Objective: Collect all the gender circles according to genders symbol color as long as you can.
Instruction: 1. Press left/right arrow keys to move the male gender symbol. 2. Press A/D to move the female gender symbol. 3. Press Escape to pause the game. 4. Red Star will increase your movement speed. 5. Orange Star will create a shield around you. 6. SkyBlue Star will slow the movement everything that goes to you.
The Real Challenge is that you need to control two gender symbol simultaneously while collecting the circle. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO IT?! Lets Play!!!!
My game was inspired by this riddle.
_"Some of us are born painted blue. Others painted pink. Some our first coats peel off, and we are left with what remains. Some of us have to repaint ourselves the right colour because of the circle of criticism."_ by: Aaron Dillon
>My interpretation in Ludum Dare 41 theme is based also in that riddle. I hope you know the answer. 😅
Common Issues: - The Audio sometimes not working in Google Chrome(you can use other browser). - Two projectiles of the same color come at pretty much the same time in totally different directions, making it impossible to get both.
FAQ: _Did you misread the theme? XD_
- Nope I didnt misinterpret the theme. All of us have a different interpretation of this theme. As you can read in the definition of Genre:”a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like”. The genre is not only in the form of literature, painting, music, film, or other art form. Every gender have its own particular form or like.
Note: It's my first time to join in LD. I really appreciate all of your comments and suggestions.
Tools used: - Unity
- FL Studio Mobile
- Adobe Illustrator
- Voice changer with effects mobile
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Pixel Prophecy’s Gameplay
_You can check out Pixel Prophecy’s gameplay here, starts at 44:56 minutes._
I'm amazed at how simple this game is, and yet it's really fun to play! I put so much time into 3D modeling assets for my game, and then you just have a couple of sprites which could be drawn in Photoshop (or even paint!) in a few minutes tops, and you made something really entertaining out of it, so great work 👍
Great challenging and fun game - like the powerups and also the music. After the game over things seem to keep spawning. Really awesome entry, would love to play it on mobile(somehow) :smiley:
A cool challenge, but sometimes it's very unfair (like two projectiles of the same color come at pretty much the same time in totally different directions, making it impossible to get both).
A neat lil game! I liked how intuitive it felt, although there didn't seem to be much progression to act as a hook. At times too it felt either unfair too easy. Still, a solid concept executed without fuss. Good job!
Fun game and great entry for a first time LD Composition. Not entirely sure it hit the theme on the head but that is not a requirement either. Played for a bit and my general lack of coordination was disasterous. I kind of wish it asked your gender and your dominant hand so that your personal gender would feel the best to control and you would have to struggle with the other gender. Also as a transgender gamedev I found the theme particularly amusing.
@ryzy27 wow cool you got 141 score you beaten me. I never reach score like that lol shame on me im the developer of that :( hahaha by the way thank so much for playing my game.
Nice and simple. I think the control are sometimes too slow to reach the next target. My score was 26 but when I retries, it kept counting from where I stopped. We should make couples play this together. I see that you omitted the graphics rating but I still would express how much I like it (4/5). And the music is truly wonderful (5/5). While it is currently very enjoyable as a single player game, I think it would a great 2 player game especially if there are additional mechanics that needs more coordination skills (e.g. circles that need both genders to be collected).
Nice! Really dig the hand-drawn art style. Also, nice unusual interpretation of the theme. Made me chuckle a bit, thinking you simply misread "genre" as "gender"! :D The music and sound effects were fitting as well and the gameplay was simple and fun. :)
I find this game hilarious because when the theme was released I kept mispronouncing genre as gender! And the game is a great concept. I think you did fantastic.
I only scored 54 but this was really fun to play. The mechanics are simple to grasp but difficult to master, or maybe my coordination is just bad 🙃 Either was felt very polished from the voice acting for each wave - the shields to give you some breathing time and the fast paced music. Love it, Great game
Audio is great (one of the best so far i've played) - fealt it was a good match for the game. I think you've got the difficulty curve spot on. I also understood what i needed to do intuitively without reading the description.
Is this a rhythm game?
I'm also thinking combos as a possible future update. Good work!
My first score was one of highest I did, over 200! I think this was chance, but it gave me the will to try to do best, and that was really a pleasure. Everything goes to the essential and fits very well its purpose: the graphics don't need to be more complicated and the music is simple but perfect to entertain the player without distracting him. The overall sensation is very good. I had fun making a game for three days, and now I am very interested in and happy to see what other people did! And you did great!
Hi @Campbell@Apace. Nope I didnt misread the theme. All of us have a different interpretation of this theme. As you can read in the definition of Genre:"a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like". The genre is not only in the form of literature, painting, music, film, or other art form. Every gender have its own particular form or like. By the way thank you so much for playing my game I appreciate it ;)
A great example of "less is more". While the mechanic seems fairly simply, this game is fun and challenging enough to make it interesting. I really enjoyed playing it and would play it again. Congratulations!
Hi @nina , Thank you so much for playing the game. I really hate my self because as a developer of this game i never reached a score like that LOL. Thank you also for your complain this will help me to improve more my game 😘 .
This game has a cute and simplistic art style. I like how you included the two different controls (WASD and up, down, left, right) which made it hell for a single player to control when it got faster, I liked the challenge. May I ask what the genres of the game are?
I appreciate a game made for one of these which feels complete. It's simple but not like anything I've played before. The art style was good and consistent. Well done, and good job managing scope (I'm always so bad at that).
Very nice! I love the music--few games have a music backdrop, so those that do deserve a lot of praise. The game is simple, and as a result is very fun and easy to pick up. Also, I love how it is so well-balanced. Keep up the great work :)
Great opportunity for strong symbology ultimately fell a bit flat after realising I could just identically control both male and female turrets. Great music. Well done!
Great game! Definitely challenging! I think the art is simple, but effective as you give a great amount of detail to player response with the camera shaking for wrong. Keep up the good work!
pretty nice that you have two sets of controls in the game. either one person plays with two controls or its useful for multiplayer. Graphics and animations look ok too, so nothing bad to say about the game
Not sure for the theme (Female and male are pretty compatible, if you know what I mean).
The mechanics are really cool on the other hand, you should keep it and make a game with it, giving it a nice design and story could make hit something that would work on a store !
I also compose for my games and liked your music, nice job it was catchy and motivating :)
Simple game that is actually quite fun to play! The only nitpick I have is that as a partially color blind person I had difficult time differentiating between gender circles from each other. I would have appreciated if circles were a bit different from each other. But I guess you cannot hope accessibility from a marathon game! :D
I really appreciate all of your suggestions and comment. Thank you so much for playing my game. @DerLasseHenrich I cant imagine you got that score really amazing I think you got the highest score so far amazing. I must credit you in my page for the Most MVP
The game idea is super simple, and this made the game very easy to learn how to play. The music and the graphics is super great, and both fits the game idea very well. For me this is a super great first LD game, but I would have liked to see a more interesting use of the game jam theme. But overall a very well made LD game. Well done.
Simple and fun game. Nice visual style. This theme has promoted quite a few 'doing two things at once' type games (including my own!) but this one they go nicely together. Not sure on the match for the theme, but maybe in an abstract way. In any case, nice work.
The concept of the game is simple, but the execution was good. I liked the audio and the graphics. I couldn't see the 2 incompatible genres,but it doesn't matter since following the theme is not that important. So overall maganda yung game and magaling yung pagkakagawa mo. Congrats!
Simplistic graphics, and pang-casual gaming yung laro, pero naconfuse ka yata doon sa theme, hahaha, but it doesn't matter, pretty solid game here (di pala ako nakapagleave ng comment kanina). Good job!
Hi @kristian-david@von-vista . Nope I didnt misinterpret the theme. All of us have a different interpretation of this theme. As you can read in the definition of Genre:”a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like”. The genre is not only in the form of literature, painting, music, film, or other art form. Every gender have its own particular form or like. There are so many interpretation of Genre Guys it depend to us how we interpret it 😊. By the way Salamat sa paglaro ng game ko 😊
I really loved the audio! The concept is nice but it's not my type of game. I prefer games that tell stories but that didn't prevent me from having fun playing your game =)
Hey, I liked the simple but pretty art and the mechanics were interesting. I really don't have much coordination and didn't stick for a long time, though. About the theme, I don't think they're so incompatible. :p But I like to see twists in the interpretation.
I think that the most difficult game to do it is a game with a simple mechanic and keep it simple. And you did it!
This game is simple but effective, good job.
I love the feedback you put in the game (usually people forget to make feedback in theirs games) and the music fit very well with the kind of gameplay.
And the gameplay is just... perfectly good designed about the concept of the game.
So... goood job! Hope we see in t he next ludum dares!
Hi @Ethereal Psyche Games, Thank you so much that you appreciate my simple game. This kind of positive comment motivates me to join again next LD event. Thank you again for playing my game.
i think the game was very fun but i think a few more power ups. Or obstacles could give this game a huge upgrade in my opinion. This game was extremely well made though. I had a lot of fun up until i couldn't beat round 8 XD. The music is great to listen to. :) Thank you for making it.
Wish there had been an option to rate the graphics, because although they were simple I like them! The sound effect were good, it was challenging enough that I didn't feel like I needed to quit out of it and was happy playing until I lost, so props on the fun!
Simple fun core mechanic, enjoyed the simple graphics. One of those games which really benefited from being simple rather than adding random stuff in. Nice job!
I really like the game mechanic, it's has a vicious gameplay but i suck with my low reflexes. I was more focused in taking the shield than the circles. Nice music and partircular art style. Entertaining, fun and a mechanic easy to understand. Great job!!
This is a very neat and simple idea. It reminds me a lot of old flash games i played and got addicted to as a kid. The music is really good and i like the voice for advancing in waves. I feel like there's something about this art style that fits the game and it's theme perfectly. Yet another great game that i think could work well on a mobile device!
I'm not too fond of the interpretation of the theme. First, that it's too much a stretch to say that two genders are different genres. The idea sounds like a somewhat sexist view of what genders are.
Regarding the game, the graphics are pretty nice. You could use some smoothing on the movement, so it feels more organic. I.e. do not change the speed instantaneously.
I liked the thoughtful interpretation of the theme :) The controls were fun but tough, though it seems I did better than most hehe :P The graphics were simple which let my imagination run wild imagining what kinds of things might be inside the little balls the male and female symbol collected.
I like the art of the game and how the graphics look like someone drew them by hand. I especially liked the animations of the game and thought that even though they look simple, they were pretty good. I also like how the fonts look handwritten. The audio in the game was very good and it fits the mood of the game. The interpretation of the theme was interesting and it was wildly different from other Ludum Dare games. The game was pretty fun to play too.
This game has an extremely similar core mechanic as the game I made for my LD40 entry, Shapes Are Mean: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/shapes-are-mean That being said, I think you configured the controls a bit better and I absolutely loved your art style. That music track you created is awesome - the whole gender aspect was really clever too. Congrats on completing it during the short time frame of the comp! It took me the full 72 to make shapes are mean.
I like simplicity and cohesion. Everything about this feels right, even music, although graphic is a little bit chaotic in places and i don't buy your 'explanation' of theme to be honest. Good game design shows when you don't have to explain what you intended - here - you need to explain why theme is ok.
Maybe it's just me but just as i said - i don't buy it...
Overal great entry though - realy enjoyed plaing it!
Fun controls, great music. It's a simple idea that was well realized. The graphics could've been a bit easier to read and I'm not sure how well this game follows the theme of the jam but on the whole, it was a very nice experience. Good job!
Awesome music, very nice graphics style, gameplay works very well, all in all very polished and fun!
I still don't think it fits the theme extremely well, but as you mentioned this is personal interpretation. I find the entry very innovative, haven't seen anything similar.
THIS IS PRETTY AWESOME!! One of the most fun games I've played this Ludum Dare. Simple, even the graphics are barebones (like I'm one to talk), but the game is so very addicting!!
68 ! Haha I'm really bad at this game. I had fun though !! Probably the best game I tried this LD in terms of fun. Very challenging. And it's the kind of difficulty you can overcome by learning, the sacred kind of hard, the one everyone respects... For a reason ! Really well done and looking forward for your next games (or previous ones?).
I loved your game, but simple that does not exist, but nonetheless it is a fun and challenging game. I just do not know if I identified the two genres of games, I believe you thought it was referring to male and female genres. Great job.
I like that it can be one or two player. Not sure if you intended it to be played that way. I only played it single player, but I can see how it can work for two people and have a different but still interesting result. Music and sound design is great. I like the wave announcements. The aesthetics of the visual design is great too. Good stuff!
Fun submission! I really liked having to control two "players" at the same time. Original concept with a bit of comedic value as well lol. Also, great job on the music, felt very put-together!
Out of all the entries I've played so far, this is probably the best one. It's so simple but doesn't lack polishing. I don't feel it fits the theme that much, but all the other aspects are top notch.
@sidewalksleeper thank you so much for playing my game. By the way I a simple explanation that's why I come up with this kind of game. You can read it on FAQ and you will understand it more if you know and answer from the riddle where my game was inspired by. Thank you again!! 😘
Hi! Wow! That's a very good game! One of the best I've played so far! I wanted to make a game with this kind of gender but didn't find a good concept :). Yours would have beaten mine anyways :D. My game is kind of about gender too but... you should see it yourself, it's special :D. If you want to visit it : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/birth-of-a-man
@IndieManiaC i wished that I voiced the powerups before the deadline. I dont have enough time thats why there is no powerups voice sound. Maybe on the future update ill do that. Thank you for playing!! i hope you enjoyed it :dog:
That's a pretty great game! Congrats for your work. My team and I though of developing such a concept about those genres, but we didn't figure out a great idea, like you do ;)
Hey there, so I enjoyed playing this game, and I thought the idea was pretty fun. The power-ups you added made the gameplay feel unique. I do think the difficulty kinda spiked after like 2 or 3 minutes, if anything you could try to make it steadily get harder as time goes on, and you could also toss in the occasional fast circle, before it starts to get really hard. Good job on this game!
@PhilStrahl Thank so much for playing my game. Im so happy the before i just watch you playing others game and now you played my game. Thank you again Phil 😊
Besides the jams theme interpretation this is a really innovative game! This is a very original idea that goes further than mixing things but to create something simple and fresh. I felt that the game canvas is a bit small or incoming objects come to fast as sometimes turning speed wasn't enough to get some right. Congratulations!
Fun game, great style. Love the frame animation going on inside the core, makes it all look alive and responsive. I was thinking I'm doing well, until I noticed it says "Number of lives: -52". It's great that you got to add all those powerups. GJ!
I really enjoyed playing. The idea of controlling two objects at the same time is well implemented. The only thing that bothered me is the bad visibility of the arriving cells (enemies). Keep up the good work!
Amazing Job! This game is so polished. I love your attention to detail with the UI and addition to power ups and rate of object spawning. It makes for very smooth game-play and had me coming back for more! Brilliant game. Really A+ work!
73 score for the first try, I wanna play again, I'm downloading the mobile version! One of the most enjoyable game so far :) The music, design, gameplay just works together. Good job!
Hey, well done! I think thats the first game that I played that doesnt think of genres as game genres.
Congratulations on the entry. It looks good, sounds good and I didn't find any bugs. The gameplay is easy to understand and can be quite demanding over time. The powerups make the game a bit less repetitive. I did get a bit bored after like 3 minutes because it becomes repetitive.
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I think maybe there were too many shields!
Graphics are simple, but fit together very well. Font fits the sprites nicely. Cool idea for a game. Cheers!
Also, nice unusual interpretation of the theme. Made me chuckle a bit, thinking you simply misread "genre" as "gender"! :D
The music and sound effects were fitting as well and the gameplay was simple and fun. :)
Great job and solid entry!
Is this a rhythm game?
I'm also thinking combos as a possible future update. Good work!
I think this was chance, but it gave me the will to try to do best, and that was really a pleasure.
Everything goes to the essential and fits very well its purpose: the graphics don't need to be more complicated and the music is simple but perfect to entertain the player without distracting him. The overall sensation is very good.
I had fun making a game for three days, and now I am very interested in and happy to see what other people did!
And you did great!
@mza Sorry its not a rhythm Game. :)
@DeadlyMidnight there are dozens of us! dozens!
Hope, this game will hit the mobile platforms, it desreves!
Great music.
Well done!
The mechanics are really cool on the other hand, you should keep it and make a game with it, giving it a nice design and story could make hit something that would work on a store !
I also compose for my games and liked your music, nice job it was catchy and motivating :)
I hope you like it! :)
Extra props for music by the way!
@DerLasseHenrich I cant imagine you got that score really amazing I think you got the highest score so far amazing. I must credit you in my page for the Most MVP
Thoroughly enjoyed it
Thanks for making it :)
3 attempts.
I will be honest, the score does not reset to 0, so definitely write attempts somewhere or reset the score ;)
Definitely fits the theme, and game is fun as a bonus.
I like the graphics and the music!
Well done.
I really love the audio and clean graphics, and the game is simple to understand, but quite difficult to master, well done !
About the theme, I don't think they're so incompatible. :p
But I like to see twists in the interpretation.
I think that the most difficult game to do it is a game with a simple mechanic and keep it simple. And you did it!
This game is simple but effective, good job.
I love the feedback you put in the game (usually people forget to make feedback in theirs games) and the music fit very well with the kind of gameplay.
And the gameplay is just... perfectly good designed about the concept of the game.
So... goood job! Hope we see in t he next ludum dares!
If you're interested in playing my submission at all, it's here
Fantastic soundtrack and voicing: I have put FL Studion on my "to learn" list.
Also you have my respect for being compo.
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EkkoEKko.GenderCircles
Regarding the game, the graphics are pretty nice. You could use some smoothing on the movement, so it feels more organic. I.e. do not change the speed instantaneously.
That being said, I think you configured the controls a bit better and I absolutely loved your art style. That music track you created is awesome - the whole gender aspect was really clever too. Congrats on completing it during the short time frame of the comp! It took me the full 72 to make shapes are mean.
Maybe it's just me but just as i said - i don't buy it...
Overal great entry though - realy enjoyed plaing it!
You can play our game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/educational-beat-em-up-punches-delivered-with-math
PS. Did you created music by yourself? If not - why did you not opt-out from audio category?
I still don't think it fits the theme extremely well, but as you mentioned this is personal interpretation. I find the entry very innovative, haven't seen anything similar.
If you want to visit it : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/birth-of-a-man
Thank you again for this cool submission!
This is a very original idea that goes further than mixing things but to create something simple and fresh. I felt that the game canvas is a bit small or incoming objects come to fast as sometimes turning speed wasn't enough to get some right.
Congratulations!
Come and try my game! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tactical-hydra
Would be great if you could try our game too. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/astropover
Feel free to check out ours as well :)
One of the most enjoyable game so far :)
The music, design, gameplay just works together.
Good job!
Congratulations on the entry. It looks good, sounds good and I didn't find any bugs. The gameplay is easy to understand and can be quite demanding over time. The powerups make the game a bit less repetitive. I did get a bit bored after like 3 minutes because it becomes repetitive.
If you have some spare time, please take a look at my entry at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/last-stand
Cheers!