Let's Go Moon is an arcade style game, where you guide the moon around a randomly spawning galaxy of little planets, meteors, asteroids and alien space ships. Smash into objects smaller than you to grow in size, and grow large enough to take down the Earth itself.
The further away you go from the Earth the larger the planets get, there are also "occupied" planets which will shoot you down, knocking chunks of your mass off.
This is our first ever game for Ludum Dare, entered into the Jam purely because my friend and I wanted to do our first one in a team.
Controls are simply the arrow keys. Q and W zoom the camera in and out, but it should do that automatically based on your size anyway. Flixel has built in sound controls, so 0 to mute (and unmute).
Made in AS3 using a slightly modified Flixel. Photoshop for the art work, though as you may guess none of us were artists.Sound Effects made in as3sfxr. And Music was free to use music by BunnyMajs of Newgrounds.
it ran a bit slow on my computer but that's just my wooden pc. cool game, would have liked a bit more variance in the objects you collide into but it was fun all the same
I thought it was a nice, funny little game. A couple of things I noted: For some reason the planets' textures go over the in game text, and the moon's mass maxes out at 711? I really like the idea, but I think it could have been more challenging. You can essentially beat it by traveling in a straight line, the missiles barely hurt you.
Thanks all for the positive comments so far! The Moon maxes out once you go over 700, because if it got any bigger we started having issues with the zooming out camera, and the moon itself would take up too much of the screen to see anything else.
For some reason, a few seconds after hitting my first asteroid, the sound turned off in the game. Refreshing the SWF (even clearing the cache) did not bring it back. :(
Despite the deathly silence, I did enjoy the game! It was great fun smashing through planets.
Thats amazingly odd. Flixel has a built in mute function when you push 0 I believe, which we didnt disable, may have hit that! But shouldnt have stayed between refreshes.
Good fun! I was somewhat confused by why my moon appeared to be shrinking while hitting some objects-- were those missiles being shot by the planets or somesuch?
Interesting story. The bgm and sfx are good. My advice, since it's space why don't make zero gravity so the moon keep moving and player have less key press.
very fun to play with! the only drawback was the particle system, that the thrusters, the debris AND the bullets were all red and hard to distinguish. good job tho!
Great job! It ran quite slow on my machine, although it was still playable. It also gets quite hard to see things once you get large, but that adds to the challenge I guess. Good music, and the opening / closing cutscenes were nicely done.
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Well done!
Well, that's kinda how I saw the game... xD
Really liked it, though it would be better if there wasn't a max size and if you went on to take over the sun! :P
Despite the deathly silence, I did enjoy the game! It was great fun smashing through planets.
Also, i liked the music.
Also, the music was awesome.