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The God Underneath by sam101

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made by sam101 for LD29 (COMPO)
"The God Underneath" is a minimalistic multiplayer survival game made in less than 48H for the Ludum Dare #29 challenge.

You are a shiny green block, and you must survive, digging your way to the shiny red goal before the other players using the arrow keys to keep surviving while escaping the dark rocks ! You won't be able to see your oponents, but they leave trails...

In each world, there is a ever-changing god, and, using his mighty powers, he might be able to change the outcome of the game. Will you help yourself to get to the goal or try to harm the other players in their way ? That's your choice.

The players are distributed in 5-players worlds. You need at least 2 players to begin the game, so wait for other players (or invite your friends (or your other personality (or just another tab in your browser) ).

Please use a recent browser (tested on latest Chrome and on Firefox 28, should work on any browser that supports the canvas element).
Web http://ld29.slepetit.com
Source http://github.com/sam101/LD29-TheGodUnderneath
Timelapse https://vimeo.com/93238121
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=21189

Ratings

Coolness 81% 2
Overall 3.09 654
Audio 2.20 834
Fun 3.00 558
Graphics 2.50 990
Humor 1.93 914
Innovation 3.64 189
Mood 2.80 730
Theme 2.86 873

Feedback

pht59x
28. Apr 2014 路 09:24 UTC
Not running at least on Firefox.
Joseph Miller
28. Apr 2014 路 12:12 UTC
Worked for me in Chrome.

The second player to attempt the level seems to always spawn right next to the goal? I just played by opening a second tab, so I'm not sure if it was all working the way it's supposed to. Really nice design, clean interface and goal, and going the extra mile for multiplayer is sweet.
j_peeba
28. Apr 2014 路 12:20 UTC
Wow, huge props for making a multiplayer game that's easy to access for the end user too! :)

The gameplay was challenging to get into (eg. "how do I play this game well?") and I'm not sure if I managed to grasp it after a few rounds.
馃帳 sam101
28. Apr 2014 路 12:22 UTC
Joseph Miller => Thanks ! The players are supposed to be at least 10 blocks away from the goal, it's random, so I guess you were just not lucky !

pht59x => Please make sure you're using a recent enough version of Firefox. It didn't work on Firefox 22 for me for example (because of missing window.requestAnimationFrame)
weazen
28. Apr 2014 路 12:23 UTC
I really liked this. Found myself cursing at the other players when they beat my by a few blocks. Nice work!
MAT4DOR
28. Apr 2014 路 14:46 UTC
I different but interesting game! Well done!
rincewind_cz
28. Apr 2014 路 16:27 UTC
Well, pretty minimalistic indeed.. It has to be really funny with more than 2 players :)
ezombort
28. Apr 2014 路 17:01 UTC
A really cool and innovative game!
philip_sinclair
28. Apr 2014 路 17:01 UTC
wow. after a little confuion as to what the flip was going on i really enjoyed this game. i liked that you couldn't really see the other players, just their trail.
CharlieLove
28. Apr 2014 路 17:04 UTC
The multiplayer integration is both impressive and interesting.

Trying to get to the goal while screwing over the opposition is pretty satisfying. Good job.
馃帳 sam101
29. Apr 2014 路 12:23 UTC
I've added a polyfill for browsers that do not support window.requestAnimationFrame, so it should work on more browsers now.
donan
29. Apr 2014 路 14:51 UTC
Oh, wow the idea seems really cool and have a good execution. This game with lots of players at the same time can be epic!
pancakecity
29. Apr 2014 路 18:39 UTC
Fun! Wish there was a little more to it, but nice!
pixelpig
29. Apr 2014 路 18:42 UTC
You should add more instructions for how its supposed to work, took me a long time to figure out what I was supposed to do
FREEZX
29. Apr 2014 路 18:44 UTC
Awesome game, i didn't quite get what was going on at first, then i read the description and got the hang of it. Very cool that you managed to make a multiplayer game in such a short time.
theengineers
29. Apr 2014 路 18:46 UTC
It was hard to get into the game, I wasn't sure what to do, what I was meant to be doing and how, etc. Other than that I see potential.
Zutty
29. Apr 2014 路 18:49 UTC
Worked for me in Firefox 28.

Well done on making a multiplayer game in 48 hours! I cheated and played against myself using two browsers!
Jeasonfire
29. Apr 2014 路 20:47 UTC
Not much to comment on graphics or audio, very simplistic indeed. Gameplay was very interesting and fun, only downside was the lack of a singleplayer experience. Still, a very good game.
Crefossus
30. Apr 2014 路 13:10 UTC
I like thinking about the initial new gameplay/strategies although there is quickly a dominate one. Also the graphics are simple but polished/consistent which helps setting a good mood.
ryangatts
01. May 2014 路 00:37 UTC
I like the sort of antagonism and panic this inspires in the players :)
torcado194
01. May 2014 路 02:21 UTC
awesome work bringing an online multiplayer game to a ludum dare competition! pretty interesting concept
Linus Lindberg
02. May 2014 路 13:17 UTC
Very ambitious for a 48 hour game! I like the concept and I'd love to see it developed further!
jomomomo
02. May 2014 路 13:43 UTC
A multiplayer game in 48 hours? Wow!
TheExGenesis
02. May 2014 路 14:32 UTC
Congrats! Really liked it!
copain
02. May 2014 路 14:33 UTC
great idea.
but world must be bigger (usually, the first god player win)
Shadow Dreamer
02. May 2014 路 16:18 UTC
A pretty fun game. This is probably really fun to play with friends through skype too. Really good job with making a mulitplayer mode. It would've been fun with a local mode too though.

GOod job!