Unbelievable Universe

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.27
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Build a universe! Create planets with their moons – but beware, you have limited (outer) space!

![CT3 [+0.75].png](///raw/b21/z/5f333.png)

Made in Kotlin. Audio and graphics all made during the Jam.

Known issues


- You can still add planets (and even lose) after beating a level
- Itch.io may weirdly simulate mouse clicks on mobile

Controls


Mouse: select planets and place them
Touch: select and drag planets
*(Keyboard people: You can select using 1, 2 and 3)*
*(LD courtesy: `.` key to skip a level)*
Tools: PixiJS

Comments24

croze
croze3 Oct 2023, 01:17
Felt like I was getting lucky a lot of the time not having moons hit each other, overall decent idea for a puzzle game. Would be cool to see it developed more
LDJam user 376320
LDJam user 3763203 Oct 2023, 02:27
Nice game! Liked the planets' arts. At first I thought I could place a moon/planet out of bounds if the criterias were already met, but that didn't work hahaha
StvUP3 Oct 2023, 02:38
It was fun as space was getting limited, fun game!
LDJam user 314224
LDJam user 3142243 Oct 2023, 11:06
Cool and simple concept, the game is fun
The moons are such a good concept !
GG for the job!
brainles etertainment
brainles etertainment3 Oct 2023, 11:13
Very catchy puzzle. I like the simple concept due to which I was able to start playing immediately. A game without tutorial, YAY. What was slippery is that the direction of a moon rotation is not predictable, therefore it is always hard to guess if my configuration would fit. Maybe I did something wrong? Or maybe a tutorial is required at the end?
Igor KinGamer
Igor KinGamerauthor3 Oct 2023, 11:22
@brainles-etertainment Thanks for the feedback! You can tell the direction of the moons looking at the Planets panel =) I wanted to highlight that on the first level with moons, but I didn't have the time.
LDJam user 248799
LDJam user 2487993 Oct 2023, 11:49
Love the idea, it was very fun ! Music is catchy, sfx are rewarding

I think it's looping ? Maybe a congratulation screen would have been nice

But well done, a great game :stars:
Igor KinGamer
Igor KinGamerauthor3 Oct 2023, 12:09
@pikario Thanks!! You're right, it's looping – I was going to add intro and end screens, but a really weird bug in my "engine" prevented me from doing so :')
raassh233 Oct 2023, 12:12
A cool puzzle game, having to consider timing when placing the moons really adds to the challenge
Bauke Regnerus
Bauke Regnerus3 Oct 2023, 12:36
Little game but quite fun, figuring out how to manage all the orbiting moons. The feedback by audio is really good.
JOZGames
JOZGames3 Oct 2023, 17:44
Super criativo! Adorei :D
LDJam user 224670
LDJam user 2246704 Oct 2023, 01:24
Cute and simple! Fun metaphor :)
I want to see a version of this that simulates gravity and yanks moons into three-body-problem orbits!
I will say it was hard to know how fast an orbit was going to be before placing a planet — maybe the preview indicator should show an animated version of its path?
Borabee
Borabee4 Oct 2023, 12:01
Very entertaining game! The puzzles are well though out, it's the perfect length (though I could see the potential for a longer more developed version) and the little details like the different planet designs give it that extra polish. I cackled at the crazy orbit lol
Igor KinGamer
Igor KinGamerauthor6 Oct 2023, 02:12
@midblue Thanks! And nice idea hehe
That indicator was a placeholder, I wanted to make a better preview of the movement but ran out of time. Now I know I really should do that =)
mhorth
mhorth8 Oct 2023, 00:04
I couldn't pass the level when one of the planets had 2 moons, and the outer one going really quick. Even so, a very neat idea and I enjoyed the time with it.

The variety of sound effects was a nice touch, to prevent from getting repetitive.
Igor KinGamer
Igor KinGamerauthor8 Oct 2023, 02:28
@mhorth Thanks for the feedback! You can use `.` (period key) to skip levels and see the last one if you wish :)
Papaver
Papaver10 Oct 2023, 18:11
Original game! I enjoyed playing and finished all the levels. I like how the planets and moons look, but some of them move strangely! :laughing: :wink:
Original take on the theme, well done!
Furano
Furano10 Oct 2023, 21:43
I tried it on my phone! It worked quite alright, however I had some Trou Les with the drag and drop : it kept dropping planets in the middle of the dragging. I think my finger was considered as "not on the screen anymore" for an instant wich lead to the planet being placed against my will. Maybe adding a small timer to make sure that the player *really* removed its finger could help!

Apart from that, the game what quite fun, but way too hard for me ahaha. I just sucked at it clearly : I couldn't be an orbit packer :laughing:
Igor KinGamer
Igor KinGamerauthor11 Oct 2023, 11:02
@furano Thanks for the feedback! That's weird, it happened to me once too, but I couldn't reproduce it anymore... As the game involves timing, I'll have to think about this, but I liked your suggestion :)
xett
xett14 Oct 2023, 21:37
Definitely gets tough in the last levels, figuring out the orbits was tricky. Really nice, simple puzzle game, good job :)
gamebuilder
gamebuilder16 Oct 2023, 20:45
Great job. You definitely nailed the theme! Took many tries on some levels but beat it in the end. Fun and challenging. Music fits the gameplay well.
ryusui
ryusui18 Oct 2023, 02:14
A simple but very fun idea. I love the twist in the final level, where you have no choice but to put your smaller planets within the large one's gravity well, but outside the eccentric "flight path" of the orbiting moon. XD

My only disappointment is that the game ends right when it introduces such a clever puzzle; I'd have loved to have seen "overlap" solutions like that develop further.
LDJam user 374028
LDJam user 37402822 Oct 2023, 11:53
When I saw the second screenshot on this page before playing the game, I expected that the gravity pull in the game would be dynamically recalculated and that the moons would shape their orbits around the planets. I couldn't solve the last puzzle and thought that I had to somehow bend the moon's orbit. Then I saw the planet counter and realized that you don't have to place all the planet systems from the palette, so I just didn't place the second planet+moon system and I managed to complete the level.

As for the music, I felt it sounded spacey and tense. The long string notes in the back are what makes it sound spacey. The tension comes from the piano melody sounding dissonant and I feel like the melody is never resolved, which is not too pleasing, and then just keeps on looping. I also think it sounded a tad too loopy and the part where the loop cuts is very noticable too. I think it would also be helpful to make the bass more rythmically and melodically interesting, in other words, not play the same note all the time at the same intervals of time in order to make it feel less loopy, but as it is it does make the song feel tense. The shaker as an embellishment to the song sounds okay I think.

I loved the crowd cheers when you complete a level and the crowd jeers when you fail a level. It reminds me a lot of the WarioWare minigames.

Overall, it was a fun and challenging game. Good job!

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