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Ludum Dare #35jam

Blink

by samlo
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.84
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.83
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.28
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.12
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.77
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.28
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★82%
Top down action dashing game where you must shift states to destroy enemies

Get combos by killing multiple enemies in the same chain of blinks. To chain blinks, tap the blink button after the previous blink ends but before the ring goes away!

Score and combo are currently meaningless but make you feel good inside!

Game over when you're out of hearts and get hit

Controls:

Move - Left stick/WASD

Blink - A button / LMB

Switch States - R1 / RMB

Pro Tips:

-Use a controller

-Blinking is reckless

-You can change states while blinking

-Killing an enemy knocks back enemies of the opposite state

-Combos end if you lose your blink chain or if you take damage

-Use a controller

Programming and animation by Sam Loeschen

Score and illustration by Flite

screenshotscreenshot
Genres: action
Tools: Unity

Comments61

snoodleking
snoodleking19 Apr 2016, 14:01
Love the aesthetic and the blink mechanic! That screen effect - so sweet! Combos were a little unclear to me, but maybe I just need to spend some more time with it. Overall great job!
samlo
samloauthor19 Apr 2016, 15:12
thanks snoodleking! I updated the description to make the combos a little more clear - they're actually pretty easy to do but a bit cryptic without explanation
joemid
joemid19 Apr 2016, 15:38
Great job! Simple and easy to play. Great game mechanic and never a feeling of being "cheated." A little to fast for a trackpad- but I think that's my problem.
Allthebees19 Apr 2016, 15:39
Really addictive and absolutely beautiful graphics! Once the difficulty spiked and it became like a bullet hell it really grabbed me and I was trying over and over again to make mad blink combos. Excellent stuff!
goodbadokay19 Apr 2016, 16:05
Awesome entry!
Would love to play this on my phone :)
Togimaro
Togimaro19 Apr 2016, 16:10
Really cool! The difficulty is well balanced but the combometer goes down really quickly, I have not made more than 3 ^^'
Good job!
JayProg19 Apr 2016, 16:15
Great execution of a simple idea. I'm impressed by the minimalism and polish. Feels great with gamepad.
JayProg19 Apr 2016, 16:15
Great execution of a simple idea. I'm impressed by the minimalism and polish. Feels great with gamepad.
Madzinah
Madzinah19 Apr 2016, 16:15
The sound is quite nice to blink on the tempo, making the control almost useless, nice work on effect and graphics, great job !
foolmoron
foolmoron19 Apr 2016, 17:54
Obsessed with that godly light particle effect... the chroma abberation and screenshake is well done too (not overdone)
ragnarolis19 Apr 2016, 18:45
Amazing game! It was extremely fun to play and I loved the artstyle. Great job!
EpiFouloux19 Apr 2016, 18:50
Really nice ! Graphics and music are awesome
mukult19 Apr 2016, 19:04
Nice feel in the game! Looks really polished! :)
WojtaW19 Apr 2016, 19:30
Graphically well executed, really nice mood, fits the theme, bullseye hits my musical sweetspot. Shame the gameplay wasn't a bit more challenging and that you cannot properly hit "multikills".. Good submit nevertheless!
samlo
samloauthor19 Apr 2016, 19:36
^WojtaW genuinely surprised you didn't find it challenging haha
Riftpoint19 Apr 2016, 19:52
Cool game! The aesthetic is amazing, the art is really good. Congratulations
roman919 Apr 2016, 20:11
Awesome game really liked it nice job
blinry
blinry19 Apr 2016, 20:42
Huh, it gets hard really fast! But in a good way! Love the controls, graphics, sounds! Nothing to complain, everything to love! Thanks for making this!
Biliogadafr19 Apr 2016, 21:53
Love this fast attacks :) Looks cool. Good job
uvwar
uvwar19 Apr 2016, 22:02
Awesome music and graphics, although I wasn't sure if it was an effect or if I was getting weird screen tearing or something! I also couldn't really figure out how to get or keep a combo going...help
TeamLambda19 Apr 2016, 22:15
Wow, very nice. I like the flow !
johnbrynte
johnbrynte19 Apr 2016, 22:25
Very fitting sounds and visuals to the gameplay, really polished! One thing that made things difficult for me was that the player didn't stay in the middle of the camera when moving, making the aim shift, even thought the effect looked nice :)
Sean19 Apr 2016, 22:29
I found the gameplay a bit boring, but the music and aesthetic were great!
gamesplusjames
gamesplusjames19 Apr 2016, 23:13
Well done, that was great! I feel the time to get a combo could last a little longer, especially earlier in the combo, but otherwise a really interesting entry!
Flite19 Apr 2016, 23:33
Thanks for all your comments on the music and art! This is actually my first game doing art for, and though I've made music for a very long time, this is also my first game creating music for.
jofra
jofra20 Apr 2016, 01:09
Very cool game!

The feel of the effects and esthetics are very well done! The game feels great. I only wish i could have seen more of the theme in the game.
gj!
Ithildin
Ithildin20 Apr 2016, 01:44
Great game! Visuals feel very polished and clear, and so do the game controls, really responsive on a gamepad. You did an awesome job on the music side as well, it helps a lot with getting in the zone.

Like @snoodleking, I also had trouble figuring out the combos but I hadn't read the instructions, so shame on me in this case.

Awesome job!
cabezotta
cabezotta20 Apr 2016, 01:50
Super fun game! Very simple, great use of the theme..! Controls are very good too! Nice work!
CasualCat20 Apr 2016, 11:24
Immediately the game gets me pumped up with the music and polished appearance. Once I start playing I am amazed by the particle effects. The art is great but the particles just make the game amazing, especially the when playing in the white form; the color and triangles. It's just so pretty. And the game plays really well and feels nice. It's fast paced, challenging, but still gives you breathing space. It's well balanced in difficulty, a good combo of tactics and skillful reaction. I really enjoyed the game!
ruthiepee
ruthiepee20 Apr 2016, 13:08
This game turned out to be amazing! I love the snappiness of the character movement and the fast speed of gameplay. The music is awesome too. I'm laughing at all the people that say this is 'minimalistic' because when I make the character blink, I see TONS of juicy particles and flashes and screenshake and chromatic aberration. There is so much below the surface, ha! Awesome game, super polished.
DAT.NOT.MY.GAME!20 Apr 2016, 13:36
Nice game! Very simple basic gameplay, but nice visual style, good sound and good feedback to user (effects and particles).
CasualCat20 Apr 2016, 15:42
May I ask how you made the effect that occurs when taking damage?
Gravedrinker
Gravedrinker20 Apr 2016, 17:07
Really cool look and gamefeel, well done!
Larzan
Larzan20 Apr 2016, 17:30
Great idea, looks beautiful!
JOK20 Apr 2016, 17:34
Great graphics and nice music loop.
vctr_seleucos20 Apr 2016, 17:39
My god, great entry!! Good job with screenshake and juice, the game feels pretty polished and it's adictive. The only thing a I miss are sound effects for the blink, points, death, etc... Awesome work!
sheepsalamanderfox20 Apr 2016, 18:15
I love graphics and the general idea of your game ! Great job !
Shatter Point Studios20 Apr 2016, 19:01
Awesome style, simple and very fun. The combo mechanic was really difficult for me though.
pirate_shell20 Apr 2016, 19:27
This was a very solid entry. The mechanic was really simple, but polished rather well. The graphics were minimalistic but I enjoyed them a lot. The soundtrack was suitably hyping me up so good job on that front! The gameplay was also fun, although I sucked really bad lol. I would have liked some sort of sound effects for a bit more punch and also the controller buttons you had on the level ground were not accurate for me(used A instead of X, RB instead of RT) Overall though - a great entry!
samlo
samloauthor20 Apr 2016, 19:35
@pirate_shell - sorry about the controls! I made them using a ps3 controller so there's probably some discrepancies
SecondDimension
SecondDimension20 Apr 2016, 20:00
Great fun with a controller, and very awesome music!
woodenrabbit20 Apr 2016, 20:08
It looks great and I like the dashing :D
Sir Magic
Sir Magic20 Apr 2016, 20:24
Amazing idea and loved the visuals, really neat game.
Gametery20 Apr 2016, 21:57
Beautiful particles. Simple but fun gameplay. Well done!
ChatPion20 Apr 2016, 22:59
Good job ! Visual effects are really cool !

I think that maybe if you stacked blink orders instead of waiting for the current blink to stop, the game would feel smoother, combos could be easier to make, and with your particle effects, you could create pretty chains of blinks.
samlo
samloauthor21 Apr 2016, 00:36
ChatPion - I thought about that, but I like the timing too much. I think the game needs a stronger indicator than the ring - as long as the ring is out, you can chain blinks and maintain your combo.
Rafos Games21 Apr 2016, 14:40
I hope to see this game in smartphones. It's a funny games =)
APantaloni
APantaloni21 Apr 2016, 17:37
Graphically is great, the controls are spot on and the music is nice. I'd have preferred maybe a faster start but it's fun nonetheless. Great entry!
Leon Möhring22 Apr 2016, 16:32
Great particles and very juicy game! Also great music, but I would have loved sound effects to make the mood perfect... Other wise more gameplay would have been nice, but cool game!
fin_nolimit23 Apr 2016, 16:27
Controller support... WHAT!!!! This game rocks man! I'm watching you on stream right now and just had to play it!! Excellent job!
yokcos70023 Apr 2016, 22:08
Sound effects would be nice and the music is a bit repetitive but my god that ramps up quickly! By jove I love the colourful trail behind you when you're white and the little dying animations of some enemies! Although I have *no idea* of how to survive when the game goes full bullet hell on me D:
omarhuseynov011
omarhuseynov01124 Apr 2016, 14:58
The graphics were really good and gameplay as well! Nice entry
sepharoth21325 Apr 2016, 15:12
wish i had a real mouse to play with...
curtamyth26 Apr 2016, 01:56
Cool game! I really like the music and the pace of the action was great.
Jeasonfire
Jeasonfire28 Apr 2016, 17:36
Nice graphics, especially the particle effects, which are lovely. Music is very intense and fitting, and the controls felt pretty good. Maybe a bit unresponsive when clicking very fast, but that's a pretty minor problem. The difficulty was a bit weird, since the game felt very slow and easy at the beginning, until almost out of nowhere there started to spawn quite a few enemies. Maybe shortening the "easy beginning" time would be better?

Overall, very enjoyable. Good work!
aeveis
aeveis2 May 2016, 05:02
Pretty fun and nice meeting you at Indiecade East! Liked dashing around, it feels pretty good! The chromatic aberration feels a tiny bit much since you dash around a lot, but I got used to it. Again, since I want to keep dashing maybe (as my friend suggested) having two dashes of each and taking out the button switch. Another thing could be to switch colors anytime (and then have possibly more than two colors), but maybe that would get complicated quickly. Could be cool to see more progression with enemies.

Good job!
Ellian
Ellian8 May 2016, 11:51
It's barely shape shifting but MAN it's fun and controls awesome. The graphics are splendid, my only complain would be the lack of sounds; the music is good but if you added sounds to the attacks/hits the game would feel even better.
Anyway, amazing work. Fantastic effects/feedbacks and art. Grats!
01010111
010101119 May 2016, 19:11
Really really really REALLY cool game! I've played with key/mouse and gamepad, and both feel really nice (although gamepad is WAY better). I really love the graphics, effects, particles, super awesome job on all of that. The drum and bass is also really on point! modern sleekness and old-school reese (reece? was this ever settled within the dnb community??) bass...I luh it <3
Marius10 May 2016, 11:13
Hi, nice game and congratulations ! We're realizing a video with several winners of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description

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