Lodestar by runsintowalls

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made by runsintowalls for LD23 (COMPO)
Lodestar is a rhythm-based action game. you are trapped in the gravitational pull of the lode star. Achieve a high enough groove to escape, or fall into the core and be lost forever in silence.

Lodestar is best experienced with sound on.

Ratings

Coolness 40% 762
Overall 2.65 642
Audio 3.50 73
Fun 2.39 663
Graphics 2.61 577
Humor 1.90 599
Innovation 3.48 177
Mood 2.76 366
Theme 2.35 740

Feedback

R3ason
24. Apr 2012 · 05:00 UTC
Well that was not what I was expecting! Pretty fun! *goes and plays it again* Thanks!
MrEvilGuy
24. Apr 2012 · 05:04 UTC
This is a lot of fun. The music really gets me into it. And I absolutely LOVE the dieing effect. I'm not really sure what a lodestar is, but I imagine the experience would even be better with a starry background and a feeling of being in outer-space. Superb work.
s0ulcrusher
24. Apr 2012 · 18:49 UTC
Not sure if this is a lose condition but when you miss a jump the level just scales down (I assume I'm falling?) until it's 1 green pixel. I'm not sure what's going on but I dig the music and the weirdness!
Fenmar
24. Apr 2012 · 18:52 UTC
Well I'm not sure what I am supposed to do. I just pressed z and more tracks were added until I got CLEAR...
Jack
24. Apr 2012 · 19:06 UTC
oh god this is cool (helpful feedback ahoy!)
jfroco
26. Apr 2012 · 01:21 UTC
Looks nice, but I don't know what to do :(
Super Soul
26. Apr 2012 · 02:17 UTC
It took me awhile to figure out what was going on, but once I got it it was fun (actually it was pretty fun when I didn't understand). Great job! Happy to see some WebGL action.
30dogs
26. Apr 2012 · 02:20 UTC
Captivated me for several tries, but I couldn't grasp the rhythm aspect. I got to the third track, but I'm not sure how the 'groove' was tied to the gameplay. Also, the only way I could figure out how to restart after falling was to refresh the page, not sure if that was intended. Cool game.
Rybar
26. Apr 2012 · 02:28 UTC
I too had trouble grasping how the movement/gameplay was tied to the music, but I enjoyed playing it nonetheless. Good stuff .
Moth
26. Apr 2012 · 11:55 UTC
This looks really cool, but when I open it up I don't hear any music- do I need to wait a while for it to load? I can run around and fall just fine, and when that happens I do hear the loud noise that briefly fades in before going to silence.

Any idea what the problem might be? I'd really love to play it!
tacograveyard
27. Apr 2012 · 19:09 UTC
The music didn't play for me either :(
🎤 runsintowalls
27. Apr 2012 · 21:19 UTC
Fenmar - Yes, technically you can finish without having fun. If you press up you will move forward and you will have to time your jumps
jfroco - Go forward with up, jump with z.
Moth - You need to jump from platform to platform with Z
tacograveyard - Try it on the latest version of Chrome. Chrome has generally had the best HTML5/WebGL support
Mårten Jonsson
02. May 2012 · 10:11 UTC
Not really getting it.
kirbytails7
04. May 2012 · 05:17 UTC
Reminds me of Rez or Fotonica. Very fun!
heuermh
10. May 2012 · 06:07 UTC
Very interesting. Firefox wanted to intercept my 'Z' keystrokes for the page search though, the game worked better when I turned that off.