Connectiverse by Bernte

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made by Bernte for LD30 (COMPO)
I really hope you enjoy. My code got pretty spaghetti but it was massive fun!
It was my first time JavaScript (learned it during yesterday) so I needed a lot of coffee and lost some hair :)

Dig right into the epic quest for mankinds crystal.

And don't judge the Raycaster too hard :)

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1426
Overall 3.35 402
Audio 3.75 56
Fun 2.62 918
Graphics 3.46 339
Innovation 3.46 321
Mood 3.63 112
Theme 3.85 121

Feedback

wolfmother
24. Aug 2014 · 23:30 UTC
Very cool!
Graphics are very nice for something made entirely of spheres - nice sense of depth.
The music is very suitable - how'd you make it?
I like that you've turned a classic NP-Complete problem (Wandering Salesman problem) into a game :P
Killbert
25. Aug 2014 · 20:35 UTC
I love the music and the art style.
Crawler Studios
26. Aug 2014 · 03:55 UTC
This game is amazing! Very cool concept, great 3D space, extremely fitting music, everything is great except it's a little hard to follow. Great game overall.
Xgor
27. Aug 2014 · 15:50 UTC
I must say, the picture doesn't look all that cool but in game it really cool turning around to pick the planets.
I have to say, the difficulty is quite unbalanced, It starts off really hard and it easy to get yourself out of energy but later it become quite easy.
borgi
27. Aug 2014 · 21:05 UTC
Music is awesome! I find it was a bit hard for me too, but cool idea!
polyboxgames
27. Aug 2014 · 21:13 UTC
Little bit of a learning curve, but it is fun!
OFF
27. Aug 2014 · 21:18 UTC
The game itself is hard to manage, because it's hard to see an easy strategy for newbie like at those games.

But your GUI, and look are awesome, i was fan of the look when you turn around your planet but when you start to game it makes the choose of the good path really hard :
- use same size planet to make clear the distance from us
- use depth of field, or any equivalent (spatial fog, etc..) to give to the player a clear sense of the distance.

If it's your first time in javascript, your next game will be amazing, because this one is cool (even if i can't really judge the difficulty) : simple idea, great look, the song is really deep, and the mouse control, and the GUI are really brillant (exception for the rules, who are badly shown ;).
Wesley Ding
31. Aug 2014 · 12:18 UTC
Great combo of theme, audio, and mood.
sbarrio
31. Aug 2014 · 18:52 UTC
I really liked the atmosphere you created. The music is lovely and matches the game perfectly. Extra kudos for having it made in javascript :D
micahcowan
03. Sep 2014 · 17:32 UTC
I don't think I figured out quite how to play it: I'd connect the worlds and hit "Generate Path", but it didn't seem like anything would happen after that point, and my energy would keep dropping (running Firefox).

Music is very nice. Took me a while to discover I could also click and drag to rotate the view.
whalebot
08. Sep 2014 · 17:32 UTC
This was really cool. I wasn't very good, but just drawing paths and rotating around was neat.
Benjamin
08. Sep 2014 · 17:34 UTC
Well I could selectp lanet and build path but it seems there's no effect on ressources. energy is still droping