Dot Blaster

by avi

co-authored: @reinhold-willcox

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.17

Shoot the dots with the appropriate blaster before they get too close!

![gameplay gif]

To Play:

```
pip install dot-blaster
play_dot_blaster
```

Comments from Avi

This was Reinhold + my first pygame! Interesting working with this after using Unity.

To incorporate the theme, we were planning on using `pyaudio` and `AirGesture` to control the game (clapping to switch colors, hands gestures to rotate and shoot). However, this didnt pan out :sweat_smile:

Oh well! Still super fun, and learned alot!

[gameplay gif]: ///raw/a3d/11/z/44afa.gif

Tools: Unity, pygame

Comments7

Zvyaga6 Oct 2021, 06:25

A good idea for a simple mechanics, we got into the topic very much, a good balance.

Sli6 Oct 2021, 06:29

Interesting idea. I see it expanding :)

Minus11 Oct 2021, 11:44

Sadly couldn't launch it, when installing it gives errors about wheel package. Other than that I cannot say much about your game, cause I didn't have possibility to play it.

Kimbsy11 Oct 2021, 12:34

Pretty cool, always fun to try out new technologies :)

Might be nice to have the turret rotate with a little acceleration and with a higher top speed, it gets pretty tricky to turn around in time sometimes!

I think not having background music and sound effects hurts this kind of game as you miss out on setting the mood and intensity. Would love to see an update with a kick-ass soundtrack :D

mar3k11 Oct 2021, 12:42

Nice little game, but frankly I'm not the biggest fan of using arrows to rotate, mouse would be nice, but also make it a bit easier (which I dont know if you wanted or not). Good job

LDJam user 25910311 Oct 2021, 13:57

Neat game - nice work making it in Pygame! It was a bit of work to set up due to `pymunk` not being correctly listed as a dependency (had to manually install it), but I eventually got it working.

Fun to play, though aiming was tough without a reticle. Adding one would've helped the game, I think. And it's a shame you didn't have time to incorporate the theme = the idea you had seemed like a lot of fun!

Good job overall :)

rufson11 Oct 2021, 16:01

I like how the laser changes colors depending on which ball it is flying to. The plans for using gestures and clapping sounds interesting. Maybe implement it in post-jam version and have fun experimenting. Grats!

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