Bring the internet to everyone in the galaxy by connecting the different planets via ethernet cables. Use asteroids as forward hubs. Beware of the intergalactic turrets aiming to destroy your highway of bits and bytes, make them your own!
And most of all, complete your job within the deadline.
HOW TO PLAY WASD - move in that direction (regardless of ship orientation) left mouse button - fire cable mouse - aim ship L - restart Escape - quit game :)
TEAM EAGLE IS Programming - Fedor Jutte (@fejuto) Programming - Benjamin de Jager (@m0rph3v5) Art - Sander van Houdt (@dokonimo) Music - Bram Stege (@fubaruba) Sound FX - freesound.org
Wow, this was really interesting. Good take on the theme. The physics was really effective and smooth which just added to the fun exploration and the overall awesome minimalist graphics. Well Done.
Really fun game. The only thing that bothered me were the keyboard controls, the ship is just waaaay to fast :D nice Graphics, nice audio, overall a very polished game.
Great game :) The physics gave it a really nice gameplay, being able to fling asteroids around and such. After a while the cables got all jumbled and that was a bit annoying. The WASD to move felt a little weird at first as I was always expecting the ship to move according to it's orientation. Radio communications on the background was a nice touch :)
To be honest at first I thought this was a wonderful looking not so great game (ship was moving unrealisticly fast and I didn't know I could shoot). Then I tried it again after reading the HOWTO and realized that this basically turned me into spiderman in space! :P I really like the physics and the game in general.
The best game I've played so far: nice looking, nice sound, fun, humorous, and on-theme. One small thing: Add an obvious option to exit the game! I tried all the usual invocations, I had to manually kill it!
Really enjoyed this game. The only thing I can tell is putting a button to quit or restart the game. But that's really the only bad thing I can see about the game. Great job !
100 meg, wow... Anyways, everything about this entry feels very good. It's not very challenging, but still very fun. You've got my fives. I can easily see this entry winning.
I really like the graphics, the atmosphere, the physics, it's a very interesting game to play. I do feel like I was sunk the first time I played, because I accidentally connected a turret to a random planet and could not get it unstuck, and it shot down any attempt I made at connecting it or the nearby planet. If there's a way to un-connect cables, I don't know about it. Otherwise, a rather nice entry!
This is a lot of fun! It's one of those games that you can really play with, if you know what I mean. The mechanics were simple enough to be quickly understood but open-ended enough to feel fun. And the on-screen reminder that enemy ships can be hijacked is a great help; as soon as I saw a ship, I immediately thought, "Uh oh! What do I do?" followed by "Oh, okay, I better do that". It was a good decision to keep that bit of info out of the main tutorial text near the home planet.
If I have to complain about something, it'd be the difficulty: there's not much challenge to be found here. The enemy ships aren't enough of a threat due to the abundance of asteroids to repair connections with, and the time limit is so large that the game can be beaten 4-5 times in the same session.
So great concept, great execution, and great game!
From Ludum Dare 21 to 30 this has to be one of my favorite Ludum Dare games of all time! I simply love it. The artstyle is really cool, and connecting the planets is really satisfying. The enemies added enough challenge to the game for it to be not frustrating, but not too easy.
this is one of the top games i have played in the jam, WOW! really great mechanic you have going on here, so satisfying and sort of zen too. you have a really great game on your hands here, congrats!
C
Cake&Code14 Sep 2014, 20:46
Absolutely beautiful game! As the artist of our game, the aesthetic the game really spoke to me. The game itself was really fun with great polish, and it was definitely such a pleasure to play! Your team did a great job! :)
Really nice graphics! I included it in part 27 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/DOSk1bi234E
Excellent entry! Very thematic, nice visuals, and I liked the background sounds a lot.
Game explained me what to do. I had fun time reaching my goals. The enemies were a nice addition, exactly on the right moment.
The game did became unplayable on my computer after I connected tons of planet, framerate dropped to something very low.
I can imagine this could have tons of potential for various different things. Collecting stuff to build better shuttle. Different enemies. Planets that have different gravity. Solar storms, meteorites...
Very well done, liked a lot. I'd say one of the best entries I've played in LD30.
Comments55
Great art style!
nice Graphics, nice audio, overall a very polished game.
The gameplay was interesting but what made the game really great was the really fun controls and amazing art. I really love how the wires looked.
Well done!
The physics gave it a really nice gameplay, being able to fling asteroids around and such.
After a while the cables got all jumbled and that was a bit annoying. The WASD to move felt a little weird at first as I was always expecting the ship to move according to it's orientation.
Radio communications on the background was a nice touch :)
Then I tried it again after reading the HOWTO and realized that this basically turned me into spiderman in space! :P
I really like the physics and the game in general.
Anyways, everything about this entry feels very good. It's not very challenging, but still very fun.
You've got my fives. I can easily see this entry winning.
The physics and graphics really made it fun the fly around
If I have to complain about something, it'd be the difficulty: there's not much challenge to be found here. The enemy ships aren't enough of a threat due to the abundance of asteroids to repair connections with, and the time limit is so large that the game can be beaten 4-5 times in the same session.
So great concept, great execution, and great game!
Like your theme interpretation and gameplay mechanics. Game needs more levels to be awesome one =)
Great job! Awesome game!
Excellent game !
Game explained me what to do. I had fun time reaching my goals. The enemies were a nice addition, exactly on the right moment.
The game did became unplayable on my computer after I connected tons of planet, framerate dropped to something very low.
I can imagine this could have tons of potential for various different things. Collecting stuff to build better shuttle. Different enemies. Planets that have different gravity. Solar storms, meteorites...
Very well done, liked a lot. I'd say one of the best entries I've played in LD30.