SImple Shift
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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You control a little square that can move to 9 different points in a grid. Your little square can also shape shift to stretch/flatten in the X and Y axis. Lasers will come beaming through the screen along the grid! But worry not, as there will be warnings before they come. Use your skillful keyboard pressing and hardcore gamer reflexes to avoid the lasers and survive as long as possible.
Controls:
Arrow Keys will move the square around the grid. The square will auto-snap to the center when no keys are pressed.
W or S to stretch horizontally
A or D to stretch vertically
Objective:
Avoid incoming lasers by being attentive to warnings ("red lines"), and moving/stretching your square accordingly.
Note:
This is not an excuse for poor quality but I restarted after about 20 hours and my computer crashed and pretty much died when there was about 10 hours left. But nonetheless I am highly satisfied with what I ended up with. I'm proud to have this game as my first Ludum Dare submission.
Note:
A few people have mentioned that the wasd controls for the shapeshifting felt reversed. Here's a suggestion try to only use A & S. This will eliminate the association of horizontal and vertical with wasd. Just think of it as A is stretching vertically and S is horizontally.
I'm really sorry about that. I think my shortage of time made not realize that mistake. I'm honestly quite astonished the game isn't unplayably broken!
Controls:
Arrow Keys will move the square around the grid. The square will auto-snap to the center when no keys are pressed.
W or S to stretch horizontally
A or D to stretch vertically
Objective:
Avoid incoming lasers by being attentive to warnings ("red lines"), and moving/stretching your square accordingly.
Note:
This is not an excuse for poor quality but I restarted after about 20 hours and my computer crashed and pretty much died when there was about 10 hours left. But nonetheless I am highly satisfied with what I ended up with. I'm proud to have this game as my first Ludum Dare submission.
Note:
A few people have mentioned that the wasd controls for the shapeshifting felt reversed. Here's a suggestion try to only use A & S. This will eliminate the association of horizontal and vertical with wasd. Just think of it as A is stretching vertically and S is horizontally.
I'm really sorry about that. I think my shortage of time made not realize that mistake. I'm honestly quite astonished the game isn't unplayably broken!