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Paint a Solar System

By jayometric

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9023.0528
Fun8852.8627
Innovation3273.5028
Theme2673.7226
Graphics8522.9628
Mood8582.9223

Comments

seabird 2019-10-08 02:03

I had a little trouble figuring out the controls at the beginning but I had a lot of fun playing around with the game. I like its sandbox approach. Great job​

eog 2019-10-08 02:03

relaxing! When I erased everything I thought I was on a different level for a second, it's got a surprising amount of features. I couldn't seem to get the buttons working very well though

mattdotam 2019-10-08 02:05

I had fun hoovering up the space dust, hoping to create a larger sun. Suddenly the 3D planets appeared, and I painted up the Earth and Jupiter. Good stuff.

jordanvang 2019-10-08 02:11

At first when I was drawing, I was like "hmm, okay, so it's like a drawing simulator," but then I saw that you could apply the painting onto the planets, and I don't know why, but that really makes it way cooler! This is a really cool little game, and I hope you do more!

jayometric 2019-10-08 02:19

Thanks @seabird I was going to spend more time on polishing but stuff comes up! I was going to have a more natural guiding for the player but maybe I'll get to that after this.

jayometric 2019-10-08 02:21

@eog Yeah the buttons only work directly on the graphic itself and not the outside edge, I was going to adjust it but time came up quick! I also wanted to make it so it didn't draw when clicking the buttons too.

jayometric 2019-10-08 02:23

Thanks @mattdotam! I knew I wanted to start with a bang and surprise the player. Originally the entire game was just collecting star dust but then I decided that was only the beginning of the players journey. I added the ability to create more since I liked the effect!

jayometric 2019-10-08 02:24

Thanks @jordanvang! That was the main feature I had an idea for. I wasn't even sure where to start. I just wanted the player to be able to create their own solar system. There were also moons but they got removed last minute because they were WILD, mind of their own lol. I was going to look back into getting them in.

gswong 2019-10-08 03:17

Fun little game! I love creativity oriented games and wish there were more like this out there!

sageware 2019-10-08 03:20

Very relaxing painting planets simulator. I thought the little mini game at the begining was also a clever start. I would suggest disabling the ability to paint when the cursor is hovering over buttons. I kept adding paint I didn't want when changing colors. Other than that, this was flawless execution.

inky 2019-10-08 03:34

Hey wow! I would love to paint my own solar system, thank you very much. I got stuck in some of the painting screens, but overall, I really love this idea, and I had fun going to town and drawing and making (tons) of stardust. I can't believe you basically made a small art program, I like it a lot :D

deadlyalive 2019-10-08 21:45

Very creative concept and actually on spot with the theme!

kevinworkman 2019-10-11 03:47

I could see this mechanic being developed into a pretty cool game. Maybe you draw a map that is then overlayed onto a planet? The core of this game worked well, nice job.

flying-dog-fish 2019-10-11 20:44

Collecting dust is fun. Making dust is even more fun, but you can bypass the entire first part of the game by spamming the C button. The second part isn't really technically a game that isn't too much fun by itself, but could make sense as a part of a bigger game if you could play with the painted planets afterwards.

yhi 2019-10-12 14:27

Interesting concept ! Good fit with the theme.

nitroglycerine 2019-10-27 10:56

Сool game! I liked it very much!

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