My first entry alone in Ludum Dare, and second overall. #LDJAM
A roguelike-maze-ish game where you takes role of a little shooting star called Hallie. The game basically consists in controlling two scrollable portals using the arrow keys (left/right for the southern one, and up/down for the eastern one), and make Hallie travel between them, once you can't control her directly. You need to collect as many stars as you can, and avoid recurrent asteroids that appear. The game ends once your life (i called HP) drops to zero.
CONTROLS:
left/right arrow keys = move the horizontal portal
up/down arrow keys = move the vertical portal
space = pauses the game
Music are remixes from Mega Drive's Ristar original soundtrack (as well i inspired on Ristar design to create Hallie).
Remixes by SuperShadow (title theme) and Bizen (stage theme)
No copyright infringement intended at all.
When you first run the game, there may be a little delay before music starts, because music is downloaded right when the game start. Hope it isn't much annoying.
I hope you enjoy! (...and don't mind my creepy art skills too XD)
EDIT: It seems at Level 5, when there are too much asteroids, it becomes pretty impossible to go further, since the star become all unstable due to placing algorhythm
Downloads and Links
Ratings
| #118 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.75 |
| #142 | Fun(Jam) | 3.59 |
| #185 | Theme(Jam) | 3.91 |
| #267 | Humor(Jam) | 3.07 |
| #386 | Overall(Jam) | 3.34 |
| #466 | Mood(Jam) | 3.07 |
| #551 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.16 |
| #1385 | Coolness | 49% |
Comments
Really liked that opening track. Crazy nice. Gameplay is nice, but I think it could have made use of more dimensions. The crying star when you die is hilarious! ;D
Nice game, I really enjoyed this, and probably spent too long playing it! ;) Thanks for the game,
-Nuiguy
Really good idea! Music was really nice! Really enjoyable, I hope you will still working on it! Good job!
Good idea! I'm entirely sure how to get him to turn around and jump back through the portals though (sometimes it did, and sometimes it didn't).
Either way though, love the little soundtrack, love the art-style and it was fun. =)
At first it felt weird and difficult to do what I wanted to do, but then I got better at it, and started to be able to plan ahead and catch those stars! I felt like I was learning a new skill, and that's when it got interesting.
Got to level 3.
Noticed the nice star-placing algorithm, they're always reachable and move if not!
The HP increase did not help me allot.
I found the graphics actually ok :)
Very nice puzzle game, a little easy but a very solid effort in the time alotted, Great Job
Nice 8-bit art and music :) also interesting idea for a game.
This was really cute. Had neat game play, nice job!
Loved the idea. High ratings on fun and innvoation. I would like to see a semitransparent shade from the portal to see if my Hallie will hit obstacle or not. I dont think stones are spwaned in such pattern that it is always possible for me to collect a star.
Now you're thinking with portals ;)
Would have loved extra BG music and one portal on each edge !
Hey, this was fun to figure out and had great graphics and sound!
I had a problem on firefox that my inputs would be ignored sometimes, and of course that totally wreck those play sessions. But I think it's just my machine.
There's a hopeless moment in the design of this, where you have made your fatal mistake but it will be several very long painful seconds before that smiling star actually smashes into her doom. I have mixed feelings that this is both good and bad. ;)
Nice entry! Love these tight arcade games w/ new mechanics to explore in a short format. Loved the fast retry and proc gen so it was different each time.
amazing style and graphics! The sounds and music are awesome! Please, tell me where did you took this music, if this not a secret?
Interesting game! I played a few times and one of them I got lucky with the placing algorithm. I reached level 7 (163EXP). Here is a screenshoot shortly before died:
http://igoramendola.com/extra/hallie.png
It is a funny entry and I enjoyed playing it :D and the titlescreen looks like an original NES game ^^
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Good idea! Funny game! Good music! Liked your 8 bit art!
I couldn't pass the first level yet (max 8/10), but it's very pleasurable to play. Congrats!