Color Blaster!

Use your color knowledge to blast away your enemies!

Attack enemies with their complimentary color!

Use 7 different types of pieces to destroy all the enemies!

To be able to solve the more difficult puzzles, the player must know how colors interact and plan ahead.

Complicated puzzles require planning ahead!

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ColorBlaster! All Levels Unlocked (Click to Download Prototype with All Levels Unlocked)

Description:

  • Grid-based puzzle game prototype
  • Designed to be a challenging, addictive, yet fun and slightly educational game that teaches the player about the color wheel
  • Unique gameplay that deals with how colors interact
    • Seven types of objects to place on a grid
    • The player must set up objects in a way that creates a chain reaction that causes each enemy to be hit with a laser of its complimentary color
    • The player can combine two colors to form a secondary color, or use a “converter” to change it to it’s complimentary color
  • Knowledge of the color wheel is necessary to use objects correctly, yet doesn’t make the player feel like it is an educational game

Goal:

  • Create a prototype of a game alone in a span of 15 weeks using a tool that I’ve never used before

Outcome:

  • Much more polished than I hoped to achieve at the beginning of the semester
  • Three times the amount of levels originally planned
  • One of the biggest problems with it is the difficulty curve
    • Too steep in the middle of the game
  • If I were recreate this prototype, I would add in a few more levels to ease the curve up more slowly
  • Still looking for an artist to tune up the graphics for it, if you’re interested in helping let me know!

My Role:

  • Creator

Team Size:

  • 1 Creator
  • 1 Title Screen Artist

Release Date:

  • 12/17/09

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