Ex Nihilo by Delightfullymad

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made by Delightfullymad for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

cover1.jpg The universe is empty. Create some celestial objects, but make sure to not overcrowd the place!

Downloadable EXE version is recommended!

Hold LMB - create particles

Hold RMB - Attract particles / Create Planet

Particles make objects bigger. Planet turns to Sun turns to Black Hole. Be careful, black holes will destroy nearly everything around it!

Points are earned by creating new objects and growing objects.

Screenshot (12).png Screenshot (13).png

Ratings

Overall 64th 3.896⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 113th 3.604⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 37th 4.042⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 16th 4.354⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 55th 4.02⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 118th 3.48⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 375th 1.818⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 77th 3.75⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

Adam Konig
07. Oct 2019 · 01:27 UTC
Woah, awesome game. Aesthetics are gorgeous. Simple, elegant, beautiful. Only sad part was when my big particle just stayed in the bottom right of screen and didn't move, but very cool very fun game.
Stefanie Leitch
07. Oct 2019 · 01:29 UTC
Very interesting mechanics! I really like your take on the theme.
Trypants
07. Oct 2019 · 01:31 UTC
Love the concept!
S a m
07. Oct 2019 · 01:34 UTC
Kind of mesmerizing. The black holes are green? They also start out so tiny, they look like normal particles. They also start to move so fast once they turn yellow it's impossible to predict them. I like the shaky effect that happens when you get hit.
Bip
07. Oct 2019 · 01:34 UTC
WOW! Really cool stuff. Everything looked and sounded amazing! But I didn't really know what I was doing or why.
Iconocatstudio
07. Oct 2019 · 01:34 UTC
Great concept and execution. Love the visuals
MusicBlox
07. Oct 2019 · 01:36 UTC
Your game is absolutely mesmerizing. Its easy to lose track of time just trying to make an enormous black hole or trying to make a solar system only to make a pool table of stars. I love it.
sacredbacon
07. Oct 2019 · 01:39 UTC
Awesome Game, very satisfying like feeding Luma in Mario Galaxy
Owen Shriver
07. Oct 2019 · 01:48 UTC
This has some really cool mechanics. Seems like the easiest way to get a high score is to make one giant black hole, but it's much more fun to make a bunch of stars and see how long you can survive them :P
Bagenzo
07. Oct 2019 · 02:12 UTC
Very cool aesthetic - made me feel contemplative, then frantic as I overfilled the screen and had to dodge as fast as I could. Great concept, great take on the theme.
Xacur
07. Oct 2019 · 02:52 UTC
Really cool. Physics and graphics are awesome.
TheseusInABottle
07. Oct 2019 · 04:00 UTC
Pretty cool. Although I played the Web version so I don't know if its different on the desktop version if it has a bigger view space or something but I found it very hard to avoid making black holes, and then once I had one everything I made just naturally fell into it.
thelistenersfury
07. Oct 2019 · 15:36 UTC
Very chill vibe. Could see myself playing an app version while listening to a podcast no problem. Very awesome stuff with loads of potential.
blobo
07. Oct 2019 · 20:58 UTC
It's very pretty, though there wasn't much of an objective. I still had fun, and the music was relaxing. Nice game!
Barrier
07. Oct 2019 · 23:27 UTC
I actually had a similar idea for this theme but couldn't figure out the design in time so I abandoned it.
In your case you executed it pretty well, I love the art and the sounds of collisions. Maybe for score you could have a multiplier for number of objects that you have active at the same time, otherwise you can just have 1 body and feed it particles and get a huge score. Anyways pretty cool game :)
Lord Ean
08. Oct 2019 · 14:50 UTC
Love the DA and the mechanics, very cool game that maybe could use a twist, because right now you either create a supersonic 2-ginormous-bullets hell, or create a boring all-devouring black hole. Would still spend hours just contemplating the particles in orbit around my cursor tho.
agentparsec
22. Oct 2019 · 08:26 UTC
Not bad. I also made a game called "Ex Nihilo", and it's very similar in theme actually.