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Blurbl by xlambein

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made by xlambein for Ludum Dare 57 (JAM)

In this little unfinished game, you control the depth of focus of the camera. The little red square can only collide with platforms currently in focus. Your goal is to help it get to the other side of the screen :]

To adjust focus, click and drag horizontally with your mouse. Known bug: sometimes the focus doesn't restore collision to the leftmost platform. Just focus out and back in, it'll work again.

There's only one level and no end screen! We didn't have time to make more than this, unfortunately.

Link https://github.com/xlambein/ldjam57
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/blurbl

Ratings

Overall 854th 2.605⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 843th 2.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 43th 4.184⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 506th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 675th 2⭐ 16🧑‍⚖️
Mood 850th 2.417⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 8🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

Christian Zommerfelds
07. Apr 2025 · 22:22 UTC
Nice idea, would be cool to see it explored further. I had troubles with the controls, it was hard to get to the middle platform (maybe my mouse is too sensitive).
Senkoso
08. Apr 2025 · 19:23 UTC
idea is great, but u gotta work on it a little bit, I had some troubles with controls
mgear
08. Apr 2025 · 19:45 UTC
unique idea! bit hard to get started, maybe need some better indication of the current depth too?
Brian Russell
08. Apr 2025 · 23:37 UTC
really cool idea. I personally did not find the controls hard, but really wanted more to do with the gameplay.
Arthur Tang
09. Apr 2025 · 04:24 UTC
Cool idea of depth of field. A little buggy tho.
oliver_day
09. Apr 2025 · 04:24 UTC
The art looks really nice. Bit tricky to get the scroll to the right spot but I got across the cube in the end.

When I scrolled the the level as the block entered it somehow got embed in the platform and slid across. Because I couldn't side scroll I had to copy out the iframe link to a new tab: https://files.jam.host/embed/$412505/39075/index.html
Stef_Studio_7
10. Apr 2025 · 01:15 UTC
interesting idea
thristhart
10. Apr 2025 · 01:17 UTC
Lovely take on the theme!
Keys Presser
11. Apr 2025 · 23:10 UTC
The idea is really innovative and the theme is implemented in a super interesting way! It's a pity that there is no continuation
Euler Moises
12. Apr 2025 · 18:55 UTC
Definitely an original idea.

I'd like to see it finished.
CaptAndrey
12. Apr 2025 · 22:10 UTC
It’s a pity it’s such a small prototype, but the core idea — and how it ties into the theme — is really interesting! Was kinda hard to manipulate in mouse :(
Eugenik
14. Apr 2025 · 13:33 UTC
That's amazing!.
xpoho
16. Apr 2025 · 14:22 UTC
Nice protype! Interesting mechanic, maybe you could use some camera theme in the future ^_^
Outish
16. Apr 2025 · 14:46 UTC
Really cool idea. I would really love to see a full game out of this in the future.