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April 20th-23rd 2012 :: 10 Year Anniversary! :: Theme: Tiny World
AtmosFeast - thecodermonkey - 48 Hour Compo Entry
Instead of doing a game about small worlds, I made a game about small planets. Use the arrow keys to move your player around your planet and use space to pull in the surrounding planets to make yours grow.
I really enjoyed making this type of game, it's not something I usually make so it's refreshing making a fun little action game. Especially when everything's neon. I had lots of fun making this and I hope you all enjoy playing it. There's a highscore chart on Kong where this is hosted so try and beat my highscore :)
Made in AS3 using flash builder, flash cs5.5 and photoshop. Graphics were initially all coded in until I turned them into bitmap graphics in photoshop for memory usage. This game already is pushing it having a whole load of objects on screen at once, and its not optimised due to time constraints so, if it starts to lag, I'm sorry.
I didn't use any frameworks to build upon, just built from scratch since it's so small. I used a bunch of code snippets I've built up over the past few years, but thats not really a personal library, just code knowledge.
I used TweenLite for my animations, Hires stats for debugging and google analytics for stat tracking.
Audio was created using garage band for the background music and as3sfxr for the SFX
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Ratings
| #82 | Audio | 3.47 |
| #95 | Innovation | 3.73 |
| #131 | Fun | 3.40 |
| #223 | Overall | 3.33 |
| #363 | Mood | 2.77 |
| #384 | Theme | 3.13 |
| #479 | Graphics | 2.80 |
| #737 | Humor | 1.56 |
| #1007 | Coolness | 20% |
Comments
The cannon rotation speed feels just right, and the game is really fun. Cool take on the old "big fish in little pond" game-types.
Nice play mechanic and visuals. Some more depth would be good of course :) Good job overall.
Good and nice looking job!
I like the music, it matches perfectly with the kind of game.
Congratulations!
Fantastic concept - simple, but highly addictive! What's more, you've polished the game to near perfection, which is rare for a Ludum Dare game.
Great work!
It looks like a simple and boring game, but is quite addictive actually. The music also helps a lot to have the urge to keep playing it. Nicely done!
Great game! The music controls and graphics are indeed a feast! :D
Really nice soundtrack you have here. The game is pretty fun as well, with only a little bit of an issue with the "cannon" circling a little too fast for my taste. Otherwise a solid game.
Great mechanic, great controls, great audio combination. Loads of fun :)
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The cannon rotation speed feels just right, and the game is pretty neat. Cool take on the old "big fish in little pond" game-types.