Multiverse: Connected Universes by Oana

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made by Oana for LD30 (COMPO)
Your ship was dragged through a wormhole and is now trapped in strange connected universes that he can travel between using wormholes. Avoid obstacles and collect stars to return to your universe.

INPUT: use arrow keys or WASD to fly the ship. P to pause

Your feedback is what's most important to me. I would like to use this as an opportunity to improve my level designing abilities. What did you like about the game? What did you hate? Thanks. I will rate and give feedback to anyone commenting!

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall 2.97 788
Audio 2.20 806
Fun 3.07 534
Graphics 2.23 1059
Innovation 2.69 894
Mood 2.73 788
Theme 3.86 115

Feedback

Dabuuker
25. Aug 2014 · 20:21 UTC
Cool idea. Suits perfectly in the theme. Difficult game. Checkpoints would have been great :)
shimage
25. Aug 2014 · 20:58 UTC
This is so matching to the theme. It was a little difficult for me. but nice game!
OFF
25. Aug 2014 · 22:54 UTC
Really hard but that's the kind of game who deserve difficulties.
Restarting from the current univers would be better.
With better graphics (like GeometryWars), and even transition effect in the worm-hole, it could be a real game.
Good game + better graphics = time killer.

It lack also of a little soundtrack... :)
JBM
26. Aug 2014 · 08:27 UTC
Cool:D I liked the controls of it! The theme was taken literally and done well with progression
ZirconCode
26. Aug 2014 · 09:34 UTC
Very difficult but fun gameplay. I like that the velocity carries over when you teleport.
John Drury
26. Aug 2014 · 09:42 UTC
Super hard. Checkpoints would be great! Great use of theme.
MalphasWats
26. Aug 2014 · 09:43 UTC
I liked this - simple but brain smashingly difficult (at least, I thought it was - thanks for ruining my dreams of being a space-captain...) :)

A super bass-pumping techno soundtrack would have been awesome, but sound is hard, music is even harder! :)
Aske
26. Aug 2014 · 13:36 UTC
I dunno why, but the game just glitched out on me in the web version. everything glitched out.. :(
mrexcessive
26. Aug 2014 · 13:49 UTC
Hi there. Lovely graphics, nice tutorial approach to levels - always a good thing to have that in-game.
Random Abductions
26. Aug 2014 · 16:38 UTC
Nice feeling of the game. I also like the difficulty level. :D Also the take on the theme is nice, in the way you use it for the difficulty of the obstacles.

P.S. Could you check back on our game with the debug version (www.randomabductions.com/space-trader)? It would be awesome if you could help us getting it to work on extra devices.
MyougaHiroshi
26. Aug 2014 · 18:50 UTC
I think it should be the hardest game of 2014 :D could get only 10 stars before ragequit >.<
Ryusui
27. Aug 2014 · 20:14 UTC
Unforgiving physics here. Felt like I was flying on ice, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphor. Love the overall concept, though - all it needs is some extra polish. And maybe a health bar. ;)
🎤 Oana
30. Aug 2014 · 10:14 UTC
@Aske Are you using a Mac? For some reason, the web player seems to be acting strangely on it. I am not sure how to fix it.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!
Dissiden7
30. Aug 2014 · 10:27 UTC
Good implementation of a recognizeable game type, with a nice difficulty ramp that introduces the player to the game and challenging areas.
A checkpoint kind of thing or more lives would've been appreciated just purely to see new universes. Because I didn't have to pick up all the stars to move on, I found myself after a while just going through the areas without picking up the stars just to see what challenges where there. :)

The only criticism that I have is that the ship movement felt like it dragged a bit too much momentum and I particularly didn't like the sound choice.
mipi
30. Aug 2014 · 10:36 UTC
I would make player see better to the other sides of the wormholes to avoid too unfair deaths. I would make the game less unforgiving by allowing for example 3 restarts from the same room with small invincibility time after respawn, to avoid that player need to backtrack too much. I would also try to get the controls feel better, maybe give more control to the player and less physics based movement, so that player could move faster and safer at the same time. Also I wasn't sure was my main goal to get all the stars or was it to get to some other place? Clarifying this would be important.
LandoSystems
30. Aug 2014 · 21:17 UTC
Fun game, very tough. Good work!