Ludum Dare #48compo

Super Space Explorer

by digitalcrest

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.17

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.23

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

A simple vertical scrolling arcade game. How long can you travel the deep space until the inevitable end? Try and collect as many stars along the way as you can.

Controls: On keyboard A+D or left+right arrows to move left and right, mouse for clicking the button

This was my first ever solo Godot game. Wanted to do so much more, but learning GDScript took a while. Some things left out were more advanced planets (spawning, color etc), nicer player movement and better start screen. At least this time I added background music, for better or for worse. :D

Tools used: Godot, Krita (art) and LMMS (audio)

Tags: #2d, #arcade, #godot, #short, #singleplayer

Genres: action

Tools: Godot, Krita, LMMS

Comments14

Attala26 Apr 2021, 08:37

A good execution of a simple game idea. It got difficult quite fast. The aspect ratio makes this look like it was made for mobile. Add a little bit more features and this could absolutely be a good mobile game.

joonamo26 Apr 2021, 19:33

What a cute little space adventure 👩‍🚀👍 The gameplay was just the perfect arcade challenge and I always enjoy when my high score is 12!

Noke26 Apr 2021, 19:40

Lovely game! I was surprised and amused of the huge moons jumping around, that was unexpected and fun challenge to try to dodge them! Nice and complete little game! 🌝

CeeJap27 Apr 2021, 01:54

Great work, this was a nice fun space game, although being really tough. I only got a highscore of 9. I liked how fast paced the gameplay was, overall a nice game!

LDJam user 25082527 Apr 2021, 15:51

The limited movement makes the game more strategic than I assumed at first :D it's fun to try to gauge whether to go for a star or dodge faraway incoming moon! Got a high score of 17 with a very lucky streak at the end.

Pink Spaceman28 Apr 2021, 00:46

I like the artstyle and the atmosphere of the game, the gameplay is pretty simple and fun, but i would like to have more movements 4.5/5 Great game

crazyMouse28 Apr 2021, 13:07

I like the graphic, looks really detailed!
Being able to move only left and right make is much more challenging than if we could move up and down too, I like it!

QYoneda29 Apr 2021, 14:38

Clean and simple, I like it. It was actually tougher than I thought. lol

TheWinrawr29 Apr 2021, 21:22

Nice job for your first Godot game! It's simple but surprisingly difficult and fun. I actually like the limited horizontal movement as it adds some challenge to dodging the meteors.

The music gets very repetitive, so I'd add in some extra melody and notes. I think it'd also be nice if you added in a gun to shoot the meteors, as you can get easily trapped sometimes.

Nice game overall, I got a score of 17.

hiki91130 Apr 2021, 19:52

i don't know how but i scored 52 in my second try, it was kinda fun. agree with comments that only horizontal movement leads to too many cases when you are trapped because meteors spawns randomly

randomhuman1 May 2021, 18:45

Simple but fun, I liked it. Art is real nice but the music loop is too short and gets annoying quickly.

mrawde3 May 2021, 02:28

This game was surprisingly addictive. It's just simple enough to make you play a bit more risky and then get you wanting to top your high score! Great work!

FWIW, I liked the music you added :).

cheesepencil5 May 2021, 00:00

Don't forget to rate other peoples games!
This was a good solo effort, good job

TheGreenWorm5 May 2021, 10:54

A pretty simple infinite runner. The fact that you can't move up & down make some situations really difficult ! The fire fx could be improved by adding some downward velocity, it feels quite weird that it makes a straight horizontal line when you move. Music is very repetitive. Art is pretty good though !

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