Gaia is a game about collecting things, and dodging others. You play as a young planet trying to become life supporting. Growing from a small asteroid into a planet.
Controls: Left mouse button - Control Radial Movement Right Mouse Button - Control Orbital Movement. Position mouse where you want to go.
This is my first Ludum Dare. Incredibly happy to have participated and actually finished something.
-------- EDIT --------- This wasn't properly indicated in the game, but once you gain 3500 mass you have a next stage, collecting water.
Stage 1 Goal: Get to 3500 Mass Stage 2 Goal: Get to 100% water needed Stage 3 Goal: Get home and let life begin.
Very nice, congrats. I think maybe it could be more comfortable to know with more clarity what asteroids can be eaten. Also I took me 5min to actually get one asteroid, but maybe I'm just bad at this
Great job combining the themes, and I really like the music. If you were to change anything, maybe have hitting a larger asteroid just take away most of your mass and knock you around, or something like that? I liked the face that follows the mouse pointer, that was a nice touch too.
Thank you all so much :) I definitely agree with all points of criticism (thankfully all constructive). I would like to finish it up and will definitely use all this input.
as a question, did anyone get passed the first part of the game? I think I should have signified that there is a next step after you gain mass.
Eating asteroids was raher tedious (and dizzying) experience. I always died on the water gathering part since I didnt know how big water rocks I could gather o.o Nice game overall :)
- the risk-reward of trying to eat a piece which is about the same size as me, not knowing if I'll double my size or crash (thankfully it was usually the former) - the fact that avoiding the obstacles automatically became harder as I gained mass - how you managed to create a second game mode which felt quite different just by disabling whether we gained or lost mass - the fact that the different planets had different personalities (cheer up, Mars!) - the science! I never imagined that accretion would be this much fun. - the ending! I didn't realize what I would become until after the water phase.
The music was quite repetitive and not very space-like though.
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Really close to both theme and fun to play !
Please add a mute button next time :D Because I want to play this game for a long time but maybe put my own music on in the back. :)
Congrats!
as a question, did anyone get passed the first part of the game? I think I should have signified that there is a next step after you gain mass.
Nice game overall :)
- the risk-reward of trying to eat a piece which is about the same size as me, not knowing if I'll double my size or crash (thankfully it was usually the former)
- the fact that avoiding the obstacles automatically became harder as I gained mass
- how you managed to create a second game mode which felt quite different just by disabling whether we gained or lost mass
- the fact that the different planets had different personalities (cheer up, Mars!)
- the science! I never imagined that accretion would be this much fun.
- the ending! I didn't realize what I would become until after the water phase.
The music was quite repetitive and not very space-like though.