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Connector

By teameagle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall134.21
Innovation244.14
Fun154.13
Theme74.35
Graphics244.51
Coolness286
Mood513.92
Audio663.84
Humor2732.68

Comments

lucienpro 2014-08-26 10:34

Wow, this was really interesting. Good take on the theme. The physics was really effective and smooth which just added to the fun exploration and the overall awesome minimalist graphics. Well Done.

queader 2014-08-26 14:16

I was waiting for this game! :)

ludipe 2014-08-26 14:26

Nice game, though the gameplay was confusing at first. Loved the art!

liquidminduk 2014-08-26 14:28

Actually really enjoyed this one. Takes me back haha!
Great art style!

kayelgee 2014-08-26 14:52

Really fun game. The only thing that bothered me were the keyboard controls, the ship is just waaaay to fast :D
nice Graphics, nice audio, overall a very polished game.

nikb 2014-08-26 14:54

Being absolutely honest, I can state you have a real gem here!

sprawl 2014-08-26 15:01

The best LD#30 game I've played so far. Great job.

The gameplay was interesting but what made the game really great was the really fun controls and amazing art. I really love how the wires looked.

Well done!

runvs 2014-08-26 15:04

Really great game. I liked the minimalist graphics. The sound was great as well especially the "you did it" music. :)

robotic 2014-08-26 15:06

Nice, the wire physics felt very good.

fwg 2014-08-26 15:10

This is excellent. Everything does what it's supposed to. If this game was a transaction, it would be a smoooothhhh one.

shmackson 2014-08-26 15:13

Great game all around, nice job!

literal_games 2014-08-26 15:18

Fantastic game! Liked having to figure out how to stop turrets , and the polish was on a very high level in terms of graphics, audio and gameplay!

kr-eddie 2014-08-26 15:38

Great game :)
The physics gave it a really nice gameplay, being able to fling asteroids around and such.
After a while the cables got all jumbled and that was a bit annoying. The WASD to move felt a little weird at first as I was always expecting the ship to move according to it's orientation.
Radio communications on the background was a nice touch :)

zkenshin 2014-08-26 15:55

Really loved the wire physics, and the art style. Great entry. :)

dickpoelen 2014-08-26 15:57

Cool! I made quit a mess in outer space....

kian 2014-08-26 16:03

Nice idea and physis :D

capsizedmoose 2014-08-26 16:08

this is amazing loved the art and the sound!

beardogames 2014-08-26 16:54

Wow, super polished and good! Hard to get the hang of, but once you do, it's some great fun! Excellent job!

jetl33t 2014-08-26 17:33

To be honest at first I thought this was a wonderful looking not so great game (ship was moving unrealisticly fast and I didn't know I could shoot).
Then I tried it again after reading the HOWTO and realized that this basically turned me into spiderman in space! :P
I really like the physics and the game in general.

druid 2014-08-26 17:46

What a addicting game ! Great work!

slikker 2014-08-26 17:56

Wow this was a lot of fun to play. Great work man!

kikito 2014-08-26 17:59

The best game I've played so far: nice looking, nice sound, fun, humorous, and on-theme. One small thing: Add an obvious option to exit the game! I tried all the usual invocations, I had to manually kill it!

dragonxvi 2014-08-26 18:01

16:15. Took me a while to get it, but got goin' fine eventually. Love the cable physics, nice simple goal and even some nifty enemies. Nice job!

sharpcoder 2014-08-26 19:21

Amazing game. Really fun! This needs to be made into a mobile game I think :P

kerdelos 2014-08-27 16:18

Really enjoyed this game. The only thing I can tell is putting a button to quit or restart the game. But that's really the only bad thing I can see about the game. Great job !

orangeez 2014-08-27 17:59

Great entry! Loved the art and rope physics.

simplesmiler 2014-08-27 18:57

100 meg, wow...
Anyways, everything about this entry feels very good. It's not very challenging, but still very fun.
You've got my fives. I can easily see this entry winning.

kevinzuhn 2014-08-27 20:44

I really like the graphics, the atmosphere, the physics, it's a very interesting game to play. I do feel like I was sunk the first time I played, because I accidentally connected a turret to a random planet and could not get it unstuck, and it shot down any attempt I made at connecting it or the nearby planet. If there's a way to un-connect cables, I don't know about it. Otherwise, a rather nice entry!

hotboxgames 2014-08-27 20:59

That was a lot of fun!
The physics and graphics really made it fun the fly around

kigurumidevs 2014-08-27 23:20

awesome graphics! and interesting gameplay. good job

drcicero 2014-08-29 11:27

We should totally connect out solar system in real life!

phocker 2014-08-30 04:06

This was a really good game. Nice take on the theme and well executed. Great job.

carduus 2014-08-30 17:43

Niiiiiice! Internet baby!

jjhaggar 2014-08-30 18:18

I really enjoyed this game! :D Had to repeat it once to beat it due to those damn turrets! XD Excellent game, dudes! :D

mrjohnson22 2014-08-30 19:36

This is a lot of fun! It's one of those games that you can really play with, if you know what I mean. The mechanics were simple enough to be quickly understood but open-ended enough to feel fun. And the on-screen reminder that enemy ships can be hijacked is a great help; as soon as I saw a ship, I immediately thought, "Uh oh! What do I do?" followed by "Oh, okay, I better do that". It was a good decision to keep that bit of info out of the main tutorial text near the home planet.

If I have to complain about something, it'd be the difficulty: there's not much challenge to be found here. The enemy ships aren't enough of a threat due to the abundance of asteroids to repair connections with, and the time limit is so large that the game can be beaten 4-5 times in the same session.

So great concept, great execution, and great game!

forever-derpy 2014-08-30 23:45

Really good game, simple and fun.

skyfish 2014-08-31 14:18

wonderful art style! Simple yet effective.

stevesalmond 2014-09-01 09:39

Found this one to be a lot of fun! Well done :)

flannelvindicate 2014-09-02 16:12

Hey! You are on today's episode of Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3kmJ2DDWPE

robotfriend 2014-09-02 19:42

oh man.. what an awesome entry.. got sucked in and the base kick at the finish was epic.. great job guys

mechabit 2014-09-03 01:16

wow, love the art style and physics in this, well done!

brocade 2014-09-03 05:19

Beautiful graphics, fun gameplay and good us of the theme. So well executed in such limited time, great job!

rialgar 2014-09-03 23:47

there is really nothing not to love in this game

saintheiser 2014-09-04 08:47

Wow! This is excellent game!
Like your theme interpretation and gameplay mechanics. Game needs more levels to be awesome one =)

simouth 2014-09-12 11:35

This is really great! Well done

sheepolution 2014-09-12 20:44

From Ludum Dare 21 to 30 this has to be one of my favorite Ludum Dare games of all time! I simply love it. The artstyle is really cool, and connecting the planets is really satisfying. The enemies added enough challenge to the game for it to be not frustrating, but not too easy.

Great job! Awesome game!

ragepaint 2014-09-13 06:27

Great game! Really like the simplistic graphics and dragging everything around.

mcapraro 2014-09-14 17:28

this is one of the top games i have played in the jam, WOW! really great mechanic you have going on here, so satisfying and sort of zen too. you have a really great game on your hands here, congrats!

cakencode 2014-09-14 20:46

Absolutely beautiful game! As the artist of our game, the aesthetic the game really spoke to me. The game itself was really fun with great polish, and it was definitely such a pleasure to play! Your team did a great job! :)

psychomonster 2014-09-15 07:33

AMAZING ARTWORK... in caps ;) No really. Nice piece of work. Controlls are okay for me... physics are cool... nice entry!

dancingmad 2014-09-15 13:41

It's a really impressive work !
Excellent game !

miscetc 2014-09-15 13:58

This needs to be made into a full game

jupiter_hadley 2014-09-15 18:23

Really nice graphics! I included it in part 27 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/DOSk1bi234E

gameproducer 2014-09-15 19:13

Excellent entry! Very thematic, nice visuals, and I liked the background sounds a lot.

Game explained me what to do. I had fun time reaching my goals. The enemies were a nice addition, exactly on the right moment.

The game did became unplayable on my computer after I connected tons of planet, framerate dropped to something very low.

I can imagine this could have tons of potential for various different things. Collecting stuff to build better shuttle. Different enemies. Planets that have different gravity. Solar storms, meteorites...

Very well done, liked a lot. I'd say one of the best entries I've played in LD30.

teejay5 2014-09-15 23:59

This one's a 5/5 for me, beautiful game!