Atominus by EggDestroyer

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made by EggDestroyer for LD23 (COMPO)
Fast-paced arcade game. Grab particles and grow your atom from "Very tiny" to "Just tiny".


CONTROLS : Hold left button to drag your Particle catcher. Release to send it back to your core.


Just in case those 2 Dropbox links aren't working, here's 2 extra mirrors :
Windows : http://mysterarts.com/divers/atominus/Atominus.rar
Source : http://mysterarts.com/divers/atominus/AtominusSOURCE.rar

(Thanks, Mysterarts !)


Game Maker 8, FL Studio & SFXR, Adobe CS5 stuff...

Happy birthday, LD48 !

Ratings

Coolness 14% 1074
Overall 2.40 776
Audio 1.67 684
Fun 1.80 849
Graphics 2.10 802
Innovation 2.70 533
Mood 2.56 518
Theme 3.50 184

Feedback

Qaterknan
24. Apr 2012 路 01:44 UTC
Well, I enjoyed playing this game because the principle of the game is great and funny especially for me (I'm interested in chemistry). But in the other characteristics, I don't think it's anythink special.
SusanTheCat
24. Apr 2012 路 21:30 UTC
I had to mute the sound. Very grating. The idea was interesting.
Oye Beto
24. Apr 2012 路 23:14 UTC
The "Allowed" numbers should be more visible. You could move them to the center and add some alpha to it. If the number of allowed particles is low, make it's color more solid.
..or just leave it as it is but make the number white :)
sudorossy
25. Apr 2012 路 21:19 UTC
It was a very cool idea. But I had difficulty understanding exactly what was going on. Good try though, maybe I'm just dumb :P
馃帳 EggDestroyer
26. Apr 2012 路 10:44 UTC
Thanks for your feedbacks guys, it's really interesting !

SusanTheCat > Yep, I had several similar feedbacks too, which is really a shame because I wanted to put a "mute sound" button but was just too lazy to do it, even if it was quite simple. It'll teach me a lesson ! :)

Sudorossy > No, don't worry, you're not dumb :), a lot of people had a lot of trouble to understand how to play too, the "tutorial" is terrible and the moving grapping-particle is quite confusing ;) Thank you for trying it anyhow :)
angelk
30. Apr 2012 路 03:11 UTC
I thought the concept was pretty wacky (in a good way). I had similar ideas for the theme at first, but abandoned them for accessibility reasons. It was difficult for me to get a hang of the gameplay, but the idea is quite nice.
robcozzens
08. May 2012 路 04:42 UTC
I would try it, but I am on an iMac.
icefallgames
10. May 2012 路 23:55 UTC
I couldn't really understand what was going on, or how to use the "atomihook". But I seemed to get better scores when I just didn't do anything :-)
SLiV
13. May 2012 路 11:44 UTC
It was really hard to figure out what was happening. The atomihook controls were a bit awkward. Also, it might have been a nice touch to show which atom you currently are.