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Orbital

By oldpeculier

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness358
Mood403.97
Overall543.97
Graphics554.22
Audio723.78
Fun1133.72
Theme2334.00
Humor5492.23
Innovation6722.80

Comments

radmccool 2015-12-14 11:54

Really enjoyed the visual style. Could only get to level 5 before my patience broke.

zeezgames 2015-12-14 11:55

Really liked the game, took me a good 5 mins to get the hang of the controls but when i did i got into it :) music matched the style and the graphics were decent for the style of game

really liked it and after voting on some others will come back and try get higher score :D

Thanks

alexiseshford 2015-12-14 18:04

Game looks brilliant! Well done!

pianoman373 2015-12-14 18:16

Amazing game. I lost about 5 hours in the beginning of my compo trying to do an orbit-based game, failed, gave up, and made a different game. You really nailed it.

oldpeculier 2015-12-14 18:53

Thanks pianoman and Eshford and Zeezgames and RadMcCool! Makes me feel happy!

ranseur 2015-12-14 19:04

Incredible use of vector graphics! Very cool.

chewie 2015-12-14 19:09

Hardcore landing game with step levels curve and good visuals. Nothing new in mechanics but nice realization anyway.

wilsk 2015-12-14 19:17

Fun, challenging little game which looked very nice. Was a little small on the screen but I squinted and leant forward in my chair which helped :)

Also, I'm a sucker for a time lapse!

csanyk 2015-12-15 04:39

Fantastic vector monitor emulation. Nice Lunar Landar variant. The orbital mechanics make it a lot more interesting. Made it to level 7 :)

trozen 2015-12-15 17:28

Awesome little game! I checked out the code but the engine is missing! Any chance you can open source it?

leafthief 2015-12-15 20:57

We were surprised by how much fun we had with this! Good stuff!

local306 2015-12-15 22:05

Clever spin on a classic with the two button limitation

themeorch 2015-12-16 04:00

Lovely vector graphics! Lander games often frustrate me because the motion is so slow and they often require lots of restarts -- that said, this is a great execution of that genre, with a really nice scaling of difficulty over the course of the levels. Great job!

esayitch 2015-12-16 07:52

Very cool and well-made. I think I found out all the ways that you can fail a level during the first level, except maybe the off the pad one xD

Graphics were very suitable, and sound was very ambient and created a really nice atmosphere.

Overall I really enjoyed it, very well-made.

hotboxgames 2015-12-18 19:07

Awesome visuals and Audio, loved the "asteroids"+"moon lander" style gameplay. Simple and perfectly exicuted well done.

dlowe 2015-12-18 19:12

Level 8 :D

This was a sweet twist on a retro classic, and I loved it. Thanks for the game!

rnlf 2015-12-18 20:48

I dig this vector style. Very well done!

The controls are surprisingly intuitive. I wish there was some more variation in the gameplay, but then I ragequit after trying level 10 for the billionth time.

Good game and extra points for pointing out that it's not a Unity "Web"-Player game.

owt 2015-12-18 21:45

Really interesting and fun little game (also gave up at level 5) :)

powerspark 2015-12-18 21:53

Great visual style. The game should rely less on patience, though. Amazing graphics too!

mukult 2015-12-18 21:59

hmmmm..not able to play it...cant see anything on the browser...might be my fault somehow...

antimattertape 2015-12-18 22:37

Lunar lander
*but better

bessdlan 2015-12-20 12:47

difficult but very nice game (could go to level 8 but it's very hard :p)
good job ;)

andresilvs 2015-12-20 13:14

I gave up at level 11, at which point the landing pad was so small the ship barely fits and you actually have to keep up with planet's rotation to be able to land. Not being able to turn while thrusting makes it really hard at higher levels but I guess it's part of the theme. Loved the visuals, nice gameplay. Great job! Also, I would have liked to see my "Landing success rate". (So bad!)

instant-noodles 2015-12-21 09:00

Pretty neat, I like the sounds and the music. Sadly my ship fell down on my first try, but I manage to land it right after that.

ztiromoritz 2015-12-21 20:37

Looks very nice.

scorched 2015-12-24 16:44

Enjoyed a lot, the controls fit good, though the gameplay is a bit tough and repetitive. Played a couple of games in the past that featured landing in the same way, so not very innovative, but graphics and mood are still great! Also liked the hints explaining my mistakes, but except one - I didn't initially know that I have to land to special pads, I saw these pads as something I needed to avoid :D

arzi 2015-12-26 15:57

Looks really good, but insanely difficult :o

aurel300 2015-12-28 13:13

Very retro, like the lander Flash games of the 00's :) Lost it at level 8.

hexagore 2016-01-02 17:47

So this game looks absolutely brilliant and, I have to say, one of the very few games where I've immediately downloaded the source. :P

bunchasapsgames 2016-01-05 01:00

I loved it! Looks great, good concept.