The above is a working title... a goofy one, yep. (edit: I've since renamed it from "Space TelePath War!" to "StarPath")

game dev sloppily done by Gregory Bloom, Jeremy Ouillette has done the music :)

-- important -- recent changes to Chrome have borked audio for everyone in the contest. Try using Firefox til this is addressed >_<

You move by using WASD and SHIFT, or WASD and SPACEBAR, as you will see. This was my attempt at making a Bullet Hell x Puzzler using a unique mechanic idea.

Jeremy Ouillette once again game through with a catchy theme, and I've used a number of elements from one of my earlier projects. I think the whole "Circle Theme" is pretty well established now. I had to develop a whole new collision behavior for this one (Rays), but it was fun to work on.

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However, I don't know how you all do it, I can't get a single weekend free. Because of a work emergency last night and a huge amount of pain today, I've lost a day and a half of work time. Made this pretty much impossible. I'll see if I can clean this up. I'll drop this tag-end once I get a better post-jam version, but I'm posting this for feedback as I wrap up.

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*I've put a "Post Ish Jam" Version here that's resembling more of what I wanted: http://gwbloom.com/dev/games/ludum/ludum41.1/ *

I'm still updating it, mostly been bugfixing and trying to wrangle the mechanics to give better content... as mentioned below.

Losing half the Ludum Dare weekend kind of killed my chances, unfortunately. But additionally I've had to do (and redo) the geometry code for this... a lot. To give you an idea, I only added the Checkpoints, the tutorial "Jumping" character, and a better level "deployment" system. Everything else has been debugging. Almost all of it involving a whole new collision type I've never dealt with before, "Rays". I thought I had code to handle this... boy was I wrong.

Don't worry about voting. I'm mostly interested in comments anyway! :) I'm not completely happy with the mechanics; if you have the same color as a laser, why push the box? Why interact when you can build, or teleport? This has been my other challenge here (beyond geometry code).