Growing Earth

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.62
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.88
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.17
You are earth, in space. You are too small, you have to get bigger. Eat smaller planets, or get eaten by bigger ones.

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Genres: action

Comments13

Kolbjorn4 Dec 2017, 16:18
The controls were a bit hard at first, but became easier the bigger i got, until a point where i got so big it got a bit harder again :D Pretty fun game, i really liked the graphics and the music. Good job!

My high score: 2560
meursault
meursault4 Dec 2017, 16:34
nice and fun game. i had some problems with the controls. and i really like the music.
nizlow4 Dec 2017, 16:40
Highscore 15717

What an easy but freaking cool game! At the beginning I thought it was quite fast and easy to dodge some of the bigger planets so you don't get eaten, but after reaching ~8000 you begin to feel really the mass of the planet and dodging becomes really hard. When a planet infront of me got bigger then me I just shouted "no nonon ononoon" haha. Sounds more dramatic then it actually was probably but it was fun anyways!

I think to further expand on the gameplay you could introduce objects like blackholes or suns which maybe transport you to a different location or change the type of planet/star you are. Still very good entry, I enjoyed it! (The music was actually kinda good, even though it blew my headphones away at the beginning)

If you don't mind check also out my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/just-another-space-game
sgadrat
sgadrat4 Dec 2017, 16:45
Iteresting, the difficulty is weird in a way that we want to retry to get it right. Basically, as a player I suspect that going the fastest possible (holding W) makes it for the other plannets to not grow as much as ours.
TrolledWoodsauthor4 Dec 2017, 18:00
Thank you for the great responses! I didn't have a lot of time(6 hours) so the game is pretty unpolished, wich may be a good thing, because I didn't add useless features like a gun or something. Btw, high score 237k
Ham and Swiss
Ham and Swiss4 Dec 2017, 18:29
Nice relaxing game, though the movement is strange.
AMastryukov
AMastryukov4 Dec 2017, 18:35
Pros: Challenging gameplay. Nice graphics.

Cons: Music doesn't match very well with the 'feel' of the game.

Stars in the background would have been a nice touch. Colour shifting based on the consumed planets' colours would be cool as well. Good work, considering you made it in 6 hours.
gwolf865 Dec 2017, 08:40
Great work for the amount of time you had. I'd love to see where you take it with more time.
Johnny Turbo
Johnny Turbo6 Dec 2017, 18:42
I thoroughly enjoyed your game! I actually had a lot of fun! I really liked how you worked the theme into the game, I think it fits very well. A short narrative or tutorial screen would have been nice to have but I was able to figure it out pretty quickly without it. Solid graphics, addicting gameplay. Congratulations on making a game in only 6 hours!
Marius26 Dec 2017, 21:30
I played this game some time, and i like it, is very fun to play! I think the gameplay will be better if you can eat/be eaten by players with at least 10%(or something like this) less/more. Nice job!
vfabien2127 Dec 2017, 10:24
Fun game, with mecanism which has already been used a lot. However, that fact that the game fells much slower as we get bigger is a nice twist. It has been a nice and relaxing experience.
colozz
colozz27 Dec 2017, 12:38

I liked:

- The gameplay
- The music
- Its addictiveness (I played a dozen times)

Good work :)
Shivur27 Dec 2017, 15:13
Very good game.
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