Wow, this must be the most rushed game ever. Come on, I know it's my second run, but I'm still only 14. And I only had about two hours. And I spent about half that time making the music.
Welcome to the distant star system of Polypus Alpha! Everything's fine, but then a black hole comes along and starts taking your planets. So you, the Star, have to fire, I dunno what it is, actually, to connect and stop them from being dragged away.
So, yeah. You drag your mouse from the "sun" in the center to the planets that come your way to attach them. And press space to reset.
HAVE FUN!!!
A note to anyone noticing the modification dates - I cleaned up a few bugs in this newer version: fixed a problem with the frame rate, the music now plays to the end before restarting, the worlds now bounce off the sides etc. but nothing to drastic, so you can calm down ;).
Decent game, although, you should've put less time in the music and more time on the actual game. Because I wasn't even able to get more than 11 planets, and thus I didn't hear much of the music.
A cool idea! It was fun to play the game, although I wish there were on-screen instructions. You can get points even after losing by dragging your mouse from the middle to already-connected planets.
Decent game for a two hours work. Too bad you didn't get time to polish a bit more and add some features, it could have been great. Nice work on the music though !
Gets a little easy after the whole screen is filled with connected planets. The connecting mechanic seems not to work as expected as you can click on already connected planets to connect new ones.
But nevertheless I think it is a decent idea and a good job for a 2h title.
I think its important to learn where to focus your efforts. The game wasn't particularly fun. Which is the key thing to any game entry. I'd reccommend spending much more time on actual gameplay. Well done on your second entry though.
I want to echo the complaints that many of the other commenters have, but also the congratulations! I think it's great that you're already participating in Ludum Dare, keep at it :)
I really liked this! there were a few issues like the audio repeating like that (when you lose and then go back) got annoying and there were some weird connections when I'd drag to one and then another ball would be connected but overall really fun!
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The idea is a good one. It's nasty when planets bounce off outside the screen as you can't connect them anymore.
But nevertheless I think it is a decent idea and a good job for a 2h title.