Geometric Science!
A downloadable game for Windows
Geometric Science is a 2D Platformer where you play an every day totally normal sapient yellow square hired by another not-so-normal sapient green square to undergo a series of deadly time trials for the sake of science.
What is the exact scientific benefit? You ask too many questions, science has no time for questions!
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Geometric Science includes:
- Three levels, each with five increasingly difficult chambers to complete.
- A movement system based on launching the yellow square far and wide, click and drag while praying you judged that angle correctly!
- Switches and cannons that will impede your progress.
- The ability to wall jump.
- A thirty second time limit per level, don't take too long!
- You run out of lives or the time limit expires, you turn to the first chamber.
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This is a non-commercial project created for the Professional and Entrepreneurial Portfolio Module (2019 MOD002683 TRI2 F01CAM) as part of the Computer Gaming Technology BSc (Hons) course at Anglia Ruskin University.
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Install instructions
Open the zip file and extract the game to a folder of your choice. The new file will include the startup icon.
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Very interesting and challenging. Took me a bit to get the angles and stuff right. Each stage adds a new challenge, keeping the player on their toes and thinking, that's good. Level 1 was pretty straight forward. Level 2 made a nice addition with the buttons, giving the player more pressure with the time limit. Level 3 was hell with the dodging and the buttons, along with the time limit. All in all, a great game that challenges players to make quick decisions with their jumps, while also adding new challenges with every step taken. My only real problem was my experience on Level 3 where the momentum of my shot was carried over after I got hit by a projectile, leading to another death and the loss of another life, leaving me with only one more.
A solid concept, and at first it was kind of fun. But be ye warned going in, any who download this game: If you are not a fan of rage games (that is, games that are deliberately hard by virtue of being unintuitive and clunky, often frustrating the player as a result) then you will not like this one. The physics based movement is a fun idea, but to me it felt floaty and inconsistent, like the momentum tapered off far before it should have, making seemingly easily doable jumps into a nightmare of coming up short or flying way too far. Your momentum carrying over from one life to the next is also a source of frustration for me, as it led to at least one time where all three of my lives got blown away all at once because my residual momentum from life 1 led my square to fall into a death pit right in front of spawn.
There is also a game-breaking bug that occurs sometimes where, for whatever reason, the game doesn't register the square as being in contact with a surface, making it impossible to move until the timer runs out and kills you.
Credit where it is due, the yellow cube at the start adds a layer of whimsy that helps soothe the ache.
If you're a player who is more inclined to enjoy rage games, like 'the world's hardest game' or literally anything Bennet Foddy has ever produced, you'll be right at home here. Otherwise, it's probably best to abstain from this one.
Unless you are just morbidly curious. In which case, play away.