Watervapor by Fragfire

Introduction
You play an ambitious oxygen atom aiming to reach a higher state of being through an awesome process called 'vaporization'. You are not quite sure on how to get there, but determined to try everything you can to realize your dream. Aiding you on your quest are your two hydrogen atoms, Bob and John. Both of them are connected to you by a strong emotional - and covalent - bond. Their help will be invaluable as they possess the means to drain energy from other oxygen atoms.
Use WASD_ to move. Fire Bob using the left and John using the right mouse button.
John may enjoy this process a bit too much.
You can influence the direction in which the two rotate around you using Q and E.
But your buddies have even more tricks up their sleeves! After years of training with an sage Xeon atom,
they learned to turn themselves into a protective barrier - akin to how the old noble gas was not a fan of
bonding. Use it to protect yourself from hostile hydrogen atoms by holding Y for John and X for Bob.
Will your dream come true? Or will you end up at the bottom of the cooking pot, cold and out of power? Only one way to find out! Be water my friend.

TL;DR
* Goal: * Reach the top by collecting energy (steal from enemies or gather power-ups)
* Controls: * * WASD to move * left / right mousebutton to shoot * Q / E to change rotation direction * Y / X to block
* Power-Ups *
* move faster
* get some energy
* shoot wider
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| HTML5 (web) | https://ambigames.itch.io/watervapor |
| Windows | http://bit.ly/2f2x0sw |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/watervapor |
Ratings
| Overall | 512th | 3.227⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 546th | 2.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 147th | 3.591⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 547th | 3.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 628th | 2.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 440th | 2.857⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 146th | 3.238⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 550th | 2.95⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
It took me a while to understand in what direction the h atoms shoot. You could indicate it with an arrow with different colours for each mousebutton. - I just read the other comments and apparantly there are shields, sorry I'm really bad at reading instructions - Other than that it handled well and the game play was fun. I played it a couple of times and started to only bumped into other H2Os on the last tries and got to vaporize much faster. No shots (or shield) needed. I think I'm getting it, but I still don't have a clue what the power ups do, beside the energy one. I think the game runs fast enough without needing them and it definitily has replay value with the given time score. The graphics are very simple, but effective and fitting. The music is not really my thing, but it doesn't bother me either.
Loved the cutesy faces of the water molecules. Great game, keep on bumping!
There is no button or key that I know of to get back into the main menu.
PS: If I'm a water molecule, why is everything around me wobbely like I'm inside a much finer liquid :P ?
However control of Bob and John to increase my energy, I found very difficult, but then the certain amount of randomness corresponds to real physics ;-)