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You Are The Magnet
A game designed and created by Robopossum and MrAffen in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 29.
Controls and Gameplay
You Are The Magnet beneath the surface of a table/desk. Your goal is to move the ball above the desk into coins for points, fortunately it's magnetic.
Unfortunately, there are also other magnetic (and non-magnetic) obstacles on the table/desk which you will have to compensate for.
Control your magnet with W, A, S , D and adjust the music volume using + and -, you can also mute it with M.
Coin values
Gold = 10
Red = 20
Blue = 50
Achievement Hints
Dinner
Fork off! - That fork would look great on the floor...
Pea'd off! - Hide your greens.
Greek Wedding! - Smash those plates!
What a mug! - Who needs coffee anyway?
Desk
Coup d'etat - Topple the ruler!
Last screening - Real pros don't need no monitor.
No pen left behind - I love the smell of falling pen in the morning
Squeaky clean - Mice squeak...
Score
At least you tried - Fail completely
Become the magnet - Rack up the points
Additional notes:
The game screen starts at a very small resolution but is resizable and i recommend sizing it up a bit.
To play on Windows you need Microsoft XNA Redistributable
Link to it is in the download links
To play on Mac you Mono runtime,
Link to download is in the download links
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 90% |
| #23 | Innovation(Jam) | 4.00 |
| #59 | Theme(Jam) | 3.85 |
| #160 | Humor(Jam) | 3.16 |
| #161 | Overall(Jam) | 3.54 |
| #304 | Audio(Jam) | 3.20 |
| #332 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.49 |
| #361 | Fun(Jam) | 3.00 |
| #398 | Mood(Jam) | 3.00 |
Comments
Fun game, very interesting to navigate based on the magnet mechanic. Graphics were fun and the music was good.
Interesting aproach on the theme. The game is much more difficult that one would expect. Yet it's fun. I like that you added two different settings as well. Heck, even a tutorial and achievements. Well done!
Cool game, I was sorta lost with the magnet, but I enjoyed it nonetheless!
Original, pretty nice game! :)
The sound is really quiet, though...
Found this to be quite difficult. A glass table would be good for training :)
Great graphics!
Really like the concept of this :) The idea of not directly controlling a ball is very fun.
3D objects look great and feel very realistic but I think 'pixel' art style feels out of place.
Music gives it a nice mood. Great game!
This is a very cool idea, but very hard. The ball seems to fly away quite easily, hm. Stil, I love the originality!
I like the idea. Could have used at least one level where the magnet was visible the invisible magnet was a bit overused.
Nice. Maybe the magnet should attract the ball from a more far distance.
Liked it , yet it was a bit hard though to keep predicting the location of the magnet.
Great game!
But its always Game Over for me. But fun to play around with.
Great work on the achievements.
@Kwrky I've just checked the windows download and it's working fine, perhaps try downloading again. For the game to run you'll need microsoft XNA installed, the link to download it is in the download links of the entry.
Nice concept ! Interesting mechanics, really not as easy as I first thought ;) Great work and nice interpretation of the theme ;) The achienvments are funny, good idea ;)
Ok, I admit I spent all my time trying to knock stuff all the desk. Fun!
Nice idea and good graphics, couldn't get the hang of the magnet controls though but that's just me being bad.
I like your take on the theme :) And the graphics coupled with a good gameplay idea make for a very interesting game!
I really enjoyed this game. Great interpretation of the theme.
Ever since I was young, I've said that I wanted to be a magnet when I grew up. They mocked me. All of them. Teachers, friends, my grandma. They said it was impossible. They said I could never be a magnet. Well look at me now, grandma. Look at me now.
(Great game btw)
Awesome concept and game, I used to do this with paperclips in class at high school to scare people haha
A great entry, and a surprisingly hard game! Still got a couple of (easy) achivements.
However, even when I knew where my magnet was, it was still hard to control the ball, especially to make it stop.
Absolutely loved the game. The uniqueness of it is great. But I wish there was a way to see were the magnet is while its under the table because personally I get confused.
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This game looks great!