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Substance by niborious

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made by niborious for LD 40 (COMPO)

Collect Coins while avoiding dangerous obstacles, and be sure to get out before you die! The More coins you collect, the more dangerous it gets and the more that it is at stake. You only collect the coins you get if you make it back out. You must decide whether to keep going or to save what you have.

There are various power ups that you can buy to help you out, but they may have some unwanted side effects. The more you have, the worse it is. Works best on Chrome https://niborious.itch.io/substance

WASD or Arrow keys M to mute music.

Music taken from free domain.

Factory Time by Visager http://freemusicarchive.org/tag/video_games/

*Edit since deadline - fixed a bug that caused held arrow keys to scroll the page - fixed a bug that caused the rare spinners to instantly kill you if spawned on top of you - fixed the price of one-time items not disappearing after you buy them

Screen Shot 2017-12-03 at 7.07.04 PM.png

HTML5 (web) https://niborious.itch.io/substance
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/substance

Ratings

Overall 106th 3.789⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 34th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 345th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 154th 3.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 436th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 416th 2.4⭐ 17🧑‍⚖️
Mood 523th 2.647⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

eerongal
04. Dec 2017 · 04:25 UTC
This is a fun game! Really well thought out, and it gets pretty tough. I also really like the art.
RNGSilvercraft
04. Dec 2017 · 05:36 UTC
The gameplay is simple,but it works.Like the Atari style artwork!
SammyB
04. Dec 2017 · 05:41 UTC
The pacing of the game and the increasing difficult of waves made this a nice little roguelike esque game. Had a few "screaming like a little girl" moments while racing back to the exit!
Xacur
04. Dec 2017 · 05:48 UTC
I have a problem with the page, when press to go down, the page scrolls down and I lose the game. Maybe you checked the option for enabling that in itch.io, but I don't know.
Nammflow
04. Dec 2017 · 05:49 UTC
This game was a lot of fun to play around with! I could definitely see myself spending hours playing this game. It's that mixture of rogue-like and bullet-hell that makes this game work really well!
bradleysmith
04. Dec 2017 · 05:52 UTC
Dat music! So sick.
mightymarcus
04. Dec 2017 · 05:55 UTC
Yes. The scrolling is irritating. The game is nice to play.
🎤 niborious
04. Dec 2017 · 06:23 UTC
@xacur, @mightymarcus
Thank you for your feedback! The scrolling issue has been fixed!
(I had to double check the rules to make sure I could bug fix after the deadline)
🎤 niborious
04. Dec 2017 · 06:32 UTC
@bradleysmith
I agree about the music, but I can't take credit.
I took it from the public domain, and I realize now that I should opt out of Audio ratings.
Which is unfortunate because I did put effort into recording original sound effects.
sbarrio
04. Dec 2017 · 11:22 UTC
Nice game, I liked the music and graphic style. Gameplay is well balanced as well. Nice job!
bradur
05. Dec 2017 · 08:11 UTC
What cool game! I really enjoyed the controls and the idea. It was hard but fair. Tried all the upgrades, the wheelbarrow was cool :). The music was very well done!
mgsx
05. Dec 2017 · 17:04 UTC
Simple and efficient ! i always want to collect more ... and then dying so often AHHHHHHH !
The music worth at least 5 stars so bad it's not yours ... :-(
(IMO the mute music option isn't necessary)
I found the font not readable enough.
But the overall is good, nice job !
tomer_cool
05. Dec 2017 · 20:17 UTC
Great game, fun and addictive.
grostonton
05. Dec 2017 · 20:29 UTC
Yes fun and addictive are the words, and i'll add pile in the theme !
GastricSparrow
06. Dec 2017 · 13:07 UTC
Brilliant! Simple yet well executed graphics. Really enjoyed the hoarding. One problem I had was a split second freezeframe every couple seconds, not sure if any other had this problem? If not for that this game would have been perfect for me.
randomhuman
06. Dec 2017 · 21:41 UTC
Really fun, but I'm not sure there's anything to keep me in the arena rather than just collecting a few coins and then depositing them. Similarly, the wheelbarrow didn't add much for me.
Thomas Molby
06. Dec 2017 · 21:42 UTC
So fun! I actually went back and played some more after closing it. Especially love that the background is just random rects
neontropics
06. Dec 2017 · 21:45 UTC
Nice game! Simple idea but the gameplay is well-tuned and it it immediately fun. Pretty great music as well - I like that it goes almost semi-dissonant for a little bit and then gets really funky afterwards.

As a shmup player I feel like the player's hitbox is waaay too big though - you don't get get those exciting close calls and most of the times I die I'm more "really?" than "welp gotta do better next time". It's less of an issue after buying a speed upgrade or two, but the hitbox could easily be cut in half I think.