F.L.O.W.

Two levels, one teaching level.

Key operation:

Turn left/right: Press Left/Right  or A/D.

Release heat: Press SPACE when hear the beat.

Restart the current level: Press R.

Quit the game: Press ESC.

The Door opening condition: Ensure that no enemies survive and all FLOWs are hot enough.

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Tips:

1. Reduce the linear speed to avoid leaving FLOWs too far, which causes them to cool down. You can try more rotational movements.

2. If you find it difficult to control FLOWs to enter the DOOR,  you can try to use this game mechanism that when you move outside the the screen, you will be transmitted to the other side of the screen, which makes the FLOWs attracted moving straight towards you in a quite fast speed. But for the fun of the game, please try to avoid taking advantage of this.

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A  mini game about Joined Together developed for GMTK Game Jam 2021, inspired by Craig Reynolds’ Boids Algorithm.

When developing this game, a friend happened to organize another small Game Jam, whose theme was "Cold and Warm", so I merged two themes and joined both sides by the way. 

The point is that when you heat the object which named the FLOW, it becomes more active (faster,redder, and stronger centripetal force). Part of this idea comes from the imagination of thermodynamics. And when more active FLOWs gather together, the power of the whole group will become stronger.

This game was developed by myself and took 48 hours (submitted 1 minute before the deadline). After that I spent other 48 hours to optimize its interaction and add sound effects.Thanks to the sincere feedback from players, the current version has a higher degree of completion than the version submitted during the jam.

It is still rudimentary, but since it's a game jam work, I will not promise its subsequent updates. Maybe one day in the future, I will expand it into a complete game,or maybe not, it depends.

BGS uses Adobe and Freesound.org's authorized resources,  I attached the authorization statement to the zips and the end of the game.Thanks to the creators for their great contributions.