croze 2023-10-03 01:17
Felt like I was getting lucky a lot of the time not having moons hit each other, overall decent idea for a puzzle game. Would be cool to see it developed more
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Unbelievable Universe
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 619 | 3.51 | 28 | |
| Fun | 502 | 3.51 | 28 | |
| Innovation | 271 | 3.71 | 28 | |
| Theme | 146 | 4.26 | 28 | |
| Graphics | 840 | 3.07 | 28 | |
| Audio | 481 | 3.32 | 28 | |
| Humor | 599 | 2.81 | 24 | |
| Mood | 954 | 2.89 | 26 |
Felt like I was getting lucky a lot of the time not having moons hit each other, overall decent idea for a puzzle game. Would be cool to see it developed more
Nice game! Liked the planets' arts. At first I thought I could place a moon/planet out of bounds if the criterias were already met, but that didn't work hahaha
It was fun as space was getting limited, fun game!
Cool and simple concept, the game is fun The moons are such a good concept ! GG for the job!
Very catchy puzzle. I like the simple concept due to which I was able to start playing immediately. A game without tutorial, YAY. What was slippery is that the direction of a moon rotation is not predictable, therefore it is always hard to guess if my configuration would fit. Maybe I did something wrong? Or maybe a tutorial is required at the end?
@brainles-etertainment Thanks for the feedback! You can tell the direction of the moons looking at the Planets panel =) I wanted to highlight that on the first level with moons, but I didn't have the time.
Love the idea, it was very fun ! Music is catchy, sfx are rewarding
I think it's looping ? Maybe a congratulation screen would have been nice
But well done, a great game :stars:
@pikario Thanks!! You're right, it's looping – I was going to add intro and end screens, but a really weird bug in my "engine" prevented me from doing so :')
A cool puzzle game, having to consider timing when placing the moons really adds to the challenge
@croze @willianfhs @stvup @falestress Thanks everyone!! I'll surely use the feedback to improve the game!
Little game but quite fun, figuring out how to manage all the orbiting moons. The feedback by audio is really good.
Super criativo! Adorei :D https://youtu.be/q-Mufr3c2F0
Cute and simple! Fun metaphor :) I want to see a version of this that simulates gravity and yanks moons into three-body-problem orbits! I will say it was hard to know how fast an orbit was going to be before placing a planet — maybe the preview indicator should show an animated version of its path?
Very entertaining game! The puzzles are well though out, it's the perfect length (though I could see the potential for a longer more developed version) and the little details like the different planet designs give it that extra polish. I cackled at the crazy orbit lol
@midblue Thanks! And nice idea hehe That indicator was a placeholder, I wanted to make a better preview of the movement but ran out of time. Now I know I really should do that =)
I couldn't pass the level when one of the planets had 2 moons, and the outer one going really quick. Even so, a very neat idea and I enjoyed the time with it.
The variety of sound effects was a nice touch, to prevent from getting repetitive.
@mhorth Thanks for the feedback! You can use `.` (period key) to skip levels and see the last one if you wish :)
Original game! I enjoyed playing and finished all the levels. I like how the planets and moons look, but some of them move strangely! :laughing: :wink: Original take on the theme, well done!
I tried it on my phone! It worked quite alright, however I had some Trou Les with the drag and drop : it kept dropping planets in the middle of the dragging. I think my finger was considered as "not on the screen anymore" for an instant wich lead to the planet being placed against my will. Maybe adding a small timer to make sure that the player *really* removed its finger could help!
Apart from that, the game what quite fun, but way too hard for me ahaha. I just sucked at it clearly : I couldn't be an orbit packer :laughing:
@furano Thanks for the feedback! That's weird, it happened to me once too, but I couldn't reproduce it anymore... As the game involves timing, I'll have to think about this, but I liked your suggestion :)
Definitely gets tough in the last levels, figuring out the orbits was tricky. Really nice, simple puzzle game, good job :)
Great job. You definitely nailed the theme! Took many tries on some levels but beat it in the end. Fun and challenging. Music fits the gameplay well.
A simple but very fun idea. I love the twist in the final level, where you have no choice but to put your smaller planets within the large one's gravity well, but outside the eccentric "flight path" of the orbiting moon. XD
My only disappointment is that the game ends right when it introduces such a clever puzzle; I'd have loved to have seen "overlap" solutions like that develop further.
When I saw the second screenshot on this page before playing the game, I expected that the gravity pull in the game would be dynamically recalculated and that the moons would shape their orbits around the planets. I couldn't solve the last puzzle and thought that I had to somehow bend the moon's orbit. Then I saw the planet counter and realized that you don't have to place all the planet systems from the palette, so I just didn't place the second planet+moon system and I managed to complete the level.
As for the music, I felt it sounded spacey and tense. The long string notes in the back are what makes it sound spacey. The tension comes from the piano melody sounding dissonant and I feel like the melody is never resolved, which is not too pleasing, and then just keeps on looping. I also think it sounded a tad too loopy and the part where the loop cuts is very noticable too. I think it would also be helpful to make the bass more rythmically and melodically interesting, in other words, not play the same note all the time at the same intervals of time in order to make it feel less loopy, but as it is it does make the song feel tense. The shaker as an embellishment to the song sounds okay I think.
I loved the crowd cheers when you complete a level and the crowd jeers when you fail a level. It reminds me a lot of the WarioWare minigames.
Overall, it was a fun and challenging game. Good job!