Impulse by Nega Drive

made by Nega Drive for LD34 (JAM)

A simple endless runner style game where you must avoid obstacles by moving your gradually accelerating ship left and right. The course will be randomly built out of different map sections as you progress.

An entry mainly for the 'Two Button Controls' theme. I guess your ship's velocity is 'Growing' too, if you need at least a flimsy pretense for it to fall under both themes!

Game was made with Unity, Photoshop, Flash, FL Studio, Audacity and Tiled. Sounds taken from Imphrenzia and Freesound.org. Original soundtrack by me (Rich)!

NOTE: Apparently there's a bug where the text goes way too big in 4:3 at fullscreen! We'll be looking at it.

Windows	http://negadrive.co.uk/games/impulse/impulse_windows.zip
WebGL	http://negadrive.co.uk/games/impulse/
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=26098

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall(Jam)	3.35	487

Audio(Jam)	3.42	290
Fun(Jam)	3.21	464
Graphics(Jam)	3.62	427
Innovation(Jam)	2.39	937
Mood(Jam)	3.08	627
Theme(Jam)	3.63	552

Feedback

pontooncity

15. Dec 2015 · 02:57 UTC

Bring me back! Fun!

PowerSpark

15. Dec 2015 · 06:30 UTC

Not bad at all, I like the graphical look very much.

KZdev

15. Dec 2015 · 08:33 UTC

Looks good, feels good, sounds good...yep, this is a good game!

ciobeni

15. Dec 2015 · 15:07 UTC

Loved the style of this game.

AzureAspect

15. Dec 2015 · 15:30 UTC

Im just horrible at this game :<
I liked the game concept, nice polish would be that the ship would rotate a pit when turning (so trying to pass corners would be smoother).
Good thing the maps were randomized so I could at least see some parts of the game :)

NoWandStudios

15. Dec 2015 · 15:36 UTC

Funny game. Procedural generation it's a cool feature.

crucknuk

15. Dec 2015 · 15:49 UTC

The game is very polish, I like the graphics! Nice work!

MoreRPG Team

15. Dec 2015 · 18:51 UTC

Loved the aesthetics and random generation, but game genre is a bit difficult for me =)

Jishenaz

16. Dec 2015 · 02:51 UTC

Nice work! I found the game a little hard, but I kept trying. I also liked the random level layouts.

Warboys

16. Dec 2015 · 09:42 UTC

Got 9.22km... sort of proud, haha. Pretty hard game due to the sluggish feeling of the ship and the reaaaally tight gaps.

Overall it's pretty damn fun! I like endless runners and some of the patterns here were really challenging to get past on the fly, but they felt mostly fair.

utgarda

16. Dec 2015 · 12:55 UTC

Nice graphics and even better level patterns, surroundings variety means a lot. And there's an almost smooth music ending on game over. I played multiple times just to see what's coming next.

nuprahtor

16. Dec 2015 · 18:56 UTC

Usually runner games are plain and simple, but this one have many ineresting features that adds to the gameplay. I like how animation, controls and inertia gives the feel of weight, this really make the game to stand out

TiByte

19. Dec 2015 · 18:04 UTC

WebGL version works on Ubuntu 14.04

Blobo

19. Dec 2015 · 18:17 UTC

Pretty cool game! i wasn't very good at it, but it was still really fun.

scorched

19. Dec 2015 · 19:54 UTC

Very hardcore for me! Please at least share the music separately, it seems to be good :D

Null DIES

19. Dec 2015 · 20:03 UTC

I think it would be more fun if the movement was faster yet still easy to avoid obstacles (make things further apart).
Other than that I enjoyed it, the art-style reminds me of some old games :)

Hot Box Games

20. Dec 2015 · 16:58 UTC

Really smooth graphics!
Great entry!

zenmumbler

20. Dec 2015 · 17:11 UTC

Very C64-style graphics for the background, nice. Good with the music getting you going and the semi-random placement of obstacle areas. Wish I didn't have to go through the 10-second intro area every time, for a past based game I'd like to restart immediately. Very nice effort.

gogo199432

20. Dec 2015 · 17:35 UTC

Nice little game, the music is a bit annoying if you ask me, but good job neverthless :)

Weeping Rupee

20. Dec 2015 · 17:37 UTC

This looked good and felt good to play-- it also had a very cute aesthetic. However, I was unsure what the win condition was (if there was one at all). I didn't know whether I wanted to be big or small or what color I wanted to be-- i just knew I did not want to be black, haha.

rjhelms

21. Dec 2015 · 05:26 UTC

Great music, great graphics, really nice level design. Very polished take on the endless runner genre.

anv

03. Jan 2016 · 19:28 UTC

Nice graphics and fitting music track. Ship controls feel very smooth.

LeReveur

03. Jan 2016 · 19:52 UTC

Polished design, challenging avoiding game, good job !

Archonthewizard

03. Jan 2016 · 20:47 UTC

Great art and music. Controls felt good, but I think the level design could use a little tuning. Felt frustrating at times.