Very nice little concept! I'm more of an arrow keys man, but still had a great time!
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Magnetic Trek's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Entertainment - how enjoyable/replayable is it? | #19 | 2.648 | 3.375 |
| Creativity - how original is the idea? | #19 | 2.844 | 3.625 |
| Overall | #25 | 2.550 | 3.250 |
| Presentation - how does it look/feel? | #28 | 2.157 | 2.750 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Thanks for your review!
You're absolutely right that the goals conflict. Originally I wanted to add a different type of particle that would make you shrink, or add some power-ups that you could activate to do that. The game is supposed to be happening on a hard disk platter and after passing a few black obstacles, you were supposed to meet the disk read head were you had to be at least a certain size to complete the level.
Unfortunately the time restrictions had me cut off on my ambitions and so that's the best I could come up with for now. I may add the rest after the Jam ends.
1 year ago(+1)
In my view you as the player need to make a compromise as to how much you can grow and when you decide to repel particles rather than consume them. I think that makes the game quite fun. Of course it's unfinished and there were supposed to be more of an ability to shrink which didn't make the cut.
My build resulted in a bugged game, but I loved your video of it: https://diode.zone/w/xo2R6LkdSexsDdaP5ubngF
Problem was probably me:
I don't really want to admit my crappy test linux environment ;p
Debian bullseye linux container on an amd64 chromebook.
In general sdl2 works fine for me in my common lisp ffi .. Is it possible I did something really wrong with chicken-install ?
The *game* works fine- there's a long, black load time but then, despite the messed up graphics I can move around with wsad and the charges get attracted as expected (and I die when I hit the edge)
1 year ago(+1)
Hi, I just had a go at building and running the game on Debian 11 bullseye (amd64). I unfortunately cannot reproduce the bug you're experiencing. Sadly I don't own a chromebook so I'm not able to match your exact conditions. As it stands I don't have a solution to help you :(. I can only suggest that you try it out on a different setup.
With regards to the "loading time" at the start of the game, the game actually has a 3s wait time while it displays the instructions on how to play. This is probably what you're seeing as a "blank screen". The game is so simple it pretty much loads instantly otherwise.
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