Vanishing Point by paperweight

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made by paperweight for LD31 (COMPO)
Collect the wreckage of fallen spacecraft to find your way home.
W,A,S,D or arrow keys to dodge.
ESC to quit.
P to pause/unpause
SPACE to skip text at the start.

Engine - Unity
Textures - GIMP
Audio - AudioTool App
World - Procedural

Postmortem: http://ludumdare.com/compo/?p=425226

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.03 733
Audio 2.64 593
Fun 3.00 636
Graphics 2.80 726
Humor 2.24 737
Innovation 3.05 619
Mood 2.62 823
Theme 2.66 1143

Feedback

davidB
08. Dec 2014 · 08:46 UTC
Controls (WASD/array) are flipped : up go down, left go right, ...
Matthew Rayfield
08. Dec 2014 · 08:55 UTC
Cool mechanic! Haven't seen anything quite like it before.

However I found it super hard! I kept letting go of the keys when I thought I had moved and then I died. Probably something you'd get used to, but threw me off.

I also liked the scrolling text.

Something like this where you could also shoot would be gleeful fun.
Evergreen Games
08. Dec 2014 · 08:57 UTC
pretty fun but quite hard. needs shorter delay after losing
wandersenus
08. Dec 2014 · 09:00 UTC
nice game!
Nuclear Napalm
08. Dec 2014 · 09:01 UTC
Very interesting mechanics! Need some time to get used to it. Especially flying through cubes. But then it becomes a good challenge! Nice job!
Groydis
08. Dec 2014 · 09:02 UTC
Banging Beat, Game Super Hard, Great Work!
Fonserbc
08. Dec 2014 · 09:40 UTC
Cool!
It took me a while to get used to where I was colliding though. I understood that I was avoiding in the blue grid, not on the camera itself.
Tasteslikefuture
08. Dec 2014 · 19:37 UTC
Thought this game was easy till I slammed into a wall lol. Cool graphics, interesting idea. Nice job!
TiagoJDFerreira
08. Dec 2014 · 19:42 UTC
It was an ok game. Playable, hard, but repetitive after a while. The background music becomes irritating after a while.
Natura-Time
08. Dec 2014 · 19:48 UTC
Cool game ! The text is running a little bit too fast ^^
ben_pxlplz
08. Dec 2014 · 19:54 UTC
Very fun. It's really hard not to try and steer with the controls though. It took me several attempts to understand what I was doing.
goodbadokay
08. Dec 2014 · 20:07 UTC
nice idea, wold look nice on mobile)
Kim
09. Dec 2014 · 13:14 UTC
Smart gameplay! And the feeling when being inside was really intense, I always pressed the wrong way. Challanging and quite the puzzle for the brain and fingers to work together. Well done!
xaedes
09. Dec 2014 · 14:43 UTC
Nice music!
Interesting concept to present the controls.
But it felt flipped - am I right?
Anshul Goyal
09. Dec 2014 · 17:29 UTC
control mechanic is quite unique but I had trouble understanding as to how to play the game. Also the game keep getting paused by itself, not sure why.
perfect victim
09. Dec 2014 · 19:26 UTC
good game
Taldius
10. Dec 2014 · 22:47 UTC
Nice game, I needed a lot of time to get used to control but it was fun.
Good job! :D
pjimmy
10. Dec 2014 · 22:50 UTC
nice visuals, but very unforgiving
hoqjed
10. Dec 2014 · 22:51 UTC
It took me about 5 tries to get used to the controls, then i managed to make it to 1.56x speed.

The blue square that shows different slots to move to is unessessary, as all it did was confuse me in the beginning. I thought the blue squares was my character, and it confused me why it moved in the opposite direction i wanted it to.

This is a cool game concept. I feel with some polish and testing it could absolutely be a fully fledged game.
ajopart
10. Dec 2014 · 22:51 UTC
I also needed some time to adapt. But good job.
rodobodolfo
10. Dec 2014 · 22:53 UTC
Great Game, hard as hell, challenging!
el-pepi
10. Dec 2014 · 22:54 UTC
Nice, simple and innovative. Very solid and challenging gameplay.
Skipi
10. Dec 2014 · 23:00 UTC
This game is cool :D

Some of the orange thing spawn in unreachable areas, like right in front of a wall, but other than that it's solid.

I really liked how the text was done, too.
deepnight
10. Dec 2014 · 23:01 UTC
The controls are a bit surprising at first, but it's actually what makes your entry very fun to play :) Contrary to other tunnel games, you have to concentrate on your finger movements: which key to press and which to release.

The 2 main problems, imho are:
- the theme: your entry doesn't seem to fit it
- the fact that you reset the score to 0 as soon as the player lose! I don't even know what is my best score so far :(
Asaratha
11. Dec 2014 · 20:42 UTC
Cool game. Hard to see your dude though
Kuality Games
11. Dec 2014 · 20:43 UTC
Unique gameplay, nice design.
Crosstales
11. Dec 2014 · 20:43 UTC
Nice and hard game - I like ;-)

Good job!
Raiyumi
11. Dec 2014 · 20:44 UTC
Not bad, the controls took a bit time to get used to, but afterwards it became a nice challenge.
AMS
11. Dec 2014 · 20:47 UTC
This game is really cool, its gameplay hooks you pretty fast, well done!
ynots
12. Dec 2014 · 19:52 UTC
nice mechanics...
quite challenging..
yanisvieilly
12. Dec 2014 · 21:36 UTC
Pretty difficult, but the gameplay is interesting and I had fun playing it!
banana4life
12. Dec 2014 · 22:57 UTC
Interesting
miro662
13. Dec 2014 · 16:01 UTC
nice hard game, but controls might be different
GarethIW
15. Dec 2014 · 09:43 UTC
Nice idea and engine, but the unique control scheme was really hard to get used to.
Lovelock
16. Dec 2014 · 08:22 UTC
The controls also kinda felt inverted for me. And the intro felt a bit long every time I failed. Neat idea for the theme though!
alhvi
19. Dec 2014 · 06:38 UTC
Nice game, a really original mechanic. The controls are too difficult for me, always ended up hitting the walls. Good job though, nice graphics and idea. Thank you for rating our game :)
Piscythe
22. Dec 2014 · 02:08 UTC
This was fun and challenging once I got the hang of it. That took a long time, because I really found that my own expectations and muscle memory were working against me here - I kept expecting more traditional controls and either releasing a button I shouldn't have or pressing the opposite directional button to go from the side to the middle.
DonovanWu
24. Dec 2014 · 00:57 UTC
Cool game! The control takes some time to master. Currently I only go up to 1.56x speed, I think.