Airscape - Astounding rotating HTML5 platform game

http://www.scirra.com/arcade/addicting-rotary-games/848

by AshleysBrain • 14 years ago

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IdahoEv• 14 years ago

Gorgeous - but I've never had nausea come on so fast while playing a game. Most games, 3 or 4+ hours will trigger a migraine and nausea. This one ... maybe 10 minutes.

Otherwise, awesome.

TomGullen7• 14 years ago

It was for our competition with the theme "Rotary". We didn't really consider the nauseating effects of this theme!

rpsw• 14 years ago

Whoa, I feel dizzy.

jamesu• 14 years ago

Thanks for blasting my ears off with the sudden loud music. Is there a simple way i can block all audio on a specific page?

CWIZO• 14 years ago

It's a game, what did you except?

darklajid• 14 years ago

Rule of thumb: Never play audio on the web before the user interacted with your site.

Opening that link loads a 'Start here' screen of the game and lots of web content around it. I don't expect (and - quite frankly - like) sound here.

IF I hit 'Start' or somesuch thing on a web site, THEN I probably expect some audio.

Go to a URL? No. Click on something on a site? Maybe.

lloeki• 14 years ago

You can cut off sound in the "menu" when you hover the mouse over the game.

xymostech• 14 years ago

On both of my computers, using Chrome 19.0.1061.1 dev on Mac and 17.0.963.66 on Windows, I couldn't get past the "This game should be played in Google Chrome for best performance" warning...

TomGullen7• 14 years ago

Tom here from Scirra, where's that warning appearing? In the game or at the top of the page?

radarsat12• 14 years ago

Same here, here's a screenshot of my Ubuntu desktop:

http://i.imgur.com/QklQb.png

The only thing is if I click, I hear a sound, but otherwise it just stays like that.. what should I do? I want to try the game.

Nevermind, just discovered that it works fine in Firefox nightly. Super slow on my netbook though, I'll give it a try on a better computer later.

azakai• 14 years ago

Hmm, I didn't see a warning about Chrome, and it runs fine here on Firefox 13.

statenjason• 14 years ago

Same issue on Chromium. I checked the console:

  Application Cache Error event: Cache creation was blocked by the content policy
  c2runtime.js:228 Uncaught Error: QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22

earl• 14 years ago

You may be blocking cookies; I had the same problem.

(1) Click on cookie on far right of chrome bar.

(2) click show cookies and other site data.

(3) click on blocked;

(4) click on static1.scirra.net and choose allow or allow for session

and it plays!

Awesome game, btw

drostie• 14 years ago

Okay, so I seriously enjoy this game, even though I was upset about getting the We Suck At Loading screen in Firefox 10. (i.e. "This game should be played in Google Chrome").

Cheers for creating a fun game!

tagawa• 14 years ago

Agree. Getting tired of the "you should be using Chrome" messages although it works fine in Opera (haven't tried Firefox). It smacks of "we only tested in one browser", even though that's probably not the case.

Having said that, it's a nice game.

underwater• 14 years ago

Interestingly the text rendering is better on IE9 than on Firefox and Chrome. The later two snap the position to the closest pixel, which looks jumpy when animating zoom and rotation.

docgnome• 14 years ago

This is strongly reminiscent of Mario Galaxy.

kevinh• 14 years ago

Impressive game. One small issue I had with it was that when you're holding a direction key and jump (and gravity subsequently inverts), continuing to hold the key will now rocket you off in a different direction. IMO, it's design to have the user keep moving in the same direction until they release the key and then have pressing the key move them in the "correct" direction.

marquis• 14 years ago

I got the feeling that it is part of the game and spend a few moments learning the triggers.

Kiro• 14 years ago

Wow, this was made with Constructor 2? I didn't think you could make this kind of stuff with it.

TomGullen7• 14 years ago

Yup! Made with Construct 2. Construct 2 is capable of making just about any 2D game you can imagine. We're really starting to see some nice stuff come though now.

ianterrell• 14 years ago

The first one of these I saw have much success was Soosiz on the iPhone. It's a fun concept for a platformer.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soosiz/id331891505?mt=8

jebblue• 14 years ago

It was fun and imaginative, it ran great on Ubuntu 11.10 in Chrome too and an old machine at that.

sodiumphosphate• 14 years ago

Crashed chrome on my late 2011 Macbook Pro.

khyryk• 14 years ago

Sadly, my slow reflexes ensure that I get destroyed by the sharp walking robots almost every single time. Neat little game, nonetheless.

icefox• 14 years ago

Yah the first level you encounter them should be tweaked so you are less likely to die. The first time you encounter a new bad guy you should be scared, but not in danger. It makes it more fun.

dmitriy_ko2• 14 years ago

I will be more impressed with HTML5 graphics capabilities when simple 2D game like this doesn't utilize 95% of my CPU cycles.

TomGullen7• 14 years ago

Can you give more details of your setup? For me it's using ~20% CPU.

Do you have WebGL enabled?

dmitriy_ko2• 14 years ago

I'm running it in Chromium 17.0.963.56 on Ubuntu 11.10. I have two Intel Core i7-720QM CPUs, 4 cores each. My graphics card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500. I just checked, WebGL appears to be disabled. I'll try to see if I can get WebGL to work on this machine tomorrow (maybe I can find new drivers for my card). If I succeed I'll let you know how CPU usage compares.

cousin_it2• 14 years ago

20% also seems too much. Castlevania SOTN ran on a 33MHz CPU, that's 1% of today's desktop machine. This game is 10x-100x less complex than SOTN, so it should use 0.01% to 0.1% of CPU. Also interesting to apply the same metric to RAM usage (SOTN used 2MB).

sqiddster• 14 years ago

I'm the maker of this game, very glad you guys had a fun time with it.

Regarding the Chrome warning, it is intended to be only a suggestion that the game plays better on Chrome. If it not supposed to block you from playing on firefox or other browsers!

I will make sure to reword that warning when the competition is over!

Also, I was pressed for time when making the mute button. It will have better functionality after I can update the game upon the end of the contest.

Thank you all for your suggestions, this really helps.

Airscape - Astounding rotating HTML5 platform game

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