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Planet Jumper

By hotboxgames

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness367
Humor1513.12
Audio1843.47
Theme2103.54
Fun2303.30
Overall2803.37
Innovation3253.14
Graphics3743.41
Mood4862.91

Comments

goosetickler 2014-08-27 17:16

Fun little game! I love the world expansion as the planets collide together. Every now and then I had a strange collision issue but it was neat little game, good job!

teameagle 2014-08-27 19:50

Hopping around is fun, except for when jumping into the void. Took me a while to land on a planet again :D

Crashing in each other looks cool as well, nice one.

danbo 2014-08-27 21:22

I was expecting more of these types of games but this was pretty well-presented! I like the planets joining together.

tbamberg 2014-08-27 21:22

Great fun, would be nice if the planets exerted some gravity, or else make the jump speed faster. Drifting off into the void can be a real bummer

teamconn 2014-08-27 21:30

Nice game. I was wondering how limited steering while in flight would have changed the game.

danex317 2014-08-27 23:23

This download is incredibly! slow.

pighead10 2014-08-27 23:27

Drifting off into the void got really frustrating since there was no minimap or gravity on the planets, but otherwise a nice game with good polish.

torcado194 2014-08-27 23:27

pretty neat game! i like the music and the jumping. pretty difficult though trying to line things up. nice job!

soulgame 2014-08-27 23:44

Nice one. The concept is funny and rather well realized.
With a little less rigid character controls (a minimum of air management maybe), the game could be more pleasant.
Well done anyway :)

hotboxgames 2014-08-28 12:47

Hey everyone, thanks for all the positive comments - it really is appreciated.
We're quite pleased with how the game turned out, especially considering it was made in just over 2 days!

We couldn't agree more with most of your suggestions, if we had longer to complete the project (let's say a week) we would have loved to do the following:

• Add a minimap
• Utilise PhysX (for gravity on planets and such)
• Recode the 'hop' mechanic
• Add more poweups
• Add drills/explosives for digging through planets
• Much much much larger level size

Thanks again for the comments & don't forget to post your scores to the leaderboard! :)

badlydrawnrod 2014-08-28 19:48

There I was, happily wandering around a planet when worlds started to crash around me. I began to wonder if I had a portable black hole in my pocket.

Quite innovative - I enjoyed the bright colourful planets smashing into each other. I think the core mechanic could have done with a little tuning, but it was fun nonetheless.

dragonxvi 2014-08-28 22:01

Nifty! Thought it was fairly straightforward at first, then obviously things got ridiculous pretty quickly :D Interesting spin on a nice idea! Could see it workin' well with some smoother Mario Galaxy-esque physics too.

munkeebacon 2014-08-30 16:34

Nice little game. The camera movement could have been better.

guillaumegwi 2014-08-30 17:25

Hell ! It's not connected world it's crashing worlds ! hehe was funny when all planets started to crash towards me... but you can't die ? Too bad :( I wished there was a time limit somehow... (maybe if planets transforms to stars and then black hole hehe)

adriczero 2014-08-31 13:42

Your entry was similar to Hop Hop Planet, but moved a lot faster, was more interesting and had more humor. Music and sound effects were very good too.

Hop Hop Planet:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=35485

ramiel 2014-08-31 16:53

Nice little game.
Cool graphics.

belowzerogames 2014-08-31 21:13

Very nice game just think my PC is a little too slow to run it .

fxcesinha 2014-09-01 00:11

Awesome, i love planets, nice graphics too.

nooner-bear 2014-09-01 00:28

Well made! I occasionally flew off far into space, but good all around :)

isaacl-balogh 2014-09-01 19:55

I like the idea of the worlds colliding to change them (although it seems to spawn too many worlds at once) good job!

rhaasken 2014-09-01 19:57

Great audio and graphics. It looks very polished. The controls and the collision were a bit frustrating though. It was hard to get the character to do what I wanted.

handkor 2014-09-02 14:20

Great concept. This game is fun.

safar-pavel 2014-09-03 06:52

Very good idea and theme implementation. Was fun to play.

t4u 2014-09-03 21:28

Nice graphics but nothing prevents you from endless jump if you miss the planet.

jukimv1986 2014-09-06 03:25

Awesome space music and leaderboards! Good job!

local-minimum 2014-09-06 19:26

First time I didn't get that whatever world I was on would attract other worlds. Plus, I was unlucky that it was a rather abandoned place without neighbors. I hit space and flew off thinking it might work, but nope. It took quite a while too before I hit the edge of space. So I would recommend having some limited oxygen supply or so when out in space so you can't space-travel that far.

Second try, my initial place was more suitable and that made it much more intuitive and fun to play. So besides that first run experience, a really nice game!

acuity 2014-09-08 00:57

My first game started on a planet with nothing nearby. Not knowing how to zoom out yet... I just jumped off into space and died at the edge of the screen.

klianc09 2014-09-10 19:04

Really fun game. Sometimes I had issues with collision and hopping between planets. The jetpack seemed like the less buggy version of switching planets.
The music makes this so much more enjoyable.
I often died without any apparant reason, maybe something indicating why you died would be great.

ragepaint 2014-09-13 21:45

Really nice game. Loved how the planets merged together. The thing that through it off was there were some times when pressing W to jump that I would go flying or using A/D to move would switch directions. Other than that very fun.