Helium-4 by mountainstorm
It's all Hydrogen, but it wants to be so much more ... only you can help!
You play the role of 'HIGH ENERGY', the physics overlord. Using the power of energy, agitate nearby Hydrogen atoms and shift their quantum structure until they become Helium-4!
Hold tight, as once you start wielding that power even 'HIGH ENERGY' will not be able to fully control what happens, and you don't want to end up with Lithium-7 all over the place.
WARNING: game contains bright flashes and may be unsuitable for those suffering from photosensitive epilepsy
Instructions:
* Click or tap to select two elements, and use your power to catapult them toward each other
* If they collide fast enough, and form a valid combination they will fuse into another element releasing energy as heat
* Heat the screen and form chain reactions to gain bonuses
* The game ends when there are no available fusion combinations left; sofas up all those 3s and 1s
UPDATE: As nobody seems to have noticed, the valid combinations are all on the front screen. Ideally you'll end up with just Helium-4 as all the atoms have paired up. If you end up with Lithium 7's or Hydrogen 2's floating around you missed the chance to make a few more points
Notes:
* It sometimes crashes - theres a memory leak somewhere, but I can't find it :(
Production: http://mountainstorm.github.io/LD35/
Source: https://github.com/mountainstorm/LD35
You play the role of 'HIGH ENERGY', the physics overlord. Using the power of energy, agitate nearby Hydrogen atoms and shift their quantum structure until they become Helium-4!
Hold tight, as once you start wielding that power even 'HIGH ENERGY' will not be able to fully control what happens, and you don't want to end up with Lithium-7 all over the place.
WARNING: game contains bright flashes and may be unsuitable for those suffering from photosensitive epilepsy
Instructions:
* Click or tap to select two elements, and use your power to catapult them toward each other
* If they collide fast enough, and form a valid combination they will fuse into another element releasing energy as heat
* Heat the screen and form chain reactions to gain bonuses
* The game ends when there are no available fusion combinations left; sofas up all those 3s and 1s
UPDATE: As nobody seems to have noticed, the valid combinations are all on the front screen. Ideally you'll end up with just Helium-4 as all the atoms have paired up. If you end up with Lithium 7's or Hydrogen 2's floating around you missed the chance to make a few more points
Notes:
* It sometimes crashes - theres a memory leak somewhere, but I can't find it :(
Production: http://mountainstorm.github.io/LD35/
Source: https://github.com/mountainstorm/LD35
| Web | http://mountainstorm.github.io/LD35/ |
| Source | https://github.com/mountainstorm/LD35 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=83448 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.50 | 224 |
| Audio | 3.63 | 90 |
| Fun | 3.37 | 300 |
| Graphics | 3.33 | 332 |
| Innovation | 3.87 | 87 |
| Theme | 3.55 | 339 |
This game is awesome. I'm still not completely sure about the rules, but it's fun none the less. Nice work, this is a nice original interpretation of 'shapeshift'!
It's one of those things where i immediately went "of course, how didn't i think of that!!"
It'd be great if you could clear up the whether theres a clear rule/goal and if so how it works in the description.
It's got great energy and I'm jealous you made such a sweet track in 48 hours!
Good Job :)
It has really good music though.
Also I would remove the flashing white or change it with a bright red to lessen the intensity.
Was Fun
Innovative
Graphics were clean
Fun to play (again)
Was nice use on the theme too.
Btw.: the scoreboard showed only 5 digit scores when mine were entered ('SIR' with an 80.000 and a 90.000 score) then I got 100.000 and this happened: https://i.imgur.com/3lQEkm2.png — maybe a bug?
But why is helium the goal? Squeeze all the energy out of those hydrogen atoms, up to iron! ;-)
would be cool with electron-feature.
the white flash is unpleasant
4/5
Tried to make the biggest atom but it decayed :'(
Anyways, I actually got the hang of it on my second try and it was awesome!
Really good take on the theme.
The graphics are simple but really does the job!
Thanks for the the great experience =)
Dem randomly floating balls blocking others :P
No worries though. The game is great!
Sadly, the game crashed when I had a bunch of big clusters >_<
Good job overall!
This is one of my favorites so far. It looks good too.
I was on a streak, but it crashed.
This is one of my favorites so far. It looks good too.
I was on a streak, but it crashed.
Also, you should add a Top Ten scores list
Unfortunately the ram usage seemed to keep increasing until it crashed.
Liked the music and hectic bouncing. I think I got the high score for now. Was trying to prevent entropy within the system by keeping things moving. Wasn't sure at what point I failed. :(
I kind of wish there was a gui showing what combinations were which elements, and which elements were desirable. Without knowing what elements are good, you just wanna spam click and watch the show.
oh yeah... and the audio is AMAZING! It's probably a coincidence (or programmed in which would be awesome) but, when I was playing my first round, the music completely changed after I hit a certain score and everything was getting hot, and really matched the pace of everything. It was just so awesome.
Good appearance and music.
On another plus side, it feels really polished. Great job!
The graphics really fit the game's context with nuclear fusion. They certainly make it very clear to the user, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that they were an outstanding feature of the game.
The music, on the other hand, was excellent. It somehow really fit in with your style and it gave the whole thing quite an epic vibe.
So despite the gameplay being quite simplistic, I have to say: very good job overall.
Very fun to play, well done!
The story also adds some points to me. XD
The biggest drawback i find are those nasty flashes.
Innovation: 8/10
Fun: 3/10
Theme: 1/10
Graphics: 2/10
Audio: 4/10
Humor: 0/10
Mood: 0/10
Coolness: 5/10
Overall: 23/80
Good Game
Also, I got a significant drop in frame rate each time a combination occurred.
But couldn't get what exactly happens when I press.
things seemed to be very fast for a well timed reaction.
Liked the simplicity .
all in all ,wonderful entry,love it!