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Bumper Planets

By altourus

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness373
Innovation6023.10
Fun7782.80
Humor8861.76
Theme9482.60
Overall9642.78
Mood9902.42
Audio9941.44
Graphics11202.10

Comments

reaver 2014-08-24 21:35

Pretty cool! A little hard on a laptop trackpad :P

altourus 2014-08-24 23:22

Thanks. yea it was rough on a phone too. The planets were so small :)

inateno 2014-08-25 00:22

Nice ! I love the concept. I think you should do bigger planet, and add few lives.

siat 2014-08-25 02:38

Nice use of physics engine.

altourus 2014-08-25 03:05

Unfortunately I didn't have a physics engine, which is why I got as little done as I did. :(

josriley 2014-08-25 03:44

Really simple, easy to play and get the hang of, mechanic. Wish there was some more meat to it (sound, menus), but I like the gameplay.

pa3kc 2014-08-25 04:41

I like the revolve idea but i find it a bit dizzying, but still cool!

huntthewumpus 2014-08-25 04:43

Ahh, hectic! fun idea and conecept :) I liked it, how an unplanned planet can come into the way of a missile ^^

fserb 2014-08-25 04:53

Cool. Really hard to click, but it is an interesting balance between being good at clicking and being good at predicting where the missile is going. A score tracker would be a nice adition! :) Congrats!

endesga 2014-08-25 05:05

Neat game! Loved it! :D

nickw 2014-08-25 05:37

The mechanic is solid, even though it's a pretty simple prototype, it shows promise.

wertle 2014-08-25 05:37

I think this game could polish up really nicely and you should totally keep working on it. The mechanic is simple but got me thinking in a way that I was not used to with interpreting the arcs and paying attention to the overall rotation. Some sound and feedback could make this really great, and I think it would be well suited to different platforms (touch, etc). Nice job!

donar 2014-08-25 11:41

Nice and simple idea. It sometimes doesn't react on my clicks though. Also the Missiles can go trough other planets when they targeted a planet behind it, so I shielded the wrong one.

tacospice 2014-08-25 14:01

Nice idea. Pretty difficult to click so accurately.
Game over popup could've been drawn ingame instead.

fanttum 2014-08-25 15:07

Fun idea if a bit simple. Hard to keep track of where some of the missiles are going. They would fly right thru a planet just to hit one right after it and kill me :/

iamspencer 2014-08-26 06:54

A nice solid concept, good job! :)

adventureislands 2014-08-26 13:42

2851, whoa this was tricky, took me a moment to realize the white circle was a shield. Simple and solid game.

stannellc 2014-08-26 13:47

Like the idea, haven't seen one like this. Easy to get the hang of the trajectory, but the addition of extra missiles compensates for it quite well.

dcampos 2014-08-26 18:24

I like the concept, which has great potential for improvement. It is good to see simple games here, with simple controls; that makes it easier to start playing.

cryovat 2014-08-26 20:06

1841! I love the concept and it would be great with a few tweaks. Hitting the planets is a bit fiddly, and it's going to get hard to hit them in time.

Would like to see a touch version of this for Android! :)

commodorekid 2014-08-26 20:09

Good and simple idea. However I had difficulty clicking on planets and the game lagged a little on my browser.

ViliX 2014-08-26 20:16

Needs some polishing or it just bugs on my Chrome 36 :/
Anyway, an interesting concept.

micahcowan 2014-08-26 20:53

Nice job!

It's a bit too hard, to me. Hard to tell which planet is being aimed at if there are more than one in the path of the missle. Also, as someone else noted, it's a bit hard to keep up with the planets on a trackpad, maybe they could slow just a bit.

It might be easier to tell where the missiles were headed if they moved in a straight line - that is, if they targeted where the planet is going to be after a certain distance, rather than where it is now (in real life it'd be done this way, as it saves on fuel ;) )... but I suppose that requires a bit of math.

fil00dl 2014-08-27 15:02

score 692.
stressful and interesting gameplay :)

atomicvikings 2014-08-27 19:39

Fun game! lacking audio though! good job!

jimmypaulin 2014-08-27 20:39

Cool idea! I dig the planetary defines aspect and trying to work out which that genocidal missile is heading for was challenging, really like the way the tension builds as it homes in. Struggled to click em on a trackpad though ;)

kikito 2014-08-28 14:57

The game was not very polished (you can "reactivate the planets" after losing by clicking on them xD) but it was fun.

ehtd 2014-08-30 00:54

Hard game, but quite entertaining

teamawesome 2014-09-15 21:04

Really original idea, and quite fun to play. Nice one