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A Rainbow by mons657

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made by mons657 for LD30 (COMPO)
You are James, a red rectangle. His family was kidnapped by the evil green rectangles. However, James has the Rainbow ability, which means he can see all of the colour worlds and teleport between them. He must make his way through three levels by jumping through the worlds to the end.

Controls:

A and D to move
W to jump
Enter to restart a level
Arrow keys to Change Colour World
You can only stand on platforms of the same colour as you, with the exception being grey, which is always solid.
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/u9eumj8h7qem427/LD30.jar?dl=0
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/gzw62nnvlnp2x8l/src.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=38014

Ratings

Coolness 42% 1523
Overall 2.83 912
Fun 2.68 870
Graphics 1.91 1170
Innovation 3.30 446
Mood 2.45 969
Theme 2.64 925

Feedback

HolyBlackCat
24. Aug 2014 路 21:54 UTC
Downloading from dropbox requires registration. May be add an alternative link?
馃帳 mons657
24. Aug 2014 路 22:37 UTC
I will try to fix that. Thanks for letting me know.
tmpxyz
24. Aug 2014 路 23:50 UTC
oh, java has a physics library too?
馃帳 mons657
25. Aug 2014 路 01:37 UTC
No, I did the physics myself.
ThijsTak
25. Aug 2014 路 08:20 UTC
OK, for some reason the game runs very fast on my system. Like the idea though.
馃帳 mons657
25. Aug 2014 路 12:19 UTC
I think I messed up the tick rate code somewhere.
Jupiter_Hadley
25. Aug 2014 路 19:21 UTC
Interesting game I included it in part 5 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series :) http://youtu.be/W46twhRFdK8
micdoodle8
25. Aug 2014 路 23:10 UTC
Some timer issues causing me to move super fast, but looked intresting. Wasn't able to rate it.
shasharala
25. Aug 2014 路 23:12 UTC
Huh... it seems to run extremely fast on my system as well rendering it unplayable. The idea is interesting, though.
OnlySlightly
25. Aug 2014 路 23:13 UTC
Really cool concept. It's a fun mechanic, but it ran super fast on my computer.
EndingChaos
27. Aug 2014 路 02:53 UTC
great entry man!!!
馃帳 mons657
27. Aug 2014 路 03:32 UTC
Yup. I definitely messed up the tick rate.
spotco
27. Aug 2014 路 04:51 UTC
Played it for a surprisingly long time. Kind of hard to remember which key was which, and physics felt a little off.
AtomicVikings
28. Aug 2014 路 15:13 UTC
great job! nice game, I would have liked to hear some audio though
AtomicVikings
28. Aug 2014 路 15:13 UTC
great job! nice game, I would have liked to hear some audio though.

Unfortunately you weren't on the stream while we played this. You can find a video of this game on our twitch channel.
Hempuli
29. Aug 2014 路 14:44 UTC
A nice idea! It took me a bit to understand the controls, but afterwards the game was logical and pretty fun :) I hope you keep working on this!
Chikun Dev Team
30. Aug 2014 路 10:35 UTC
I also have issues with the game running too fast, but this is an interesting concept.
~funkeh
Benjamin
30. Aug 2014 路 10:38 UTC
I also have the superfast bug here. How come some people don't have it ?
馃帳 mons657
30. Aug 2014 路 16:35 UTC
I forgot to limit the speed at which the game ticks, so it runs as fast as your computer will allow it. The faster your computer, the faster the game runs.
ChuiGum
30. Aug 2014 路 16:59 UTC
Great innovation, cool concept!
borgi
30. Aug 2014 路 21:52 UTC
Rns too fast, but I like the idea!
sP0CkEr2
31. Aug 2014 路 00:25 UTC
Very interesting and innovative use of theme. Cool mechanics make for a cool game. Great job.
dancingmad
31. Aug 2014 路 17:36 UTC
the game runs so fast i'm not able to test it...
jomomomo
02. Sep 2014 路 19:54 UTC
Can't play windows games... can we get a web ver?
SnoringFrog
05. Sep 2014 路 23:07 UTC
Controls felt kinda jerky, but otherwise not a bad game. One thing that would have been nice is to have some indicator of which color went with which button. Even though there were only 3, I often found myself dying b/c I pressed the wrong button on accident.
馃帳 mons657
06. Sep 2014 路 15:26 UTC
SnoringFrog good idea. I will try to add that.
romandtom
13. Sep 2014 路 19:06 UTC
nice idea.. could be much better with graphic.
Hope to see more games of you in the future :)
馃帳 mons657
13. Sep 2014 路 23:43 UTC
romandtom: Yeah, originally the graphics were going to be better, but then my rendering system broke down, so I rebuilt it to be simpler.
crazyrems
14. Sep 2014 路 10:06 UTC
It moves slower when you hold a color key.
And it's impossible to climb slopes, you have to jump.
This makes this platformer from nice to unfinished :/
Aglavra
14. Sep 2014 路 11:58 UTC
Interesting idea, but not the best implementation: controls make the game hardly playable for me, because the response isn't very fast. The main character keeps direction and velocity of movement, after it falls down and level restarts.