Point Break by MechanicalLife

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made by MechanicalLife for LD35 (JAM)
A simple Time-Attack game about shooting yourself trough the air and destroy targets before reaching the goal.

This game lacks in a tutorial so I'll write a few things here.
You need to hold the shift key to stay shifted, once you realise you turn back.
while shape-shifted you can spin in the direction you want.
if you hold a direction and shape-shift you will spin that way immediately, this can help get fast shoots off.

Good luck, have fun!

Keyboard
J:Jump
K:Shift
WASD:Move

Controller
A:Jump
RB:Shift
RS:Move

Escape to enter menu*
for restart and level select

Update*
Fix frame rate related hit-test issues

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1350
Overall(Jam) 3.33 448
Audio(Jam) 3.42 246
Fun(Jam) 3.33 365
Graphics(Jam) 3.50 445
Humor(Jam) 2.86 332
Innovation(Jam) 3.79 101
Mood(Jam) 3.27 404
Theme(Jam) 3.75 223

Feedback

EpiFouloux
20. Apr 2016 路 16:40 UTC
The concept is great but the game is really hard to play and human-shaped movement is really buggy
EpiFouloux
20. Apr 2016 路 17:18 UTC
on your gif it seems fluent, so maybe it just doesn't work on my computer
馃帳 MechanicalLife
20. Apr 2016 路 18:02 UTC
sad to hear :( it might be a frame rate issue, I found some hit-detection getting weird at lower frame rates :/
jonnopon3000
21. Apr 2016 路 15:31 UTC
I really enjoyed this - maybe it ran ok over here. The controls are a little odd, but once you get used to the shifting mechanic you can pull off some really interesting and fun jumps! Good work.
karln
21. Apr 2016 路 16:12 UTC
Good fun but a bit too fiddly. Did you try having a third button for fire at any point? Very interesting mechanics anyway.
馃帳 MechanicalLife
21. Apr 2016 路 16:28 UTC
Yes I did have a third button for firing at first but decided to change it since you mainly used the fire action to "Jump" in shifted mode. maybe it was the wrong choice tough :/ not sure :)
Rafos Games
21. Apr 2016 路 17:43 UTC
woooow I like this concept, but It's consume a lote of my CPU D= I hope you fixe the game and continue adding more levels, good work =)
Digitaldude555
21. Apr 2016 路 19:00 UTC
Best game I ever played on ludum dare.