Defrag

by guillaume-gomez

co-authored: @btiers, @blackbones, @daine, @floc, @pedro-el-cactus, @stormy, @thibault-p, @phorque, @terence-sama

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.14

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.60

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Did you think your computer defrag process was all about code and stuff?
This game is here to show you that when we're running out of space, and the computer needs cleaning, there is a lil' guy who goes on a great adventure to help us...

Between traps and pitfalls, our small friend will have to make his way out of the disk through its different slices.
Time boosters and special slice specific glitches (music/video...) will make your journey even trippier!

Thank you very much for playing our game, we hope that you'll have a lot of fun with it!

Dev Process

We decided to go in a computer related theme (50% of the team is developers, they were pretty convincing), and with the vision of the good old defrag tool, the idea just.. came up!

It was all an adventure for 4 of the 5 devs who had never used Unity before, but in the end it went fairly smooth and we were able to create this game, packed with awesome graphics and soundtracks full of a dark synthwave/Tron-ish vibe made on the fly over the weekend!

Controls

Action	key
Move clockwise	Right Arrow
Move counter-clockwise	Left Arrow
Jump	Up Arrow
Slide	Down Arrow
Attack	Space

Team

Member	Role
Florian Coulouma	Game Design
Thibault Palluet	Game Design
Corentin Bescond	Graphics
Leo Delisle	Graphics
Baptiste Tiers	Programming
David Maidenberg	Programming
Guillaume Gomez	Programming
Raphael Beltrand	Programming
Victor Goya	Programming
Terence Toussaint	Sound Design

Comments28

Anae14 Aug 2018, 05:39

Pretty fun game ! Nice job guys ! :)

Lexyvil14 Aug 2018, 10:19

Despite having only having a few levels, it was a good 5 minutes of my time. I died at least once in each stage. My favourite aspect is how the floor is curvy, and that doors can teleport you on different layers. I'm surprised you've done this much in just over week without knowing how to use Unity beforehand~

Naro14 Aug 2018, 10:21

the game was a bit hard because of the round platform. But good concept. also, i always think spacebar is for jump not hit

Nattress14 Aug 2018, 10:25

Really cool, the artwork is awesome and the concept is genius

Abhis1Kadian14 Aug 2018, 10:25

@guillaume-gomez
Great gameplay & music! loved ur idea and game.:)

Guillaume Gomezauthor14 Aug 2018, 10:40

Thanks very much @abhis1kadian , but this game is the result of teamwork :). I hope you enjoyed play our Ld entry.

ChandYMandE14 Aug 2018, 12:09

It was to play and disorienting but i enjoyed it very much :)

dylanbr14 Aug 2018, 12:11

Really enjoyed this one -- even if I kept getting losing track of whether I was going left or right 😂

wildcard14 Aug 2018, 12:12

Great game! I did run into one bug when I jump outside of the current area but that is just a bug. Really enjoyed the music, art style and idea, it was challenging to maintain a concept of direction as the areas rotated. Well done!

Draeskai14 Aug 2018, 12:15

I really like the idea and the level design is so interesting!
The round level is quite challenging.
Nice work!

Ja_viera14 Aug 2018, 12:15

Cool mood and artstyle, challenging and fun. However I felt it was missing some polish in the controls and colliders, I had a lot of trouble passing the last obstacle of the first stage and sometimes the punch wasn't very responsive, my character bugged out of the hallway into the "roof" of the circle several times and I couldn't get past.

11tomi1214 Aug 2018, 12:16

Interesting game design!

Vekstr14 Aug 2018, 12:34

Great art and music :thumbsup:

However, it's pretty confusing to control, especially when the character gets to the bottom part of the circle. Why didn't you just make the stage that rotates, keeping the player standing/running/jumping/sliding in the same place?

Guillaume Gomezauthor14 Aug 2018, 12:56

@wildcard, it's unfortunately a knew bug. We didn't have time to fix it before the due date.
We will fix it in a post mortem version.

More importantly, thank you all for your feedback :heart:

Sogeking14 Aug 2018, 13:25

Amazing ambiance, the art and sound match really well with the gameplay, super cool.
I did not understand too much the effects of bonus/penalties, and sometimes sliding acts weird, but overall really fun.

Daine14 Aug 2018, 15:35

@vekstr Its because you have to think move clockwise/counterclockwier not left and right :)

Vekstr14 Aug 2018, 15:41

@daine Ah, so it *is* intended then, cool!

Kiri14 Aug 2018, 22:19

I Love the atmosphere ! The minimalist art style is so elegant, I love it.
Controls were a bit difficult tho but this is a good challenge, great work ! :D

realmar15 Aug 2018, 11:04

I like the art style and the music, especially the glitchy style you went with. However, I find the controls confusing: depending on where you are left is actually moving the player right and the other way around. I also would have made the time bigger and more apparent, I didn't notice it first as it was very small and in the corner.

framg15 Aug 2018, 11:17

I like music and graphics, very good idea, controls can be difficult sometimes

Alysson Moraes15 Aug 2018, 11:39

Very interesting game, good job!

Zinski15 Aug 2018, 17:15

Really nice concept! I think it would have been interesting to introduce each new object / mechanics of the game so that the first levels are a way to learn more easily. I also liked the minimalist style and the music of the game! Great job!

WetBox16 Aug 2018, 14:54

Amazing combination of minimalism and epic. Epic music. It is difficult to get used to control. The game is very stylish.

Timbelion16 Aug 2018, 18:02

Lovely game. Almost perfect. I guess you didn't have enough time for more levels. :)

aayush16 Aug 2018, 18:19

Looks really polished with the clean graphics and minimal UI. I really love the concept, but the movement felt a bit jarring to me. Because the platform is round, I often tried to go forward using the UP arrow key when I was on the side of the platform.
Other than that, the game is top notch, the music complements the mood you are trying to set.

Lucas Ferrantelli16 Aug 2018, 18:25

WOW huge game guys ! Really polished, I love the art, the gameplay, the music, everything is just perfect ! Controls are a bit hard, be happy there is no "controls section", thats a full 5 stars for you ! Better game I ve played so far !!

Stames16 Aug 2018, 18:44

very nice game. I'm a bit sad there aren't more level :-D
Just the attacks while jumpig were a bit clunky.

This idea was so so good and graphics were realy nice too.

arron-fowler20 Aug 2018, 10:10

A really nice game. I love the art direction. The only draw back was it reminded me of N+ and so I could not help compare the physics unfavorably. If it played like N+ on this mechanic I would give it straight 5s. Good job.

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