Sphaera

by j08ny
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★72%
Eat the smaller, weaker spheres and rise to conquer the mighty large red ones!
Grow!

Use A,D to rotate.
Spacebar/W/Shift/Enter to move forward.
Scroll to (un)-zoom.

1. Eat blue spheres.
2. Grow.
3. Win?

My first Ludum Dare game. Hope you enjoy!

Comments24

SvenFrankson14 Dec 2015, 02:33
Well that's... Hard, to say the least ^^' Is the speed framerate dependant ? Enjoyed the spherical gameplay, thanks !
internetpaulicy14 Dec 2015, 03:38
This one has a very interesting feel. Its disorienting until you get the hang of it. Then it gets harder :)
A.W. Apps14 Dec 2015, 03:40
This is a fun game, but the a/d spin goes so fast that it almost gives me motion sickness. Instead of rotating the player, try to use wasd control.
Mixer
Mixer14 Dec 2015, 03:52
Gee, this is fun, but very very difficult. It almost seemed like the blue ones should be big, not the red ones :D Really kind of reminded me of agar.io, atleast the gameplay mechanic of growing and avoiding. Neat game, and an interesting use of theme! I liked that although there was nearly no graphics (in terms of modeling) you still managed to make an appealing game.
swellbastion14 Dec 2015, 03:56
i like the concept. difficult with my trackpad however
blohod14 Dec 2015, 04:01
Hard, sometimes you spawn on top of a red and instantly die
Kortuga14 Dec 2015, 04:10
Damn, those little blue bastards are hard to catch at first.
Move127
Move12714 Dec 2015, 05:18
Very hard, mostly because of the controls, but it is otherwise a very good game.
gkxd14 Dec 2015, 05:53
The rotation was too sensitive for me, and I couldn't actually hit any blue spheres.

Interesting concept.
thecord14 Dec 2015, 13:08
Fun, but a bit too hard
Ghen
Ghen14 Dec 2015, 13:09
the concept seems good, but it surprisingly hard, and i got disoriented fast
Ildfuglen
Ildfuglen14 Dec 2015, 13:12
That's really... really hard. But, I love the concept, it's great! And congratulations with your first entry into Ludum Dare!

The graphics are ofcourse sub-par primitives, it was a fun concept but the implementation wasn't too good. When it comes to the theme it fits as you're trying to grow, but I never managed to grow more than once.

With a couple of changes this would be an awesome game! :)
Darkflint
Darkflint14 Dec 2015, 22:15
Hard, harder, Sphaera? Fun and interesting concept, but really hard.
GAFBlizzard15 Dec 2015, 10:52
How did you manage to beat this? On Firefox 42, not sure if it's related to framerate or not, it's basically unplayable because it's so fast. I managed to get to 4.89 or so. I want to like it, but at least one of the following needs to happen I think:

1. Use about 25% of the current number of red balls.
2. Maybe avoid spawning red balls near the player. MANY times I died in less than a second of spawning.
3. Don't kill the player on red ball hits, instead just bounce off of red balls.
4. Slow down turning and movement speed by 50% at least.
5. Slow down red ball motion.

Any one of those could make it much more fun. :(
justinooncx15 Dec 2015, 16:18
My score is... 6.9770999742897....? Rather difficult game, though!
AzureAspect
AzureAspect15 Dec 2015, 16:41
I managed to make black hole whee! (and also get motion sickness)
Good simple game :)
careless
careless16 Dec 2015, 03:23
Very nice entry, never tried 3D in LibGDX so was great to see that!

Very tough to start but got the hang of it a little after some time.

Its a good concept and with some tweaking and maybe levels/progression would be quite addictive.

Great work!
crucknuk
crucknuk16 Dec 2015, 21:50
Nice compo. I think you should lower sphere speed or maybe put the camera less close because it is really hard to avoid ennemies. I tried several times, I think my best score is something like 7.5. But maybe I'm just bad ^^ Anyway, the concept is interesting and reminds me of agar.io. Good job ;)
cudabear
cudabear23 Dec 2015, 17:42
It's pretty hard. The perspective is pretty disorientating, as well. I wish it would start easier and become harder later on. A pretty unique entry, but not a whole lot to do.

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