Ludum Dare #42compo

Planetoid

by untitled-studios

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.97

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.31

📕 STORY 📕

Planetoid is a top down adventure style game where you play as a planetoid named Timmy who is trying to escape space (namely to run out of it) because space is running out of space and Timmy needs somewhere to live. Timmy needs to collect the four shards of the spacekey to unlock the great space door and then run the heck out of space. Unfortunately, the SPF (Space Protection Federation) wants to keep the spacekey all to themselves, so watch out for their ships and turrets.

🕹️ CONTROLS 🕹️

A/D: Tilt Left And Right.
Space: Tuck in to be affected by the gravity of nearby planets.
Shift: Charge up a boost. When fully charged, release to get a burst of speed. You can use your boost to dispatch enemies.
Ctrl: Brake
F: Toggle Fullscreen

🛰️ OTHER 🛰️

If you see purple arrows around Timmy, they are showing you where a nearby black hole is. Make sure to steer clear. You can see your progress on assembling the key in the top left corner of the screen. Collecting a key shard gives you extra health. You can trick smaller enemies into crashing into planets, each other, black holes, or turret shots.

🌌 SCREENSHOTS 🌌

:gear: CHANGELOG :gear:

v1.1: Changed sound mix.

Comments19

Serious0713 Aug 2018, 04:17

I liked the graphics and music. Controls seemed a bit complicated, it would not be bad to have an indicator that would show the direction of the character's movement.

Untitled Studiosauthor13 Aug 2018, 13:36

@serious07 Thanks for the advice! The bit about the directional indicator really should have been a no-brainer. Plus, your game is really cool!

Serious0713 Aug 2018, 13:40

@untitled-studios Thank you! :smile:

Jakub Kazimierski13 Aug 2018, 14:00

Graphics and music compliment each other really well. Movement is hard to master, but gives a lot of fun.

Albin13 Aug 2018, 14:03

Really fun and hard in a good way. I love the little running animation for Timmy :D Both the graphics and the muisc is great and fits well with the style of the game. Good job!

Untitled Studiosauthor13 Aug 2018, 17:20

@albin Thanks! I tried out your game and its a whole lot of fun! :)

Untitled Studiosauthor13 Aug 2018, 17:25

@jakub-kazimierski Thanks for taking the time to drop a rating! Your game looks really cool! (I love the gameboy look)

mrjorts14 Aug 2018, 01:15

I like navigating with the gravity of the planets and the sprites are really nice. It felt like the charge was a little slow for dealing with enemies, though. I kept getting swarmed before I had time to charge up. Also, with headphones on the sound effects are quite loud and harsh on the ear compared to the music. The music is nice, though :)

Untitled Studiosauthor14 Aug 2018, 13:17

@mrjorts Thanks for your feedback! I tried to design the game so that environmental hazards were more effective against enemies than your boost, but I think those are still underpowered. Also, I believe changing the sound mix is within the rules of the compo, so i might just do that. I just gave your game a play-through and it looks really awesome!

coomzy15 Aug 2018, 20:03

I liked what you were trying to do with the gravity motion to swing the character around but I just couldn't get a good swing going. It was a little confusing to control. Nice job on the music and environment, although I think the edge of the world being grey ruined that a bit, still though cool game

Untitled Studiosauthor16 Aug 2018, 14:39

@coomzy Thanks for rating! I played and really enjoyed your game.

Suchista16 Aug 2018, 15:51

Great and unique game! Yeah, sound effects are a bit too loud. It was hard at first to move around but felt nice after some time :) And the art is cute.

Untitled Studiosauthor17 Aug 2018, 12:00

@suchista Thanks! I tried out your game and it was really a blast. could you let me know what specific sound effects were bothering you?

Untitled Studiosauthor17 Aug 2018, 12:00

@suchista Thanks! I tried out your game and it was really a blast. could you let me know what specific sound effects were bothering you?

Gaming Night17 Aug 2018, 12:51

Cool game here, I really enjoyed playing it ;)

mAnimal24 Aug 2018, 14:25

Really hard and challenging game. Pixelart graphics suits well for this game. Nice sounds and music.

Rahim_Pxr27 Aug 2018, 01:01

Nice game, I hope to see more updates and improvments sooner.
If you don't bother take a look at our game when we focused on Graphics and visuals and see the results that we got:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacelab-42

Eric Kulbiej2 Sep 2018, 00:05

Your game is very nice to play. The general impact is positive.
As a professional game dev I would suggest... just kidding haha
Nonetheless, if you want to work on this project more I suggest making a difficulty incresing algorithm.
Graphics - very nice. Controls are also working very well.
Maybe you could also take a glimpse at my game? I already enlarged it into a wholesome Android game :)

ohmmus3 Sep 2018, 04:43

Well done! It took me a while to get used to the 'floaty' controls, but once I did I had a fun time playing your game!