Ludum Dare #47compo

Hyperbolic Space Fighters Extreme!

by gingerbill

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.03

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.37

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Hyperbolic Space Fighters Extreme!

_The_ Hyperbolic Space Fighting Game of Your Psychedelic Dreams.

In the hyperbolic space, things can get pretty gnarly. Straight lines can appear to bend.

At the edge of the ring is the infinite, and the infinite wraps back around at you.

WARNING: This game can be disorienting due to the hyperbolic and psychedelic nature.

NOTE: Windows 64-bit and OpenGL 4.5 are both required

Objective

* Destroy as many blue enemies in hyperbolic space by shooting projectiles from your ship
* Your ship has a green cannon attached which it will launch projectiles
* NOTE: You are technically always shooting to the right, but because of hyperbolic projection, you will turn.

Controls

Keyboard

* Move - WASD or Arrow Keys
* Shoot - Space
* Pause - P or Escape
* Cancel - Escape

XBox Controller

* Move - Left Stick or D-Pad
* Shoot - A

Platforms

* Windows AMD64/x86-64

Tools

Tools Used:
* Odin Programming Language (My Own Programming Language)
* GLFW
* OpenGL
* STB Image

Lacking Features

* Audio

Tools: GLFW

Comments27

Peace Of Cake Games4 Oct 2020, 20:09

Fantastic! The gameplay is simple enough to learn it quick, but the art is mind-boggling. Great job!

Jonathan Elliott4 Oct 2020, 23:22

Wow the art is amazing!

Lestat4 Oct 2020, 23:24

Trippy. I like it! Good job!

FireGamer34 Oct 2020, 23:32

It was interesting, I was able to stay in one place for a long time and rack up the points

Gevernus4 Oct 2020, 23:53

Are you fractals huge fan??))

aero5 Oct 2020, 09:48

Great art!

gingerBillauthor5 Oct 2020, 10:33

@firegamer3 It's technically a flaw in the game because the closer you are the ring, the further things are away from you in hyperbolic space. A side effect of the space.

bereg5 Oct 2020, 13:08

The art is fantastic. It's mindblowing to predict what will happen in this looped topologic conundrum.

shan.hsgames5 Oct 2020, 17:04

Interesting game. Gameplay is smooth and art is beautiful. It was a fun 10 minute :smirk:

jharler5 Oct 2020, 17:36

This is definitely mind-bending. Fantastic visuals and a very intriguing concept. It's difficult to determine where you are and where your shots will go, but that's also what makes it interesting. I think some sound effects would have gone a long way, even just simple ones for shots and exploding polygons.

SkelleRoznik5 Oct 2020, 18:00

Wow. Such an amazing idea! Art style is fascinating. Still feel the lack of audio and any kind of effects though. Also very impressive that you made THIS kind of game with YOUR OWN programming language. But overall, I like it a lot.

cyberfrank5 Oct 2020, 21:37

Looks amazin! I imagine it must have been a lot of fun and challenging doing the math for this! Enjoyed it.

Tygrak5 Oct 2020, 23:21

Hyperbolic space is trippy! Having the score be represented with letters as a I guess base 26 number is pretty cool too! And creating a game using your own programming language is incredible - you are amazing. Good job - fun game :).

Ale5 Oct 2020, 23:21

Wow that was trippy! The gameplay was pretty easy but that effect looks awesome, and it's super impressive that you even did it in your own programming language and (presumably) engine! I've tried on two past occasions to finish an LD submission using a custom engine, but both times I failed to meet the deadline. So props for pulling it off!

One tiny quality-of-life improvement would be to tweak the gameover screen so that pressing space and WASD doesn't restart the game. If you're mashing the spacebar to shoot while playing, and then you die, you may accidentally skip the game over screen and restart the game without even seeing what your score was.

indivicivet6 Oct 2020, 00:09

this looks super cool but I don't have openGL 4.5 :( is this a graphics card thing or just a driver thing?

testuser6 Oct 2020, 03:26

Beautiful game! I think this is the first game where I'm more interested in the code that made it than the game itself, especially when the game itself is pretty good.

JRevel6 Oct 2020, 07:56

So beautiful ! Now I want to learn how to do that kind of generated art...

PhillSerrazina6 Oct 2020, 12:57

Aw man, I really wanted to try this but I don't have OpenGL 4.5 unfortunatelly :/

igaryhe6 Oct 2020, 15:49

I'm always obsessed with hyperbolic space games! Really interesting!

0x156 Oct 2020, 22:09

Awesome Hyperbolic rendering! Works great on linux with wine.

Justin Klinchuch7 Oct 2020, 13:10

Love the background visuals! Gameplay is pretty simple, but I was enjoying it as a chill game to relax with.

Leora7 Oct 2020, 18:11

Great art, sometimes my eyes got too sick of looking

blobo8 Oct 2020, 18:40

Woah, I feel like the game could benefit by having a more relaxed color palette, but the hyperbolic space idea is super cool! Great job, it's really neat.

CodeRaurus9 Oct 2020, 13:35

Very nice idea! I haven't played a game like this before. Gameplay was smooth and graphics beautiful. Bonus points for using your own language!

Olima11 Oct 2020, 20:29

THE COLOURS!

Geckoo133719 Oct 2020, 21:05

What a beautiful background! Great art - clever gameplay. Thank you ++

PTSnoop24 Oct 2020, 17:03

Very nicely done. Just one downside - the nature of hyperbolic space means it's possible to effectively park off towards the edge, shoot towards the centre, and never get hit by any of the fragmented enemies. There's so much more space around the outside, so the likelihood of actually being hit by anything goes way down. Not sure how you'd fix this without breaking the geometry though!

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