Ludum Dare #38compo

Planet Orb Trials - Time Attack

by popthosepringles

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Edits

- opted out of audio rating, as I never made any of it.
- added mac os build

Description

My first time taking part in LD. Had a lot of fun, and learned a ton.

Game is simple. You have 3 planets you can play. Collect the 24 orbs on that planet, and escape to the portal as quickly as you can. It's a time attack type of game, where you try and beat your fastest time.

The first planet is easy, the other I tried to make a little more harder, as you need to use the jump boost pick up to get some of the orbs.

I original was doing a different idea but switched it today. So I wonder what else I may have been able to add if I had yesterday as well.

Controls

W = Up, S = Down, A = Left, D = Right, Space = Jump

Mouse will rotate your player.

Video

Screen Shots

Builds

windows.zip | mac.zip | linux.zip | webgl

Source

No source for now, it's rather messy to be honest. I will likely spend some time cleaning it up then putting it on GitHub.

Tags: #exploration, #time attack

Genres: platformer

Comments5

Sebastian Lague1 May 2017, 09:00

Nice game, I got a bit dizzy haring around those small worlds, but still had a good time. It would be great to get a mac build though, because the webgl is a little bit laggy, at least for me. Struggled to get that high orb on the second planet, even once I discovered the feather. I'm probably just terrible though... I understand there wasn't exactly an abundance of time, but some different colours for each of the three worlds would have been cool! Was a bit surprised when the GoT theme came on :)

PopThosePringlesauthor1 May 2017, 10:06

@sebastian-lague, Thanks for talking the time to give me some feedback. I didn't know I could build a Mac build on Windows. Will remember to do that for the future (edit: added mac build).

There was so much more I wanted to add, but time got the better of me unfortunately.

I couldn't find any music that I liked, and I had like minutes left to add something. Not really what I wanted, but better than none I suppose.

Thanks for the great content you provide, helped me big time.

Yetikatt17 May 2017, 16:49

Nice game, I found the movement to be really fluid and smooth, which was nice. I found on the second level however that some of the orbs had spawned too high in the air to reach, which kind of stopped me in my tracks. Other than that it was an enjoyable game and a great entry! Good job :)

sgstair19 May 2017, 09:47

Neat little game - the first level was quite good. Initially I was confused and didn't realize you needed to go back to the portal. The second level it sort of fell apart for me though as I couldn't figure out how to consistently use the jump boost to get where I needed to. Overall nice work.

You can see exactly what I mean as I streamed your game - see https://www.twitch.tv/videos/143780402 - time 0:30:00

PopThosePringlesauthor27 May 2017, 01:31

@yetikatt - Thanks. Yeah, there was no instructions on level 2 or 3 for the feathers, sorry about that.

@sgstair - Thanks. I watched it, and can see how that is frustrating lol, sorry. You have to get the feather and quickly move over to the highest point, then jump.

Will try a little harder next time. I know the game is pretty bad, but it's my first game ever. I appreciate the feedback :)