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Fusion Time! by NeiloGD

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made by NeiloGD for LD23 (COMPO)
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Fusion Time!
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By NeiloGD for Ludum Dare 23
Theme: Tiny World
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You are strong force, that wonderful force responsible for fusing tritium and deuterium together to form helium.
This is what keeps our sun burning. You play the role of strong force and must fuse these together. Fusion costs
the sun some energy, so be sure to use it carefully and do it only when atoms are close enough together.

Start charging: Click LMB.
Activate fusion: Release LMB.

As the heat builds up, particles will move around faster, and the sun will glow stronger.

Full source code to my engine, Psybrus, can be found here: https://github.com/neilogd/Psybrus
This game's source code can be found here: https://github.com/neilogd/Psybrus/tree/LD23Game/LD23Game

Windows http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10382897/NeiloGD_LD23.zip
Timelapse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kNElUIq0lc
Source https://github.com/neilogd/Psybrus/tree/LD23Game/LD23Game
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=1154

Ratings

Coolness 45% 705
Overall 3.13 341
Audio 3.00 216
Fun 2.87 408
Graphics 3.30 247
Humor 1.74 674
Innovation 3.50 168
Mood 2.58 506
Theme 3.43 221

Feedback

Cell
23. Apr 2012 路 13:36 UTC
:O /me mindblown
marudziik
23. Apr 2012 路 14:17 UTC
Love the topic and the graphics, but I'm having performance issues. Other than that, it's a pretty cool entry.
Kimau
23. Apr 2012 路 14:30 UTC
Graphics do a good job and the gameplay is fun, SPLOSIONS! The Game Over condition is a bit random and feels unsatisfying as I slowly lose more and more power as the particles slow down.

Still great fun
馃帳 NeiloGD
23. Apr 2012 路 14:37 UTC
marudziik: What hardware you running? I had a few issues on my machine during dev (thus I optimised the particle count a bit).

Kimau: Yeah, I should have probably left the render side effect of the heat a bit stronger. I felt it was too overpowering when you were doing well, so made it weaker, which as a side effect seems to make it not obvious anymore :( I will keep it in mind for the next game :)
Sos
23. Apr 2012 路 14:59 UTC
I don't think my manifolds are well enough to sustain this!
callidus
23. Apr 2012 路 19:01 UTC
Haha never played particle physics before :-) cool idea and well executed, liked the music as well.
Miltage
23. Apr 2012 路 19:10 UTC
Very cool, love the idea. It is very wide-screen though, worried how that might affect people with smaller displays.
馃帳 NeiloGD
24. Apr 2012 路 02:39 UTC
Miltage: Window can be resized, it will handle a different aspect ratio :)
netmute
24. Apr 2012 路 11:40 UTC
Can't rate because I'm using a Mac. Sorry :(
Topaz
24. Apr 2012 路 12:02 UTC
Really cool idea!
馃帳 NeiloGD
24. Apr 2012 路 12:59 UTC
netmute: I haven't tried in OSX yet, but it may run a'ok with Wine. Haven't tested my engine in that for a while though.
jeffz
24. Apr 2012 路 14:01 UTC
nice graphics, all that clicking was a bit taxing, could have done with some cheats to increase the number of red blue things and keyboard controls!
Raptor85
24. Apr 2012 路 14:33 UTC
I liked it...with one complaint, the charging ring around the mouse cursor was nearly invisible on the background, it really needed to be a different color.
howieV (binarygirl)
24. Apr 2012 路 14:41 UTC
good game man.. i like the idea :)
Matt Rudder
24. Apr 2012 路 18:42 UTC
Took me awhile to figure it out, but I finally got the hang of it. Didn't really get what caused the game over.
pdyxs
25. Apr 2012 路 00:17 UTC
Awesome idea! I would have liked to be able to have some visual indication of when two particles were close enough to explode. Also had no idea why the game ended when it did.
Fireblend
25. Apr 2012 路 01:39 UTC
Great concept! The graphics were nice, and I could see this working a lot better if the influence of the strong force were a bit more... strong :P great job!
JustinMullin
26. Apr 2012 路 04:53 UTC
Neat! I could see this being a really cool game to watch if someone got really fantastic at it...as it is I'm only so-so, but it's still a lot of fun. The first 30 seconds were like "er...I don't understand how this is entertaining", and then it clicked and I couldn't stop. xD
Maple
26. Apr 2012 路 12:18 UTC
I played it a few times until I (think I) was starting to get it. Ended up getting a score of 1155 after a while. Not a bad entry, but as previously mentioned, it felt kind of random when and how you got game over, and, I didn't even know there was a ring around the cursor, so it must have been 'nearly invisible' as Raptor85 said. Aside from these, it's an interesting concept that could be expanded upon and refined into something addictive, and also the music was catchy.
AlwaysGeeky
27. Apr 2012 路 02:34 UTC
Great stuff. I think your game is awesome, well done! :)
chambers
28. Apr 2012 路 08:22 UTC
Good game! It sounded simple in the "how to play" text, but it took me a few matches to fully understand the mechanics.
free_napalm
01. May 2012 路 14:38 UTC
Great gameplay once you get the hang of it.
amodo
02. May 2012 路 14:06 UTC
Extra points for innovation and trying something new! Also for the music. I just listened to it and watched the sun when I first ran it :) Sun looks really cool, too. Nice little game, not sure if including an energy-meter would have made it better or not. You probably knew what you did. Like.
character
03. May 2012 路 16:45 UTC
Pretty fun game! Could use some more particle effects to give the player a little more feedback when they make teh fusions. The music was a little off given the setting. It just didn't feel right to me.
samoojamies
03. May 2012 路 18:11 UTC
I had 5265 points and then it felt like it's never going to end I quit game. Quite confusing first but after you figure it out it's actually quite easy. I like the soundtrack and sound effects.
Pierrec
04. May 2012 路 07:45 UTC
Pretty innovative.
I would have liked to know how much energy was left