Low Battery by RHY3756547
You are a robot hunting for treasure in a cave system, however once unplugged from outlet you can only last 10 seconds without blowing up! Quickly collect all the treasure and each room's rare gemstone!
Of course, there are skeletons! Watch out for those.
--INSTRUCTIONS--
Play in fullscreen! Arrow keys to move/jump, X key to fire rockets!
---USABILITY CHANGES AS OF 26/08/13---
Added loading bar (instead of white screen) so it doesn't look like the game is broken, added Audio Element Backend to make game function on Firefox, fixed fullscreen for Firefox, make update loop asynchronous from render to deal with low framerate in Firefox.
Tested and working on Chrome 29 (stable) and Firefox 22 (stable). Works best on Chrome.
Of course, there are skeletons! Watch out for those.
--INSTRUCTIONS--
Play in fullscreen! Arrow keys to move/jump, X key to fire rockets!
---USABILITY CHANGES AS OF 26/08/13---
Added loading bar (instead of white screen) so it doesn't look like the game is broken, added Audio Element Backend to make game function on Firefox, fixed fullscreen for Firefox, make update loop asynchronous from render to deal with low framerate in Firefox.
Tested and working on Chrome 29 (stable) and Firefox 22 (stable). Works best on Chrome.
Ratings
| Coolness | 80% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.89 | 45 |
| Audio | 3.84 | 27 |
| Fun | 3.94 | 24 |
| Graphics | 4.17 | 41 |
| Humor | 3.35 | 110 |
| Innovation | 3.02 | 515 |
| Mood | 3.56 | 89 |
| Theme | 3.74 | 110 |
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Graphics are top notch. Sound is really cool. And gameplay is addicting!
On the downside, as other has mentioned, there is a little too much going on on the screen at times. Maybe just a turn a liiitle bit down for the particles ;)
Also, i'd love to have jump on z or somewhere else than up. Don't know if it's just me, but i've always found movement easier/ more fluent when jump and move are separated.
Good work!
The time limit is absolutely brutal, finished the final stage with 0.1 remaining in the timer. haha! Final score 15060. the stages could be juuust a little bit easier.
I found the snarky comments when failing a great little add on.
Great use of particle effects!
art is just too much! congratulations.
Other than that I had a fun time playing.
thanks, good game.
On the downsides, though, I would mention a lack of originality, the ludicrous amount of particles that make a good trailer but become a nuisance during gameplay, and mocking your player at each failure.
Ernest Adams explains it way better than I would: http://tinyurl.com/mlxsa3k
Apart from those specific points, the game is truly amazing and I tip my hat to you! :D
However, know that I did give a high humor rating because I had understood the intention being. Maybe you just went slightly overboard for me to really enjoy it, but I definitely didn't penalized it :D
PS: I played again, your VFX are really amazing...I'm jealous! :D
Other than that I really liked the art style and the missiles and the pacing. I thought the ending messages were funny. If I got frustrated with them, it was more because they prevented me from trying again immediately.
Could've used a difficulty curve that wasn't quite as steep, but you seem aware of that already.
Doesn't work in Opera 12.16 by the way (it doesn't support requestAnimationFrame), so checking displaying some kind of message if the browser doesn't support requestAnimationFrame would be a good idea.
Cool sound and graphics, quite fun to play. Rated this very high.
This is really hard and punishing though. I think you could get away with adding 10secs each chest.
Still, nice work!
Super frantic gameplay. AWESOME music. Over the top particle effects. EVERYTHING FITS TOGETHER. A little bit too hard though, but I had fun anyway!
It's not a super original interpretation of the theme and apart from being extremely frantic there isn't that much innovation there, but really, every single other category (and that hasn't happened before for me) gets 5/5. Woah!
PS: "game!!!" is the best title for a game webpage, haha :D
I like how the particles prevent you from seeing anything when you spam the rockets... While you have to if you don't want to step on those skeletons.
Luuuuuuuuuv partice, add moar D:
...by which I mean, I have never played a game that I felt hated me to the point of open hostility, until this one. Rock on.
Very pretty, I like the frantic music and particles and all that. Nice game!
This is -almost- too hard, but not quite. Cute music.
Sometimes tho the particles cover the player so that I can't see him. Love the fast pace. PARTICLES
Good work, man!
Apart from that it's a really well executed rage platformer. Love the graphics and sound, and difficult level design.
You captured a certain franticness excellently, and I from the first second of gameplay,cortisol and adrenaline were pumping into my bloodstream hard.
5/5 for everything.
Could be the next Super Meat Boy.
But cut down on the particle effect. You want the game to be hard not impossible due to particle blindness.
I would have mellowed it out *just a little* so the player can have time to enjoy the effects and gameplay without having to focus 100% on making the timer or die repeatedly in order to advance each level. But to each it's own!
The player messages are just plain hilarious. But the humor, along with a lot of the things that made this game great, kind of died out a little in the course of me dying way too much on the last two levels XD
You are insane :)
Great little game though I think you may have gone just a little bit overboard the the particles ^^
Also: you are insane ;)
Other than that, absolutely fantastic entry!