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Onerous Orbits

By ian-mcd, Justine Olshan, crimecommitter, ctRy, justin2jam and Wade Bribach

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall314.2731
Fun324.2130
Innovation64.4331
Theme4333.6930
Graphics3873.7830
Audio1663.7929
Humor3183.1026
Mood1444.0330

Comments

rustywolf 2025-04-07 19:05

Fun game. I really appreciate how many options we get when issuing commands, seems like a lot of detail for a jam game!

lezzlebit 2025-04-08 01:36

Didn't play through the whole thing (I plan to later!!) but this is SO cool for a jam game. I love the decision to require the player to actually manually slow their velocity instead of applying a magical space drag! I would totally play a full game of this.

wheelsx 2025-04-08 02:30

I was really annoyed when it was over, I just wanted it to keep going. I love physics games like this, and to combine it with a programming game is just over the top.

tolmera 2025-04-08 02:42

Pretty impressed with this course :)

Awesome amazing little game!

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Edit: Oh hell yes last map win!

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ian-mcd 2025-04-08 03:06

Yay @tolmera Great work! nice clean simple solutions

milano23 2025-04-08 03:18

The game is a lot of fun. Great job! OnerousOrbit.png

matthew545 2025-04-08 03:23

This is fun! I wish there were more fine grained controls for waiting, rotating, and thrusting, but that's part of the challenge. I prefer the levels that have gravity.

milano23 2025-04-08 03:43

Yeah i kept going, i couldnt stop.OnerousOrbit3.pngOnerousOrbit2.png

ian-mcd 2025-04-08 04:00

ncie solutions @milano23 very clean

paragonraptors 2025-04-08 04:23

Oh what an excellent take on the puzzle game genre! I could easily get lost in this for hours. Great work!

darwinigan 2025-04-08 17:25

Super fun! The graphics look really nice (I love the little keyboard UI), and the entire concept was fun to play around with. Took me a second to get the hang of things (esp with rotation), but that process was enjoyable too.

2025-04-08 19:38

Very satisfying to play. Was a bit confused on the fact that I could not delete previous actions be pushing reset, but otherwise very nice gameplay and nicely teamed graphics.

mgear 2025-04-08 19:44

Cool game, has potential!

brian-russell 2025-04-08 19:45

Holy moly it is supercool. I know for sure i'll never work for NASA now haha. But really felt the mood as i tried to figure out how to order everything to reach the objectives. Wish there was a speed up option sometimes because it probably took me 25 tries on the 3rd level with asteroids lol.

justine-olshan 2025-04-08 20:12

@brian-russell The speed up option would be cool! Thanks for playing!

jtap 2025-04-08 21:48

Amazing game, I really enjoyed controlling the little probe. Thanks!

threegoldeneggs 2025-04-09 00:43

What a fun challenge! I loved the trial and error aspect of it. My poor little probe exploded so many times, but it got there eventually :)

tsaot 2025-04-09 01:54

This is great! It's nice to see another robot programming game. I like your interface too. The camera button surprised me. I wasn't aware it was a 3D game until I clicked it. Well done!

adamwigs 2025-04-11 05:47

This was a lot of fun! It took me a little bit too long to realize I could pick different values for each command and I killed far too many little probes! Maybe I should've tried more math instead of trial and error! Really enjoyed the game!

flokami 2025-04-13 10:33

A really solid concept! With a few additions to diversify the gameplay—like ship upgrades or different types of obstacles—I’d definitely buy a full version of this game!

muriel 2025-04-13 13:41

Super clean entry, good music, nice game mechanics, good art... Very well done!

jacobingalls 2025-04-15 04:35

The sounds that plays when the satellite leaves the play area is super familiar... but can't place it. Great game. Really liked the pseudo programming aspect. The line changing colors to match the commands was a good touch. Would be nice to get leaderboards for fewest commands, least fuel, and shortest duration. Would be really cool to have to control multiple ships and have them dock / or miss each other. + moving obstacles etc. Nice entry!

fabonacci 2025-04-20 13:17

Nice game, it was really hard to master. I was so surpised to find it was 3D when i clicked the camera button. Great work