Nothing But Stars

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.54
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.33
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.57
Community★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★73%
Hey Ludum Dare folks,

First some notes: You are required to have .Net and XNA 4 installed to run this. If you don't have those, download the game + resources file. Secondly, the source won't compile without the font "Animated Avatar" installed on your computer. Either switch it to Arial, or go get that.

Thanks for checking out my game, Nothing but Stars. I had a lot of fun making the game, but unfortunately, ended up missing out on the last 12 hours of work time. I full well expected to spend those adding obstacles like meteorites, black holes etc. to spicen up the gameplay. Still, I'm left with an almost decent game with some cool elements and mechanics to it.

All graphics, audio, and code was made by me with the help of the following tools:

Visual Studio
Paint.net
Reason 4
Sfxr
Audacity

Except for the font used, which was originally on DaFont, but has been pulled since I downloaded it. It's called Animated Avatar though.

If you would like to use any of my assets, please send me an email at [email protected]

Thanks again for checking it out.

Comments14

Deza19 Dec 2011, 19:06
Fantastic :D
quill18
quill1821 Dec 2011, 03:15
It's a shame that the game is so short/unfinished, because this was actually quite a nice concept and execution. I had to restrict my actual score due to the amount of gameplay, but otherwise I was impressed.
wbobeirne
wbobeirneauthor21 Dec 2011, 15:57
Thanks quill, imagine how disappointed I must be. I considered turning this in to a Jam entry, but I was so burnt out, I couldn't keep going.
Kelly Thomas25 Dec 2011, 15:52
Love the controls, really feels weightless.
caranha
caranha2 Jan 2012, 15:14
The game is not finished, but the movement and control responses were quite neat! I liked the music also!

Hope you can finish more of your game next LD, and thanks for rating a bunch of games! :-)
jeffz7 Jan 2012, 02:51
nice artwork, not sure the music fits entirely but it's still good, reminds me a bit of Descent I think. The movement is nice and I like how the stars flicker a bit.
PaulSB
PaulSB8 Jan 2012, 20:17
Nice work. Liked the audio and it definitely carried the theme. Shame there wasn't a little more gameplay! :)
adventureloop
adventureloop8 Jan 2012, 20:31
I could not play this game because it is windows only, and has limiting factors after that. It looks very good, a game play video would have been awesome to include to people could get a better picture of the game.
Veralos
Veralos8 Jan 2012, 21:21
The controls, graphics, and music/sounds give a nice space feel. If was fun flying around, so it's a shame the game was so short.
Malactus
Malactus9 Jan 2012, 04:10
I would say: I'm in space.

Anyway the controls were very solid. Again a shame it was short.
whilefun9 Jan 2012, 14:58
I can't get it to run. I double-click the exe and nothign happens. But I can run other XNA/.NET entries fine :( Any ideas?
wbobeirne
wbobeirneauthor9 Jan 2012, 20:10
whilefun: A lot of other games using XNA and .Net 3.5, mine uses 4.0. Are you sure you're fully updated?
blahoink
blahoink9 Jan 2012, 23:00
really nice and atmospheric, and the controls were comfortable and smooth. keep it up!
rawbits
rawbits10 Jan 2012, 01:37
OK! This is the first one I see doing absolutly nothing!

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