Pzaton by unpronounceable

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made by unpronounceable for LD31 (COMPO)
Simple arcade style game.

You control your rotational acceleration with the left and right arrow keys (or A and D). There is no way to directly control your speed.

There's a fuel meter in the lower right corner that is constantly consumed as you're playing. When you run out fuel you'll no longer be able to steer. To increase it you have to pick up the green barrels that appear around the board.

The speed and rate of fuel consumption is based on how many barrels you've picked up. The more you've picked up the higher each is. Snowmen will cool you down, decreasing both your speed and fuel consumption.

Avoid the spinning saw blades as long as possible. Hitting them ends the game.

Ratings

Coolness 53% 3
Overall 2.97 789
Audio 2.88 458
Fun 3.00 636
Graphics 2.61 869
Innovation 2.91 718
Theme 3.52 667

Feedback

Jaloko
08. Dec 2014 · 10:15 UTC
Basic but cool game. Turning felt really heavy.
DesignerNap
08. Dec 2014 · 11:42 UTC
Tried to play game but it minimises the window straight away. wont run at all
chadheim
08. Dec 2014 · 14:20 UTC
Clever idea! Turning was always a bit scary because I couldn't get a feel on how fast the turn was going to change. Maybe some sort of ghost dot running ahead of you to help determine where you are heading.
maddogawl
08. Dec 2014 · 14:58 UTC
This game is stressful in a good way :)
swedishbacon
08. Dec 2014 · 18:49 UTC
Harder then it looks! Nice work! :)
goblin
09. Dec 2014 · 00:10 UTC
Hey! very nice game. its funny!! look my game ;)
piotrevic
10. Dec 2014 · 15:12 UTC
Little bit similar to my game, nice idea of the way to changing direction :)
ArcturusDeluxe
11. Dec 2014 · 00:06 UTC
Not too bad, presentation is decent, gameplay is simple but fun enough. The turning felt kinda bad though, the way it starts slow and speeds up just makes it feel a bit heavy and clunky. Turning at a constant speed but making the environment harder to negotiate might have made for better gameplay. Pretty cool stuff anyway though.
ChrisMingay
11. Dec 2014 · 11:30 UTC
Was initially confused by the controls, but I see it was probably just a typo on the title screen ;)

Have to agree with the previous comment, I'm not a fan of the accelerating turning speed, but each to their own!
Kuality Games
12. Dec 2014 · 20:07 UTC
awh the game wont run for me :( it looked so nice
hbocao
15. Dec 2014 · 00:04 UTC
At first I thought "Snake game. It's going to be a piece of cake!". I was so wrong. haha Not that is super hard, but it's very challenging. The controls were a bit "hard", but overall you did a very good job!
Benjamin
15. Dec 2014 · 00:15 UTC
It tooks me time to get use to the control, but after 3-4 games it was quite funny to play. My highscore was 48 after 15-20 games.
colludium
15. Dec 2014 · 02:33 UTC
The control mechanics are challenging, but that's the point! Good fun and quite hard.
Grindstorm
16. Dec 2014 · 02:42 UTC
Heavy turning, but it was fun.
Sh1rogane
16. Dec 2014 · 19:47 UTC
Fun game. It was unexpectedly hard. But after a few games I understood the controls better
01rafael
25. Dec 2014 · 12:40 UTC
Really harder than looks! xD