBg5rhI
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I still don't quite understand the growing/shrinking mechanics though - but that might just be because I'm dumb!
Great work!
Thanks :) glad you like it means a lot
@SeriousCreeper
Ya i was thinking about adding life's lets see if more people find it too difficult i will do so :) Thanks for reviewing
@NirabazGames
Thanks for time :) Glad you enjoyed it
@Neoludo
Well yeah i plan to release this on mobile devices quite soon, :) its so good to see people enjoy your games isn't it.
Sorry about that growing shrinking mechanics maybe i didnt explain it quite well, its like if you only pick black ones and ignore all white ones, the black orb will swell up and white orb will shrink.
If one orb gets too small you will loose obviously
This is to prevent players to camp on only picking one color.
Hope its clear :P
Thanks for your time.
@bessdlan
Sorry if its too hard :P ill try and tweak if lots of people find it too punishingly hard xD
Thanks you for the review
What are the condition for loosing ? Sometime the droplet reached the limit, but the game keeps runing.
Thankyou for review
@TheMergeConflicts
Ya i have lots of ideas in mind to expand this game :) Thanks for your time reviewing.
@SvenFrankson
As mentioned its simple
You will loose if
Black touch white, Or White touch black.
But White can touch white and black can touch black,
Thanks for your time playing :)
@bloomingbuds
You got it nailed down :) Glad you liked it
Thanks for reviewing
I have two concerns tho: a second binding for non-qwerty keyboard would have been nice (like the arrow key)
I'm not sure I understood all of the defeat conditions, dunno if it's a bug or a lack of feedbacks.
Still, great game!
Thank you for reviewing :)
@Nizar89
Glad you liked it, ya ill add second binding thanks for reminding added on todo list :)
@Warboys
Thank you for your kind words, happy to see you liked it :)
:) Thank you
@Jace239
Yes, a few games are required to get proper hold of controls,
Thanks for reviewing :)
@MisterMortal
You can actually change the color of the big circle by pressing Z+X, So if your one orb(black or white) gets too big you need to ignore those color incoming projectiles by changing the color of big circle to maintain the balance between black and white.
Hope you Understood :)
Thanks for playing.
Feels good to see people enjoy ur game :) Thanks
@KZdev
Thanks, such positive reviews is the reason i do this :D
Actually to make it fare its like you can miss the sperms (as so you called it xD) of the same color as the big circle, and you can switch its color by pressing Z+X
"Black cant touch white, White cant touch black."
But white can touch white, and same for black :)
Thanks for playing and reviewing.
Oh boy, was I ever so wrong.
I know the theme is two-button controls, but I think having a third separate button for the switch would make the game a bit less frustrating. Maybe consider releasing a post-jam version with an extra button?
Anyway, great work.
But anyway it's nice reaction based hardcore game,good job =)
Gameplay is also simple to grasp, but very challenging and addicting. Really speaks to my own bullethell/twitch-game preferences.
The only nitpick I could really comment on is that sometimes, it felt a bit too sensitive on what constituted a failure. At a few points I was right next to the projectile and for some reason it called it a missed. Might've been that I was a little bit too far away, but still felt a little bit sensitive.
Anyways, great concept! Kudos! :)
I tried a few times and get 10 as maximum score.
Audio is very repetitive, but obviously intended this way.
Well played.
I would like to take this opportunity to ask a favor. You already rated my game, but I was not allowed "innovation rating." Please could you assess this item now? Take the opportunity to play with some corrections. Very thanks:http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=36629
But your mechanics is different. And if honestly I don't really understand why I die all the time. More instructions maybe?
Thanks glad you liked it
@banana4life
I added second binding left and right arrow keys :)
Thanks for review
@eemmbbeerr
hahaha xD Thanks mate
@Dejvo
Maybe ill tweak the difficulty in the future :) Thank you for playing
@BulletsArePeopleToo
Yeah sure man i am planing on releasing it on mobile stores with many more new controls features enemies xD and planning boss fights xD hilarious Thanks
Thanks for the compliments :)
@crashmore studios
Thanks for the comment noted ill the to make it better
@Trasevol Dog
Thanks ill try and improve
@Geckoo
Thanks, one of your fav means a lot :)
@blohod
Haha thanks man i saw your stream, i added more instructions people seem a bit confused playing at first, Thanks you helped a lot
Glad you liked it :D
@Nugget Team
Thanks for playing :)
@Lullaby
Confusion is the key :P I love tricking minds haha xD
Thanks for review :D
@Leaghorn @vicious_br
Thanks appreciate your review :)
@Ivan Volkov
Reviewed your game :) looks awesome Added more instructions as asked thanks :)
Done bro rated again :)
What else category do i put it in? :/
It runs on unity web player on windows, mac, what else to mark it.
Try to export the game on other platforms (at least a WebGL or Win version). I had to open Internet Explorer to play! :o
Good job! :)
Thanks, ok ill do that thanks for advice^^
It doesn't feel consistent as to how to lose. Sometimes I miss blobs and it's game over immediately, sometimes I miss and nothing happens. Can't tell what's going on.
The trails are confusing too. The colours in the back are too, it feels like they means something but I can't tell what.
There's just too much going on to be simple enough for a good reflex game.
Thank you for your honest words i hugely appreciate it,
Yea you are right i guess i made it little too confusing for players to understand,
Or i really failed in giving proper instructions on how to play,
Really sorry about this i am going to add full how to play tutorial first then move on improving the game
Thanks :)
I'm not sure I understand why you have the growing/shrinking mechanic depend on the color. I think it should either not be a mechanic at all, or depend on the ball, to encourage switching. I don't know xD
Not sure why dos said it wasn't a web game... it is.
Anyway, good luck with the post-compo version!
Thanks mates :)
Really appreciate the kind words, i have been getting this problem that many people didn't get the mechanics, mostly because i didnt explain it well quite frankly :P
So, i started working on post compo version with tutorial on how to play and stuff +playstore version coming soon! :D
X or Z button.
I think its why the game is difficult, and i think it will be better on the touch screen.
amazing graphic btw~ good work
Yes i am almost done with my mobile touch screen version :)
Thanks mate
@publicidadeba
OMG!! Thats a huge compliment thank you so much it really means a lot, makes all the efforts worth it :D
Thanks mate, but no idea about ikaruga ill look it up lol :P
@Modoc73
Thanks man, ya i reviewed your game :)
hahah XD ya maybe, Thanks for playing :)