Torus by Chris Delta

made by Chris Delta for LD35 (COMPO)

You have fallen unexpectedly into a twisted, Shapeshifting labyrinth, and you must now find all three keys and escape through its reality-bending halls, while avoiding their half-beast ruler.

CONTROLS:
- Arrow Keys, WASD, or IJKL to move
- SPACE or any Mouse button to dash (note, dashing takes almost half your max health, and will kill you if you try to spam it)
- Mouse to control looking direction
- M to mute/unmute ambient sounds
- F to toggle fullscreen
- R to force respawn
- ESCAPE to quit

Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zdo45ogucv0qns/Torus.zip?dl=1
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/s/riecw5i7bvuf2ey/Torus%20Source.zip?dl=1
Itch.io	https://deltadaedalus.itch.io/torus
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=38163

Ratings

Coolness	59%	3
Overall	3.23	454

Audio	2.89	381
Fun	3.21	417
Graphics	3.31	345
Innovation	3.14	440
Mood	3.71	80
Theme	2.97	701

Feedback

jcmonkey

18. Apr 2016 · 20:57 UTC

This game is pretty interesting. i would have liked a closer viewpoint, but i see what you were trying to do with the perspective mode.

Blobo

18. Apr 2016 · 21:09 UTC

Pretty frustrating. i wasn't sure where to go, or what i was doing, and the place seemed different every time i died.

jelch

19. Apr 2016 · 05:01 UTC

Couldn't move, then it crashed :(

ranmaru90

19. Apr 2016 · 05:03 UTC

Haha, reminds me of Teleglitch: Die More Edition! Cool game!

Tsevion

19. Apr 2016 · 05:13 UTC

Clever. The perspective and light made it difficult to remember what was what, so the fact the labyrinth was constantly shifting was not obvious.

I gotta ask, is the name Torus related to the movie Cube?

Skipi

19. Apr 2016 · 05:18 UTC

Neat little game. It's buggy on my computer, though. The mouse controls do not work, and dashing crashes the game.

🎤 Chris Delta

19. Apr 2016 · 05:21 UTC

jelch: Did you have a controller plugged in? I noticed a bug similar to that when I was trying to add controller support, so I decided to just not mention the existence of buggy controller support :p

Tsevion: No, I haven't even heard of that movie. "Torus" refers to the weird topology of the labyrinth, and to the monster.

BloodJohn

19. Apr 2016 · 18:36 UTC

Great maze. Thank you got lost. :)

PowerSpark

19. Apr 2016 · 23:20 UTC

Interesting idea, it's something I have wanted to try before and this is executed well

Weeping Rupee

21. Apr 2016 · 02:28 UTC

Ran into a bug when dashing :(
map.lua:59: attempt to index a nil value

Traceback

map.lua:59: in function 'get'
main.lua.292: in function 'swapZones'
main.lua.260: in function 'updateMap'
main.lue:48: in function 'update'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

I'll check back again later :)

🎤 Chris Delta

21. Apr 2016 · 03:48 UTC

Weeping Rupee, thanks a bunch for copying that stack trace! Unfortunately it didn't help much, it looks like you ran into some kind of weird corner case. I added a check that should prevent whatever caused that from being a crash bug in the future. As well, I nuked all trace of the buggy controller bullshit that's been giving people trouble. Thanks again, hope you don't get too unlucky this time!

SeaDads

21. Apr 2016 · 12:54 UTC

The mood in this game is incredible. fits really well with the crazy labyrinth. Really loved the representation of health with the red tint!

samlo

23. Apr 2016 · 13:03 UTC

Holy crap this is cool! Love the teleglitch-style perspective. Very eerie, got lost a lot (not a bad thing ;) )

Lullaby

23. Apr 2016 · 21:27 UTC

It was clever to limit the field of view in order to get the player lost. I did not manage to reach the end of the game, as I had sometime the impression to take damage without doing anything :(

guoboism

25. Apr 2016 · 05:24 UTC

Nice graphics,

TheCain

28. Apr 2016 · 20:12 UTC

I didn't beat it, but it had a good mood and even spooked me once. The twisting hallways were very disorienting.

paradxil

02. May 2016 · 04:32 UTC

The mood was amazing... Nice job :)