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RGB - Beneath the Surface by pixelpun

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made by pixelpun for LD29 (COMPO)
--Story--
You are a Robot that is in charge of something very important that has been saved beneath the sea for centuries... For the first time in your robot existence you turn on... and are presented with a mystery... what do these colors do?Enjoy!

--How to Play--
To play use the left and right arrow keys, spacebar to jump.

Try to use the colors of the robots eye and the beams to make something cool happen :)

Artsy exporation game.

Elevator - Stand on the platform for 1 second and the elevator will spawn and take you to the floor corresponding with the eye color of the robot. When you step off the platform the elevator will disappear after 5 seconds...(but you can get a new one at the bottom) :)
Web http://arcade.gamesalad.com/game/121073
Source http://www.pixelpun.com/#!ludumdare/c1p6a
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=37166

Ratings

Coolness 64% 3
Overall 2.99 743
Audio 1.69 990
Fun 2.31 1102
Graphics 4.63 3
Humor 1.88 942
Innovation 2.99 607
Mood 3.17 395
Theme 2.88 860

Feedback

馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 02:19 UTC
The elevator..... The elevator will spawn if you stand on the platform for 3 seconds... the elevators will disappear after 30 seconds.... ran out of time to make a better system.
tiffi_gaming
28. Apr 2014 路 03:05 UTC
Very artsy indeed ;)
Lolninjacatz
28. Apr 2014 路 03:13 UTC
The game looks really good. Like tremendously. The particles , the style is great. Movement is a little to hard to work with. The biggest gripe I have with the game though is the fact that it was not intuitive what the game was about. I understand it was a puzzle game of sorts, but it still was too hard because it wasn't responsive enough. For instance, the platform takes too long to raise so I had no idea what to do. Kinda don't see how the game follows the theme too much.
jugglerrob
28. Apr 2014 路 03:15 UTC
Very pretty game. I was ready to give up at the elevator until I came back and read the comments.
馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 03:23 UTC
@lolninjacatz Thank for the kind comments... I agree with you on the movement.. I had a huge problem getting Gamesalad (ugh) to work when I exported to HTML 5 and I had to remove some of the friction of the movement... so its kinda like the robot is on ice... :( And the game looks so much better in 720p... GameSalad doesn't let you export HTML5 to anything bigger than 420.
馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 03:24 UTC
@jugglerrob Yeah... I kept putting off fixing the elevator, then it was too late to fix it for good :(
malmazuke
28. Apr 2014 路 03:41 UTC
Great graphics, although it's a little laggy on my system
Somfunambulist
28. Apr 2014 路 03:45 UTC
I love the art style, an incredibly stylish game for sure.
Brian Stegmann
28. Apr 2014 路 03:48 UTC
Very elegant visual style.
Joe Williamson
28. Apr 2014 路 03:51 UTC
Love the art style! Great job, pixelpun.
Lacaranian
28. Apr 2014 路 03:55 UTC
Very pretty game. Lovely.
馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 04:32 UTC
Thanks for the kind comments :)
hanoth
28. Apr 2014 路 04:39 UTC
This is really interesting. I'd love to see this expanded.
Elforama
28. Apr 2014 路 04:44 UTC
Really nice graphics. Overall good job, I enjoyed this.
lekochen
28. Apr 2014 路 04:48 UTC
The graphics is pretty good but it's really laggy.
馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 04:51 UTC
@lekochen, Yeah its GameSalad.... their web player is kinda garbage... I'm going to polish it up and try to get it onto iPad and iPhone for free in the next month or so.
Spotline
28. Apr 2014 路 14:59 UTC
Nice game, lovely art ! too bad there's no sound :)
馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 15:07 UTC
@spotline - Yeah... :( I really regret that the most... I just ran out of time... My plan was to work on sound the last hour... but I ran into some problems with how the game worked.. so I lost that time.
renatopp
28. Apr 2014 路 17:19 UTC
I loved the artwork, the game is very beautiful, but I think the level in completely anti-intuitive. With an improvement in gameplay, I would love to spend some hours playing this. =)
馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 17:26 UTC
@renatopp - Thank you for commenting... yeah I would have to agree with you about being intuitive... I tried to make visual clues about what to do in the game... but you can't really see them when it shrinks the game to 480. I originally build it to be 720p... Its really hard to tell that the robots eye changes color between the blue and the green... and also the arrows are almost invisible. Thanks for playing though :)
DesignerNap
28. Apr 2014 路 17:34 UTC
I agree with the comments on tricky movement but the game is really nice to look at :) great work. I see from your comments that you ran out of time for sound. I think this game is worth spending the time to add a bit of sound "post event" for completion and sharing.
馃帳 pixelpun
28. Apr 2014 路 17:37 UTC
@designernap Yeah... I already am thinking about working more on it... I really like the direction it ended up going in... I feel like there is a bigger story going on here with the robot... or robots...? :)
local minimum
29. Apr 2014 路 15:31 UTC
I did as most, slided around and had a bit of control-issues. Got up the elevator and went both direction (a bit annoying to not be able to jump across and have to go down to pick a new elevator).

Btw you could have instant spawn of elevator without any serious delay as one could just jump off if need be.

The graphics was nice, didn't solve the first puzzle of the lights in any way I noticed. So an easy introduction to the rgb-components and how the different aspects of the game works before presenting puzzles that has effects outside view (if I understand it the screen-shots correctly).

With some polish, this could become very nice.
馃帳 pixelpun
29. Apr 2014 路 16:09 UTC
So I was reading up on the rules about fixing bugs and I might go back in and fix the slippery movement. It was not originally made this way. When I uploaded the game to GameSalads servers there was a problem with the movement of the robot and I thought it had something to do with the friction settings of the robot and the floor...so I made them both zero, this didn't fix the problem.. but I never changed it back. I will update the friction settings to the original settings before I fixed that bug and hopefully the controls will not be so bad.
Thorig
29. Apr 2014 路 17:50 UTC
The art is great.
Hob623
30. Apr 2014 路 01:17 UTC
It's pretty simple, but exploring the area was still interesting, especially with how all of the colors worked with the elevator. The only real problems i have with it is the movement, which seems to have already been mentioned. The ending and the graphics in general were very nice, good work~
Oye Beto
30. Apr 2014 路 01:59 UTC
I liked the art, it's very polished.
I would prefer a game with more gameplay and better controls (the acceleration is slow and it slides too much).
otato
30. Apr 2014 路 02:31 UTC
Beautiful visuals, decent but floaty controls, but no sound. The last part really killed me, even just some simple ambiance would have made me enjoy it way more. Really fantastic job on the visuals though.
Halbernacht
30. Apr 2014 路 02:34 UTC
Absolutely beautiful game. Making the controls a bit more responsive and some background music would make this really close to a complete game.
tanjent
30. Apr 2014 路 08:54 UTC
This has a lot of potential and awesome graphics. With some good music and sfx it will be really immersive. I think you should continue to work on it! Some in game help texts + elevator activation animation would have helped getting started :) I stared at the start screen for a good minute thinking it was a loader screen. Also it was not clear that I could enter the tunnels when the elevator had stopped - restarted the game because I thought it had crashed.
BigRat
30. Apr 2014 路 12:01 UTC
Graphics 5
GamePlay 0
Theme- +-8
Hyoga-3D
30. Apr 2014 路 12:09 UTC
The gameplay was too slow that breaks the immersion, but the graphics were superb.
Colthor
30. Apr 2014 路 12:09 UTC
Incredibly pretty.
Didn't hear any sound, but could really have done with some (or some other extra feedback) to help flag to the player that they've done something that made a difference.
馃帳 pixelpun
30. Apr 2014 路 14:32 UTC
Thank you everyone for the comments and the insight into my little game. This is my first Ludum Dare so all of it is invaluable to me. I am going to keep working on the game and see if I can get it more polished and then put it out on iPad for free... I feel like the game looks so much better on a large screen. I started working on sound lastnight... because I do feel like that is a huge part of any game... Thanks everyone again.
Detocroix
30. Apr 2014 路 16:19 UTC
Visually very very very pleasing! Remember to add source as this is a compo entry :)
Slader16
30. Apr 2014 路 16:37 UTC
Really wish there was music :/
ActionRemix
30. Apr 2014 路 18:11 UTC
Success! I didn't think I could beat it. I DO feel good about myself.
Simon@LD
30. Apr 2014 路 20:02 UTC
A very pretty game! Nice ending too :)
Nuclear_Hammer
30. Apr 2014 路 20:29 UTC
very beautifulllll! =]
blockbot
01. May 2014 路 00:42 UTC
Dat art! I had a hard time figuring out what to do, maybe some more visual/audio cues will help.
soy_yuma
01. May 2014 路 21:22 UTC
Neat graphics, but I expected more story and reasons to keep playing.
GrooveMan
02. May 2014 路 02:53 UTC
Visually wonderful, but the controls need not be so slippery and floaty. Was music intended? The atmosphere could be even better with the appropriate music and some gentle bubbling sound effects~
Oddly Shaped Pixels
02. May 2014 路 21:15 UTC
Impressive design! Too bad controls are that sluggish... And I think I didn't get the point of the game but nice experience!
zdonkeyx
03. May 2014 路 04:22 UTC
As far as graphics go, this game is #1 for me. Love love love trixel art and you pulled it off amazingly.
Dreii
03. May 2014 路 05:50 UTC
ERMAGERD DE GREFICKS
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
03. May 2014 路 10:53 UTC
amazing graphics, amazing mood, wow! I wish the platforming was a little more responsive, but that may just be me! Good job!!
zedutchgandalf
03. May 2014 路 11:30 UTC
Nice game!
I love the graphical style :)
Could have done with a bit of sound, though...
Switchbreak
03. May 2014 路 16:55 UTC
Very very pretty, but I could not figure out what to do at all. I tried standing underneath all the lights for a while but nothing seemed to happen. It was really slow and kinda hard to control.
ehtd
03. May 2014 路 17:42 UTC
Pretty cool art
SecondDimension
03. May 2014 路 19:00 UTC
Really liked the style of the game, nice use of colour and simple art style gave the game a very stylish feel. Liked the colour puzzle and slower pace but felt there could have been more depth or harder puzzles. Really enjoyed it though.
AlbertoSM
03. May 2014 路 20:57 UTC
Very nice graphics, but no audio whatsoever... The game could also use some intuition, because making the player figure out the controls is not as simple with a keyboard and mouse as it is with a game controller. still, good job :)
PapyGaragos
07. May 2014 路 17:08 UTC
I normally wouldn't rate you in the audio category, but here I really felt lack of sound. It's a shame really, even if the "hero" doesn't look like anything more than a bunch of triangle, the graphics in this game are great and create a nice and unique ambiance. Sounds would have helped a lot