Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Orbital Trip
By mastoast, effarek and Volothamp
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 749 | 3.54 | 26 | |
| Fun | 1075 | 3.10 | 26 | |
| Innovation | 302 | 3.78 | 25 | |
| Theme | 344 | 4.00 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 869 | 3.47 | 25 | |
| Audio | 278 | 3.80 | 25 | |
| Humor | 1088 | 2.25 | 18 | |
| Mood | 465 | 3.69 | 25 |
Nice and relaxing! Although I didn't understand how the rocketengine works. So I had to just drift in space until the cycle brings me close enough to the next planet, and then try to click on it fast enough. It might be better if I could quee orbit change if the aim is relaxing puzzler about orbits, or to give player option to speed up time if the aim is high-speed action.
The game is very relaxing and pleasant to play. Only the slow down key did not quite work for me. Sometimes I had to accelerate with s. But I think the game is very well done.
Very relaxing game. Sometimes hard to remember where you have already been, so I ended up going backwards a few times. I am also just spamming the left mouse button whenever I am near orbit, which made me go with an asteroid that made me die, which was pretty funny.
Beautiful game. Very original idea.
It's really the kind of game who, with just some visual tweaking, could be stunning ! The music set the mood perfectly (the theme change is perfect) the gameplay work well, even if it's ask you to wait a lot (which is good, like, it became part of the mood and the pacing ! ) and the progression is perfectly pace. The "mental map" I start construct to know where I go and where I need to go was a good thrilling feeling and in perfect adequation with the set up (space). ((I even had a little "Outer Wild" vibes)) And the final is :thumbsup: ! Overall, it's very polish!
The visual are also cool and work, but with like a little bit of post process (and maybe some little animation. But the one on the ship and the little FX on the black hole seem already enough !) I think it can be really enhanced and gove a big "wow effect" !
But for just a jam, it's already a lot and it's work so well !
Congrats !
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well, I'm stuck in a loop now xD don't know if it's intentional
super relaxing game except for when you miss an orbit; for the acceleration you have to get used to it, then it works well :) It was fun to play, thanks!
Very interesting concept! the mouse click controls feel a bit awkward. I wish there was an option for a keyboard button to swap orbits!
Nice concept, nice relaxing experience. Nevertheless i found the displacement for planet to planet not very easy. The orbit circles are often bearly touching each other. You could improve the game just by making them a little bigger. Thank you for your game !
Really cool! A lot of interesting game play ideas combined! I enjoyed the mood a lot, loved the mysterious space travel premise and the soothing soundtrack. Had some meditational quality to it. The game play mechanics were a bit finicky but once you got the hang of travelling between orbits, it was alright. What I didn't like was the forced waiting you had to endure in the later stages. The planets may take a while until they're aligned correctly and sometimes even then, it doesn't work and you have to wait another 15 to 30 seconds until you have the next change (the planet with the three moons was problematic to get onto due to the random nature of the moon positions) Other than that, I really enjoyed the game. The art was rather basic and some overhauling in asste quality and art direction could make this even better (parallax backgrounds to introduce depth, some nice lighting effects on the planets etc). All in all, a good game! Really cool idea you got going here.
Cool game overall! Took me a bit to realise all you needed to do was position ship at overlap, thought you were going to have to boost yourself at correct trajectory. Feel like that would have been cooler/more intuitve but also way harder to implement of course.
Cool little game. Controls took a while to get full hang of.
Really cool idea, I especially liked the music and sfx. But I feel like the gap for orbit skipping is quite short and maybe some other mechanic like flying would be more fun. But great job.