Ludum Dare #35compo

Torus

by chris-delta

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.97

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★59%

You have fallen unexpectedly into a twisted, Shapeshifting labyrinth, and you must now find all three keys and escape through its reality-bending halls, while avoiding their half-beast ruler.

CONTROLS:
- Arrow Keys, WASD, or IJKL to move
- SPACE or any Mouse button to dash (note, dashing takes almost half your max health, and will kill you if you try to spam it)
- Mouse to control looking direction
- M to mute/unmute ambient sounds
- F to toggle fullscreen
- R to force respawn
- ESCAPE to quit

Tools: LÖVE

Comments17

jcmonkey18 Apr 2016, 21:02

This game is pretty interesting. i would have liked a closer viewpoint, but i see what you were trying to do with the perspective mode.

Blobo18 Apr 2016, 21:14

Pretty frustrating. i wasn't sure where to go, or what i was doing, and the place seemed different every time i died.

jelch19 Apr 2016, 05:06

Couldn't move, then it crashed :(

ranmaru9019 Apr 2016, 05:08

Haha, reminds me of Teleglitch: Die More Edition! Cool game!

Tsevion19 Apr 2016, 05:18

Clever. The perspective and light made it difficult to remember what was what, so the fact the labyrinth was constantly shifting was not obvious.

I gotta ask, is the name Torus related to the movie Cube?

Skipi19 Apr 2016, 05:23

Neat little game. It's buggy on my computer, though. The mouse controls do not work, and dashing crashes the game.

Chris Deltaauthor19 Apr 2016, 05:26

jelch: Did you have a controller plugged in? I noticed a bug similar to that when I was trying to add controller support, so I decided to just not mention the existence of buggy controller support :p

Tsevion: No, I haven't even heard of that movie. "Torus" refers to the weird topology of the labyrinth, and to the monster.

BloodJohn19 Apr 2016, 18:41

Great maze. Thank you got lost. :)

PowerSpark19 Apr 2016, 23:25

Interesting idea, it's something I have wanted to try before and this is executed well

Weeping Rupee21 Apr 2016, 02:33

Ran into a bug when dashing :(
map.lua:59: attempt to index a nil value

Traceback

map.lua:59: in function 'get'
main.lua.292: in function 'swapZones'
main.lua.260: in function 'updateMap'
main.lue:48: in function 'update'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

I'll check back again later :)

Chris Deltaauthor21 Apr 2016, 03:53

Weeping Rupee, thanks a bunch for copying that stack trace! Unfortunately it didn't help much, it looks like you ran into some kind of weird corner case. I added a check that should prevent whatever caused that from being a crash bug in the future. As well, I nuked all trace of the buggy controller bullshit that's been giving people trouble. Thanks again, hope you don't get too unlucky this time!

SeaDads21 Apr 2016, 12:59

The mood in this game is incredible. fits really well with the crazy labyrinth. Really loved the representation of health with the red tint!

samlo23 Apr 2016, 13:08

Holy crap this is cool! Love the teleglitch-style perspective. Very eerie, got lost a lot (not a bad thing ;) )

Lullaby23 Apr 2016, 21:32

It was clever to limit the field of view in order to get the player lost. I did not manage to reach the end of the game, as I had sometime the impression to take damage without doing anything :(

guoboism25 Apr 2016, 05:29

Nice graphics,

TheCain28 Apr 2016, 20:17

I didn't beat it, but it had a good mood and even spooked me once. The twisting hallways were very disorienting.

paradxil2 May 2016, 04:37

The mood was amazing... Nice job :)