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Pogo Planet by ExciteMike

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made by ExciteMike for LD23 (COMPO)
Use the arrow keys to move your bouncy guy left and right, and avoid hitting UFOs! Landing on differently-colored sections of the planet has different effects! White ones are checkpoints!

The game doesn't end properly, instead the scrolling-planet-thing loops and gets a little faster each time. So just see how far you can get, I guess!

NOTE FOR JUDGES:
1. To create the music(more of a soundscape I guess) and sound effects, I downloaded instrument samples from http://bit.ly/GKEEj and modified them only slightly.
2. For the title screen, I used the Tuffy font by Thatcher Ulrich (http://bit.ly/I2ZWKa)
The rules seem to allow that stuff, but we can move the game to the jam if it bothers anyone.

Web http://excitemike.com/Pogo_Planet
Unity Source(zip file) https://bitbucket.org/excitemike/ld23/get/Time%20Up!.zip
Unity Source (mercurial repo) https://bitbucket.org/excitemike/ld23
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=935

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 3.39 193
Audio 3.12 176
Fun 3.09 281
Graphics 3.97 76
Humor 1.75 670
Innovation 4.09 27
Mood 3.17 171
Theme 3.16 366

Feedback

bburbank
23. Apr 2012 路 17:44 UTC
Really like when you jump through the planet. This would make a neat game, you should power through and make more of it!
馃帳 ExciteMike
23. Apr 2012 路 22:18 UTC
oops. my last-minute changes to make it easier accidentally made it harder :(
Rex Peppers
26. Apr 2012 路 14:35 UTC
Brilliant!
strega
26. Apr 2012 路 14:41 UTC
Really unique idea! I liked the visual style a lot. There's a lot of nice feedback in the game. I think this could be a really addicting like rotation/orientation game on mobile devices.
Monkey Armada
26. Apr 2012 路 14:46 UTC
great concept! I've been bouncing for 5 minutes before noticing i didn't know what i was doing.
A hud would help to know if the player is on the right path.
This has tons of potential.
Oh, and an advice from a colorblind: if you plan to use colors as interactive items, try to add some texture too, just to make it easyer for us :D
danblack
26. Apr 2012 路 15:01 UTC
Nice game and some realy nice touches. Falling through the world is nice and I like the different effects of the different colours. I personally would like it if there was some way to fight back. Maybe a colour that you jumped on to turn you temporarily invincible so you could smash those pesky UFO's. Cool game though and with just a few tweaks it could be really nice.
Homletmoo
27. Apr 2012 路 15:42 UTC
Wow. One of the best ideas I've seen yet. I particularly like the idea behind the cycles and the empty sections. One nitpick would be how abrupt the restarts are; sometimes I didn't even notice I'd died.
Gremlin
27. Apr 2012 路 15:48 UTC
This is pretty awesome. At first it seemed really straightforward, and then the invisible/missing sections showed up, and the UFOs, and it became a lot more challenging.

I think there were a couple of times I managed to bounce off the 'missing' sections (on the face, not the sides). I think what happened was that I went through the first one and bounced off the second one.
schizofunky
27. Apr 2012 路 16:02 UTC
This is a really nice concept and you've use the sound in a really effective way :)
iFred_QC
27. Apr 2012 路 16:06 UTC
I read the other way around, so I was actually trying to hit the UFOs. Was wondering what was up with the reset LOL.

Good looking, but nothing much to do.
Square Particle
27. Apr 2012 路 19:46 UTC
very cool
madflame991
28. Apr 2012 路 12:45 UTC
This has potential. I likes the "planet" and the trails, although the background trails were a bit distracting.
deepnight
28. Apr 2012 路 12:49 UTC
Very nice effects and ambient! The death should be more visible : right now, it's not "obvious" that you got hit.
Jhelle
28. Apr 2012 路 12:52 UTC
Simply beautiful and simply simple. Loving it!
matthias_zarzecki
03. May 2012 路 17:43 UTC
Lovely idea! the environment is quite beautiful, and this could be greatly imporved by some sort of music-system.
elvis75k
03. May 2012 路 22:48 UTC
Fantastico!! Cool gameplay and great fx.
demonpants
10. May 2012 路 23:40 UTC
Nifty little game, certainly very pretty. Could use some more interesting mechanics, but is a off to a good start.
Krisjet
11. May 2012 路 14:09 UTC
Very cool idea, but it would be great if it had an ending. I got pretty discouraged by resetting at checkpoints after one hit from enemies. I think this concept has a lot of promise.
Keirua
11. May 2012 路 19:26 UTC
Really good ! That's very innovative. It's must have been a hell to developp. How did you came up with such an idea ? I have never seen anything that look like this, even by far !
That's a bit hard to play though, since for some sections the effect is not very clear. And i'm still not sure of what really happens.
I can't believe there are so few comments :/
KevinWorkman
11. May 2012 路 19:45 UTC
This is a fun start, and I like the visuals. The ufos seemed a little too random to be fair, especially with no way to fight back. But I echo what everybody else said, great job!
Oye Beto
12. May 2012 路 05:58 UTC
Interesting..!
I see potential for a rhythm game. Each ring could make a different note to make melodies.
JonathanG
12. May 2012 路 07:38 UTC
Looks very nice, and a good mood while playing (helped by the music). It's an interesting idea for gameplay, but doesn't seem to go anywhere and doesn't really hold interest for that long.