Ludum Dare #34compo

Spider's web

by mortus

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★58%

==== CONTROLS ====
X or Left to grow new webs
C or Right to navigate your web

New webs reduce your size by 1500 (if they go through the center) or by 300.

Press C or Right to make a turn, leave current web fragment or leave center

==== ENDGAME ====
There is a victory condition, you need 40 000 size points to hunt bigger prey!

==== KNOWN BUGS ====
Web shredding is far from perfect
It's really hard to navigate a web without some serious experience

Comments13

ccglp14 Dec 2015, 09:53

Nice and innovative, is a bit little harsh to get what the controls do at the beginning, but then, the game is funny

Gyfis14 Dec 2015, 09:57

The graphics is great, however, one must get used to the controls little bit in order to perform well. Good job.

jcwelgemoed14 Dec 2015, 10:07

Cool little entry. Great for 48 hours' work. Controls take some getting used to and see a bit harsh in beginning. Fun game though. Good work

RockhopperGames14 Dec 2015, 12:22

Saw you post about this during development, and I thought that was something I wanted to try!

The idea is great, though the two button controls definitely make it much less accessible. I also spent so much time maintaining even a small web that I didn't really have much time to expand.

If you do update this at some point to have a non-two button version, I would be interested in trying it again!

sydan14 Dec 2015, 12:45

I really enjoyed this! The mechanics are awesome! I've always wondered what it would be like to be a spider... :P

liquidmedia15 Dec 2015, 22:58

Very interesting hard at the start but gets to be fun. GG for a 2 day game,

DinnerInTheDark16 Dec 2015, 20:15

The controls were a bit difficult to understand at start (especially the moving around), but otherwise a very nice game.

Cheers!

OrangeeZ18 Dec 2015, 07:17

I do not quite understand when you can add a thread. But the game is like .

bitwise-constructs18 Dec 2015, 07:22

Had a tough time getting a hang of the controls but after that it was fun to play.

pcmaster18 Dec 2015, 15:29

Controls are hard but fulfill the theme. Nicely done!

dx0ne18 Dec 2015, 15:35

That was fun. With better graphics and goal based levels would stick for a while.

loveapplegames26 Dec 2015, 22:01

Original idea, and very enjoyable. The controls are odd but seemed intuitive to me. I found it a bit too hard to navigate concentric spokes, so I made all my strands go through the center. The "spinning" adds an extra dimension to the gameplay. I played it for 20 mins up to size 30,000 or so until the strand I was on suddenly disappeared and I was dead. I don't think that's a good way to die gameplay-wise.

Anti2 Jan 2016, 00:06

Very nice game. It was very fun to play.