falk-bruskeland 2017-07-31 11:40
Intresting game mechanic! Good job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → Geocentric Survival
By bewelge
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 222 | 3.47 | 50 | |
| Fun | 165 | 3.49 | 51 | |
| Innovation | 44 | 3.95 | 51 | |
| Theme | 236 | 3.66 | 50 | |
| Graphics | 477 | 2.81 | 51 | |
| Audio | 279 | 2.95 | 49 | |
| Humor | 286 | 2.42 | 42 | |
| Mood | 386 | 2.81 | 46 |
Intresting game mechanic! Good job!
fun game mechanic, felt a little unwieldy once it starts getting out of control, like i never found a way to bring the sun back in check, once it goes it goes.
would of liked the sun going round the planet the wrong way to of had an effect like moving the meteors backwards as time reversed :)
A lot of fun and liked the music. Kept running out of power...not sure if hitting meteors was working but was sad I couldn't spend more time playing :(
@cynical-monkey I had the same idea about making the stars/time move backwards if the sun moves backwards, but I felt like that mechanic would take me too long to get working. I might implement it after the Compo :)
@frostdragonliz If you hit meteors with the earth (the blue thingy) you will lose health. If you hit them with the sun you gain energy :) Other than that you gain energy by keeping the sun rotating (clockwise) around the earth. Every full rotation completes a day and grants you 10 Energy.
i like the game mechanic fun to play. Music felt a little bit repetative
Great game. Really fun mechanic. Mucic had a OG Civilization vibe to it. ;)
This was actually a really fun mechanic. No way to recover once things go chaotic but its fun trying to manage so many things at once.
Thanks everyone :)
@thorneto At a certain point it actually gets easier because the Meteors give more Energy, so that you can heal pretty much non-stop by clicking. Works until the meteors one-hit you :D
Quite hard on a trackpad, but fun! Nice work :)
Cool game mechanic!
Cool idea, fun to play.
Great fun! Simple but very well balanced gameplay.
Music reminded me of Star Control 2, so I loved it
Any improvements? Some better art and SFX perhaps :)
Really awesome game mechanic, though some more explanation would have been useful.
Cool idea
Cool! The game design is amazing, very simple mechanic and the entire game is built around it. Love it!
The game was really innovative! Impressive work.
This is a gem of a game. This is why I love LDJAM. People like you make games and we get to play these. Thank you for this beautiful piece of art. The earth followed the mouse seamless and the gravity seemed pretty nice and smooth. Good job. Congratulations and good luck! :)
Fun mechanic, quite creative, well done!
Interesting take on the theme
Really nice game. Also, trying to hit the meteors with the sun was fun ;)
This game is pretty fun. I played it for like 20 minutes :) Suggestion: try and keep the sun on the screen. Whenever it would fly off the screen the earth would freeze
This game is pretty fun. I played it for like 20 minutes :) Suggestion: try and keep the sun on the screen. Whenever it would fly off the screen the earth would freeze
Great game, though it can get pretty easy once you get the hang on it. Add dangerous UFOs once the player gets far enough? : D Really liked it, good luck!
It's a good game you have there! It's just hard to regain control over the system once it starts going nuts. Also it's sometime hard to make the Earth rotates around the Sun (in particular when it's going crazy). Keep up the good work!
Fun to play! Took a little time to get the hang of it but I couldn't quit until I made it more than 10 days. :-) Cool that all the graphics are procedural. Btw, it's possible to cheat by just moving the mouse in tight circles around the sun really fast. Makes the days fly by.
I was going the wrong clockwise the first couple of tries, but then I figured it out. My best two were 20 days and 16 days. Really fun to engage with the mechanic, good job!
Very creative at the least, I wasn't very good at it sadly :)
Neat little game! I needed some time to learn the mechanics, but that's fine! Also, interesting music choice, but certainly not bad!
Very unique mechanic, well executed! This seems like a game that would take at least a few hours playing to fully master, which is impressive since it was made in 48 hours! Nice work :slight_smile:
This is a really cool idea. There are only a few things I would change to make it better (in my opinion).
- I think you need to get more energy for going around the sun, because I found that I would be losing energy at the start, when it is meant to be easy because there are no asteroids.
- I think there might be a bug, where sometimes you don't get energy for going around the sun (most specifically when you drag yourself around the sun.
- It should be a little bit clearer as to what drains your energy. Does moving drain your energy or is it just a constant thing?
- It would have been cool (no pun intended) to have a better visual indicator for whether the Earth was too hot or too cold at any given moment.
Other than that a really neat and quite difficult game. :)
Your game is extremely creative. I'm impressed that it was made entirely with JavaScript + Canvas. Perhaps you could show a scale of acceptable distances between the Earth and sun in the red area between them.
Fun game, I liked the gravity mechanics there :smiley:
It would have been fun probably to make the other planets affected by gravity too, even though it would probably have been much more difficult to play
Game idea and mechanics are innovative and fun!
Burn, stupid Earth, BURN! :laughing:
Unfortuntely I failed to find right balance and burned our mother earth half a dozen of times
Thing that this game is made with low-levels tool is amazing.
Your entry is pretty nice, it's my GF favourite entry of the LD39 haha. I made a video in which I reviewed your game : https://youtu.be/Hbr3Mr1TRcQ?t=463 :) You can ask me if you want to translation of what I said.
fun little game :).. perhaps some more theme on why losing energy (proportional to mouse movement for example? )
Good job anyway