Wandering in the void by hmmvot

made by hmmvot for LD26 (JAM)

This is a game about the Foursquare and his existential suffering. Help him to fill the inner emptiness.

This is a very hardcore game :)

In a gameworld there is an invisible path consisting of vertical and horizontal lines of the equal length. The Foursquare must move along those lines otherwise it will become transparent and will die. The goal of the game is to find the triangles to fill the Foursquare's inner emptiness.

Tested in
- Google Chrome and Safari (ok)
- Firefox and Opera (no sounds :( )

Developers:
Alexander Sokolenko
Ilya Sukhorukov
Dmitry Shatov
Roman Senin

Web	http://hmmvot.github.io/white-black/game/
Gameplay Video (with debug draw)	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvMtJfMNqo
Sources	https://github.com/hmmvot/white-black/tree/gh-pages
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=22038

Ratings

Coolness	47%	1316
Overall(Jam)	2.82	394

Audio(Jam)	2.79	305
Fun(Jam)	2.19	497
Graphics(Jam)	2.93	347
Humor(Jam)	1.89	338
Innovation(Jam)	3.22	195
Mood(Jam)	2.74	332
Theme(Jam)	3.75	103

Feedback

omaha

29. Apr 2013 · 12:52 UTC

hardcore, indeed. i couldn't get past the first couple of moves.

tiffi

29. Apr 2013 · 13:00 UTC

didn't really get it, but i liked the style of the game

AndyBumpkin

29. Apr 2013 · 13:06 UTC

Very minimalistic, liked the idea behind the game. I found it to be a bit frustrating, even once I'd figured out what to do. It's a tad too unforgiving if you stray too far from the path in my opinion. Otherwise I liked the characterisation of the shapes and the music :)

PushmePullyu

29. Apr 2013 · 14:16 UTC

kinda hard to figure out haha

ataxkt

29. Apr 2013 · 14:35 UTC

Sorry, I just can't figure out what to do! A preloader might have been nice too, I thought it was broken at first!

shattik

29. Apr 2013 · 17:36 UTC

Gameplay video explains the proper technique of playing. It is difficult to quickly grasp what to do, but a few minutes later the game gets interesting :)

Ryusui

01. May 2013 · 07:56 UTC

A clever concept but annoyingly unforgiving - I can accept "stray too far from the path and you die," but the "death margin" feels too twitchy, especially since (as I eventually learned) the square shapes don't actually align with the path.

I quit after I collected two triangles, died, and had to start over. :(

zkenshin

02. May 2013 · 16:09 UTC

Really enjoyable once you get into it.
Nice concept (:

PabloAlexandre31

04. May 2013 · 02:07 UTC

I don't understand :(

pvwradtke

05. May 2013 · 07:11 UTC

Very hard to pick up. The idea is quite interesting, but the controls don't help (diagonals for the win in the 21st century) and it's very easy to miss. If it was a bit more forgiving and/or the controls were a bit more responsive, I would say it was a good challenge. However, these changes are "low hanging fruits" which I think can be made very easily.

Shigor

06. May 2013 · 17:05 UTC

Might be nice idea, but hardcore? more like insane... i really didn't have the patience for this :/

Floko

09. May 2013 · 05:03 UTC

its a nice idea. I like the game style. I fit nice the theme nicely

The gameplay could be more forgiving, IMO. But that may not be your focus and I'm okay with that =]