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Reach the Surface by Agreon

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made by Agreon for LD29 (COMPO)
In "Reach the Surface" your mission is to guide a mole through the ground with sound waves.
By simply clicking behind him, he will recognice the sound and change his direction.
Avoid obstacles and eat worms to increase your score!

This is the first time i am participating at LD. As you can see i am not an artist and no sound designer.
Textures made with GIMP.
Sound made with sfxr and music made with Retro Band.

I hope you have fun!
Windows http://www.mediafire.com/download/puiap3skbqgcl3a/ReachTheSurface.zip
Source http://www.mediafire.com/download/0gcx4a09cqcunit/ReachTheSurface_Source.zip
Github https://github.com/Agreon/ReachTheSurface_LD29
My Page http://agreon-games.tk
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=33045

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 2.88 850
Audio 2.54 677
Fun 2.64 886
Graphics 2.56 941
Humor 2.95 266
Innovation 3.23 440
Mood 3.05 499
Theme 3.65 220

Feedback

scratchysmom
28. Apr 2014 路 12:34 UTC
good game GG
gikdew
28. Apr 2014 路 14:12 UTC
Quite fine, it is so complicated when you start but then gets better!
Kragnir
28. Apr 2014 路 14:34 UTC
I expected the sound waves to be used to detect things not to control the character. Seems to be some graphic bug where lines of dark brown appear. Didn't really like the controls they could use some work to be more natural.
馃帳 Agreon
28. Apr 2014 路 14:34 UTC
@Kragnir That's actually a good idea...
howieV (binarygirl)
28. Apr 2014 路 14:37 UTC
good effort man. reminds me of something i did for my first one using sonar to guide the player.. i found it quite hard tho.. and abit frustrating to use the keyboard to select menus then use the mouse to play etc.. still good going tho :)
hexabeast
28. Apr 2014 路 14:37 UTC
The graphics and audio are pretty good for a game made in 48h, but the best side of this game is its respect of the theme and the original gameplay :)
aldian
28. Apr 2014 路 15:31 UTC
Very fun, good entry for 48 hrs

8 / 10
Well done :D
SzRaPnEL
28. Apr 2014 路 16:25 UTC
I don't like the controls and getting points mechanics.
But the idea is cool.
r2d2upgrade
28. Apr 2014 路 16:25 UTC
Making sound waves is a bit temperamental for me for some reason :|
legendpaul
28. Apr 2014 路 16:26 UTC
GG
Roman Kornev
28. Apr 2014 路 16:39 UTC
I really like the concept of non-standard controls. It gives me that feeling of playing something completely new and original.

The size of obstacles could be just a bit smaller. It would have been nice to know how close am I to the surface.
Also direction change could be more gradual instead of instant.
Well done for first LD :)
okeyboy99
28. Apr 2014 路 23:35 UTC
Interesting game concept. My mole ate a lot of dirt..
chagroo
30. Apr 2014 路 16:22 UTC
Nice idea and a fun game . Took me some time to realize you can't click far away to move direction :P
SyBen
01. May 2014 路 18:37 UTC
Couldn't run it on windows, missing MSVCP110.dll file ?
tenpn
02. May 2014 路 20:30 UTC
Novel steering mechanism but unfortunately poorly explained, took me quite a few attempts to work out where i could click to steer.
pvwradtke
04. May 2014 路 16:08 UTC
Liked the idea, but controls are not so obvious at first. Had to read the instructions at this page to succeed :).
LemmingSurvivor
06. May 2014 路 20:48 UTC
Menu navigation by keyboard then game controls by mouse is a bit weird.

The screen area where you can click isn't too well defined. When clicking "too high", rather than ignoring the input you should project it down to the "legal" area.

That aside, it's a pretty decent game. Good work!
pichifino
10. May 2014 路 15:43 UTC
Controls are a bit odd but good game over all