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I Hate Games With Powerups! by pauloseamano

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made by pauloseamano for LD20 (COMPO)
I worked with a few tools I'd never used before (SDL, OpenGL) so didn't get everything I wanted in the game.

The idea is very simple and this is as much a prototype more than a finished game. The graphics are crude but serve their purpose...see how long you can survive against the RED CIRCLES!!!

Windows http://www.zord.co.uk/PaulSeaman/Games/GamesWithPowerups/GamesWithPowerups.zip
Website http://www.zord.co.uk/PaulSeaman/Games/GamesWithPowerups/powerups.htm
Source http://www.zord.co.uk/PaulSeaman/Games/GamesWithPowerups/GamesWithPowerupsSrc.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=preview&uid=2398

Ratings

Coolness 0% 243
Overall 2.16 255
Audio 2.37 152
Community 2.17 205
Fun 2.26 220
Graphics 1.74 276
Humor 1.93 223
Innovation 2.32 228
Theme 1.89 253

Feedback

SonnyBone
04. May 2011 路 21:17 UTC
Couldn't tell what the red powerup does.
馃帳 pauloseamano
05. May 2011 路 08:43 UTC
The red powerup stops you taking damage, is the title graphic with the explanation of powerups not easy to read?
Dark Acre Jack
06. May 2011 路 22:43 UTC
Sorta didn't really understand what was happening. I know the yellow square slowed stuff down, but... and then the level shifted to a kind of pong thing?

More player feedback tools needed, like text popups or a scoreboard or health meter or something, but I definitely got that the red circles were bad news.

Oh, and the bass riff was cool.
DivideByZero
07. May 2011 路 15:46 UTC
Very addicting and easy to understand what is going on from the get go.
venzon
08. May 2011 路 21:54 UTC
It's not a bad concept, given how simple it is. It would have been nice to have more feedback about what's going on with the power-ups; I kept forgetting what the different colors did. :-)
Endurion
13. May 2011 路 06:52 UTC
A clean simple concept. However some feedback on how long the invincibility held on would be nice. Also there seems to be no indicator when and why the gameplay steps to the Pong type and back.
What exactly do you have to do to pick up the powerups? Sometimes they vanished, sometimes they didn't.