Gino the Neutrino by Dark_Power
Gino the Neutrino is a 2D slideside educational game designed for kids, where the player controls a neutrino called Gino, a tiny subatomical particle, during his journey across the universe.
While traveling, the neutrino will meet other particles: their encounter will result in a "weak interaction", that will lead Gino to merge within them, creating a brand new particle, the W boson.
Gino's goal is to explore as much universe as possible without interacting with another particle and thus decaying.
Starting his journey from the Sun, will Gino be able to visit the wonderful planetes like Mercury, Venus, Earth, and explore the whole cosmos? It depends on you!
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GamePlay
Gino is a solar neutrino, starting its journey to explore our Galaxy and the whole Universe from the Sun.
Gino, being a neutrino, has a natural tendency to oscillate in flavour! It can have electronic (green), muonic (yellow) or taunonic (red) flavour; if it hits one leptonic particle of the same flavour, it may end its journey in a big explosion, decaying into a new, fatter W boson!
You must help him avoiding the green, fluffy electron when Gino is green, the stylish yellow muon when Gino is yellow, and the punk red taun when Gino is red!
But Gino may encouter some mysterious new friends during its journey! What will they bring with them? Let's find out!
Download Link
- Play in browser: https://dark-power.itch.io/gino-the-neutrino
- Download page: https://dark-power.itch.io/gino-the-neutrino
- Source Code: https://github.com/DarkPower91/ldjam46
Credits:
- Alessandro Bombini (@ifidamas): Programmer
Alessio Bendoni (@dark-power): Lead Programmer
Serena Barone (@cannocchiale): 2D artist
Francesca Nesi (@franca): Game design
Gilberto Gavazzi (@gillo90): Narrative design
Francesco Baldini (@baldo91): Sound design
All 2D arts are original by Serena Barone (@cannocchiale).
Soundtracks from:
Hazy - "Timeless" https://soundcloud.com/hazy_music/timeless
Kubbi - "Cascade" https://soundcloud.com/kubbi/cascade
Ifidamas (@ifidamas) - "Mon petit cochon" (original Audio); dedicated to our beloved friend, Valerio "Cacio".
Rearranged by Francesco Baldini (@baldo91)
Future:
Thanks yo everyone for your replies! Even if LDJam 46 is ended, we'll keep on improving this title since we'd really like to present this game to kids. Your kind comments (and the constructive critics too!) are encouraging us to keep this little Ludum Dare project going, and now our goal is to present it during ScienzEstate, the annual summer event organized by the Univerity of Florence and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, dedicated to communication of science to everyone, especially kids.
So all suggestions are highly appreciated!
Moreover, we'd like to give you a sneak peek on what we are planning to do: - Adding a save systems that will allow us to record the player best score and other stuff. - Make the Dex collectible, so that you see the image and the description of the particles only after meeting the first time - Add a section of the dex dedicated to Planets (also unlockable) - Add UI element during game that shows all the planets in the solar system and keeps track of current Gino's position - ...
Change Log
23/04/2020 - Fixed issue with texture scrolling in webGL -> Added WebGL Build to itch.io
Ratings
| Overall | 391th | 3.869⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 987th | 3.434⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1368th | 3.221⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1226th | 3.661⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 834th | 3.887⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 438th | 3.724⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 290th | 3.754⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 320th | 3.925⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 80🗳️ | 81🗨️ |
Keep up the good work and see you next dare! I'll look forward to what you make next.
P.S. the title is great!
All I would say is that after some time the gameplay is a little repetitive and I would like a few more sound efects (especially for the ducks and cats!)
However the mood, visuals, story and audio are all fantastic.
The music is absolutely fantastic and enhances the experience, and the art is obviously crafted with love and knowledge of the matter!
I made it to 2.23 AU through cheating by simply staying on the bottom border, might want to look into that before handing it off to students who will most likely abuse that and make the cheating part the main attraction :D
We will keep here on the ludum dare webpage the first version (plus the HTML5 WebGL), but we hope to update a new version in the near future on a different website, after the ludum dare competition ends; we will let you know!
Any additional comments and suggestions are really appreciated!
PS:
@vetu11 thank you for your feedback; we are currently working on audio and sfx!
@seriouslycrunchy both space cats and quacky the space ducks post-catch effect are under development! keep an eye on our game in the near future ;)
@notexplosive We realized that we haven't explained well the gameplay, and that the graphics may not help too:
1. Space Cats and Ducky the Spaceduck are power ups! try to cath your new cosmic friend!
2. Gino the neutrino oscillates into its three forms; it can interact with other particles only if it shares their color (i.e., the *flavor*); so, if you are, let us say, red, only punk red tauon can stop your run!
We are currently updating the graphics, colliders and UI to make it clearer! Thank you again for your feedback!
The idea is simple and well implemented (love the educational aspect and the funny bits in the descriptions)
Not so sure that the game music matches well what happens on the screen, but anyway.
A really well done game, with a fun idea, congrats :)
I reached the Earth in my best shot but "died" shortly after... At least I managed to say hello to Gino :)
The movement feels a bit slow, thus making it quite difficult to dodge.
I would like the transition to different colors be a little bit more predictable, maybe a small transition to it or some indication of what comes next.
Other than that it's a fun little game, good job.
I thought that I would never find a game about elementary particles, because my game is also about a particle (electron in particular), and I haven't seen this kind of games until this last day.
Anyway - this game is beautiful. I am glad I played it.