Skate Shifter by Chaoslab
Skate Shifter!
Left Click and/or Drag on the Balloons to get more Skate Boards.
Left Click and/or Drag on the Butterfly's to Spawn Shapes.
Right Click to Spawn Skate Board's which are used to shift shapes which are collected once off screen.
Takes a few moments for Butterfly's to Spawn which will first appear as a Caterpillar the turns into a Chrysalis
DANGER! Colored ground tiles will destroy Skate Boards of the same color (once).
The Level is complete after clicking on enough Butterfly's and collecting the resulting Shapes with Skate Boards.
Pro-tip! Placing the mouse over a Chrysalis and keeping the left button down before it spawns is a good way to instantly turn the resulting Butterfly into a Shape.
Require JAVA! (No sound on iOS, play the .ogg file in VLC)
Solo effort - Code, Pixel Art and Music.
Left Click and/or Drag on the Balloons to get more Skate Boards.
Left Click and/or Drag on the Butterfly's to Spawn Shapes.
Right Click to Spawn Skate Board's which are used to shift shapes which are collected once off screen.
Takes a few moments for Butterfly's to Spawn which will first appear as a Caterpillar the turns into a Chrysalis
DANGER! Colored ground tiles will destroy Skate Boards of the same color (once).
The Level is complete after clicking on enough Butterfly's and collecting the resulting Shapes with Skate Boards.
Pro-tip! Placing the mouse over a Chrysalis and keeping the left button down before it spawns is a good way to instantly turn the resulting Butterfly into a Shape.
Require JAVA! (No sound on iOS, play the .ogg file in VLC)
Solo effort - Code, Pixel Art and Music.
Ratings
| Coolness | 84% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.70 | 1011 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.15 | 396 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.50 | 987 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.93 | 784 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.63 | 447 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.00 | 575 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.74 | 804 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.41 | 1037 |
I wrote it and run it on Windows 7.
Also tested and runs on Windows 10.
Is kinda funny to see all this balloons and skates having no idea what to do with them. Once I got it everything made sense.
I also enjoyed the art and music, nice work!
@Matlab - I updated the readme.txt and entry description text to be a bit more informative.
@sarayCow - Its all about shifting shapes on skates.
@TheMeorch - You are welcome. Nothing like see that first shape go flying off the screen on a skate board.
Once again thank you for your feed back. :-)
@namrog84 :-) Thanks man. Off to the factory with it!
@KodingNight Well I am Chaoslab.
@Kuality-Games Click on the Butterflys which then drop a Shape (symbol). Then just fire a Skate Board at it. :-)
Again thanks for the feed back, considering doing a tutorial image to help people out a bit with how to play the game and what is going on (And make it the first preview image of the entry).
But does it never stop? Think I came up to level 5 until I gave up. :3
@ZpeedTube The game has 10 levels. :-)
@Jonak Try running the game slowed down ( run_slow.bat ) or if you need it slower run at the command line like this.
java LD delay:20
@Strike Thank you very much!
@Brian_Mayberry Awesome! That was the plan! I like to make abstract creations in Ludum Dare as it is a medium to explore, might as well leave the beaten path a wee bit.
even though playing it i kept thinking...why skateboards? why balloons? why do the butterflies turn into geometric shapes?
it's weird but has a kind of oldschool-nonsensical-charme about it, its a game after all, no need to justify everything
@IDidGame Shape Shifting is the inspiration. Skate shifter is the pun title joke. The Butterflys are shape shifter's which spawn Shapes when clicked on. The Skate boards then Shift the Shapes (off the screen). So its all Shape Shifting really.
Java LD delay:25
@MintArcade It is fun when it all clicks!
@Voxel thanks for the video! Glad you and your boy enjoyed yourselves. :-)