Ludum Dare #56compo

Blu

by mirtol

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.36

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.03

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.19

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.61

REQUIRES WEBGPU
- So either Chrome or nightly branch Firefox, etc
- Pink screen may mean it is loading! Give it a minute! (Not on firefox, use chrome)

I've wanted to try and doing something with WebGPU and I kind of enjoy the program a bunch of systems thing so wrote this little space game from scratch during the compo using the tech below. So spent far too long getting rthings working and not enough time making the actrual gameplay!

Blu has lost his kids - they were sucked into a mysteriosu portal and are now stranded and scared on the other side :(

Fortunately, if you get fclose they'll cling to you, but go too quick and you'll lose them... see how many you can resuce! It gets hard to control yourself once that many rapscalians are around you ':)

Not finished but hopefully you can have some chill collecting mini blu's.

Tech used:
- CLion
- Emscripten
- SDL2
- STB
- Bullet
- Vectormath
- Minivorbis
- Dawn (for standalone version)

Assets:
- Models made badly by me
- Skybox generated at wwwtyro.net
- Font Open Source / freeware (see file)
- Git modules mentined above have respective licenses

Tools: SDL

Comments11

LDJam user 3576567 Oct 2024, 23:50

The open-space movement gave me Outer Wilds vibes. Well-executed! Simple games like this seem to be good fits for the Playdate, although you'd probably have to adapt it to the device.

Game-mon10 Oct 2024, 08:19

Looks interesting, and skybox is very nice! Two thoughts that came through my mind: 1) feels a bit unclear what to do, I mean okay, there are tiny children following and a portal, but then I didn't know what was the real objective of the game, 2) it's actually a little hard to navigate a 3D space like this, as you have very little reference to realize your speed (only the portal). The game would maybe benefit from having iconic landmarks like planets just to give you some reference and percepetion of 3D space.

Game definitely has potential so good job here!

MaximeG11 Oct 2024, 15:13

Waw nice game, I love the open space feeling, hard to understand what to do tho.
Good job anyway!

Frostbeak11 Oct 2024, 22:26

Interesting concept, would've been cool to see it more fleshed out! I would enjoy being able to create discs of revolving bodies.

Sam Bigos12 Oct 2024, 21:04

Collecting the moons is really satisfying, but they are very hard to see. Definitely on to something but needs more work!

SdCorpse13 Oct 2024, 23:26

I like the idea! I think it also could be an asteriod which can becomes a planet and a black hole.

Soul Grinder14 Oct 2024, 07:48

I liked the planet character and was fun zipping around space trying to collect the tiny moons but I could barely see them and kept losing them.

Pachino5516 Oct 2024, 22:50

Super cool! Love this game

zubspace18 Oct 2024, 19:46

I like the space background, the stuff flying around and the blocky, colorful characters. Looks interesting. Did not really understand the gameplay. But good job making it work!

JustMars25 Oct 2024, 15:15

Not much to do in terms of gameplay, but cool to see WebGPU being utilized. Worked nicely on Safari Technology Preview as well, although the FPS was capped at 60 unlike with Chrome were it locked to the monitors max refresh rate. Very nice music and atmosphere and a unique interpretation of the theme. Despite their name being Blu, the character design reminded me of the Red Guy from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared xd. Good work for a solo entry, especially for one built with technology outside of the usual Godot and Unity fare.

Mirtolauthor20 Dec 2024, 18:59

Thanks everyone :) It was a bit unfinished - you all nailed it with the gameplay issue... but I was 100% too tired to continue :/

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