13 is bad, but can be good too. Just like this game. Probably needs a non-potato computer and mobile is not supported.
\nWASD or arrow keys for movement, spacebar for shield.
\nMusic theme by Zarja. Play testing: Aleks and Zarja. Thank you!
\nThis is a tech demo of sorts, of a global illumination approach developed by Alexander Sannikov, called radiance cascades. This particular game’s engine is a raw WebGL port of Jason McGhee’s Three.js based blog post. I’ll be releasing this mini engine as standalone soon.
\n","source":"jure/plusminus13","stars":2,"yt":"4-g27hhuMcw","comments":[{"at":378882075,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"This one looks fantastic! These radiance cascades is my favorite thing now.
\nThe music speeding up is a great touch and contributes beautifully to the tension.
\nThis is my favorite “need to take it apart and learn how it’s done” game this year. I think you’ve mentioned releasing the renderer as a standalone library, please ping me when you do! :)
\n","games":["Shoot 13 Nomsters","King Thirteen"]},{"at":379042665,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"I see someone had fun with lighting :p
\n","games":["O HIII BAD SKATEPARK","EMOJIPHOBIA","GREAT PLUMBER 65"]},{"at":379062187,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"Amazing lighting tech! The optical presentation and the music add a lot to the quite simple gameplay.\nAnd the highscores at the end motivate to give it another try. And another,… :-)
\n","games":["Aargh! Triskaideka attacks!"]},{"typ":2,"at":379077604,"author":"Christer Kaitila","login":"McFunkypants","gh":2111957,"url":"http://www.mcfunkypants.com","text":"the lighting is so cool! the soft shadows and glows and shines on the floor really knocked my socks off. this would be amazing at any size, and is doubly so for how small the code is for such a cool entry. it ran nice and smoothly on my old pc! awesome work. I’d love to see this engine used for a cyberpunk style game that is mostly dark except for long lines of glowy neon!! I bet it would look so cool using your tech. =) keep up the great work.
\n"},{"at":379102787,"author":"WHITE6982","login":"WHITE6982","gh":181463855,"text":"The neon lighting is looks Good and the music is also Great.
\n","games":["13 Cards Dungeon"]},{"at":379248182,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Looks great, the best graphics of all the game so far! Nice mucic also. There must be so many games this type of look and feel could be used for!
\nDeserves a greater than 13k version!
\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"typ":2,"at":379265631,"author":"Michelle Duke","login":"mishmanners","gh":36594527,"url":"mishmanners.info","twitter":"MishManners","text":"Fun music and sound effects. Loving the graphics.
\nI liked that the levels started easier and got harder and faster; I feel like the music got faster with the faster animations which was really cool. Nice work on this game, it was super fun. Lovely lighting effects, good smooth animations, intuitive controls, and overall great job.
\nGame over screen is good, maybe add a 60% background so can easily read the text over the rest of the game. If you wanted to make it even better (although you’re right on the 13kB limit), add an intro screen and it’d add that extra cherry on top.
\nGood GitHub README, add a few extra pieces of info and I’d be perfect.
\n"},{"at":379503463,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"The lighting was impressive.
\nUnfortunately, the framerate on my PC was too low on this game to be able to manoeuvre the character towards the other game pieces.
\nStill it did look great
\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"typ":1,"at":379560226,"re":379503463,"author":"Jure Triglav","login":"jure","gh":238667,"url":"https://juretriglav.si","twitter":"juretriglav","text":"Sorry about that - it’s quite resource intensive, unfortunately. I hope you can return some time in the future with a beefier GPU and, after you’re done winning in a fully path-traced Doom or something, play a round of plusminus13 :). Thanks for playing!
\n"},{"at":379597276,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"Nice looking game. My final score was 384 (669). It was really fun to watch your progress on Slack and see this come together. Also educational, as I had to read about radiance cascades after seeing the screenshots 😀 Great job, congrats!
\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"at":380063717,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"impressive lightning effects!\nGameplay is simple but funny. Having a music is cool too!
\n","games":["13 Steps to Escape"]},{"at":380236750,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"Radiance cascades FTW ! :)
\nSmall feedback: I have a somewhat beefy computer and it still run below 30 fps - I suggest downsampling it a bit (it will still look awesome setting probes each 2 or 4 pixels apart). I know it might not be trivial but having minimal settings would help a lot too.
\nAnd I do not have color blindness but it was hard to deciphering the glyphs anyways - using a different color palette might be helpful.
\nHaving said that, I like a lot the way you managed to fit the theme in the game and the game’s engine looks very cool. Well done! :)
\n","games":["DECK 13"]},{"typ":2,"at":380329269,"author":"Clément Pasteau","login":"ClementPasteau","gh":4895034,"twitter":"ClementPasteau","text":"Nice one!
\nUnfortunately, my laptop couldn’t run it smooth enough to enjoy it haha\nI have an integrated GPU card, yet it’s a good laptop.\nBut I think you can definitely optimize the performance of the game, maybe removing some effects?\nOtherwise you’re not gonna have a lot of players :)
\n"},{"at":380425594,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"It looks really cool, but i’m not able to play either on my integrated GPU, and thus can’t vote. I literally get 1FPS on FIrefox :’) Maybe you could add a “low graphics” button for us common folk?
\n","games":["Thirteen Terrible Stunts"]},{"typ":1,"at":380426501,"re":380425594,"author":"Jure Triglav","login":"jure","gh":238667,"url":"https://juretriglav.si","twitter":"juretriglav","text":"Yeah, apologies about the performance requirements! Radiance cascades are more performant than alternatives, or, in other words, they provide much higher quality at a given performance cost, but they are still an active area of research and there’s not that much that can be done here without severely degrading the quality of the image.
\nIn a perfect world, had I not been pressed for time, I would have implemented proper scaling, so that low perf setups could at least play at a low resolution in a small window. Currently the size of all elements is absolute, making smaller window sizes unplayable.
\nHowever, since JS13K is, like diamonds, forever :), I hope you’ll be able to revisit this game at a later point and play it in all its beauty.
\n"},{"at":380556958,"author":"Isaac Benitez","login":"isacben","gh":37629156,"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/isacben/","text":"Very cool visual effect. I remember from last year, you games a very technical, which is interesting. Would like to have a look to the postmortem, if you write one.
\nCongrats!
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