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Atom Forge by Kpedatte

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made by Kpedatte for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

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Atom Forge is a point-n-click rythmic game in which you use your mouse to move around the atoms along the track by activating the atom enhancer and avoid the atoms touching each other! If the machine is too unstable,a black hole will awake !

Try your best to make the atom core grow !

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Story

The year is 20XX, technology has evolved. Maybe a bit too much. Some mad governments have tried to use anti-matter and black hole as an energy source and lethal weapon. Pap U, a peace organization, found a way to stop the cycle by creating an atom core big enough that it will absorb any black hole-inducing atoms, thus stopping the antimatter race once and for all.

You play as Peace Activist Takanaka. You have infiltrated one of the antimatter forge and managed to corrupt it to create the atom core. Your goal is now to make it big enough to save the world from human madness. Be careful, a single mistake will create a black hole and promptly end the world...

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Controls

Click the buttons and grab the levers to work the machine !

  • Left-click Mouse to click
  • Hold Left-click Mouse to grab

Team:

3D Artist - Tom Le Lann @vorunah

Audio Artist - Ivan Duprat @Garet

Programming - Kevin Pedatte @kpedatte

Gameplay video

https://youtu.be/AqTjZGOjSmE

Link https://pedatte.itch.io/atom-forge
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/atom-forge

Ratings

Overall 1229th 3.121⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1338th 2.786⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1060th 3.019⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 910th 3.37⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 606th 3.759⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 256th 3.796⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1103th 2.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1046th 3.13⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 28🗨️

Feedback

hiisileiri
04. Oct 2021 · 19:46 UTC
Very laggy, but interesting. I like to see the balls rolling in "real time", or with "real physics". On touch screen this would be fun and interesting to play.
paruthidotexe
05. Oct 2021 · 03:30 UTC
art looks good.. but it is laggy to play
XeduR
05. Oct 2021 · 11:04 UTC
Like others have noted, the game feels a bit unresponsive. It seemed to come with a fair bit of lag and the buttons/handles didn't always react as you'd hope for them to. It took me a few tries to figure out what was going on, but once I did, I do think that it is the start of an interesting game.

The art style could have been a bit more uniform. The level looks cool, but the particles kinda seem like they were a "last minute addition", which they obviously weren't given that they are the key to the entire game. Making the particles easier to see by perhaps having some bright emitters on them could have upped the visuals quite a bit.

The idea of having a beat to which the particles move was cool, but the movement animation could have been spiced up a little bit by using easing effects, for instance.
NeilKleistGao
06. Oct 2021 · 02:45 UTC
Interesting game but a little bit laggy. Maybe too much particle.
Alopar
06. Oct 2021 · 12:37 UTC
Very nice game! But not easy for me
legionGrifst
06. Oct 2021 · 15:30 UTC
The main menu slows down in the game in different ways. Regarding the game, the topic of jam is revealed here, this is a plus, but for me the game is complicated. Yes, I just can't keep up with all the buttons and levers. otherwise, the music was successfully selected graphically, too, but the particle is needed more noticeably and more time.
Matthieu Riboulot
06. Oct 2021 · 15:40 UTC
A bit unclear and too hard for me, sorry.
namnam
07. Oct 2021 · 14:53 UTC
Pas évident du tout ^^ Le concept est sympa, on a un peu de mal à savoir ou donné de la tête mais je suis sûr qu'avec un peu d'entrainement on fini par s'en sortir, la musique est fun et entrainante :)
josher
09. Oct 2021 · 13:45 UTC
I like the concept, its just a bit hard due to the unresponsiveness of the handles, etc., which make it a bit frustrating. Also the hitboxes for the handles and stuff could be bigger to make it a bit easier. I think my highscore was about 3 :sweat_smile:
Really nice graphics, and I love the music too, its a tune. Well done!
Toomblercazz
12. Oct 2021 · 12:57 UTC
I really liked the music, I was tapping my feet the whole time. I also enjoyed the graphics, and the concept is interesting and very on-theme.

Like others I found the game very challenging (I think I successfully made one atom). I wasn't totally sure sometimes what I was doing wrong (sometimes the atom would sit outside the third obstacle, and wouldn't move even when I pulled the plunger - maybe I had the wrong timing?).

Overall I enjoyed playing this, thanks for making it!
LeYaoTang
19. Oct 2021 · 13:24 UTC
Apparently this type of rhythm game mixed with tower defense does not work very well, but it could be very promising!
reccy
21. Oct 2021 · 14:55 UTC
It took me a few tries to figure out how to play it, but I figured it out eventually!
Cool idea, having to interact with the different machines is a little clunky.
I really enjoyed the music though, nice work!