SquareShift - Sticky Squares

by zugende
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.12
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★64%
Are you ready for a busy, overloading game?
Then check out my game SquareShift.

Keys
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WASD / Arrow keys to control the player
Escape key to toggle pause menu

Notes
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SquareShift is a cool mix between Snake and Agar.io. The goal is easy: collect as many squares as possible within 90s.

But watch out, this game is damn hard.
Seriously, if you pass level 4, send me a screenshot. :D

PS: Want a Berserker Mode? Good! I got you covered. Now, play my game.

Tools
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Engine: Love2D
Graphics: Photoshop
Music: Garageband
Sounds: sfxr
IDE: Zerobrane
Text Editor: hackmd.io

This is my first entry, so I am super excited about feedback.
Thanks a lot guys!

PS: Still trying to port this to Mac. But first give me some hours of sleep. XD

Comments27

Kiwiboi18 Apr 2016, 11:37
Got to level 5! Cool game, but pretty sure it becomes impossible pretty soon after 4 unless extremely lucky.
You get blown up after berserker mode and then you most likely can't move (because you're so big).
Fun nontheless!:)
Saymon18 Apr 2016, 11:42
Nice game, can be a little frustrating to hit bombs near the completion of the objective, but it's fun !
FloatingGhost18 Apr 2016, 11:47
I got to rainbow level (5 I think)
I ended up being massive, albeit spread very thin, so I literally couldn't move :D

Is cherry mode time random? Some times it lasted 0.1 seconds, other times like 10 seconds :P

But it's a nicely made game that got me to keep going to level 5

(http://imgur.com/cTNvgbd <-- Spread VERY thin)
celmore100118 Apr 2016, 12:37
Had over 500 points in 5th level but the level didn't change! Noooooo!! :D A fun game though.
MartinFernandez
MartinFernandez18 Apr 2016, 12:46
Very good game, the mechanics are funny, and great music!! excelent work.
Hyoga-3D
Hyoga-3D18 Apr 2016, 12:58
Nice mechanics, I just did not understand how you used the theme in the game. But the menu animations are pretty nice.
KristophTG18 Apr 2016, 13:05
Very fun game. I liked the music a lot.
seitnerk18 Apr 2016, 13:24
really cool idea! nice and challenging.
qu218 Apr 2016, 13:32
I beat level 4!
http://imgur.com/EKDdyIX
This is really fun, especially the early levels.
Maybe the mechanic needs tweaking for the later levels? Once you hit a certain size you can't really do anything.
zuganfang18 Apr 2016, 13:51
I love it!
But lvl 5 is a beast!
Alphius18 Apr 2016, 16:40
I beat level 5 too (571/500), but it didn't take me to the next level :'(
aegypticus
aegypticus18 Apr 2016, 20:18
I'll play this once you get a mac port going! I always love playing games of fellow Love2d programmers!
MikeTheWayne19 Apr 2016, 20:56
Absolutely love your entry, simply fantastic, good fun, great audio (even if it is just a repetitive, yet cool beat). When you wrote in your description that it had a mix of Agar.io, I was expecting a cheap rip-off, but instead you give us this, infinitely more original! I applaud you!
James Coote
James Coote19 Apr 2016, 21:13
Good fun. Think if I played it a bit more, could probably start working out different tactics. Music and graphics are good. UI especially, which is no mean feat for a game jam (though a bit too much bounce for my tastes).

My one criticism would be that I can't see too many places for the game to go beyond what is there at the moment. Maybe that doesn't matter, but always nice to think of ways to keep people coming back to the game on a bit longer term basis.
glitchu19 Apr 2016, 21:26
made it to level 5, but I got to a point where the squares took up the entirety of the vertical space so I was unable to move up and down and not left and right(that was on level 5). Menu and UI design is very good and sounds are good too. Overall it was fun to play
psychonull19 Apr 2016, 22:19
fun game! got to level 5 also .. to a size that I couldn't move haha and when I got back from mode Berserker got lots of bombs resulting in an error from LUA (https://snag.gy/NWDTLJ) haha the blue screen could be included in the game too :P
Great work!
Cowa
Cowa20 Apr 2016, 19:26
Wow that was very funny. I felt very satisfying to collect blocks and grow :D
josefnpat
josefnpat21 Apr 2016, 07:42
Very nice job! Works nicely in linux :)

Clean and entertaining with excellent visual and audio cues!
Saiodin
Saiodin21 Apr 2016, 19:59
Cool idea, I liked the gameplay! As other have said a bit frustrating to lose so much points if getting hit by a bomb, but otherwise good fun!
davor1010529 Apr 2016, 21:39
great game, good job!
Alphish
Alphish1 May 2016, 18:09
Got to level 5, too, I even got 500 and got so many pieces I was pretty much immobile but then the game kinda said "eh, whatever" and didn't advance me any further (Berserker mode is soo OP). Rather funny concept, but I guess it'd need to be readjusted to make a complete and successful game.

Overall, not bad. Keep it up.
h2n0
h2n08 May 2016, 09:02
Freaking beautiful!!!! The best game I've played so far. Its so addicting, I will be level 5
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