Vastitas Fracturae

co-authored: @codeb, @felipe-jun-iglesia, @johnnydz0707, @lucaskelley, @mr-rice, @preksha-ambrish, @gongbrother16, @tonyy

Command an aging ship.

Navigate through an inhospitable environment.

Hold out for as long as you can.

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##### Vastitas Fracturae is a short, atmospheric spaceship bullet hell simulator where you take on the role of navigating your ship through a hostile environment of space. You only have your outdated, 10 seconds per ping, radar and a static environment map to guide you.

##### Your success depends on your ability incorporate information between the map of the surroundings and your active radar. Only those who survive will uncover the truth behind The Vastitas Fracturae. Fair Winds and Following Seas, Captain.
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The Game is hosted on itch.io: https://gnawnitsuj.itch.io/vastitas-fracturae.

Known Issues:
- HTML does not work on Ludum Dare page. Please go to Itch.io link for browser preview
- Lag in browser version while changing scenes
- audio is quiet

We advise downloading the game for the best experience.

The Team:

Programming: Jerry Ding (mr-rice), Johnny Dai (JohnnyDZ0707), David Tuvshin (gongbrother16), Tony Yeu (tonyy), Justin Wang (GnawNitsuj), Lucas Kelly (Lucas Kelley), Colby Ye (codeb), Leah ().

Art: Johnny Dai (JohnnyDZ0707), Preksha Ambrish (Preksha Ambrish), .

Music/Sound Design: Felipe Jun Iglesia (Felipe Jun Iglesia), Johnny Dai (JohnnyDZ0707).

Narrative Design: Colby Ye (codeb), Justin Wang (GnawNitsuj).

Genres: simulation

Comments24

3LSTMsInATrenchcoat3 Oct 2022, 22:54

The embedded version doesn't seem to be working for me, unfortunately. But it looks like your interpretation of the theme was similar to mine (I also did a game based on a radar that updates every 10 seconds).

EDIT: The windows version runs fine on Linux using Wine. I really like the console-within-a-game presentation, although the gameplay itself seemed a bit lacking in variety. Fun twist at the end. A nicely polished game overall.

acedotspade4 Oct 2022, 00:35

This game was fun and cool! Best part was the narrative though!

Hydezeke4 Oct 2022, 03:49

Hi- just wanted to mention that the Itch page is hidden or down! Will come back later to give it a shot (no big deal if it's just download-only).

GnawNitsujauthor4 Oct 2022, 04:10

Hello! Thanks for letting us know, The Itch page should be up now! Thanks for letting me know!

Edit: There are some current known issues with the game on itch.io. The game was never really intended to be played within a browser and we will attempt to fix the game.

JohnnyDZ07074 Oct 2022, 04:34

Note: As of now the itch link is still problematic due to the mouse capture script designed for windowed view causing issues when thrown into a browser: Depending on your settings it may crash your browser.
For now please use the downloads instead.

Mr. Rice4 Oct 2022, 20:10

Itch.io browser version works fine for me, using both Chrome and Opera on a Windows machine. Transition between scenes may take a few seconds though (with some ugly audio)

LDJam user 2997575 Oct 2022, 01:49

Awesome game! Very Iron Lung esk. You should definitely continue developing this, it's really good!

Mr. Rice5 Oct 2022, 09:54

shhhhhhh

thanks though lol

Mr. Rice5 Oct 2022, 09:54

also, audio is a little quiet, you may need to turn up volume to hear everything properly

Mr. Rice5 Oct 2022, 09:55

and, if you want to replay, skip dialogue button is on top right

LDJam user 2024085 Oct 2022, 22:09

Dude why does this have to be so sad? lol, I like this game, I'm a sucker for sad / disturbing stories, and the shock value they leave in a person, love the emptiness and sense of dread these story can make you feel, (of course not in a bad way, I don't enjoy watching the world burn lol). anyway I really like this game, I think it could use some more mechanics, maybe collectables to give the player a sense of purpuse for a while at least, I couldn't for the life of me find a good strategie to dodge the enemies for too long, they always get me Haha, had a lot of fun playing this game tho, nice entry!

also I think you guys should play some more games if you want more traction towards yours, best of luck!

Steve74116 Oct 2022, 03:47

I think this is the start of a really interesting full game

Birdy Games6 Oct 2022, 04:18

Interesting game. Stands out from the others, but is a bit difficult to play. It took me a while to understand which screen to look at. but i ended up liking it. Nice job!

JohnnyDZ07076 Oct 2022, 04:56

Note: While revising a few awkwardly worded sentences this morning we've accidentally checked the "Extra" box even though we've originally intended it a Jam submission.
I hereby formally request an F in the chat, bois.

Joshua Denk7 Oct 2022, 08:47

Nice game! @steve7411 put it best, this feels like the start of something great. I recommend increasing text speed somewhat, it goes pretty slowly right now. The graphics/interface is awesome; so atmospheric!

Hexela9 Oct 2022, 21:08

This is awesome, the mood, the sounds, the visual design of the interfce, the effects of taking damage. Great job. Enjoied it a lot.

LDJam user 25983111 Oct 2022, 21:22

Nice! I really like the radar interpretation! Unfortunately I ran into a small bug with the mouse inputs, it would slowly pan the camera to the right even though I wasn't moving my mouse. I played on the itch.io version. All around good work!

Senover Games15 Oct 2022, 03:46

Great job! I like the narrative and the overall atmosphere. I had a small issue with the camera slowly panning to the side (played the web version).

OtterFaeLure17 Oct 2022, 19:18

I really loved the concept of this game.
The atmosphere was great.
The text read a tad bit too slow and my ADHD is acting up today so it was hard to stay focused, but I did!
And then the gameplay seemed REALLY neat, but ultimately kinda empty after awhile.

I think I won, but it didn't feel like a win because I ended up just sitting in one spot to get a death scenario.

If this gets expanded on I definitely feel like something other than wasd would be nice during the "gameplay" portion.

Overall though, making complex mechanics in game jams is near impossible because of the short time you have so very very well done. =)

dzolkin17 Oct 2022, 21:17

Cool game with its own history and cool implementation. I liked the style of the game, the graphics.

dzolkin17 Oct 2022, 21:17

Good

Cole and Jordan Studios20 Oct 2022, 01:44

Someone already mentioned it but major Iron Lung vibes here. It really feels like the focus of this game was to stir up a similar mood. In fact, I'm still not sure if I understand the mechanics of the game or not, but I enjoyed engaging with the aesthetics almost more than the actual gameplay if that makes sense. Awesome submission!

Madbarron21 Oct 2022, 03:45

I think the 10 second radar thing is a good idea. The first time, I died while I was still getting my bearings and then was pretty confused by the end text. I still don't really know what the map is for.

KayLALALAValentine21 Oct 2022, 20:25

Such a haunting and cool vibe!!!