Astral Abyss

tim77 2021-04-26 11:00

Cool concept. Music was atmospheric and fit the game. I liked the art style - planets were well rendered. Were they procedurally generated? I was curious about what was "out there" which spurred me on. I felt the controls got in the way a bit. I really wanted to hold space and move my mouse to pan the camera around rather than using WASD! I think it's a common enough input design pattern that players would expect it. I didn't quite get to understand the paper/rock/scissors mechanic. It wasn't clear to me what would beat what. Really interesting overall. Well done on a productive 48 hours!

mrnyarlathotep 2021-04-26 11:07

This is a crazily ambitious compo entry! I'd quibble the theme a little bit, but I'm impressed how much game there is here and how you nail the feel of heading out into the unknown

ariorick 2021-04-26 11:33

The game really needs some texts and a simple tutorial cause there are A LOT of buttonns. I didn't really get much feedback from the game also. I think if you're trying to do an action that you don't have enough resources for, this resources should blink or something Sorry if it sounds harsh, i think the game would work with slight improvements, you definitely put a lot of work into it. Art and music are nice and it runs perfectly

justuspan 2021-04-28 08:57

The concept is very good and let me feel lots of potential extension gameplay. The attack ship part confused me a little. The mood and pixel art are very good. Well done!

astalavistich 2021-04-28 09:08

As the game that made in two days, it made very well. I like this concept, and would like to see a more expanded version of the game.

last-angle 2021-04-28 09:40

This is an really impressive game for such a short amount of time! I love the relaxed mood, the music really helps with that. Sending out the ships to discover more of the map is really fun. There is a lot going on in this game, and not everything was clear to me. I tried attacking the satellites/enemies that were circling some planets by pressing the number keys, but nothing ever happend. Also, the meaning of all the numbers you see when you click the planet were not completely clear to me.

I think you could really build on this idea, and make bigger project out of it! Amazing job overall!:)

fluffygamedev 2021-04-30 11:31

Cool game ! It took me a few seconds to understand how the game works (still not sure I understand the attacking mechanic). But it still was a fun and calming experience.

Good job! :)

nick-rafalski 2021-05-02 03:32

This is so cool! I love the art and the music. There are so many well done elements like the fog of war, automatically selecting the nearest planet to launch a settler/surveyor from, etc. The UI isn't exactly amazing but it gets the job done.

It took me a while, but I finally figured out the rock/paper/scissors thing. Overall I'm just really enjoying playing this :)

bentglasstube 2021-05-02 06:50

This is a very cool concept for a game. I didn't really get the resource management part of it, as it seemed like I could just keep exploring and as long as a found a new planet I could proceed. The music was superb, though, and made me keep playing for a long while.

samarthmp5002 2021-05-02 06:51

Cool game! Interesting content, Keep up the good work!

boxedmeatrevolution 2021-05-02 07:02

What a slick experience! The smooth controls, intuitive UI, and visual details (e.g. parallax background, animated planet FOV, etc.) made this game captivating and enjoyable to play. I stuck around long enough to reach 665 million miles into deep space :smile:

My main feedback is that, after exploring and expanding for a while, it becomes quite repetitive. Perhaps consider adding some strategic/puzzle elements to keep the player engaged, or maybe add a progression system to reward the playing for going deeper into space.

marksht 2021-05-02 07:05

Wonderful! I really liked it but I'm not sure how combat system working.

japayne 2021-05-02 07:46

Brilliant game! I didn't immediately understand the game, but after I did I enjoyed for quite a while.

reheated 2021-05-02 07:51

This seems like not _quite_ an awesome game but the basic framework on which an awesome game is built. What's missing is the challenge. In fact, if I'm trying to expand my settlements as far as possible, there seems to be no motivation to attack occupied planets, since it costs a lot of resources and they don't threaten me in any way. All I do is spray exploring ships in every direction, and then colonise any unoccupied planets I discover. This got me a long way (before quitting) and I didn't even think about the resource production of the planets. A couple of ideas on how to create the challenge: (i) enemy bases can attack the player, so wiping out nearby ones removes a threat? (ii) have a time limit, after which the game ends, and however far you got, that's your score?

Good music. No sound effects?

harmadillo 2021-05-02 09:15

This was great. Spent far too long playing. I did skip the lot of combat. Mostly it wasn't necessary to continue expanding. Would have liked to zoom out to see the whole of my glorious empire. The found the explore/settle loop combined with the music made it very chill.

zephi-sero 2021-05-02 10:52

Game was really fun, played it for a while after leaving rating, lol.

jose-bonilla 2021-05-12 00:52

Congratulations on submitting your compo game! I agree with comments above in the sense that the main thing lacking is motivation to keep playing and exploring. The enemies are passive and do not pose a threat and you can basically keep expanding forever. You can work on improving this to make a much more interesting and balanced game.

dmitriy3342 2021-05-12 01:03

Great! I liked this game! I got interesting experience, thanks! Image 3.png