Hallie by Switch
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
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
Ratings
| Coolness | 49% | 1385 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.34 | 386 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.59 | 142 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.16 | 551 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.07 | 267 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.75 | 118 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.07 | 466 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.91 | 185 |
I couldn't pass the first level yet (max 8/10), but it's very pleasurable to play. Congrats!
-Nuiguy
Either way though, love the little soundtrack, love the art-style and it was fun. =)
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 :)
Would have loved extra BG music and one portal on each edge !
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.
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 ^^