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Enter White Holes to collect globules of purple-orange Hawking Radiation.
The Natives of the White Holes might take offense at your presence.
You only have 5 probes so make them count!
Controls:
WASD - Movement (Sorry DVORAK and AZERTY users!)
Left Mouse - Fire / Enter White Hole
Space - Leave White Hole [WARNING! Probe is lost]
Downloads and Links
Ratings
| #592 | Humor(Jam) | 1.94 |
| #633 | Mood(Jam) | 2.52 |
| #641 | Audio(Jam) | 1.78 |
| #667 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.50 |
| #677 | Fun(Jam) | 2.25 |
| #682 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.25 |
| #687 | Overall(Jam) | 2.52 |
| #689 | Theme(Jam) | 2.26 |
| #1651 | Coolness | 42% |
Comments
@Cirral We are working on a Windows build. Will hopefully be up within 24 hours, so watch this space :)
Lack of sound was disappointing, and often spawned with about 5 of the enemies shooting at a rapid pace at me.
It felt kind of shallow, though the physics were pretty decent and graphically it wasn't bad.
Nice entry, although got significant slowdown in each white hole after a while. Also enemies got stuck on each other. Nice idea. A little more exposition as to what was going on might have been nice.
Might just be my old laptop, but the game lags for split second every time a bullet is fired from me or enemies.
@Cirrial @FGM There are known performance issues. We would have liked to have had them fixed by the end of the jam but there wasn't enough time/our brains had stopped working by then/there's some hidden beast in our code that just wants to eat clock cycles. Thanks for the feedback :)
The white hole effects were pretty cool and overall I got similar feeling to the game Flow, which is awesome. However, the white holes themselves wound up being pretty difficult. I think adding some sort of obvious indication about how well the player is doing / progress through the level/game would help.
I like how you use the universe as a level selection where the player can enter the white holes to play a level
The fights are extremely hard. It would be nice if the health of my probe would replenish. Or if it would be possible to earn a new probe.
It's nice how you used the concept of white holes as the game's background story.
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Man, I wish I still had my MacBook, I'd love to try this out. Sorry. :c