Star Cannon by scottrick

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made by scottrick for LD28 (COMPO)
Simple puzzle game where the goal is to shoot the cannon and hit all the stars.

Tested and working well on Firefox and Chrome.
Sound effects don't work on IE (sorry, not enough time to fix).

Remember you can press 'R' to reset and try again if you want to restart a level faster.

Ratings

Coolness 58% 3
Overall 3.10 420
Audio 2.76 375
Fun 3.07 352
Graphics 2.13 868
Humor 1.83 685
Innovation 2.43 792
Mood 2.44 720
Theme 3.17 336

Feedback

Fadobo
16. Dec 2013 · 14:01 UTC
Interesting puzzle game. Fun, but very hard.
yokcos700
16. Dec 2013 · 14:04 UTC
Bit too hard for my liking; the cannonballs often went inside the blocks for some reason. Otherwise, not bad: 4 stars!
ian_snyder
16. Dec 2013 · 14:08 UTC
Simple entry, but the gameplay and layouts are well-designed. Good job, I played it to the end and enjoyed it :)
weazen
16. Dec 2013 · 14:09 UTC
Bravo! Last level is tough!
rnlf
16. Dec 2013 · 14:48 UTC
Didn't quite make it to the end, but the first 5 levels or so (i stopped after the one with the cyan and magenta triangles) were fun. As others noted, quite hard though.

Could run a bit smoother, but overall nice game!
gingerBill
16. Dec 2013 · 14:49 UTC
Last level is very difficult and there seems to be a "feature" or two but overall, the game is fun to play.
windwalkerranger
16. Dec 2013 · 14:50 UTC
Hard but fun :)
🎤 scottrick
16. Dec 2013 · 14:54 UTC
Yeah, there is an issue with collision detection I wasn't able to fix in time. Thanks for playing!
stenol
16. Dec 2013 · 14:54 UTC
Simple game but very funny. Really love the last level :)
joserodolfofreitas
16. Dec 2013 · 15:02 UTC
Interesting puzzle and level design. You could add some more game elements to make the game richer. It could also have a pinball aspect. It would be nice to see it on my smartphone.
🎤 scottrick
16. Dec 2013 · 15:29 UTC
The initial plan was to have other types of objects in the world to make hte puzzles more interesting, but I ran out of time.
phi6
17. Dec 2013 · 12:12 UTC
Nice simple game, but it works! And quite challenging too :)
Ekilibr
18. Dec 2013 · 12:47 UTC
First puzzlegame I test, good job !
van noctar
18. Dec 2013 · 13:42 UTC
The thirs level is so hard!!! Good job !
fullmontis
18. Dec 2013 · 13:42 UTC
Interesting concept. I found it very fun to play.
mortus
19. Dec 2013 · 18:45 UTC
Quite simple but quite fun, there are some bugs with collision detection, sometimes the ball kinda sticks to the surface of the block and moves along until it ends.
badlydrawnrod
27. Dec 2013 · 21:48 UTC
A little short, but fun nonetheless.
pkenney
28. Dec 2013 · 02:34 UTC
Had some fun with this! I was doing pretty well, until I got to the level with a blue triangle and a blue... trapazoid maybe? It had three distinct groups of stars. I started to feel like I wasn't in perfect control of the cannon, like if I hit left-arrow once then right-arrow once, I might not end up where I started.

Two hugely helpful choices you made were 1) allowing R to restart the level at ANY TIME instead of making me watch it play out (you can make the stars dance by jamming R, try it), and 2) the same shot always did the same thing. If either of those were not the case I think the game would be far, FAR less enjoyable than it was, so great work on the small choices there.