
Ludum Dare #19compo
The Adventures of ASTROMAN!
The Adventures of ASTROMAN!
A 48h game by Elliot Walmsley.
LudumDare19
Controls:
WASD/Spacebar
Update:
Reduced the gravitational pull of planets. The game should be easier to play now!
A 48h game by Elliot Walmsley.
LudumDare19
Controls:
WASD/Spacebar
Update:
Reduced the gravitational pull of planets. The game should be easier to play now!
Comments9


stevejohnson20 Dec 2010, 16:04
I like the idea, but the ship is extraordinarily difficult to control, so I could never play for more than 60 seconds before dying.

ladron20 Dec 2010, 20:28
I think the gravity-based gameplay has a lot of potential, but you need to slow it down so that the player has a chance to explore without crashing almost immediately.

Gobo20 Dec 2010, 22:15
@ladron @stevejohnson @Endurion
I've reduced the gravitational pull from planets, it should be a lot easier now!
I've reduced the gravitational pull from planets, it should be a lot easier now!

ranklar21 Dec 2010, 02:50
zip > rar


Fififox21 Dec 2010, 19:18
I'm a fan of Lunar Lander-like games, and I must say this game is good ! The soundtrack sounds a little bit oldschool; it's a somehow repetitive, though. It's hard to control the ship, I'm sad that you have more chances to reach the objective by going really really fast and doing it again and again, than being careful about where to go... The objective seems to be finding wormholes, but it should be more clearly stated (stay on the screen). What's more, there should be a way to skip the intro sequence when you want to play multiple times (or provide a "play again" button). You could also have posted more messages to the LD blog. Overall, your game is quite good ! :)
Sos25 Dec 2010, 17:18
I'm not an astronaut enough to beat this :P
Myx26 Dec 2010, 13:53
As earlier people have mentioned, the sensitivity of the controlls are very high. Otherwise a quite nice game! I have a hard time reading all the planet-facts considering the speed I'm usually moving at.







It's near impossible to survive through several screens if you keep going slow. My best strategy so far is to get going at full acceleration and hopefully evade stars long enough ;)