Darkstar Sailor

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overall: 3.10

fun: 2.86

innovation: 3.10

theme: 2.81

graphics: 3.60

audio: 2.74

humor: 2.38

mood: 3.00

Source

Play in Chrome PC/Mac

- https://sprig.land/ld51
- https://sprig.land/ld51-betterperf (same gameplay; much better performance; went beyond Jam hrs)

NOTE: Only works on Chrome >106 on PC & Mac!
(Uses WebGPU, which is in preview and isn't released for Firefox or Safari, or Chrome Linux.)

Description

Your ship is under attack! They will broadside you every 10 seconds. Perhaps you can use their own weapons against them?

MORE CANNON BALLS COME FROM ENEMIES ONCE THEY BREACH YOUR WALLS! (Sorry about the lull after your first three, this was definitely a gameplay design mistake. The idea is enemy cannon balls get stuck inside ur ship and you can fire them back.)

Dev Backstory

This game was built using my own engine, Sprigland, which is free, open-source (but not in a great place for others to use yet.) Me and a friend wrote the engine from scratch including a renderer, physics engine, ECS, and netcode for peer-to-peer coop.

Right now, we're building a roguelite coop sailing game set in hyperspace. You can follow our progress here: https://twitter.com/sprigland

Note this was originally a Compo submission, this was resubmitted to Jam b/c I spent another half-day on performance updates. If you are still getting significant performance issues and you want to be a real hero please mention ur CPU, graphics card, and RAM amount. :)

All Sprigland LD games:
- https://sprig.land/ld50
- https://sprig.land/ld51