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Giant Sun

By bemmu

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3843.3427
Fun2463.4627
Innovation3433.2227
Theme4793.2827
Graphics4223.0826
Audio3852.8225
Humor2612.6522
Mood2423.1824

Comments

aret24 2018-08-13 06:10

Cool and nice game!!!

emanuele 2018-08-13 06:16

very nice, i survive only 15 seconds ^_^

andy-wolff 2018-08-13 06:22

I like this. It's difficult but you can get better at it. Graphics are cohesive, music is kinda space-y, and the high score table was fun to try to beat. Good work

jasper-hansen 2018-08-13 06:23

Very well done aesthetic. The complete absence of SFX helps to enhance a feeling of isolation and fits well with the game's setting. The traditional artwork adds something else to this tone, a lighthearted playfulness. These two aspects come together to give this game a really unique tone and aesthetic.

gao-ming 2018-08-13 06:24

It is very interesting, the operation is a little difficulty for me, but it was fun.The design of the oil and oxygen is intuitive, ranking also let I repeated challenges.LOVE IT

gajop 2018-08-16 12:09

Played it a bit until I got on the scoreboard. I really like the concept, but I think the game mechanics could be better, in particular my suggestion would be to allow walking on the planet (with A-D) but other options could also work. Right now it's easy to die to a simple mistake and there's a frustration when you miss the target by a bit. I think I would've preferred it to be a bit more dynamic and longer.

I like the art, it's cute. Could've been pulled up a level further with some effects, shaders, or a better looking background. Still, you did a good job (despite the simple graphics).

In general, it's a good entry. I hope you enjoyed making it!

mrjorts 2018-08-16 12:49

I enjoyed this, and I managed to get 8th place on the leaderboard! I thought it was fun and very tense trying to manage both meters when they tick down so quickly. That made it a little frustrating, though, when you land right next to an item and can't walk over to it. It felt like sometimes a planet had really high gravity and you would snap back down onto it if you tried to jump up and move over a bit, and sometimes two planets would be close together and as soon as you jumped off one, you'd snap to the other. Getting caught in situations like that wasn't fun, but when you have a good run going, it feels good to play.

merpader 2018-08-16 15:56

hard to control but really fun game

sqrrel 2018-08-16 16:05

So hard! But so funny!)

manusaiz 2018-08-16 19:10

That was an impressive force of gravitation! super hard to navigate specially near the little planets.

Cool entry :)

hungare 2018-08-16 21:19

Yay I'm 4th place (Currently). It is a really cool game! It definitely has a good amount of gameplay with the need to get oxygen and fuel. The music was very peaceful and set the mood well too. I liked the gravity of the planets concept, but sometimes it was very hard to navigate, but I get that it's supposed to be hard. However, I would have liked to have been able to walk along the planet left and right once I'm on it. It would make retrieving the fuel/oxygen easier, and that way you could make the sun come faster to still keep the difficulty. This is one of the better entries I have seen. Well done!

darenn 2018-08-17 11:19

Very good idea. I like how you manage the camera and the behavior of the avatar when landing, it's not perfect but it's good enough. Well done !

endurion 2018-08-17 11:19

Nice game, but also frustrating at times. I really would've liked to be able to walk on a planet surface. Usually once you miss the required powerup it's Game Over.

Other than that, very neat entry!

captaindreamcast 2018-08-17 11:32

Made it to number 5 (as of writing this)!

Challenging game, but you also managed to make it feel fair, which is amazing. I like the design of the death screens, the frying pan one was the best one of those. Great entry, glad I played it!

shapkofil 2018-08-17 11:32

Nice game but the gravity algorithm ist the best for this game i feel like (correct me if im wrong but you should just apply forces instead of using faux gravity)

speedysloth99 2018-08-17 11:48

Fun game! The physics seemed to work well, and I was very fun!

I think that the audio, while it sounded great, didn't fit the game's anxious feel. Also, when you are on a planet, A and D should move you left and right, without you having to take off. I don't know if this would make the game too easy, but currently it's incredibly hard to get oxygen and fuel.

Despite that, the game's amazing to play, well done!

garygreen 2018-08-17 19:49

I didn't last very long, but it was fun to play & keep trying. I thought your hand drawn graphics were cute.

2bam 2018-08-20 15:49

Nice idea!

A thought: Gravity force was too strong and made it very hard for me to maneuver. Sometimes I just got really near powerups but had to lift off and try again and again to snap in the right place. Maybe if you could "walk around" while grounded could improve that, even if super slow to discourage overdoing it.