Your thrusters are totally gonzo'd and you're left free-floating in space at the mercy of gravity. Lucky for you, the ship's engineer has managed to re-route the power and reverse the polarity of the anti-grav device. Using the on-board computer's ten second path prediction, you sling-shot yourself around planetoids, just trying to find a way home.
A simple one-button game where you hold and key to vastly reduce the effects of gravity and travel in a straight line.
New for post-compo version: - Performance fixes - First keypress on title/results screen now shows all text
I'm not quite sure how to control this... I know it's just "press any key to use the anti-grav thingie", but I'm not really sure how that thing works... Great music though :)
@zedutchgandalf when you're holding a key, your ship won't be attracted to the planets, so it'll maintain a constant heading and speed. The idea is to try to accelerate toward a planet to gain momentum and enable your anti-grav once you're pointing in the right direction. Hope this helps!
@Linus Lindberg Yeah, it's a bit of a flakey connection, but the path ahead predicts 10 seconds into the future (as if you were always under the effects of gravity).
Elegant little game. Demonstrates that very simple games can be vary fun!
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X-0r27 Aug 2013, 10:15
Two-dimensional gravity for the win! Even if it's not the point of the game, trying to get your ship to orbit around a planet is fun, too^^ I'm not sure, if there's a way to continue forever, if you had the skills, or if you do depend on luck a bit.
Impressively smart and simple. I kept going back for one more try and found the controls to be pretty intuitive once you got the hang of them. Great idea, beautifully implemented.
Amazing and original gameplay! Addictive is the right word for it. The minimalistic art style works perfectly. The 10 second prediction path connection is a pretty interesting take on the theme. Great work!
Very interesting method of play, sometimes difficult to tell how it is calculating the trajectory. If I understand correctly, the "mass" of the planet changes how much it "pulls" the trajectory. It would be nice if the color of the trajectory were to change from green which is "small mass" to red which is "high mass" to indicate how much pull the next planet will have. That way you could have a sense of how much your will be altering your trajectory by pressing the button.
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Great music though :)
@zedutchgandalf when you're holding a key, your ship won't be attracted to the planets, so it'll maintain a constant heading and speed. The idea is to try to accelerate toward a planet to gain momentum and enable your anti-grav once you're pointing in the right direction. Hope this helps!
Love the visuals and the music!
I'm not sure, if there's a way to continue forever, if you had the skills, or if you do depend on luck a bit.
Simple control may be good, but I don't understand how it works.
The 10 second prediction path connection is a pretty interesting take on the theme.
Great work!