Center of the Sun by Cyros
Play as a pink ball in this abstract game. Collect, Shoot and avoid incoming balls to earn points and a high score!
So I finished a bit early. I tried to not stress myself out by keeping everything simple. If you guys could play it and let me know what you think that would be awesome! If you really like it maybe give me a good rating on GameJolt :). Thank you for reading and even more to those who played it!
Building For Linux (or at least Ubuntu):
sudo apt-get install python pygame
git clone http://github.com/jedStevens/center-of-the-sun.git
python center-of-the-sun/main.py
So I finished a bit early. I tried to not stress myself out by keeping everything simple. If you guys could play it and let me know what you think that would be awesome! If you really like it maybe give me a good rating on GameJolt :). Thank you for reading and even more to those who played it!
Building For Linux (or at least Ubuntu):
sudo apt-get install python pygame
git clone http://github.com/jedStevens/center-of-the-sun.git
python center-of-the-sun/main.py
Ratings
| Coolness | 40% | 1695 |
| Overall | 3.33 | 409 |
| Audio | 2.60 | 612 |
| Fun | 3.33 | 330 |
| Graphics | 3.04 | 589 |
| Innovation | 3.04 | 628 |
| Mood | 2.87 | 620 |
| Theme | 3.60 | 557 |
The one thing I didn't like was the controls. CCW:CW::left:right makes sense when the control ball is on top, but it's inverted when the ball is underneath. I can't think of a better control scheme at the moment (outside of a gamepad thumb stick), but I bet it can be better than this.
Small suggestion: make the collect and shoot colors stand more apart. Pink and purple are pretty close together, visually.
Secondly, I had a score of 48, which, while I thought it'd be quite reasonable, didn't even get into the highscore table.
I'd have liked some sort of "Level 2" message or something similar when the balls started curving, though. I had a brief moment of "Wait, what just happened? Did I die, then my spacebar-mashing skipped the menu and started a new game?" - something a little less abrupt would have made things a bit clearer for me.