OSC:Dawn is a scientifically-plausible, physically-implausible space game. You play as the remote pilot of the real-life, ion-cannon-driven spacecraft DAWN, trying to help the recently discovered race on the drawf planet CERES; by dragging the planet with you.
HTML5. Made in and for FIREFOX (seems to dislike other browsers, actually. :/).
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WAIT DON'T GO JUST YET! My friend made a game and couldn't upload it so I'm linking it here. You'll be judging this game, but my friend deserves credit for making such an awesome game himself. He just got screwed by a registration glitch.
Not sure if it's just my crappy machine, but every time I played at a few seconds in the screen stopped redrawing properly (the ship, planet and text were essentially stamping continuously on the background).
Are you playing in Firefox? Try as I might, I couldn't get any other browser to clear the canvas properly. I'll try to get it to port better to other browsers.
Whoa, I played this on Chrome on Ubuntu and man, it crawled! It took about three minutes to get to the asteroid. I tried on Firefox and it was much better. It ran nice and smooth until the "stop in the landing zone" sequence and it just slowed down again. I liked where you were going with it though. The slow introduction of game elements was spot on. The concept of towing a planet is powerful, and the mechanic of action-growing corn by towing your planetside into the sun is hilarious. Too bad no music though, it's so hard to get into a silent game even in space.
Thanks for all the great comments guys! Wish I could've gotten the final level working, spent too much time on the tutorial, I'll post the finished version when I fix the math!
And you friend's game is great, to bad he couldn't register for ratings. Very nice music, the graphics are fresh, and the gameplay is fun. I give it a 5/5! If I was him I'd go get the admins so they give it the place it deserves, even if it won't get a proper rating now.
I felt a little lost but I bet I would feel lost in space anyway. Was something supposed to happen after I parked the sphere? I didn't rate the audio because it wasn't working right on my computer
Fabulous concept and use of the theme. Nice to see someone use HTML 5 too. I really liked the set up and the mechanics (Use of the sun). I didn't get very far because when I get to the first goal of putting the planet in a zone performance drops significantly and I can't seem to move the planet at all.
(It seemed to malfunction in Chrome with colors painting everywhere)
Cute. The controls could be a little better, but I understand that there's some attempt at physical reality going on here :) Too bad it's so short, because the concept of the planet giving you resources is super clever.
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Sorry I can't play your friend's game, I'm on Linux! :)
(It seemed to malfunction in Chrome with colors painting everywhere)