One Pixel Games by plancien

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made by plancien for LD28 (COMPO)
I had only a few hours available for this Ludum Dare, and I wanted something quick. I ended up experimenting with a (very) strong constraint I gave myself, derived from the theme : "You Got Only One... Pixel To Make Your Game !"

So here are some mini games, with a dimension of 1px * 1px each.
1px is obviously too small to display rules, or to show scores... so it was quite difficult to do.

Ok, like my previous attempt for Ludum Dare #27, it's again a concept / experimental thing, not very fun to play, I reckon. But I like to use Ludum Dare to do things I don't usually try.
See them as mini puzzles.

Technically, nothing difficult here :
- HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript with 1px x 1px canvas elements.
- Sounds created with cfxr
- used howler.js to play sound
- used JQuery as main lib
- used Finger Paint google font

Ratings

Coolness 51% 3
Overall 3.15 386
Audio 2.46 517
Fun 2.64 660
Graphics 2.50 713
Humor 2.79 286
Innovation 4.00 28
Mood 2.55 650
Theme 4.07 19

Feedback

Ysty
16. Dec 2013 · 12:57 UTC
These are really neat. Great use of the theme.
drludos
16. Dec 2013 · 13:12 UTC
Awesome ! one of the best idea I've seen so far.
The games are creative even with the constraint, I love it!
Chapeau l'artiste ! :)
Tsumei
16. Dec 2013 · 13:18 UTC
Heh. The only drawback I can think of is the lack of a volume slider. Otherwise this was interesting.
tiffi
16. Dec 2013 · 13:23 UTC
Great idea, I loved it, but i didn't get game c..
DustyStylus
16. Dec 2013 · 13:45 UTC
Haha, nice idea. :D
tommakesgames
16. Dec 2013 · 14:03 UTC
Good idea, but only Game A worked (made random sounds). All zooms didn't work and other hotspots didn't work. Testing in Chrome on Windows 7 64-bit. Would have liked it all to work for me - creative take on the theme!
grifdail
16. Dec 2013 · 15:36 UTC
I did'nt get anything... I guess every game have differents colors series but and I did understant what we have to do with them...
the
16. Dec 2013 · 17:10 UTC
Ok, A, D and E are quite easy, but other two drive me crazy.
🎤 plancien
16. Dec 2013 · 17:39 UTC
Little hints for those of you who are stuck :

A : color ?
B : reflex
C : color = code
D : spam
E : find

I think the C game is indeed the most difficult one. It will take several tries and errors, and good observation sense, to get it.

@Tsumei : I realized the sound is too loud, sorry ! I made a quick fix.

@tommakesgames : too bad :-( . I don't know what could have gone wrong, I use Chrome, and these are only classical jQuery effects. I'll have to investigate.
natpat
20. Dec 2013 · 16:13 UTC
Very clever use of the theme, and the games were fun too. C definitely took me the longest to figure out, but I got there in the end.
MrTedders
20. Dec 2013 · 16:29 UTC
Very neat idea given the constraints you put on yourself. Well done
GaTechGrad
21. Dec 2013 · 09:38 UTC
I beat game A and game E. Couldn't figure out the others.
GaTechGrad
21. Dec 2013 · 09:47 UTC
Finally beat the others. I had to look at the Javascript source code to figure out how to beat C.
bitserum
26. Dec 2013 · 13:55 UTC
Hahaha, good one. Viva la pixel. It was mostly random clicking on pixels but good idea.
SimianLogic
29. Dec 2013 · 07:20 UTC
also had to read the source to figure out the rules to C. pretty fun for one pixel!
philhassey
31. Dec 2013 · 17:25 UTC
Nice theme implementation!
Espyo
06. Jan 2014 · 15:03 UTC
Loved it! I had no idea what expected me, I mean, what kind of games would work on a 1x1 canvas? But you sure showed me wrong. I'm not exactly sure of what I did on the third game, but I eventually won. Great adaptation to the theme, straight to the point, and the games themselves aren't half bad!
KeyMaster
06. Jan 2014 · 15:25 UTC
Really great use of the theme, great sense of experimentation and observation!