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Star Dash

By zanedd

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall13243.0224
Fun11733.0024
Innovation12472.7924
Theme9573.3124
Graphics11902.9725
Audio9891.8216
Mood13422.6222

Comments

hollyhay 2021-10-06 10:27

Interesting game, definitely fits the Jam's theme, and has some pretty good art as well. It could definitely be improved by letting the player turn faster when at lower speeds (better handling), and some reason to avoid hitting the walls (i.e. damage on collision). Better AI is obvious, but it sounds like that's on the plan anyway.

zanedd 2021-10-06 17:18

@hollyhay thanks! both of those things are included in my plans for "Improved Physics", so we'll see.

cjce 2021-10-06 18:22

Very good adherance to the theme! I like the game but I feel the fuel lasted to short and I had a hard time seeing wich resource was which. Other than that, nice game! :)

binaryspark 2021-10-06 18:37

Nice effort! There's a lot you could add here potentially! I'd recommend revisiting the character's turn rate - you could perhaps make the turn speed dependent on the speed, instead of making it quite slow all the time. That could help improving game feel.

dob 2021-10-06 20:08

Completed my race (on the 4th try) at 135.96. Fun game, with smooth controls and cute graphics. I had a little trouble understanding how the thrust worked, because I didn't realize there was a top speed I could hit, so I just ran out of fuel the first three games. On the one I won, one enemy ship blew up (good that they follow the same rules), and the other just got stuck on a wall, which seemed more like a glitch. Nice work - impressive for a short timeline.

You have Audio as a rating category, but I didn't hear any sound while playing.

nikaz 2021-10-07 15:22

It's interesting game with nice graphic. But the spaceship turns too slow for this track.

sli 2021-10-08 22:55

Fun little game. I liked it. I had issue with fuel, maybe you should tweak it a little bit. Some sound would have made it feel more finished. Even just for BG music. Overall good entry!

ma-in 2021-10-09 16:21

Simple and entertaining !!!

prismapunch 2021-10-09 23:13

It's so hard to handle, I kept running out of fuel because I missed it in the first area you can grab it, good concept though, definitely a good start!

fluorescent 2021-10-10 01:03

Nice game, it is fun racing against AI which explodes later, too :) Overall, of course it lacks some details, as most jam games naturally do, but the game turns out to be fun, and, hopefully, all the post-jam ideas get implemented, too so that it gets to the full potential!

robbietaco 2021-10-10 15:21

Short and sweet! I like when your ship runs out of fuel or breaks it all breaks into little pieces! The AI did seem to have trouble finishing the course. Cool idea!

megalukes 2021-10-10 16:25

Interesting game. I found the game camera a bit weird at the beginning but I managed to get used to it after a while. Good job and congrats! Nice to see Godot users around LD49!

jessefreeman 2021-10-10 16:33

Having an issue on Mac. It keeps telling me I don't have enough permission to play, is the App working?

rufson 2021-10-10 16:38

THE RACE IS FINISHED! I think the ships have too much friction, maybe they should have more inertia in space. I like fragments of broken parts and that they stay until the end of the race+nice details of the animation on the ship. In the background there might be some huge wrecked space station with debris flying around. I like your post-jam features, good luck on this! :rocket:

intodarkness 2021-10-14 20:56

Fun and easy to play :m:

solah 2021-10-19 11:49

Very fun game! It lacks sound design and the AI needs to be improved but the gameplay is pretty good, it was really pleasant to play ^^ Well done!