Pixel Trapper by Vanatoth

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made by Vanatoth for LD31 (COMPO)
Given the theme "Entire Game on One Screen" I immediately jumped to the idea of having the screen itself change as a mechanic. I started by essentially reproducing Pong as a proof of concept, and eventually settled on a win condition of trapping the "ball" in the upper-left corner of the screen.

It wasn't until the last day that I discovered that most browsers won't allow the width of a page to shrink below about 400 pixels. In order to get around this, you only need to shrink the game to 400x400 to win on any level in a browser. If you play the game by downloading the swf and using a standalone flash player instead, the required screen size changes depending on difficulty level, adding a bit more challenge.

I mostly used this as another opportunity to work in an environment I'd never used before, this time Haxe using OpenFL in FlashDevelop.

Ratings

Coolness 0% 2356
Overall 2.94 817
Audio 2.00 863
Fun 2.56 979
Graphics 1.83 1174
Innovation 4.61 4
Theme 4.67 4

Feedback

pjimmy
08. Dec 2014 · 17:48 UTC
5 stars for innovation, the best use of the theme I've found so far.
naali
10. Dec 2014 · 01:32 UTC
A liked the interesting game mechanic, but it was a bit hard to do on a laptop with a trackpad.
Instant Noodles
10. Dec 2014 · 09:39 UTC
Really good idea this a true use of web game :)
okkolobr
10. Dec 2014 · 09:43 UTC
Great take on the theme. Well done !
Simon
10. Dec 2014 · 09:43 UTC
Very great job! It's like playing pong with your browser. Great use of the theme.
Jyrkface
10. Dec 2014 · 19:14 UTC
Brilliant use of the theme, very innovative mechanic as well. I wonder what else you could do with it, given more time?
hypnoticbytes
10. Dec 2014 · 19:17 UTC
Awesome but hard! Amazing idea!!!
LMT
10. Dec 2014 · 19:26 UTC
Pretty awesome concept
dvdking
11. Dec 2014 · 17:21 UTC
Great idea!
Maurogik
12. Dec 2014 · 08:25 UTC
Interesting concept !
xaedes
12. Dec 2014 · 15:11 UTC
wow - really cool hit on the theme!!
hoyt hoy
12. Dec 2014 · 17:00 UTC
Wow, nice use of the theme!
Realy good work.
Spaghetti_Chinoises
12. Dec 2014 · 21:48 UTC
It sticks perfectly to the theme ans easy to play
TheMeorch
16. Dec 2014 · 00:20 UTC
Wow, this is really inventive. I'm impressed by the creativity on show here. Nice work!