Color Maze by TnT

made by TnT for LD27 (JAM)

You start near the upper left corner (hexagon (2,2)). Try to get to the rainbow tile before time runs out, but you can only step on tiles of your current color, which changes every 10 seconds (or 1 if you have no move).
Controls
WASD or arrow keys to move
1,2,3 (or spacebar) to use powerups you have in your inventory.
See help screen in game for more detailed info.
Its currently in executable jar form, so it should work on Windows or other OSes with a JVM. There is a known bug in the jar which causes it to not run properly on some computers. To fix this bug (on windows) attempt running it from command line with "java -jar colormaze.jar". This isn't guaranteed to solve the problem, but in most cases it fixes it (reason unknown).

We know game play is a bit slow, it would be better if we could dynamically alter the time between switching, but 10 seconds is 10 seconds :/.

PORT: finally ported to Web in Applet form.

Windows (Jar)	https://sites.google.com/site/tntprogrammingld/files/colormaze.jar?attredirects=0&d=1
Web (Applet)	https://sites.google.com/site/tntprogrammingld/ld27
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=25177

Ratings

Coolness	51%	3
Overall(Jam)	2.48	558

Audio(Jam)	1.43	509
Fun(Jam)	1.86	592
Graphics(Jam)	1.67	601
Humor(Jam)	1.59	471
Innovation(Jam)	3.47	100
Mood(Jam)	2.09	527
Theme(Jam)	2.83	418

Feedback

brogrammers

27. Aug 2013 · 02:14 UTC

The idea is original, but the gameplay is a bit slow :)

oxysoft

27. Aug 2013 · 02:14 UTC

Could be pretty cool if it wasn't so boring; Idea's alright though

Croze

27. Aug 2013 · 02:23 UTC

Idea could have been better made, but is a good idea nonetheless

wally2069

27. Aug 2013 · 02:27 UTC

Kind of awkward turn based game, could use a little bit more polish

Angrycrow

27. Aug 2013 · 02:38 UTC

It was hard to find my character at the start of the game. Maybe because I was the same color as the zone I started in.

Tanser

27. Aug 2013 · 02:56 UTC

I like the idea, though it needs some polishing.

Cthulhu

27. Aug 2013 · 05:11 UTC

I like the idea. good job.

Dew

28. Aug 2013 · 10:47 UTC

Nice composition, but so slow.

namrog84

30. Aug 2013 · 10:50 UTC

Quite a cool concept.

could be a quite a popular game if you reworked some of the mechanics and changed the timing and other things around

Diogo Muller

30. Aug 2013 · 12:06 UTC

The character could move a bit faster, and the game could show a bit better where it is, I was a bit lost at first.

Pretty fun idea, anyway.

bassarisse

04. Sep 2013 · 03:39 UTC

Some more polish on the core idea would make this a really good game. Maybe the colors should never change in a way that you can't move away from your current hexagon.

jprogman

10. Sep 2013 · 02:04 UTC

There should be a way for the next color to be one of the colors that you are next to instead of randomly selecting any color.
I really like the concept.