2024: a spacing game

by ekoxe

co-authored: @dezom

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.62

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.59

2024: a spacing game

Deep in sequestered space, you get a call from mission control... to construct a Dyson sphere.

Use your wits to solve this incredible work, and seize the victory royale.

Are you up to the task?!

Controls

Mouse only

Use your left click mouse button to harvest the planets. 🪐

Explore and left click on things to see what happens. :eyes:

We've also used AI image generation, for making things like the planets and rockets. The sound effects are made by us.

Things we haven't made ourselves:

Ambient Noise:
"Starship Covenant / Interstellar Space Ambient - Alien Unofficial Soundtrack"
Ambient Music (youtu.be/TCyzw2R9eFE)

Phone Music:
"Phone Sex VIP"
Explorers of the Internet (soundcloud.com/explorersoftheinternet/phone-sex-vip)

Main Menu Music:
"Space Jazz",

Victory Music:
"Who Likes to Party"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Tags: #atmospheric, #mouse only, #sci-fi, #singleplayer, #space

Tools: Unity

Comments18

sirusXsirus9 Jan 2023, 20:45

Space design was cool

Pe7e9 Jan 2023, 20:46

A Dyson sphere is basically harvesting the sun for energy. So 2X harvesting here.

Lukas Boersma9 Jan 2023, 20:49

Really funny, awesome graphics! I broke the flowers :D

pbluke9 Jan 2023, 20:51

It was surprisingly relaxing to scrape away planets layer by layer. Fun game!

archfan74119 Jan 2023, 20:56

Awesome! The planet harvesting was satisfying (though there seemed to be an offset or scaling issue which resulted in it harvesting some distance to the right of my mouse)

Kisagyszony9 Jan 2023, 21:02

At first I was unsure about this game, but the mood is funny, harvesting the planets layer by layer is quite relaxing, and I love the sheep. :D

Simeon Radivoev9 Jan 2023, 21:19

Fun concept, the controls are a bit off and get stuck most of the time. But fun if barebones experience.

Ekoxeauthor9 Jan 2023, 22:43

The offset seems to happen if you're zoomed in/out in your browser on itch.io

avareii10 Jan 2023, 17:46

Most satisfying thing I've peeled this year. Fun little game, does exactly what it's designed to do.

YX088410 Jan 2023, 18:41

The sound effect when erasing the planet is too decompressed. I enjoy this game very much

LDJam user 24879910 Jan 2023, 18:47

Simple but strong idea ! I enjoyed harvesting planets (but was it ethic ?), I've taken care of the flowers and the tiny cosmosheep (great voice acting !) :blush:

LDJam user 24879910 Jan 2023, 18:51

(I think you should disable audio rating as you didn't made it yourself for the event)

Ekoxeauthor10 Jan 2023, 20:06

@pikario Yea since we didn't make the music ourselves I've opted out of the audio rating :)

IanLux10 Jan 2023, 20:52

Oddly satisfying!

CuteSquirrel11 Jan 2023, 03:35

Cool concept. Like the atmosphere, and the base concept of mining planets is cool. Would love to see more features.
Good entry!

imyellowfish11 Jan 2023, 14:14

The rubbing effect is well made and satisfying!

Papabirb11 Jan 2023, 21:38

Kind of wish there was a consequence for taking good care of the flowers or not. Fun to destroy the planets. Concerned about planet 3's giant cat skeleton...

The AI art was well-utilized. The songs were also chosen well. I love the idea of promising your mom that you'll do an LD entry, very funny.

asfdfdfd16 Jan 2023, 17:30

Those god damn planets are so TASTY.

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