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Escape Velocity by Murphy

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made by Murphy for LD21 (-)
Worked on this about 12 hours.. the other 36 were filled with sweet sleep, bbq and getting drunk with friends.

I wanted to do something space-related first, but couldn't think of anything cool.. so I took the coolest thing from space (black holes) and made them into a weapon (:

The gameplay is pretty straightforward: use the gravitational pull of the black holes to get to the end and escape the facility.

Don't expect nice graphics or audio.. (:

Should work in recent versions of Chrome, Opera and Firefox. Probably not in IE.


(hihi, now there are three games with that name)

Web http://murphy.metafnord.org/_games/escape
Source http://murphy.metafnord.org/_games/escape/src.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=4904

Ratings

Coolness 3% 183
Overall 2.29 410
Audio 2.46 193
Community 3.13 104
Fun 2.29 344
Graphics 1.86 428
Humor 1.63 307
Innovation 3.57 73
Theme 2.86 276

Feedback

Chinchilla
22. Aug 2011 路 12:00 UTC
Aaaarrrgh... that S-shaped room (in the screenshot) is a killer. Couldn't get past it...Good fun though!

I also went with "Escape Velocity" as the name ... so I had to come scope out the competition ;)
Hangedman
22. Aug 2011 路 15:37 UTC
A few bugs, but I could see what you were going for, and a few good moments of flinging myself about. I kind of wish placing one would kill the last one, although that might be integral to expanding the puzzles later. Didn't really feel like I was in complete control of where i was firing.
Hanoran
22. Aug 2011 路 17:17 UTC
I didn't get very far, but I like the concept. Not bad!
puffi
22. Aug 2011 路 17:52 UTC
Already the 3rd web-based game that doesn't work for me, must be something wrong with my flash =/

Loved the music tho!
馃帳 Murphy
22. Aug 2011 路 18:19 UTC
There really are a lot of things I wanted to tweak more (e.g. the direction of the shot currently is not accurate), but had no time ): Maybe I'll revise the whole thing soon.

@puffi: Huh, that's weird.. what Browser (& Version) did you use? There's no flash in there, it's all Javascript. (:
puffi
22. Aug 2011 路 22:06 UTC
I was using FF 3.6.20 ( seems like I updated to 6 only on my laptop) which should explain a lot.

Runs fine on Chromium so I'll get around rating it.
Trancelucid
23. Aug 2011 路 05:52 UTC
I should know better than to steal a black hole gun. ;) Riding an event horizon is hard, and this little guy can whiz through a dozen of them! Fun game, if rather buggy. The first time around I reached the end level without knowing it, I was just stuck in a blank grey level.
Shigor
23. Aug 2011 路 10:25 UTC
Nice idea, too bad you hadn't spent more time on it and less on getting drunk :)
RichMakeGame
24. Aug 2011 路 23:58 UTC
great idea, i just couldn't play it very well :) would be good to polish up the gameplay
marudziik
25. Aug 2011 路 01:10 UTC
Concept is fine, but the execution somewhat lacking. Physics of the gravity-pull behave quite strange, at least under Firefox - I'm gonna try chrome later. I guess that's the beauty and the curse of JS.
On the other hand, this is quite a good entry, with decent graphics and background music, so it's fine by me. Congrats!
wonderwhy-er
25. Aug 2011 路 20:22 UTC
Concepty is interesting, sadly does not feel to play so good. Allowing to making many of black holes probably not a good idea. May be one with variable size/charge would work better.

Anyways good idea but somehow does not feel that good play.
Codexus
11. Sep 2011 路 10:41 UTC
Nice idea but I couldn't control the effect of the gun well enough and got stuck really early.
Gjarble
13. Sep 2011 路 01:56 UTC
I love the concept. I do want to let you know, though, that the controls don't work at all in Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. I tried it again in Firefox 5.0, and it worked most of the time, but going through the exit occasionally led me to an empty room where I couldn't move, and I had to restart the game. I think it happened whenever I went through a door with black holes on it.