Zelenium© by Enver Arco

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made by Enver Arco for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

A game were you travel through alien planets activating beacons

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Controls

Press 1,2,3,4,5 to drop a green, blue, pink, yellow or white orb.

Try to land your orbs on the matching coloured beacons below

Play it here https://enverarco.itch.io/zelenium


LD 51 - 23 Hours Spent over a 3 day period

4 hours thinking of ideas and designing, 6 hours generating ai art, 9 hours programming, 3 hours doing a web GL build and playtesting, 1 hour submitting to Ludum Dare and Itch


Post Mortem

Really happy with how the ai generated art turned out and I like the ambience of the game. Game play is very simple and basic, would have liked more time to design something a bit more engaging but as always with game jams its a trade off for where we want to spend our time. Overall I'm happy with what I created. I've learned that in a 72 hour period I probably only do about 20-25 hours of actual game making. Given that short about of time its hard for me to make more ambitious games during a jam. So I know if I want to make games of a bigger scale I'll probably need to work in teams but then there is a trade off working in teams in that you lose some of your creative vision and it becomes more collaborative which is good too but its a very different kind of development process.

Ratings

Overall 1182th 2.696⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1226th 2.065⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1193th 2.295⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1159th 2.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 745th 2.5⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 987th 1.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 793th 3.214⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 35🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 240168
03. Oct 2022 · 19:04 UTC
Unfortunately, the game doesn't load for me, there's just a grey screen.

![2022-10-03-220355_959x546_scrot.png](///raw/82a/a3/z/50868.png)
🎤 Enver Arco
03. Oct 2022 · 19:08 UTC
@lisyarus, you can play it here https://enverarco.itch.io/zelenium
LDJam user 269161
03. Oct 2022 · 19:09 UTC
sadly I can't find a link to play your game
🎤 Enver Arco
03. Oct 2022 · 19:12 UTC
@erikengineengineer, you can play it here https://enverarco.itch.io/zelenium
GameJMunk
03. Oct 2022 · 19:13 UTC
Interesting game! Some of the colors are hard to distinguish on the beads and beacons below (maybe add some outline, or unique shape that matches with color). Also 5 orbs is a bit difficult to manage with one hand, but that might have been the intention.
resacaGames
03. Oct 2022 · 19:15 UTC
Weirdly addicting, but so easy to lose!! Having the color HUD so far makes it kind of hard to know what key throws which color but it became easier with time. Nice use of the theme!
hotaloca
03. Oct 2022 · 19:15 UTC
Well done! It's a nice little game. It was difficult for me to match the colors - some shapes might have helped to match better the numbers? Also if you could not make the shot the first time it took long for the ship to turn around so I always died :)
lavendaggers
03. Oct 2022 · 19:21 UTC
Once I got the hang of it, I got kinda hooked
LDJam user 240168
03. Oct 2022 · 19:26 UTC
Beautiful art! The gameplay is quite simplistic, and I can't say it matches the theme well: nothing happens _every_ 10 seconds, it's just that you have 10 seconds to win. The game also felt a little bit unfair - after some failures there's no way you could reach the failure point again in 10 seconds. A final note: it's a bad idea to tell the player to press Alt+F4 for a web game, it will close the whole browser :)
dhim
03. Oct 2022 · 20:29 UTC
It does not load for me, the unity progress bar is stuck to 0...
🎤 Enver Arco
03. Oct 2022 · 20:42 UTC
@dhim did this happen on the itch link at
https://enverarco.itch.io/zelenium
LDJam user 300745
03. Oct 2022 · 21:03 UTC
I have nicely played using the itch link. I like the look and feel.
dhim
03. Oct 2022 · 21:03 UTC
Yes, I'll keep the window open for a longer time to see if something happens after a long long time. I am on MacOs/Chrome. Well still not loading
🎤 Enver Arco
03. Oct 2022 · 21:12 UTC
@dhim maybe try in another browser
Gus the Shark
03. Oct 2022 · 22:27 UTC
Killer mood in this game, reminds me a bit of the "another world" game. Props!
Malai
03. Oct 2022 · 23:20 UTC
Looks and sounds amazing!
At first I had no clue where the balls would come from, it took a while to not miss the beacons because of the offset. A indication in the artwork or something else, visually showing where the orbs would come would have been helpful.
Pixelydian
04. Oct 2022 · 14:31 UTC
This reminded me of those timed drop ball games at arcades - simple but also addicting! The best score I got was 18. My only constructive criticism is that it was a little difficult at first to tell what color was what. Some of that may be my monitor, but I would have liked those colors to be a little brighter, maybe have a colored glow effect around them as well? Anyway the environment art is beautiful and you put together a nice little game! Could see this being expanded - what if the ship moved vertical? Maybe it moves on a winding path? Maybe it's speed alternates? Lots of cool potential here. Good job!
Pygargue_pirate
04. Oct 2022 · 14:35 UTC
Graphics are very good !
🎤 Enver Arco
04. Oct 2022 · 15:02 UTC
Nice suggestions @pixelydian and good points about the color. I'll add a glow effect in a post jam build
Eugenik
04. Oct 2022 · 20:37 UTC
I love that art style and gameplay!.
BoxedMeatRevolution
05. Oct 2022 · 04:30 UTC
You should work in teams! It's tons of fun, and you don't lose your vision, you get other people's vision + yours, which is usually better than yours alone! The ambience of your game was great, although I found the gameplay quite frustrating. Especially because I couldn't tell the colours of the beacons apart very well, and you had to be fairly precise with the drops. Also, there was a lot of waiting around for the ship to get places, which I found boring. It already barely matches the theme, just ignore the theme and just restart right away when you miss one! It was worth playing through all the levels though because I got to see more of your AI generated backgrounds, which were quite nice
LDJam user 279622
05. Oct 2022 · 09:08 UTC
I played this one on stream last night! unfortunately the VOD got muted, so no link :(

this game is really pretty and peaceful! I enjoyed it, thanks for bringing it by the stream :)
ccollider
05. Oct 2022 · 13:51 UTC
It's a bit tough to tell some of the alien colours apart, but otherwise it's a solid game, congrats on getting it done in 24hrs!
dimlight
05. Oct 2022 · 16:50 UTC
![QQ图片20221006004627.png](///raw/016/91/z/525b3.png)

🤔,Seems like a lot has been said by others in front of me. Anyway, thanks for your willingness to wait and play my game!
CodeRaurus
06. Oct 2022 · 07:04 UTC
The waiting for inevitable doom after missing gets bit tedious, especially when you suck at aiming those orbs. Maybe giving the beacons little wider colliders or adding some sort of aim line could make it more bearable.

Some sort of sci-fi beat would have been cool.

Nice job regardless.
MrBamboo
09. Oct 2022 · 22:31 UTC
Very minimalist, no so much to say. Great