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Nix by slagathor

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made by slagathor for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

As an orb seeker, you live for the thrill of collecting those sweet, sweet orbs. You start with nothing, how long can you survive?

  • All orbs protect you from your enemies. Get hit without any orbs and...well you can guess what happens next.
  • Pink Orbs let you demolish surrounding enemies. (hold spacebar)
  • Green Orbs let you move fast while shielding you. (right-mouse button)
  • Blue Orbs let you shoot enemies. (left-mouse button)

W, A, S, D keys to move around!

Note: HTML5 game works in Firefox and Chrome, but experiences issues in Safari. Sorry!

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Youtube https://slagathor-ld.itch.io/nix
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nix

Ratings

Overall 581th 3.432⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 320th 3.568⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 819th 2.841⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 829th 2.932⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 748th 3.182⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 500th 3.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 866th 1.789⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 819th 3⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

HumphreysMedia
07. Oct 2019 · 20:12 UTC
Movement felt super smooth so super good job with that! Enemies are a little hard to aim for, but had fun collecting orbs and attempting to shoot them none the less!
starvingindie
07. Oct 2019 · 20:19 UTC
Great job on the movement. It was a pleasant surprise when the game turned into a bullet hell/cat & mouse game. I also really like the color choice and aesthetics used in the game. Great work.
Gone3001
07. Oct 2019 · 20:34 UTC
Great idea, and laid out really well in a humourous way
blobo
08. Oct 2019 · 20:24 UTC
3264 points. nice work! I had lots of fun with this game, though a never really used the green orbs.
Adrenallen
09. Oct 2019 · 02:30 UTC
Pretty gun! I like the audio and general art style!

I did run into a few things, namely that you move really quickly going diagonally and can out run everything. Since score accumulates with time, this seems to be the best strategy. Also, the keys seem sticky, for example if you move up and left, and then just hold up, you still move up and left until you either go the opposite direction or release all the keys.

Overall, was a fun game! Good job
jjoeyay
09. Oct 2019 · 02:37 UTC
pretty fun! very minimalistic but the movement and mechanics that are here are fun and i can enjoy playing it — i'm a bit hesitant to rate the audio though since it's just 'above all' by HOME
Andre Fremaux
09. Oct 2019 · 03:20 UTC
Very neat game, everything is well rounded and polished off! Had quite a lot of fun playing!
MaxyMax
09. Oct 2019 · 07:15 UTC
Minimalism FTW!
Soundtrack is FIRE!
Love the ideda of constantly gaining things and throwing them out.
I feel as though the controls could've used a little tweaking, but great idea and a lot of potential!
toad
09. Oct 2019 · 10:35 UTC
Fun game, though I've withheld scoring on audio because you're using pre-existing song like @jjoeyay pointed out. Great song though.
ThatMalzan
09. Oct 2019 · 12:59 UTC
Real straightforward and fun. I would like it if the demolish range of the pink power was a bit larger... I find myself mostly using the other two.
mao
11. Oct 2019 · 18:32 UTC
Nice! I like the rock-paper-scissors dynamic between the three weapon types. I also think the red power could be made a little more useful, especially by making it larger. It becomes very useless when you are at low health.
ketura
11. Oct 2019 · 22:39 UTC
I appreciate that the enemy colors line up with the powers of the orbs, but some on-screen indications of how to use them would be nice for the learning curve. It's also obnoxious that blue orbs give one shot instead of like 3.
Still, tight controls, fun enough for what it is.