Ludum Dare #37compo

Ascend

by mcjammydodger

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.64

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.46

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.30

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.30

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.88

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.05

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★51%

Ascend to the top of the tower as fast as possible. Try and beat your fastest time.

Controls:
Mouse -> look
WASD/Arrow keys -> movement
Space -> jump
E key -> interact

Xbox controller:
Right Stick -> look
Left Stick -> movement
A button -> jump
X button -> interact

Created with Unity 5.4
Programmed in C# using Visual Studio
Models made in Blender
Images created in GIMP

Comments12

NuSan12 Dec 2016, 09:34

Nice entry. I gave up after many try on the moving plateform behind the moving lazer. The jump is a bit akward, as it seems to kill horizontal velocity. But it was fun, keep up the good work.

Mantlair12 Dec 2016, 19:58

Jumping is kinda broken. You can't move while jumping but you can move while falling and it's kinda annoying compared to standard game mechanics. I gave up at some point. But if we put that aside nice jump map.

Mouch12 Dec 2016, 20:05

Yep, jumping. Other than that, great. I would have gone for "pushback" lasers like in Portal 2 instead.

thebrickanator12 Dec 2016, 20:30

The game is ok but could be much better with only minor tweaks. for instance (as others have already stated) the jumping needs work, but other things like how close you have to be to a switch to interact with it and my mouse should be locked to the game window while playing as it kept getting stuck at the edge of my monitor or onto my second monitor.

Max Amaden12 Dec 2016, 22:39

Nice little game! Keep up the good work!

DalesDiscountTires13 Dec 2016, 11:39

The jump seems to go up and then down diagonally so you cant control it in mid air. This makes platforming very difficult. The map is cool though and it could be much better with a few adjustments.

Casevse13 Dec 2016, 11:51

Interesting concept, but the first person controller doesn't feel good. I think it would be better just to use one of the Unity Standard Assets. By the way, i really like this king of first person platformers. Good work!

Dene13 Dec 2016, 13:34

Nice game, but controll system is not quite good.

TheMonsterFromTheDeep13 Dec 2016, 19:49

Jumping, as others said, is pretty broken - it's linear instead of quadratic, and is really hard to control.

I feel like a little bit of variation in the graphics would also really help.

Music and sound, of course, would also be an improvement.

Geckoo133713 Dec 2016, 22:46

Interesting concept. Some controls are a little bit broken, butyou have done an interesting project which could be improved. As they said - keep up the good work ++

spacedoubt14 Dec 2016, 05:39

You could maybe almost get away with a strange jump mechanic like that, if you could find a way to convince the player there's some reason they move that way. Maybe.. Anyway, nice entry!

JonathanG30 Dec 2016, 16:31

Not bad! I found it too difficult to get all the way to the top though.