Hide and Seek by codifeye

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made by codifeye for LD27 (COMPO)
black circles - safe areas
red circle - enemy
blue circle - your character

To avoid losing you must keep the blue circle away from the red circle, and also not run out of time. You can move the blue circle by aiming the mouse cursor.

The red circle moves slowly, until it gets a clear line of sight to you. If this happens, the only way out is to hide on or behind a black safe area, or pick up green power ups for a temporary speed boost. You start off with ten seconds which is counting down. Picking up a green power up will also add a second to your time limit.

The black safe areas are generated randomly on each restart. This was pretty rushed since I scrapped my main game idea and worked on this in 6 hours. You can play it in a browser but if the music is missing or you run into any or trouble, you can download the source and open index.html, which should be more reliable.

Thanks for playing! :)

Ratings

Coolness 53% 3
Overall 2.57 987
Audio 1.84 849
Fun 2.75 702
Graphics 1.81 1129
Innovation 2.64 804
Mood 1.87 1037
Theme 2.63 971

Feedback

ratalaika
26. Aug 2013 路 08:52 UTC
The blue circle do not appear on my browser :(, I couldn't play it!
Oxydam
26. Aug 2013 路 08:52 UTC
Great randomly generated game. My highscore 26 seconds.
Crowbeak
26. Aug 2013 路 08:53 UTC
I enjoyed this. It took me a couple of times to get the hang of it, but when I did, I liked it. My record is 67 seconds so far.
馃帳 codifeye
26. Aug 2013 路 09:01 UTC
@ratalaika, what browser are you using? Thanks for the heads up. It may also be a bug where the blue circle was randomly positioned outside the bounds, so refreshing should fix that one. Also, if the music isn't working for you, just download the source and open index.html. Thanks for the comments guys!
Spotline
26. Aug 2013 路 09:02 UTC
Very cool ! I agree with Crowbeak, it is best played several times
@TeddyNashor
26. Aug 2013 路 09:05 UTC
46 seconds! haha strangely addicting :) and I found myself getting more and more greedy! GJ!
Linus Lindberg
26. Aug 2013 路 09:06 UTC
My record is also 67 :P
Really fun game! Good Job.. The AI is not perfect but it's good enough for an LD :)
josefnpat
26. Aug 2013 路 11:36 UTC
Dropbox 404 :(
馃帳 codifeye
26. Aug 2013 路 12:43 UTC
Oops, not sure what's up with Dropbox, I'll check it out this evening. In the mean time you can play by downloading the source and opening index.html. Thanks
Mjiig
26. Aug 2013 路 15:56 UTC
I get a dropbox 404 from both of your links :(
馃帳 codifeye
26. Aug 2013 路 20:27 UTC
Links seem good now, Cheers :-)
Badger
27. Aug 2013 路 08:07 UTC
really fun!! great job!
Alexander Ponomariov
27. Aug 2013 路 08:07 UTC
It's like GTA, only simpler))
KhaoTom
27. Aug 2013 路 08:09 UTC
Simple concept with good execution. I love the minimalist presentation, very effective! Technical notes: The music works in my Chrome. Game does not work in my Firefox though.
crashbanito
27. Aug 2013 路 13:39 UTC
Incredibly simple concept, but pretty addicting gameplay. Do you hide in cover letting your seconds burn away? Or do you rush out of cover to add even more seconds to the counter?
Zephyr89
28. Aug 2013 路 07:44 UTC
The sound works fine in chrome. Or is there supposed to be other music? Also this is one of those "Hard to learn, Simple to master" games where if you get how to play, you become very good at it.
BumpkinRich
28. Aug 2013 路 07:48 UTC
Very addicting. Have to get back to work! I did manage to start a level where the red dot was pretty much penned in so wasn't much of a challenge when that happened.
JimmyDelaney19
28. Aug 2013 路 21:45 UTC
Nice, clean simple game.
Crowbeak
29. Aug 2013 路 11:28 UTC
I was streaming when I played your game, BTW. http://www.twitch.tv/crowbeak/c/2836952
馃帳 codifeye
29. Aug 2013 路 19:07 UTC
haha, thanks for that, it was cool watching a video of someone playing this. Can always do with more playtesting!
Lightmare Studio
30. Aug 2013 路 07:48 UTC
Very good and addicting concept! Could be used in a larger game with no problem as a minigame or as a standalone game. I like it! :)
hoqjed
30. Aug 2013 路 07:53 UTC
Ah yeah, seems pretty bare. Though everything seems to be in the game and seems to work well. There's not really a whole lot for me to say about it to be honest. It's not bad at all, but there isn't much to keep me attached to playing for very long.

I do want to say good job though moving on from an idea that could have held you back from making anything at all for the competition! Better to have regained your composure and finished something than to get stuck and give up or upload something completely unplayable.
Joror
30. Aug 2013 路 08:25 UTC
Fun mechanic! Would have likes a few more tactics/powerups.
Brejlounek
30. Aug 2013 路 09:11 UTC
Doesn't work in firefox, no sound and blue circle. But what HTML5 works in firefox... :D Interesting concept, collision is a little off (red circle was sometimes touching me and nothing happenned)