Ludum Dare #41compo

A new Dimension ("First" Person Shooter vs Platformer, HTML5)

by leorid

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.35

Category: Arcarde

Type: Browsergame (HTML5, gamejolt no ads)

Playtime: ~4min

A combination of 2D Platforming and 3D Third Person Shooter.
You play the Player-Character-AI. During the development process, the P-C-AI discovers that there is more than two dimensons, there are three, so it breaks the level dimensions and walks throgth the (5) unfinished levels.

Additional Information:
In the last one of the five levels, when you think you are done, turn around and look at the right side, jump inside what you find there - when you see the credits, it's over.

Play Duration Start to finish: ~5min

Comments13

DarkAnice23 Apr 2018, 14:23

pretty fun concept, needs to be expanded on a bit more, but overall a fun game!

Goutye23 Apr 2018, 14:27

Once you get used to the camera, it is actually pretty fun! :smiley:
The 3D aspect does improve the visibility sometimes!

vilix6423 Apr 2018, 14:58

Thank you for a web build (tired of downloading exe files). The story reminds me of a short novella Flatland by Edwin Abbott. :slight_smile:

Shoj9223 Apr 2018, 21:24

Apart from the graphics / controls (tighten up next time?), it was a really fun game idea to play through though!!

Olivier Millochau23 Apr 2018, 21:31

Great concept ! The ability to kill you at the end was a great surprise ! Very fun idea =D

leoridauthor23 Apr 2018, 22:10

@shoj92 sure, next time (in 4 months), I'll work them out in the beginning instead of programming everything with cubes and add the graphics last minute :P

@olivier-millochau I'm glad you liked it :)

morphine24 Apr 2018, 00:10

I... don't... think our brains were meant to operate in that dimension! Wow what a trip, I'm glad I wasn't on LSD while playing that! Great job and nice use of the theme (and nice meta Unity intro)

KunoNoOni24 Apr 2018, 01:54

I always wondered what a 2d sprite would look like in a 3d world! :smile: This was a fun little game and I really enjoyed playing and finishing it. Well done!

grizeldi24 Apr 2018, 18:07

Not really sure how the use of 3rd dimension adds anything, if the whole game is still in 2D. Nice idea though.

stormburpee24 Apr 2018, 18:13

Was very trippy, but I enjoyed it very much. That twist at the end as well!

LogFlames24 Apr 2018, 18:17

Nice game! My eyes kinda hurt after playing it but it was worth it. Maybe you could add some falling objects in the 3:rd dimenstion or something to actualy use it. Great game and idea!

leoridauthor24 Apr 2018, 18:22

@grizeldi , I thought about the WASD FPS/TPS like movement, bound to a two dimensional world and its gravity. you can see very far, but only shoot really close. The point of adding this camera in the first 3 Levels was actually some experimental stuff - I had no vision of the outcome. In the end, I just want to tell a story of the poor life, an 2D-Character has, all the lies that there are just two Dimensions and stuff. And maybe, one day, someone will tell us about some fourth, fifth or twentieth dimension - we could rage then, and shoot, like the AI driven Player-Character or remember this game and live happily with one dimension more in our lifes ..

just joking ^^