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Prism by LiamJPeters

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made by LiamJPeters for LD27 (COMPO)
Prism is an infinite "Runner" game. Survive as long as you can, collecting coloured balls to increase your time, white balls to increase points. Use your mouse (or finger on android) to move the array of lights up and down.

This is my first LD completion. I have entered others, but have always been a bit too ambitious and either given up or run out of time. I aimed for simple and complete!
Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23863467/Prism.jar
OS/X https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23863467/Prism.jar
Linux https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23863467/Prism.jar
Android https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23863467/Prism.apk
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23863467/LD27-%20Prism%20-%20Source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=10643

Ratings

Coolness 68% 3
Overall 3.46 202
Audio 3.11 242
Fun 3.27 290
Graphics 3.35 288
Humor 2.00 693
Innovation 3.51 204
Mood 2.76 528
Theme 3.17 566

Feedback

megashroom
26. Aug 2013 路 03:04 UTC
Wow, I really liked the colour matching, which I felt was pretty intuitive.
It was definitely simple and complete :)
Octopuns
26. Aug 2013 路 12:09 UTC
This is nice. Love the colour scheme and the idea. Intuitive and interesting. Would work nicely as an endless runner without a timelimit (maybe obstacles).
馃帳 LiamJPeters
26. Aug 2013 路 12:13 UTC
Hi, yeah I thought of having it start with you as just White light and then there be prisms (name makes sense now) that split you into different colours and join you back up. But again, I was really going for finishing ;-P.
Future idea though!
Larzan
26. Aug 2013 路 12:29 UTC
Nice, a complete and finished game, fun too play, although it becomes a bit repetitive fast.
But well done, like it!
Good thing that you went for finishing the game, i got too ambitious and so mine is still too rough...
KristinnEs
26. Aug 2013 路 12:37 UTC
Nice and simple game. Good entry
ben
26. Aug 2013 路 12:40 UTC
Really hard game but cool idea, and perfectly executed.
Xera
26. Aug 2013 路 12:41 UTC
Really great game, I have to say. Little complaint about the color balls, they are too washed out to quickly recognise their color. Otherwise, great Entry!
Vectorious
26. Aug 2013 路 12:49 UTC
Great game! Very difficult yet intuitive. My high score was 91! :)
Acrimiens
26. Aug 2013 路 14:12 UTC
Original idea!
blay09
26. Aug 2013 路 21:28 UTC
Nice splashscreen intro :) Found it a bit hard to control and react fast enough at first, but it got better with time. The game seems to crash a few seconds after you press Restart.
Nerlin
27. Aug 2013 路 10:37 UTC
Fun runner concept. Good graphics.
Xaychru04
27. Aug 2013 路 10:39 UTC
Great and challenging little game. I like it! :)
GSM Productions
27. Aug 2013 路 11:24 UTC
Wow, impressive work! I had trouble differentiating yellow/orange orbs, and the game was reaaaaaally fast for my tired self :D Does feel very polished though, from the intro to the gameplay itself. Very well done, would love to see this expanded into a full(er) fledged game.
matthias_zarzecki
28. Aug 2013 路 08:18 UTC
You also made a build for Android? Cool!
kratorspore
28. Aug 2013 路 14:53 UTC
Really nice mechanic! Fun to play with simple but attractive graphics. Great stuff.
kbm0
28. Aug 2013 路 14:53 UTC
Very nice minimal graphic style, good idea, too! Good job! :)
Sergey Mohov
28. Aug 2013 路 15:09 UTC
Oh wow, this is really good! Hardcore, but fun! I think it would feel great on mobile.
ShellfishGames
28. Aug 2013 路 15:15 UTC
Nice, clean look and I like the soundtrack. :)
ezolotko
29. Aug 2013 路 13:19 UTC
Really self explanatory, great idea. Only it seems to me that the theme is constraining the game - I would like to play this as an endless game. Looking forward to smartphone release!
rincewind_cz
30. Aug 2013 路 08:51 UTC
Nice idea. Gameplay is maybe too fast (but what did I expected from speed of light in vacuum?... :-). Game also crash after restart without any stack trace or exception.
KevinWorkman
30. Aug 2013 路 19:09 UTC
This was pretty fun, and shout out to a fellow libGDX developer!

It might have been easier if you used a grid approach where each color takes up a row and you can move them by rows instead of free-form like it is now. That also would have probably been easier to program!

But I liked this a lot, so great job.
Sheep
06. Sep 2013 路 11:03 UTC
That's a really cool concept. But damn this game is hard. Really fun though, good job!