Hive Mind by knarf2011
In this 2D platformer, you don't run very fast, nor does your character have any fighting ability. However, you do have one thing on your side - a swarm of nanobots. Moving your character with WASD and the bots with the arrow keys, use the swarm to defend yourself and create platforms where there are gaps you can't jump.
Created by Frank Duggan, Noah Plotkin, and Dan Howard; this was the first Ludum Dare for all of us
Created by Frank Duggan, Noah Plotkin, and Dan Howard; this was the first Ludum Dare for all of us
Ratings
| Coolness | 64% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.97 | 727 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.57 | 845 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.86 | 725 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.71 | 144 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.83 | 170 |
Only thing I would have done different is perhaps an optional control scheme. Using 1/2/3 to activate the abilities felt a bit awkward, as I couldn't change what the swarm was doing quickly. Think it'd be nice to play with ASDW for movement and mouse for controlling the swarm, with left click to form a block, mouse movement always controlling the swarm and you could then even have right mouse button for another ability.
I found controls a bit odd anyway... if you intend to target it to PC players, it may be nice to use the mouse to control the nanobots swarm.
Good job anyway!
but so hard to synchronize the player and swarm... i wanna fly away with the swarm...
But the controls were a bit off and stiff. for example it was a bit frusting that the solid block of nanobots only kept like half a second when jumped on...