Given the theme "Entire Game on One Screen" I immediately jumped to the idea of having the screen itself change as a mechanic. I started by essentially reproducing Pong as a proof of concept, and eventually settled on a win condition of trapping the "ball" in the upper-left corner of the screen.
It wasn't until the last day that I discovered that most browsers won't allow the width of a page to shrink below about 400 pixels. In order to get around this, you only need to shrink the game to 400x400 to win on any level in a browser. If you play the game by downloading the swf and using a standalone flash player instead, the required screen size changes depending on difficulty level, adding a bit more challenge.
I mostly used this as another opportunity to work in an environment I'd never used before, this time Haxe using OpenFL in FlashDevelop.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
| #4 | Innovation | 4.61 |
| #4 | Theme | 4.67 |
| #817 | Overall | 2.94 |
| #863 | Audio | 2.00 |
| #979 | Fun | 2.56 |
| #1174 | Graphics | 1.83 |
| #2356 | Coolness | 0% |
Comments
A liked the interesting game mechanic, but it was a bit hard to do on a laptop with a trackpad.
Very great job! It's like playing pong with your browser. Great use of the theme.
Brilliant use of the theme, very innovative mechanic as well. I wonder what else you could do with it, given more time?
Wow, this is really inventive. I'm impressed by the creativity on show here. Nice work!
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5 stars for innovation, the best use of the theme I've found so far.