Ludum Dare #37compo

The Last Room

by stuffedgravy

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.68

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★47%

One stormy day, you find a book on your coffee table that you've never seen before. In hindsight, reading a mysterious book called "The End of the World" is kind of asking for it. Through unspecified backstory, you find out that all of reality outside of your studio apartment has been swallowed by the Void. As the cosmos is rebuilding from within this room, you must try to keep the Void at bay using your magical powers, recently acquired in the unspecified backstory.

CONTROLS:

arrow keys - move

Z - screen-clear bomb

X - close void portals. You must spam it for larger objects.

Space - pause/start game

Genres: action

Tools: Unity

Comments14

laylow12 Dec 2016, 02:56

The turn radius and spawn rate on the black blobs is a bit too much. It's incredibly hard to get around them. I like the humor though!

stuffedgravyauthor12 Dec 2016, 03:04

Nice feedback! I didn't think about messing with the turn radius for the blobs, that would have made the gameplay more dynamic.

... I did make it more difficult than I should have, and it's TOTALLY NOT because my win screen is ugly and dumb.

Tauka12 Dec 2016, 05:23

Like the game, but a bit difficult to play. It is not very clear which ones are portals

Yamzho12 Dec 2016, 18:44

Super hard game (but my game are usually too easy, so...). Good job.

Mouch12 Dec 2016, 19:14

If possible make it so that the music doesn't restart when you start a new round.

Piscythe12 Dec 2016, 20:29

You certainly got the apocalyptic mood down with this one. I'm not quite sure how the portal-closing is supposed to work, and the purify spell's long windup makes it difficult to use. I like the idea here, but I don't feel up to spending the hour or two it would take for me to figure out a winning path. Good job with the music.

rplnt12 Dec 2016, 21:46

I had fun playing this. Really hard, my best was over 40 seconds remaining, bumped into the table :)

The void that takes over looks nice.

tartlegames13 Dec 2016, 00:06

Good work. I am not sure if it is just me or not but I can't get x to close the portals

Logicon19 Dec 2016, 01:11

The hitboxes of the voidlings seemed much too large.

SoulBound19 Dec 2016, 02:02

Very challenging and a bit addicting. Well done!

kraftkar19 Dec 2016, 02:50

On my first playthroughs I tried to close the two starting portals on the edge of the screen, but I'm guessing those can't be closed? Furniture is a real hazard in this game. Very difficult. Good use of theme.

stuffedgravyauthor20 Dec 2016, 00:42

@kraftkar: you actually can, but you have to use all your spells to do it. I managed to do it in 10ish tries, but it's hard not to die trying!

abcdef65g29 Dec 2016, 23:18

I love the idea of the sudden and unexplained backstory. But I feel the spawn rate is a bit too much, and not much feedback on the actions within the game. I don't know when I am managing or not to affect a portal. The enemies swarm me too much and I just catch myself running around aimlessly to build them up and hope for a miracle. Love how you did the visual effects, the line renderers were a nice touch, and the simple particle systems work very well. Curious design nonetheless!