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Insanis Sphaera by DAk001

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made by DAk001 for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Insanis Sphaera

:warning: If you start game in fullscreen mode there may be a bug with rendering. To fix this resize your window once.

Gameplay

  • Main goal is to keep shpere stable. You can achieve that dragging and collapsing particles in the sphere.

  • Avoid enemy particles.

  • No stability makes sphere collapse.

  • Sphere is growing when particles are collapsing inside of it.lso you have to keep all particle levels balanced. If there is too much or too little of any particle shpere collapses.

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Development

This game was written using ConGL API

Thanks to:

Watermelon - for funny pistacio

Адвокат - for lovely gifs

Flamingo - beta tester 1

Master - for awesome feedback

Coffevarca - beta tester 2

Dasha - for amazing alien

Stin - beta tester 3

Vsi - release tester

Github https://github.com/bulbaME/insanis-sphaera
Windows Executable https://github.com/bulbaME/insanis-sphaera/blob/master/insanis-sphaera.exe
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/insanis-sphaera

Ratings

Overall 970th 3.36⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1081th 3.104⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 213th 3.833⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 531th 3.771⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 768th 3.583⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 985th 2.542⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 842th 3.333⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

WatermelonAndMe
04. Oct 2021 · 21:09 UTC
Awesome console game :thumbsup:.
I would suggest adding some instructions to be always shown on screen.
Falcondance
04. Oct 2021 · 21:40 UTC
Not bad, I was a little confused at times though. You might want to show the screen with the instructions before the user starts playing, rather than having them as another button in the main menu. You might also make the instructions the top button in the menu, so that people don't miss it.
vsi-
05. Oct 2021 · 04:35 UTC
It’s a really nice console game written with your own library, gj!
Bastienre4
05. Oct 2021 · 23:13 UTC
Nice!
It's refreshing to see a console game. It's a nice technical exploit, congrats.
Yohsk13
06. Oct 2021 · 08:06 UTC
Nice game (^w^). It tooks me some time to not crash every particle (including the ennemy particle Z :p) into my sphere (^^). I do agree with watermelon in comments that showing part of the instructions in game might help :) (I ended up taking a screenshot of the instructions ^^)
🎤 DAk001
06. Oct 2021 · 14:15 UTC
@yohsk13 yeah, you have to get used to the mechanics but you don't actually have to take screenshot, you can just go to the about section in the main menu during the game, and then just return back to it! Progress saves if you go to the main menu ;)
Yohsk13
06. Oct 2021 · 14:20 UTC
@dak001 Oh (^^) Good to know, thanks :)
Thieme55
06. Oct 2021 · 18:23 UTC
I think it's nice to have "no" instructions given. Kind of feels like the first time I worked with a terminal and had no idea how to do stuff. -> feels "realistic" ;)
🎤 DAk001
06. Oct 2021 · 19:04 UTC
@thieme55 read please the about section. First button from the top
abk507
06. Oct 2021 · 20:16 UTC
Cool idea, nice to see a really different software being used to make the game. I just don't get the controls, there are so many buttons to do few things.
T R E F E T H E N
07. Oct 2021 · 00:34 UTC
It was rather hard to tell what type of particle I was looking at, and the HUD in the top right was a bit confusing. I think that the concept was super neat, and the approach was 'almost' there, the controls just needed to be a bit more intuitive.
Sploky
08. Oct 2021 · 04:43 UTC
Really interesting game.
LDJam user 0
08. Oct 2021 · 05:56 UTC
Interesting. I don't really know what I'm doing but I like looking at it.
🎤 DAk001
08. Oct 2021 · 09:26 UTC
@abk507 about controls: otherwise it would be too easy to play)
enderswype
09. Oct 2021 · 13:37 UTC
my sphere collapsed countless times, send help please :|
chesiq
09. Oct 2021 · 17:37 UTC
10/10 graphics for this one. It's really cool (really loved ADOM back in the day).
erikkire
11. Oct 2021 · 18:35 UTC
Excellent graphics!
AdamCYounis
13. Oct 2021 · 02:48 UTC
Heya! I really struggled with this one. I think the lack of feedback made it really difficult to know if what I was doing was right or wrong. For some reason, I couldn't increase stability no matter what I did. Maybe I was doing something wrong? In general, the game felt very out of control, partly because of the targeting system, and partly because of the speed and momentum of the particles vs the dragging force. It just felt like a struggle from the beginning. I appreciate the commitment to making a terminal game, but I didn't really enjoy my time with it.

Thanks for the game, best of luck with future dev!
🎤 DAk001
13. Oct 2021 · 17:15 UTC
@adamcyounis yes. my game is hard to play, but if there weren't these mechanics ('E' to collapse, losing stability if everything wasn't balanced) game wouldn't be so interactive and fun to play. I really don't like too easy games. there was a lot what I've balanced during development what made game easier to play.

P.S. I've watched your stream and you didn't saw speeding up mechanic which would decrease game hardness dramatically.