Quantum by rwoeltjes
In the world of quantum mechanics Higgs the Boson has to survive! Play WebGL or download Windos builds at: https://treborginho.itch.io/quantum
The Windows builds support an online leaderboard (doesn't work with WebGL). I opted out of the Audio category, because the music is generated by jukedeck.
Controls: * W, A, S, D or arrow keys for movement. * Move the mouse to look in any direction. * Left mousebutton to fire a photon.
Notes: Enemies are subject to the uncertainty principle, you do not know where they are until you observe them
In the quantum world a photon can move throug obstacles, use it to your advantage!



| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/quantum |
Ratings
| Overall | 593th | 3⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 575th | 2.806⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 333th | 3.226⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 486th | 3.226⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 705th | 2.258⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 515th | 2.233⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 702th | 2.433⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
1. you shoot through walls (i.e. just like a photon) which makes for asymmetric gameplay;
2. you don't see your bullets, only the light bouncing of other objects.
One thing: it looks like enemies are teleporting towards me. Is that intentional behavior?
So to sum up: solid entry.
Lekker gedaan man!
There was some small bugs I found .. for example .. if you write a big name for the highscore (like 20 characters) .. it gets ignored and your score doesn't appear. You also get in the highscore if you do 0 points... I would change that also.
Besides those small things I mentioned the game was very well made and very fun to play. Congratz :P
The camera view is great, and the controls handle very well. The gameplay is a little repetitive, especially seeing as I found a way to put my self in a corner and enemies could only come at me from a certain angle (see pic) making it very easy to survive. Cheeky of me, I know!

The font is very difficult to read in the popup texts (at least in WebGL version, FullHD screen with Chrome), I'd suggest changing it for a more readable one. Some animations for Mr. Higgs would also make the game a lot more alive, I think.
Overall nice job!
The gameplay is quite hard; i never found the exploit found by @mordokai and @shamps, so i always getting ambushed by enemies i can't see and too hard to kill; maybe either make the "light bullet" hitbox bigger, or make the protons(?) spawn less and/or have their entrace telegraphed
The graphics are alright; pretty basic, but it shows what needs to be shown. And honestly, with the literal scope this game have, i doubt it's a bad thing.
That said, a neat entry! would love to see this expanded more :D
But this green font, in case of small text and low resolution, is hard to read :(
Cool game.
Side note: this text was hard to read on my screen for me, maybe try a different font? 