OK, I'll throw in an option for that.

It's neat, but the ball is constantly going through platforms, and the game is unplayable because of it.

How is the game performing on your computer? Do things seem choppy? Because if the FPS is low physics glitches might happen. I can't reproduce it, though.

you really need to lock the mouse cursor, this is literally impossible to play when the mouse is unlocked.

Shouldn't be. Maybe if your mouse is really slow.

control type 2 moves so sluggish and jerky that it isn't feasible either

I was able to reproduce the sluggishness, but only on Linux, which is really weird. What OS are you running?

A Geometry Wars style grid, eh?

Too bad I can't really tell what the grid is responding to. Can you tell me?

[Download for Windows: http://tesselode.110mb.com/games/tilt-windows.zipDownload the source (requires Love to run): http://tesselode.110mb.com/games/tilt-source.zip]

You know those labyrinth things? The ones where you tilt the thingy around to get the ball to go around holes? OK, well imagine a 2D computer game version of that. Where all of the platforms rotate separately. And you can only rotate the one that the ball touched last.

Download for Windows: http://tesselode.110mb.com/games/tilt-windows.zip
Download the source (requires Love to run):  http://tesselode.110mb.com/games/tilt-source.zip

How to play: hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to rotate platforms. Get the ball to the green square. Don't go past the left, right, or bottom edge of  the screen.





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Level making guide
Hey guess what, in the current release, you can make levels!

First create a text file in the "custom" folder with the file extension ".tilt". Then start typing in it!
(The "custom" folder is in %appdata%/love/tesselode_tilt on Windows and ~/.love/tesselode_tilt on Linux.)

Each line is a different object. The syntax is as follows:

[x position],[y position],[object type],[parameters for object separated by commas]

The different object types:
-"ball" - the ball you have to guide to the goal (no parameters)
-"goal" - the goal you have to guide the ball to (no parameters)
-"spike" -  spike balls. Don't touch these! (no parameters)
-"wall" - uninteractive wall thingy. (no parameters)
-"platform" - a rotatable platform. This can have one or more sets of 4 parameters, each of which represents a rectangle that makes up the platform. The parameters are, in order: relative x position, relative y position, width, and height.
-"spring" - the ball bounces when it lands on one of these. (no parameters)
-"jet" - an air jet that pushes the ball around. Has 1 parameter, which is one of four directions, "left," "right," "up," or "down."

Tips:
-The size of every level is 800 by 600 pixels.
-Don't let platforms rotate too far off the screen. Otherwise they might stop rotating.
-Try not to let platforms collide with each other. Bad stuff isn't guaranteed to happen, but weird stuff might.
-All the shapes on a platform should touch each other. We don't want floaty shapes.
-Walls, spike balls and springs all have a size of 30x30 pixels.

Feel free to post level designs in this topic! I would like people besides me to design some levels for the final version of Tilt, since that will probably make the game more interesting.

Any more ideas that you think would fit the game?  We're really itching to do some more stuff! ^_^

Wow, you're itching that badly? OK, first, get some moisturizer or something.

And here's a bunch of stuff the bullets could interact with:
-Portals (like in Portal, but not controlled by the player)
-Black holes
-Changing gravity (like Super Mario Galaxy)
-Bullet-neutralizing walls
-Some thingies that bullets can touch that will push them in a certain direction
-Anti-gravity/High gravity
-Switches for the bullets to hit

And then you can put in some teleporting grenades.

Not so sure I like the new graphical effects. I think they could benefit from something more Geometry Wars-esque.

This game would make great speedruns.

Have you uploaded a new version with those things yet? I think you ought to.

[v1.05 is out]

Without any goal or challenge, the game would probably get dull pretty quick. And mouse control would probably feel either jumpy or sluggish (and it might unbalance the game).

By the way, you can just hold down Z; you don't have to press it "in time."

With that said...v1.05 is out! It's got an autofire option and some player/bullet color options now! That should be good for those of you who were having trouble distinguishing between the player and the enemies.

That was really awe-full. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Keyboard control is harder. Making it worse for novices.

But then again, mouse control is bad for laptop users. So it's your call.

Ah, it's much better without the white flash. Anyway, I don't think you need to make the game any easier, since that just limits the difficulty curve. Just start out with nice, easy levels.

About the controls, have you considered using the mouse as a way to aim with the Receiver while moving with the arrow keys ?

Now that I think about it, that's a really good idea.

Also, you ought to come with some sort of storyline. You've got a cat thing as the player and no good story to back it up!

Hey look, someone threw in the arc. Now you should take it out after a few levels to make the game harder!

So let's see, ideas for obstacles...how about a platform that the missile bounces off of?

Nice mechanic. Just make sure you ease players into it before putting in hard levels!

Have you considered making a level editor for this? That would really get peoples' creative juices flowing.

So I've been having trouble coming up with a better death sound (it took me a long time to come up with the first one). So if anyone wants to make a 2 second death sound and a game over sound then go right ahead.

THIS IS NOT A POPULARITY CONTEST.

It's just a list of people you might come across when browsing the forum so that you can recognize them when you see them.

I think we need a topic with a list of active members. That way it will be easier to recognize people and get to know the community. This forum's pretty big, after all.

And the topic needs to be stickied. It can be this topic, if you want.

I've never seen such deep, immersive gameplay. And the music is wonderful too, especially with that one grating note that holds out for a long time.

Maybe you could try making some sound effects with a synthesizer.

Looks like we both have something in common. We hate Breakout.