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COMPLETE: 33 Grams
Dec. 10th, 2017 05:56 pmI forget why I even have this. I think I saw a Tumblr post that linked to an AlphaBetaGamer review that made it sound cool or something?
33 Grams is a 5-10 minute Ludum Dare affair. You are a moth. Fly around, collect other moths, try to escape the spike factory and not die.
Once you get used to the... not even the controls (which are literally just "click a spot to fly to it") but how the swarm reacts to the controls, moving around isn't so bad. (The key is slow and tiny movements; they only overcorrect when you're zipping around entire screen lengths at a time and try to emergency-180-reverse when sudden spikes are coming up.) Escaping isn't so bad once you know where the exit is; since this game isn't randomized or anything. Collecting all 99 (actually 100) moths before you escape, though, that's a trick. In the end, I only got them all through an extreme thorough "fly all the way to the lower-left corner of the map, fly from the left edge of the map all the way to the right, fly about half a screen up, fly from the right edge of the map all the way to the left, fly about half a screen up, etc." brute force map sweep.
Not much of an ending, either, but I mean it's a Ludum Dare.
It's fun, though. Neat, kind of creepy yet zen between the graphics/music/sound effects and the way the gameplay encourages moving very slowly and gradually.
33 Grams is a 5-10 minute Ludum Dare affair. You are a moth. Fly around, collect other moths, try to escape the spike factory and not die.
Once you get used to the... not even the controls (which are literally just "click a spot to fly to it") but how the swarm reacts to the controls, moving around isn't so bad. (The key is slow and tiny movements; they only overcorrect when you're zipping around entire screen lengths at a time and try to emergency-180-reverse when sudden spikes are coming up.) Escaping isn't so bad once you know where the exit is; since this game isn't randomized or anything. Collecting all 99 (actually 100) moths before you escape, though, that's a trick. In the end, I only got them all through an extreme thorough "fly all the way to the lower-left corner of the map, fly from the left edge of the map all the way to the right, fly about half a screen up, fly from the right edge of the map all the way to the left, fly about half a screen up, etc." brute force map sweep.
Not much of an ending, either, but I mean it's a Ludum Dare.
It's fun, though. Neat, kind of creepy yet zen between the graphics/music/sound effects and the way the gameplay encourages moving very slowly and gradually.