Operation Meteor Shower

cromo 2021-10-05 03:12

Man, the sound effects had me laughing! If I were to tweak one thing, it would be to zoom out a little in the meteor view - I had no idea if I was anywhere near the planets most of the time, and by the time I saw them, they were gone! If I were to suggest another change - the controls felt kinda weird. Always starting off pointing into the sun cost me a couple meteors, and I constantly mixed up the controls for angling the meteors. That said, they all had some personality!

randomerz 2021-10-05 03:13

Really fun game, I found the butt asteroid! The perspective shift to the asteroid view was really disorienting. I would love to see the concepts be expanded upon, but a jam is only so long. great job!

osh-studio 2021-10-05 03:20

Enjoyed this game after I figured out a good strategy to hit the orbeting objects. Gravity was well done and chasing the objects around orbit gave me mild KSP vibe. GG!

kbf123 2021-10-05 03:34

I enjoyed everything except the gameplay. Sometimes planets would fly past the bounds of the screen making them hard to hit and hard to track.

legolula 2021-10-05 07:02

Fun game, I feel like with some polish it could work as a mobile game. I agree that the meteor follow camera could use some work and maybe bigger planets would make them interact more between each other and easier to hit. Also great humour and sound design!

substain 2021-10-05 07:05

I actually did not get why there was an asteroid view :( it was interesting to see but you could also just launch a lot of asteroids and some would hit the planet.

cosmonautical 2021-10-05 07:08

"I'm meant to go here riiiiight?" The VO was fantastic, definitely had me sticking around. Launching meteors past the sun and out of the system was hilarious and I enjoyed that a lot. Game was really hard and I didn't know how to control the meteors well, but it was still fun to muck around with so I didn't really mind.

bernard-bumblebutt 2021-10-05 15:13

Love the VO! I'm not a big fun of being presented with a full-page controls instructions. Would be much better if you learn as you play!

uraffululz 2021-10-06 04:03

Awesome use of physics, and the voice-over was 5-star humor (I genuinely hope the Earth isn't destroyed by a farting asteroid. That would be humiliating. What will the Grays think of us then, you know?).

The biggest issue I had was that the web-build wouldn't fit my screen properly (even in full-screen). Not sure if this is because of the UI scaling? Still, it didn't make the game unplayable. Another issue was that sometimes the planets would find an orbit where they were off-screen for 70+% of the time, and were thus difficult to aim for (But you stayed true to the game's physics, and those physical laws can be a harsh mistress). Still, the game was excellent, and the theme was well executed! Great job!

seracrooce 2021-10-06 05:47

Thank you for the kind words so far everyone! The feedback has been excellent as well. @uraffululz The browser version can be a bit big, but I thought I hit a sweet spot. I can fix that up to allow for more people to play in browser if you can give me some details on how much bigger it was than your screen. Also, in hindsight, definitely should have put in something to count planets that are off screen for a certain amount of time as knocked out :/. Live and learn haha

uraffululz 2021-10-06 06:05

@seracrooce Using a 1080p monitor, it was about 1.5x the height of my browser window (accounting for things like the address, tab, and bookmark toolbars at the top).

As for the planet distances, I'd imagine that if they're outside the "Goldilocks zone", the asteroid military would consider them "dead enough", haha.

mateu 2021-10-07 22:56

Well, that was pretty interesting. I think the controls could have been a lot better, and the camera following the meteor could have been a lot better. However, I think that your concept is fantastic, and it was fun floating around as a meteor. (Eventually I figured out a strategy where I could just spam the space bar and not even have to try controlling where the meteors went). However, my biggest praise was your visuals and audio. The music was great, and fit the vibe perfectly, and I don't even know how to describe the audio. All I have to say is I loved the voice lines. Your visuals look really good too. The art style really suits this type of game. Nice job on your game. With some work this could be really fun!

Side note: I just sat there jamming to the music for a couple of minutes in the menu screen lol

penguinmunch 2021-10-08 22:41

I loved the concept of rotating around the sun. Great concept and fun game!

timothy 2021-10-08 23:07

Overall, it is a very fun game. It's a unique idea that I have never seen before and the voice acting was excellent. My only gripe was that it gets a little bewildering flying around in the asteroid view. It can be hard to work out where everything is. That being said, I enjoyed my time with this game.

emaigualmc2-art 2021-10-09 00:40

The music and the sounds seemed very good to me, very funny! The resolution they chose seemed a bit uncomfortable, at least on my screen I had to see it very small. Good job! xD

seracrooce 2021-10-09 03:48

@uraffululz Thank you for that info! Sorry for the delayed response. I'm going to see if I can make it a bit smaller in browser. Though, it may fuzzy up the art a bit. Will see what I can do though!

And for sure should have done that with the planets. Though to stay in the spirit of the jam, I won't be making that adjustment.

uraffululz 2021-10-09 05:19

@seracrooce No worries. Jam games are bound to have issues. The game was still fun, challenging, and super funny, and definitely not un-playable. Keep it up!

soul-grinder 2021-10-17 07:28

Cool meteor firing game with nice gravity orbiting game mechanic. I liked the way that they had a range of different personalities, my favourite ones were the depressed one and the small scrappy one lol. Found it quite difficult to hit the planets but still had fun playing it and managed to get a few in the end.

jonathan-lorenz 2021-10-20 12:38

Wow, the asteroid view gets pretty psychedelic when you rotate! I would say that, for me, the highlight of the game, the thing that made me smile all along are the voices of the asteroids. You get an extra point in humour! Good work!