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MOONTRIP by chocobyte

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made by chocobyte for LD27 (COMPO)
MOONTRIP
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Multiplayer Galaxy Jumping Game
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At the backyard of a laboratory of
crazy scientists the spectacular rocket
flight to moon was not only shut down
because the also famous so called 'technical
difficulties' but the latest gravity
experiment went completely wrong!
Rocks are flying everywhere! This
is the chance to start your TRIP TO MOON!
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Controls: W A S D to move
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LUDUM DARE 27 ENTRY BY CHOCOBYTE

Runs best on Chrome! But Firefox works just fine..!
www.chocobyte.com

Attention:
If there is a huge lag at game start,
dont worry, it is level data which is
received from the server!

Please report technical problems.

Thanks for playing!
Web http://www.chocobyte.com
Source http://www.file-upload.net/download-8008001/ld27_chocobyte_moontrip.zip.html
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=17858

Ratings

Coolness 44% 1337
Overall 2.40 1086
Audio 2.15 757
Fun 2.17 1067
Graphics 2.68 687
Humor 2.50 419
Innovation 2.48 900
Theme 1.39 1188

Feedback

archaeometrician
26. Aug 2013 路 09:00 UTC
I'm not sure if it was part of the game or if you run into difficulty, but I can't do anything except from moving from left to right and jump. The space launcher doesn't seem to work so I cant go anywhere like on your screenshot. The graphics are nice and I love 2d 3d perspective !
Endurion
27. Aug 2013 路 16:26 UTC
Sorry, no Chrome here.
馃帳 chocobyte
27. Aug 2013 路 21:50 UTC
archaeometrician, there was a problem that a file on the server was wrong, because it pointed unluckily to localhost and not the right url: www.chocobyte.com! Thanks for your kind words I really appreciate it!
AmyDee
28. Aug 2013 路 05:36 UTC
Most of the time I didn't really know what I was doing, as the jumping was hard to control deliberately, but after I just held the up key and wiggled around I eventually made it to the goal.

I liked the little splash of humor but I couldn't find any "actual" ending to it. The game part of it could have used more depth and/or clearer controls, however the actual experience of ascending to space was surprisingly compelling. Keep at it!
Marcellus
28. Aug 2013 路 10:30 UTC
At first I found controls VERY frustrating, then, after reading comments, I found that holding W really helps a lot.
I reached the top, tried to jump over the three and stuff, and was about to leave, but another player came in and we could try to go toeather.

Unfortunately, he left after few missed jumps.

I think this game purpose can only be fully understood while played with other people
AnnaGavaldaKedavra
28. Aug 2013 路 11:15 UTC
very frustrating at first. But multiplayer fr the LD is rare so good job and after a while i manage to climb on the moon and didn't regret it. Nice game.
udo
28. Aug 2013 路 16:28 UTC
This doesn't load for me - anyone else having the same problem?
CustomPhase
28. Aug 2013 路 16:33 UTC
This is not how jumping mechanic should work... And wheres the 10 seconds theme in here?
Kohijin
28. Aug 2013 路 16:39 UTC
It feels clunky and weird, but I am still very involved because it just adds to the game's charm. Also pulling this of with HTML/JS with the multiplayer bit (which I have yet to try) is quite an achievement!
Bmanrules
30. Aug 2013 路 21:45 UTC
Nice game, Controls were a bit unresponsive at first, and game was difficult. Not sure how it fit in with the theme, but still nice
XaiZil
30. Aug 2013 路 21:48 UTC
It was verrry tricky trying to get up there
davidwparker
30. Aug 2013 路 21:57 UTC
Didn't load for me either...
vikingpotato
04. Sep 2013 路 21:16 UTC
Didn't rate. The loading screen looks fine but the game doesn't ever load
馃帳 chocobyte
05. Sep 2013 路 16:29 UTC
Maybe the game was already full loaded but the "Loading" Text just didnt disappear. I saw this problem in Firefox.
ChrisGaudino
07. Sep 2013 路 21:04 UTC
Didn't load for me using Chrome.
Almax27
07. Sep 2013 路 21:09 UTC
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to jump higher than 2 "blocks" xD
Spaceoff
07. Sep 2013 路 22:39 UTC
Looked great but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work, even on chrome. Hell I even tried it with a canary build of chrome, and it didn't even load.

I got it to load once but no controls were responding and switching tab permanently froze it.
porglezomp
07. Sep 2013 路 22:59 UTC
The page isn't loading for me.
I'm using Chrome on OSX.
Blue Steel
08. Sep 2013 路 02:43 UTC
Doesn't load for me on firefox
Blue Steel
08. Sep 2013 路 02:46 UTC
never mind just took ages...
Empyrealhell
08. Sep 2013 路 08:22 UTC
Where was the theme?
Frozen Fractal
08. Sep 2013 路 09:15 UTC
First impression: the sprites are awesome, the tree in particular. It would be nice if there was a consistent pixel size, so objects in the distance wouldn't look more detailed just because they have smaller pixels.

The platform physics are glitchy, which makes this frustrating. Try adding some acceleration, to make a parabolic jump instead of a linear one. You might also want to add some code to make the player stick to the moving platforms, because they keep moving away from under you. Here is a very good article: http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/

... Whoa, reading the comments, it's multiplayer? That's impressive for a weekend game!
馃帳 chocobyte
13. Sep 2013 路 11:34 UTC
Hey Frozen Fractal, thanks a lot for your feedback! You are right, the movement could be improved a lot, thank you for the useful link! I actually started a player-stick-to-platform script but it turned out to be not stable enough to make it in the game, as time was slowly running out ;)
01rafael
13. Sep 2013 路 11:59 UTC
thanks for web version! )))
great graphics,
sorry, but controls is to hard, not good collisions with islands, not exciting jumps, try to rewrite this features
Pickens Inc.
13. Sep 2013 路 13:10 UTC
Quite confused :) like the idea, but really no idea what to do D:
Martin_Monosys
13. Sep 2013 路 19:32 UTC
Heh, strange game... but not really bad! :) Pretty cool in a way, but the music is a real pain! :(
OrangeeZ
15. Sep 2013 路 15:45 UTC
A very strange game. The platforming overral is flawed, but but on the other hand the moon was drawn nicely.