A really simple game, but I'm very happy with the idea although I could only work about 20 hours on it. I think the playability is not as good as I'd like and the difficulty is not well balanced. Oh, well... :)
You are Pluto in his way to defeat an evil astronomer to get his real planet title back! Engage the asteroids with your gravitatory field and shoot them back.
Nice game! I was kind of in the same boat, first unity3d actual game attempt, made lots of features before, but never a full game. I love how the bullets circle the planet, well done!
Haha nice game, it was a bit easy but I really liked the mechanic of capturing asteroids. Using Pluto was a nice idea for the theme as well, good job on the end boss.
This was surprisingly fun. The concept was simple, but I disagree that it was "too" simple, especially if you only had 20 hours to work on it. This is pretty much what I would imagine is the epitome of LD entries, and it doesn't suffer for it. Enjoyable!
[Comments and ratings from this account come from various team members] A bit too easy and a bit too short but quite humerous and fun to play. The capturing the the asteroids works well. Great work for the 20 hours you got to work on it.
Har, har, har. I like your interpretation of "tiny world". The retro music was good, but not sure it fit the visual style. I love that I got my blood pumping by lighting up planet earth with machine gun toast. The theatrical entrance of the larger planets was nice. The UI seemed a bit bland, it didn't seem to fit the setting and having the HUD on the opposite side of the screen from the hero made it a little difficult to monitor. Overall, I enjoyed taking the role of Pluto, the demoted planet.
Haha. Very nice. With some tweaking of the enemies to make them a little more "intelligent" in dodging asteroids (and so they can catch them, too) it would amp the challenge enough to make it a very addictive game.
Jupiter's big red eyes made me laugh in the nerdiest of ways.
Haha, awesome. I love the premise...it's a little easy (I think switching up the shot patterns would help a lot with that), but lots of fun. Nice work!
Fun! Dodging to capture asteroids in order to attack was a nice twist and the opponents' patterns really need to take advantage of that when you expand on this. Great humor!
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refreshcreations29 Apr 2012, 22:07
Cool game, nice absorb bullet mechanic, graphics are nice enough and all fit well with each other. The sound effects and bgm also complement the general feel of the game which is important.
Hope you find a chance to add more complexity to it post-compo as I'd like to see some non-absorbable shots in the mix which would help up the difficulty somewhat.
Made Pluto become a planet again, (at least in my mind anyway) huzzah!
Not a bad shooter. I like the idea of catching the enemies weapons to throw them back, but I felt like the enemies were a little too predictable. Also... were we just throwing space toast at each other?
I feel like there might also be some merit in penalizing the player for hoarding shots, or perhaps limiting the number of orbiting bodies you can have.
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PIXEL^330 Apr 2012, 01:25
This game is a bit easy, but it was also fun to play. i give it a fair rating.
Needs work, but the core gameplay mechanic (grabbing bullets and throwing them back) is neat - it just needs some polish. And any game where you fight to restore Pluto's planethood is automatically awesome in my book!
The shooting mechanic is a great idea. Also, I think the game would work really well as an educational game for children learning the planets of the solar system, providing the planets were in the right order from the sun - you could have an asteroid belt level before Jupiter, and maybe you'd have to fight the planets' moons before reaching each boss, who could have different attacks etc. to make them easier to remember.
@ilo: Those are great ideas. I'm still working on the game and was thinking about ways to make it educational with data about the planets and so. Thanks!
I am so glad I got that bastard Neil tiGrasse Taizon! lol
This was really fun, great concept and pretty cool graphics for the planets and Neil. I haven't played the post-compo yet, so I don't know what you did, but I absolutely suggest making it harder and making the some of the plants move while shooting. It's gonna make it much harder to catch the asteroids and a lot more fun!
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If I had a complaint, it would be that the controls aren't as responsive as I'd like.
I'm on a Mac that has that small cordless keyboard...
After I got past that, it was cute and funny, if not a little simplistic. Maybe tweak the AI to fire spreads instead of always in a straight line.
A bit too easy and a bit too short but quite humerous and fun to play. The capturing the the asteroids works well. Great work for the 20 hours you got to work on it.
Jupiter's big red eyes made me laugh in the nerdiest of ways.
Hope you find a chance to add more complexity to it post-compo as I'd like to see some non-absorbable shots in the mix which would help up the difficulty somewhat.
Made Pluto become a planet again, (at least in my mind anyway) huzzah!
Final boss was the icing on the cake!
I feel like there might also be some merit in penalizing the player for hoarding shots, or perhaps limiting the number of orbiting bodies you can have.
i give it a fair rating.
The shooting mechanic is a great idea. Also, I think the game would work really well as an educational game for children learning the planets of the solar system, providing the planets were in the right order from the sun - you could have an asteroid belt level before Jupiter, and maybe you'd have to fight the planets' moons before reaching each boss, who could have different attacks etc. to make them easier to remember.
This was really fun, great concept and pretty cool graphics for the planets and Neil. I haven't played the post-compo yet, so I don't know what you did, but I absolutely suggest making it harder and making the some of the plants move while shooting. It's gonna make it much harder to catch the asteroids and a lot more fun!
Great job overall!