Orbital Engagement

by tompudding

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★45%

Welcome to the orbital defence simulator, the room you'll be spending the rest of your life, er I mean the next few days in!

Learn how to destroy asteroids with nuclear weapons, even ones that fight back.

I had intended to submit this as a compo entry but ran out of time. Consequently I included the marvelous free music of Evgeny Teilor from Freemusic.com, thanks Evgeny!

Linux users can always play by installing pygame and pyopengl and running the source if the provided package doesn't work.

Comments14

slimabob14 Dec 2016, 00:01

I love this one. The ability to manually enter a firing solution is a great addition, and the art style is simple- yet enjoyable. Great job on a superb project!

BlackQuiltro14 Dec 2016, 00:18

Loved your game (i like this type of games a lot!)
Nice use of graphics for the console, very polished. Audio made me smile ;)

Mine10blox14 Dec 2016, 00:46

Didn't work for me, I think it's because I've used python before. Don't even worry about it.

ACCBDD14 Dec 2016, 01:44

A great concept and great execution of a game!

Logicon15 Dec 2016, 00:22

I loved the sound effects :)

lusternite15 Dec 2016, 04:41

Really liking the UI!

SoulBound19 Dec 2016, 01:56

Fun and relaxing. Well done!

NIGIC21 Dec 2016, 03:19

Infinite nukes feels wrong. But hey, they're just "asteroids", right?

Interface is a pain to use with a touchpad, but otherwise it works fine. Solid physics, and it's a nice touch that the projected trajectory is less precise than the actual one (intentional or not).

Clean and simple visuals. Nice effects on the CRT.

Good job!

phoenix198723 Dec 2016, 02:01

great mechanics, manual firing was fun to use. Enjoyed the audio. Keybaord input would be nice to have, especially for entering in co-ordinates. Good job overal

JK500023 Dec 2016, 18:36

A fun and very relaxing game. The music and voice acting is super great. Well done.

edve9828 Dec 2016, 19:48

I get this error on Linux: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/90b4a6d368d0ced1e2c23ccebd613cfa

I imagine it has to do something with my openGL version?

tompuddingauthor2 Jan 2017, 18:36

@edve98 yes possibly, though I'm not sure exactly what. If you could let me know your Linux distro and version that would be great, then I can try and it fix it for my next game. Thanks

manax2 Jan 2017, 19:32

Very well done. The old raster style monitor was a nice touch. I could not figure out the manual firing solution, it wasn't clear where the heck it was aiming... keyboard controls would have been nice.