April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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Here is my entry for Minimalism. Its an avoider game called Squares. How long can you avoid the squares? My best is 126 sec. Let me know what you got in the comments.
Arrow keys to move.
M to mute music.
Enjoy!
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #339 | Theme | 3.76 |
| #428 | Audio | 2.92 |
| #458 | Fun | 3.09 |
| #698 | Overall | 3.04 |
| #885 | Humor | 1.81 |
| #922 | Mood | 2.51 |
| #1017 | Graphics | 2.42 |
| #1093 | Innovation | 2.29 |
Comments
Great game, super-simple, but works. Menu screen is amazing - voice saying "squares" is simply fabulous.
Nice. I wish the movement of the black square was a bit more smooth / slippery to make it harder. Graphics fit the theme very well.
I also liked the "SQUARES" voice! Got a soft spot for avoid-till-they-getcha games. This one was fun!
I like it. Very minimal, but as it speeds up you have to think ahead and figure out where you need to be to survive the longest.
If I was going to make any change, I'd tweak the movement speed and especially the inertia. Right now there isn't much weight and it starts and stops kind of abruptly. Smoothing that out would make the game feel better (though it would probably make the game a tad bit easier).
Fun game. One surprise - no squares from the bottom? Intentional?
Simple little game. Pretty well implemented. Nice particle effect when you die. Maybe show your time at the end?
Nice game. I appreciated the constant movement speed of all the blocks (including your own). It allows for a strategy of moving in a direction that oncoming blocks are, and only focusing on avoiding two colors.
Love the music and how it slowly builds up the panic within you. Stays true to the theme as well!
Really simple avoiding game and the 'Squares' voice at the start was funny :) Great job :P
Very nice! Simple concept with an excellent execution.
Good job!
Appreciate all the feedback :) I'm really glad you all like the titlescreen. I think I put more time into it than the game.
@Lucas Tiridath: After you die, if you play again your last time is shown under 'Session'.
@VictorGrunn: When the theme was announced, I kept reading the wikipedia article on Minimalism and staring at that Piet Mondrian picture. That's were the idea for the game game from. The painting only uses the colors black, white, red, blue and yellow. So since I was basing my game on the painting I wanted to stay true to it. So this is why there are no squares from the bottom. :)
82 seconds! Gets really trippy after the first minute :).
Loved the mondriaan homage with the colours.
The colors looked cool when the screen was full of them. I wasn't a fan of your resolution choice, even with full screening my browser I couldn't see everything.
I guess all those years playing bullet-hells pays off http://imgur.com/KxWl7j0 Nice game!
Reminds me of my earlier "minimal" LD entry, except in that one you controlled the block with a mouse =)
Love it!
It's an excellent entry - contains good working gameplay, matches the theme very well, and is just overall funny.
It kind of reminds me of Sound Dodger, which is a brilliant game.
I would tweak the player control to be faster and smoother, but that's it.
Go squares!
Sound dind't worked to me on chrome.
Nice entry 90s on my second round :D!
Cool little game. The music builds up tension as it gets harder. My best was barely 51 seconds.
One thing I would take extra care is window/frame size. The height is way too much to fit in modest displays (HD resolution)
@mesene I'm sorry the sound didn't work for you. I'm not sure what the reason could be. It was made in flash and I get sound when I run it in chrome. But congrats on getting 90s!
Fun gameplay, thrillingly simple music :P
I don't know how the game plays on other's browsers, but I had a 20-30 frames per second, and I like my dodging games at smooth 60 :P Nice job!
180 seconds. I think the game needs some other mechanic to increase the depth of the game, as I lost interest after awhile. Nice work though.
107 seconds! However, I think this game could be more fun if it has more than one mechanic.
The audio gave a really nice feedback on the pacing of the game. =D Nice and simple. Good job!
Extremely simple but extremely addictive at the same time. I liked the player square's exploding death animation plus I loved how the music seems to get faster the harder the game gets.
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Kind of fun game, but once you get used to it, it gets quite easy. Also, I got kind of dizzy...:P