Gravi Blitz by NIGIC

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made by NIGIC for LD34 (JAM)
A two-player, split-screen arcade game where you must use polarized gravity to bring objects to the opponent's black hole.

Grow the opponent's Black Hole with Matter (yellow), and shrink your's with Antimatter (cyan). The Point Ball will move towards the largest Black Hole, and when it reaches the target, you score!

Built in around 24 hours, the game was planned for mobile, using a two-button interface (Positive and negative polarity, with movement set to touch/drag). Online multiplayer had to be dropped due to time restraints, so the current build is for PC with split-screen multiplayer.

Enjoy!

NOTE: There seems to be some issues with cursor detection and Fullscreen Mode. Windowed Mode should work fine. Also, note that the volume on some sound effects is not quite balanced properly. I apologize for any inconvenience.

CONTROLS

Player 1:
Arrows / WASD - Rotation
Space / G - Thrust Forward
X / Left Shift - Positive polarity (Attract yellow)
Z / Right Ctrl - Negative polarity (Attract blue)

Player 2:
Mouse Movement / NumPad 8456 - Rotation
Middle Click / NumPad Enter - Thrust Forward
Left Click / NumPad . - Positive polarity (Attract yellow)
Right Click / NumPad 0 - Negative polarity (Attract blue)

PATCH NOTES:
1.0.1 - Fixed a bug where matter mass would not be reset correctly upon respawn.

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1817
Overall(Jam) 3.11 716
Audio(Jam) 2.44 670
Fun(Jam) 3.00 635
Graphics(Jam) 3.17 656
Humor(Jam) 2.00 806
Innovation(Jam) 3.72 137
Mood(Jam) 2.72 833
Theme(Jam) 3.21 848

Feedback

DrTeaSpoon
15. Dec 2015 路 12:37 UTC
While I didn't have a local partner (so I couldn't test out the game as it was intended). Only real negative in the actualization of your game design is the sound effects. While all actions should have some audio cue, your choice makes my head hurt. Music is pretty decent though.
marod
15. Dec 2015 路 15:29 UTC
There is anoying sounds but it's an interesting game
Chubb1337
15. Dec 2015 路 16:20 UTC
I like the idea, but the controls are very difficult and could use some work. Keep it up!
HolyBlackCat
19. Dec 2015 路 14:14 UTC
I really liked the idea!
馃帳 NIGIC
01. Jan 2016 路 08:48 UTC
A bit late on the response, didn't get much free time over the last two weeks.

Sorry about the sound effects; there's definitely some volume balancing issues. The sound clips themselves are fairly rudimentary, too.

Controls work more or less as intended. There's always some possible improvements, but I felt it was a good balance between the feel of moving around in a vacuum and ease of use. (That said, the inputs themselves are obviously not as intended.)

Thanks for commenting!
Bobrocket
01. Jan 2016 路 13:00 UTC
This is a really cool idea! Would love to see it on mobile
Anti
01. Jan 2016 路 23:32 UTC
I liked the idea but the controlls was very hard to learn. Overall it was pretty good. Keep up the good work!
Nega Drive
03. Jan 2016 路 19:37 UTC
Neat idea for a game, presentation is pretty clean and nice. As people have said, the sound effects are a bit abrasive, but thats a minor gripe thats easily fixed. Would like to see a single player mode.
kardfogu
03. Jan 2016 路 20:10 UTC
Very solid entry, I always love to see multiplayer Ludum Dare games regardless of the fact that I have noone to test them with.
This one was among the easier ones to test and the more interesting ones.

I'll be honest, the audio has its problems, but I don't think that it would be that bad as others said.

Altogether, nicely done entry, these are the ones making it worthwhile to participate in the rating of the entries.
Keep up the good work!

- Kardfog煤