Far Fetch by bad_fetus

COLLECT POINTS

AIM FAR

GET ITEMS

Put together in about 12 hours. Meant to put in more time but spent too much time ideating first day as usual. The idea that ended up winning was "Neon White but you can collect things to decrease the timer". Eventually turned into this. Ran out of time for the sounds, sorry for the cacophony! 😉
C to view controls in game. Mouse sensitivity and music volume are adjustable!
Run into or shoot white balls to collect points, get to the goal ASAP to maximise. Note that shooting itself costs score so missing is costly.
Different blocks have different physics characteristics, master them to beat dev scores.
POST YOUR BEST SCORES BELOW AND I'LL PLAY YOUR GAME!

| Link | https://github.com/badfetus/ludum-dare-58 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/far-fetch |
Ratings
| Overall | 153th | 3.143⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 75th | 3.486⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 165th | 2.829⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 183th | 3⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 202th | 2.294⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 131th | 2.897⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 171th | 1.864⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 186th | 2.618⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 51🗨️ |
My scores kept turning out negative ;)
Good job there!
(The medals didn't render for me correctly, probably because I was playing on Linux with Wine)

Don't laugh ! It is hard ! Yes I did try several times !
- The initial mouse sensitivity was very high for me, but got it down to a nicer level
- Sometimes when shooting at things far away it was difficult to see when I missed since the crosshair was obstructing vision, maybe the crosshair could be somewhat transparent.


Had a lot of fun playing this game! It has a nice gameplay loop that pulls you into trying again and again to reach a better score. The levels have a good length, where it feels just right to try them again and again, I thought they were all well-designed and had unique interesting concepts to them. Liked the levels a lot, two is probably my favorite, trying different ways to get through and figuring out which routes work and which don't. Powerups were a nice touch as well, they added some cool variety to it. I also want to note that adding adjusting the mouse precision was such a cool addition, it was super nice, thanks a lot for taking the time to add it! That way I could make it feel just right for me, super neat. Great game, very well done!

But overall, it’s fun to play. Though judging by my results, I’m clearly not very good at this genre.

Like others the sensitivity was super high when starting the game (making it impossible to play) so it's a good thing we can lower it :thumbsup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNvdeCTBM74
Cool ideas/courses though!
Not a sharpshooter by any means, but I'm happy with the scores I got:


But I really enjoyed it, keep it up!
Add some polishing and diversify the atmosphere of the levels, and make the music better, and it'll be awesome!
By the way, if you like games with a strange and surreal atmosphere, you might want to check out our game too 🥴