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Scroll Bars by Scipio Xaos

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made by Scipio Xaos for LD34 (JAM)
SCROLL BARS
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A very simple arcade game. You have two buttons: Grow and Shrink. Do your best to survive, collect checkpoints, coins, and battle items in... LOCAL MULTIPLAYER. You can see the controls in game at the Configure menu. Additionally, a description of the game can be found in the About menu.

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Sorry for the ugly swing menu... didn't have time to beautify it before deadline. :P

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CLARIFICATION: There is a single player AND a multiplayer mode. The MP Battle game mode is ONLY available in multiplayer and is the only mode with battle items (obviously :P ).
Java (All OSes) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5pJzDjtubD8ZHRIWVJ2NHJ4Y1E/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=7742

Ratings

Coolness 40% 1727
Overall(Jam) 3.30 541
Fun(Jam) 2.90 725
Innovation(Jam) 3.47 271
Theme(Jam) 4.05 191

Feedback

ReactorScram
15. Dec 2015 · 02:24 UTC
Extremely hard and emasculating
ajayajayaj
15. Dec 2015 · 22:14 UTC
Cool
acotis
15. Dec 2015 · 22:25 UTC
Laggy control ruined it, but I like the idea and especially the multiplayer.
mockthebear
15. Dec 2015 · 23:04 UTC
i dont know if it was me, but the controls are taking like 0.5s to execute.

but the ide,a actually its the first time i see something like this!
you dont need complex graphics to do this, and it make looks even simpler!
bitdecaygames
16. Dec 2015 · 19:25 UTC
I really liked the split screen action. Good job!
🎤 Scipio Xaos
19. Dec 2015 · 22:15 UTC
Laggy controls? Odd. If anyone would care to give some more feedback about those laggy controls I could maybe look into it. Maybe a short video of the laggy controls in action?
ElliotFiske
19. Dec 2015 · 23:45 UTC
Interesting game! It gets pretty unreasonably hard after speeding up, I found myself just staying at the smallest size and flicking out to get stuff that was near me. But that was still a satisfying mechanic.
matiasbontempo
19. Dec 2015 · 23:47 UTC
The game is really hard! I love that! Haha. It is a cool concept.
There were some bugs, the only way I found to restart the game was by closing it an re opening it every time.
🎤 Scipio Xaos
20. Dec 2015 · 20:41 UTC
matiasbontempo: press ESCAPE to end game... sorry if that wasn't clear, everyone.
Yvanor
20. Dec 2015 · 21:47 UTC
Game with an interesting concept, the gameplay is too slow, it's not really fun. (I guess it's more fun with other players).
Masuno
20. Dec 2015 · 23:57 UTC
And it looked so simple, too.
Gipzo
23. Dec 2015 · 09:30 UTC
Simple and hardcore game, nice one :)
Aaranos
25. Dec 2015 · 02:16 UTC
The menu is very in depth with options and various difficulties. The game is also fairly difficult since the growth of the bar is in segments. Manages to fit both themes without feeling restricted by them.
Tangible Games
25. Dec 2015 · 13:09 UTC
Java somehow makes my MacBook want to fly, spinning all fans at max. And the game still seems to run a bit slow.
Anyway, the game is hard!
Will try the local multiplayer when I get to the office ;)
TheMonsterFromTheDeep
04. Jan 2016 · 06:08 UTC
This is a cool little game. I'm afraid it's a little hard because the controls are a little clunky for some reason - probably the "lag" that other people were mentioning.