Stardust Slingshot

co-authored: @bromeon, @setzer22
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.86
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.68
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.68
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.77
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.60
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.62
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Your ship is the most powerful mining tool this sector has ever seen... But its thrusters are pretty archaic. Mine your way to victory while hitching a ride from rockets and space stations!

A fully playable immersive mining experience made with Godot 4.1.1, with Soundtrack by Kevin MacLeod and SFX by Pixabay.
Tools: Godot

Comments23

LDJam user 3129003 Oct 2023, 08:58
Overall really fun game, only feedback I really have for you is that it would have been nice would the controls not changed with rotation, I felt like I got a little lost halfway through. Apart from that really nice game.
Enad96
Enad963 Oct 2023, 09:11
The art style is amazing!
cheesepencil
cheesepencil3 Oct 2023, 16:37
What a cool concept! I had fun flopping my tether around
Flancon
Flancon3 Oct 2023, 18:07
I'm impressed that you've done all this work. It's nice, and pretty ! A little hard to get the controls in hand, but it's amazing !
FrodoB4884
FrodoB48843 Oct 2023, 18:09
Nice idea, i spent a very productive half hour playing :)
Flying Butter Studio
Flying Butter Studio3 Oct 2023, 18:14
I tried to grap a rocket and... It works ! Youhou!
Nice concept and an interesting use of the theme. Controls were good and the art cool (special reward for the "Godot Black Hole" :laughing: )
I had a lot of fun to grap some other ships.

Nice entry, thank you for your work! :smile:
Kath_art_ic
Kath_art_icauthor3 Oct 2023, 19:01
@cloverfall I'm glad you had fun! We'll be keeping the controls thing in mind for future reworks, it seems a recurrent issue among some players... I recommend you try it with a controller, see if you like them better!
@enad96 thanks! My favourite part is the background's parallax :)
@cheesepencil Yess! The game is at its core about flopping around, target audience: reached!
@flancon Thank you for your kind words, and for trying our game! It means a lot to us :smile:
@frodob4884 that's what I wanted to hear, this weeks we'll all be very productive in the ways that matter (playing games!)
@flying-butter-studio Yess! Rocket goes Wooosh! Again, target audience: reached! We'd used the Godot icon to mark the center of the universe and it felt wrong to delete it, so now it's the black hole at the center of the galaxy :heart: Thanks for playing!
Steampowered853 Oct 2023, 20:50
Yo, pretty cool! Destroying stuff feels great. Real annoying that you had to be tethered down but I liked the challenge.
Eliyud
Eliyud3 Oct 2023, 21:05
i LOVED THIS GAME SO MUCH! It's fun, very very well developed and creative. But I have to say: I felt like I'm a "micro virus-killer robot" on a organism more than a spaceship! Good work at all!
frozenfire92
frozenfire923 Oct 2023, 22:32
This was a fun entry! I liked the mechanic of hookshotting onto things. The joystick worked great for movement, but the triggers didn't work for me, mouse/keyboard controls were fine though. Overall great work, keep on making games!
TheParticularPixel4 Oct 2023, 01:11
I had a lot of fun with this one! art is cool and so is the slingshot mechanic. nice work!
Dan Miller4 Oct 2023, 03:23
This was a blast. once I figured out I could ride a rocket and let the minerals orbit me nearly forever, I was crusin the galaxy :sunglasses:
Im not a robot
Im not a robot4 Oct 2023, 12:46
Yaaaayy

Fun resource gathering game :) Music was very nice, if a little short to be on repeat. I enjoyed the sound effects and graphics as well.

The controls were a little strange at first, but then I got used to them. I abandoned all keys except W and just used my mouse for steering.

It was cool to get on rockets and fly to different areas of the map, that was a neat idea!

Overall very cool entry for this jam. I hope you all had fun making it - maybe give my game a try, if you like. I'm a few votes away from 20 as well :3
brainles etertainment
brainles etertainment4 Oct 2023, 16:15
Not sure if it fits the theme, but the game really cool. I was catched and played for 15 minutes or so. Nice idea and neat implementation.
coatline
coatline4 Oct 2023, 17:07
I quite like the atmosphere of this game, pun intended. The music is nice and I do feel like I am on a mission. I like the tethering idea and the application of the theme. I didn't quite understand the controls at first, I still don't get why ASD were needed but I figured it out. Good job!
Kath_art_ic
Kath_art_icauthor4 Oct 2023, 19:24
@steampowered85 Thanks! It was our interpretation of the "limited space" requirement, so we put the rockets to balance the "tethered" mechanic.
@eliyud I love your interpretation, it could work as a spin off... *already thinking thoughts*
@frozenfire92 if you want to, controller works fine on desktop versions, WASM export for some reason broke them, we're looking into it, but we're very glad you enjoyed it!
@theparticularpixel :heart: Thanks for your kind words! We tried to do few things but as polished as possible, so we're happy it worked together ^_^
@dan-miller Hell yeah! Target audience: reached!
@im-not-a-robot Wow you got to the end! Thanks a lot, and your feedback is both kind and useful! Using W + mouse is the most intuitive approach I'm looking forward to trying your game, the moment I saw you used Processing I got so hyped!!! But I'll save my fangirling for when I'm there :smirk:
@brainles-etertainment thanks for playing! We "limited space" through the tether that ties the player to the stations and rockets, we're very happy you liked it and played it!
@coatline Aww thanks! Now I'm jealous of that pun, 12/10 :laughing: Yeah the controls need a little tweaking, as I commented a few lines prior, W+mouse is the best way to play and ASD are pretty much useless; We're thinking on how to rework it. Thanks for your kind words!
Rogue_Snake6 Oct 2023, 00:57
The tether shooting from your rocket is a pretty cool concept.
Skylife
Skylife7 Oct 2023, 06:51
I really enjoyed playing your game! Awesome work and very nice interpretation of the theme! Keep it up! :)
Simon Rahnasto
Simon Rahnasto7 Oct 2023, 15:05
This game was an absolute blast! Using the tractor beam to mine for minerals was immensely satisfying.

The end screen with the minerals falling down was a great touch, it reminded me of the level up screen in Vampire Survivors.

The theme was brilliantly executed, I did not expect to play a game where I was spiderman in space haha.

Overall a fantastic game! :trophy:
Dan Str17 Oct 2023, 20:05
the game is very interesting, I liked it, the idea is good, continue at the same pace and you will become more professional
very dark lord
very dark lord18 Oct 2023, 16:09
Nice game! Took me a bit to find the last mineral, but got there eventually. I liked the faster rockets, was nice tagging along. :)
T C
T C19 Oct 2023, 17:25
Cool game! Pretty satisfying laser/mining mechanic. Also tethering to things faster than you was pretty neat, felt like you could explore off of them a lot. Agree with the first couple of comments, the W key alone seemed like the best way to get your ship to behave the way you wanted with the way it was programmed. Took awhile but like everyone else I figured it out. Good job!
Vodzik
Vodzik20 Oct 2023, 22:39
Great idea with tether mechanic!
Your game has some common elements to mine :D
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