The Universe has collapsed! Try to keep the Sun and Earth in a steady orbit, balance Earth's temperature and fight off Meteors!
Use Your mouse to spin the sun around. Every (clockwise) rotation will make a day pass and You will gain some energy. But don't let the sun get too close or too far from the earth or humanity will freeze/(term-to-die-of-hotness). You can also gain Energy by crushing Meteors with your sun and by clicking you can heal Yourself for some Energy.
Enjoy!
A little Info on how I made this: Apart from jQuery this is all done with javascript and minimal HTML/CSS. There are no images used, everything is rendered on the Canvas at runtime (Even the stars are created programmatically). I did use and modify some function from previous projects for collision detection and some of the effects (Only the lightning bolt, the "break-apart"-animation and the stars if I remember correctly). If you are interested in using anything or want to know how it works let me know. I might be able to clear stuff up more quickly than if You try to make sense of the mess that is the code ;-) Sounds are a result of me messing around with beepbox.co for half an hour. Never done that before, the result is pretty annoying :) Let me know what you think! Good Luck to Everyone!
fun game mechanic, felt a little unwieldy once it starts getting out of control, like i never found a way to bring the sun back in check, once it goes it goes.
would of liked the sun going round the planet the wrong way to of had an effect like moving the meteors backwards as time reversed :)
A lot of fun and liked the music. Kept running out of power...not sure if hitting meteors was working but was sad I couldn't spend more time playing :(
@cynical-monkey I had the same idea about making the stars/time move backwards if the sun moves backwards, but I felt like that mechanic would take me too long to get working. I might implement it after the Compo :)
@frostdragonliz If you hit meteors with the earth (the blue thingy) you will lose health. If you hit them with the sun you gain energy :) Other than that you gain energy by keeping the sun rotating (clockwise) around the earth. Every full rotation completes a day and grants you 10 Energy.
@thorneto At a certain point it actually gets easier because the Meteors give more Energy, so that you can heal pretty much non-stop by clicking. Works until the meteors one-hit you :D
This is a gem of a game. This is why I love LDJAM. People like you make games and we get to play these. Thank you for this beautiful piece of art. The earth followed the mouse seamless and the gravity seemed pretty nice and smooth. Good job. Congratulations and good luck! :)
This game is pretty fun. I played it for like 20 minutes :) Suggestion: try and keep the sun on the screen. Whenever it would fly off the screen the earth would freeze
This game is pretty fun. I played it for like 20 minutes :) Suggestion: try and keep the sun on the screen. Whenever it would fly off the screen the earth would freeze
Great game, though it can get pretty easy once you get the hang on it. Add dangerous UFOs once the player gets far enough? : D Really liked it, good luck!
It's a good game you have there! It's just hard to regain control over the system once it starts going nuts. Also it's sometime hard to make the Earth rotates around the Sun (in particular when it's going crazy). Keep up the good work!
Fun to play! Took a little time to get the hang of it but I couldn't quit until I made it more than 10 days. :-) Cool that all the graphics are procedural. Btw, it's possible to cheat by just moving the mouse in tight circles around the sun really fast. Makes the days fly by.
I was going the wrong clockwise the first couple of tries, but then I figured it out. My best two were 20 days and 16 days. Really fun to engage with the mechanic, good job!
Very unique mechanic, well executed! This seems like a game that would take at least a few hours playing to fully master, which is impressive since it was made in 48 hours! Nice work :slight_smile:
This is a really cool idea. There are only a few things I would change to make it better (in my opinion).
- I think you need to get more energy for going around the sun, because I found that I would be losing energy at the start, when it is meant to be easy because there are no asteroids.
- I think there might be a bug, where sometimes you don't get energy for going around the sun (most specifically when you drag yourself around the sun.
- It should be a little bit clearer as to what drains your energy. Does moving drain your energy or is it just a constant thing?
- It would have been cool (no pun intended) to have a better visual indicator for whether the Earth was too hot or too cold at any given moment.
Other than that a really neat and quite difficult game. :)
Your game is extremely creative. I'm impressed that it was made entirely with JavaScript + Canvas. Perhaps you could show a scale of acceptable distances between the Earth and sun in the red area between them.
Your entry is pretty nice, it's my GF favourite entry of the LD39 haha. I made a video in which I reviewed your game : https://youtu.be/Hbr3Mr1TRcQ?t=463 :) You can ask me if you want to translation of what I said.
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would of liked the sun going round the planet the wrong way to of had an effect like moving the meteors backwards as time reversed :)
@frostdragonliz If you hit meteors with the earth (the blue thingy) you will lose health. If you hit them with the sun you gain energy :) Other than that you gain energy by keeping the sun rotating (clockwise) around the earth. Every full rotation completes a day and grants you 10 Energy.
@thorneto
At a certain point it actually gets easier because the Meteors give more Energy, so that you can heal pretty much non-stop by clicking. Works until the meteors one-hit you :D
Music reminded me of Star Control 2, so I loved it
Any improvements? Some better art and SFX perhaps :)
The game design is amazing, very simple mechanic and the entire game is built around it. Love it!
This is a gem of a game. This is why I love LDJAM. People like you make games and we get to play these. Thank you for this beautiful piece of art. The earth followed the mouse seamless and the gravity seemed pretty nice and smooth.
Good job. Congratulations and good luck! :)
- I think you need to get more energy for going around the sun, because I found that I would be losing energy at the start, when it is meant to be easy because there are no asteroids.
- I think there might be a bug, where sometimes you don't get energy for going around the sun (most specifically when you drag yourself around the sun.
- It should be a little bit clearer as to what drains your energy. Does moving drain your energy or is it just a constant thing?
- It would have been cool (no pun intended) to have a better visual indicator for whether the Earth was too hot or too cold at any given moment.
Other than that a really neat and quite difficult game. :)
It would have been fun probably to make the other planets affected by gravity too, even though it would probably have been much more difficult to play
Burn, stupid Earth, BURN! :laughing:
Unfortuntely I failed to find right balance and burned our mother earth half a dozen of times
Thing that this game is made with low-levels tool is amazing.
Good job anyway