Gravitational Shift

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.93

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.87

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.23

You were minding your own business until a blackhole appeared out of nowhere and engulfed you in its power.

Gravity within the blackhole behaves very differently and it has become very unstable. Use it to your advantage to escape and get back home. Good Luck!

W/A/S/D or Arrow keys to move. Left Mouse Button to shoot when it's accessed.

Gravitational Shift was created over the course of 3 days for the Minimalist Game Jam and Ludum Dare 49.

The limitation was only using geometric for assets for the Minimalist Game Jam which I liked very much as I'm not the greatest artist. The theme for Ludum Dare was 'Unstable' and I thought of Gravity being unstable.

All art, code, and music created by me - OneSmallBoy

Sounds effects were unfortunately not made by me.

P.S If you are stuck on Level 7, try shooting the Gravity Box

Tags: #2d, #godot, #gravity, #minimalist, #non violent

Genres: puzzle

Comments26

ildfuglen4 Oct 2021, 18:27

Really love the art style of your game! I feel the movement was a little bit sluggish, and some of the puzzles were a bit frustrating to time, but overall I really enjoyed playing this game.

binroot4 Oct 2021, 19:37

Once the shooting mechanics kicked in, this game got _real_. I appreciate the tutorial, and I liked that I got to the end!

OneSmallBoyauthor5 Oct 2021, 11:03

@binroot Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

OneSmallBoyauthor5 Oct 2021, 11:05

@ildfuglen Thanks for the feedback. Yes, when I think about it now I should've had someone playtest the levels to get rid of anything that was frustrating. Thanks for playing!

runrajrun5 Oct 2021, 15:50

This was really interesting to play, I loved the puzzle design and art style

LDJam user 2574385 Oct 2021, 15:52

It is little game but i felt the theme wasn't used properly

gasgiant5 Oct 2021, 15:54

Shooting was a nice addition, the game makes much more sense with it. The movement felt unnecessarily sluggish.

chainsawmcd5 Oct 2021, 15:55

This was pretty great. I could definitely see a more polished version of this working on mobile. The first few levels did a really good job of explaining the core mechanics.

Jesper Fyhr Knudsen5 Oct 2021, 15:57

Great game, I had to finish it :). It reminded me of my youth playing Crazy Machines :D

Micheldever5 Oct 2021, 16:00

You've made a fun game! Appreciate the in-game tutorial and liked the sound effects and mechanics. I found the music didn't quite match the theme, but the simple graphics work well and the puzzles were fun and creatively composed. Nice work!

afraidofdark5 Oct 2021, 16:05

I liked how you increase the difficulty and introduce new mechanics to keep it entertaining.

OneSmallBoyauthor6 Oct 2021, 12:54

@spider-developer Well in the game, gravity is constantly changing so therefore it is unstable. That's just how I interpreted the theme.

TTU_HASAN9 Oct 2021, 11:19

very nice sound effects and great execution of idea

OneSmallBoyauthor9 Oct 2021, 11:55

@ttu-hasan Thank you very much.

Taffaz9 Oct 2021, 12:11

Really nice mechanic that got the brain thinking

kingslee1429 Oct 2021, 12:24

I really like the game idea! The slow introduction of the difficulty works well and the changes in gravity by shooting the gravity blocks makes this game pop! Well done!

OneSmallBoyauthor9 Oct 2021, 12:26

@kingslee142 Thanks for that, really appreciate it. Glad you liked it

MrChippy10 Oct 2021, 00:29

I think the idea is fun and the difficulty curve is pretty good. I played until the 10th level because the projectile stopped colliding with the arrows for some reason. The graphics are pretty nice and simple too.

KeichiTS10 Oct 2021, 03:01

Very original. The mechanics and the theme usage are awsome! Congrats for the great work!

Mateu10 Oct 2021, 04:02

This was a great little game! I beat the whole thing and I think it has a lot of potential! The only real criticism I have is that the movement felt way too slidy and unresponsive. Other than that, I think you have an awesome thing going here. I really love the way you did your main menu screen. It acted as a tutorial which I thought was pretty smart. Great work!

OneSmallBoyauthor10 Oct 2021, 14:09

@mrchippy Thanks for your feedback. Yeah I'm sorry about that issue with the collisions, others have also experienced it. I'm not sure what the actual cause of it is though. Sorry about that but thanks for playing and commenting, appreciate it.

OneSmallBoyauthor10 Oct 2021, 14:10

@mateu Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed

OneSmallBoyauthor10 Oct 2021, 14:10

@keichits Thank you so much.

Asimir13 Oct 2021, 22:17

Nice concept. I've seen the gravity shifting mechanic done before, but I've never seen it combined with shooting, and it worked well. The level design was really good, and you had a good difficulty curve. Unfortunately I hit a bug on level 12 where the gravity arrows stopped responding to being shot, so I had to give up there.

OneSmallBoyauthor16 Oct 2021, 15:08

@asimir Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. I'm sorry about that bug, I've had other people run into it too including myself and it annoyed me quite a bit. I think the one way to get around it is to restart the game but that means losing progress. I'm sorry about that but thanks for playing anyway.

TheEpsi17 Oct 2021, 16:19

Awesome game, I always enjoy games like this one, VVVVVV for example though I know is not exactly the same. Nice work! For me the only thing that can be improved is the actual speed of the cube, I feel its really slow sometimes.