Perihelion

by pastel-breakfast

co-authored: @cupid, @gamln

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.45

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Perihelion

Play Now on Itch!

Perihelion is a monster-building game where you play as Dysnomia, the moon-daughter of Eris. You're trying to grow the toughest, smartest, and scariest creatures possible before you reach perihelion, your closest approach to Earth.

Optimize your build order to find the most interesting ways to grow your tiny creatures!

Created by
- gamln (game design, game code)
- pastel-breakfast (engine code, art)
- cupid (character design, art)

We built Perihelion from the ground up over the last several days in lua using the LOVE framework. Unfortunately we ran out of time to finish implementing scoring, cut-scenes, and audio, but we hope you'll enjoy the intricate gameplay and lovely atmosphere (or lovely vacuum as the case may be).

Changelog

- 2024-10-07 Fixed broken upgrade and ui states after game over, entities drawing over buttons, and incorrect stat bar values
- 2024-10-07 Published initial jam release

Genres: strategy

Tools: LÖVE

Comments12

HangoverGames8 Oct 2024, 11:50

Great pixelart! I think it would be great if you add tutorial, and make something with fonts, because it was painful to read. Anyway, congrats on release!

MadHumster8 Oct 2024, 20:32

Agree with comment above art is beautiful but font is insanely hard to read.

Yizhang Li8 Oct 2024, 20:36

Such a beautiful image, I think I have a lot to learn from you guys. But the fonts are a bit hard to read and it took a lot of time to recognise them, all in all a very good game i love it!

Smothbreen8 Oct 2024, 20:39

art is quite nice but the onboarding is pretty bad and I couldnt really tell if what I was doing had any effect or how would win or loose the game.

Kalbshack8 Oct 2024, 20:45

Sadly I have to agree to the others didn't quite catch if I was playing it right. But really nice color pallet/graphics.

Lussard Studio8 Oct 2024, 21:08

Was hard to understand how to play but the art is really cool ! :smiley:

pastel-breakfastauthor8 Oct 2024, 21:14

Thanks for all the feedback! We made the font right at the start, before we knew how much text would actually be in the game, so we'll definitely make that more readable if we choose to update the game.

I'd also love to have proper on-boarding for the start of the game. For now, I added a how-to-play section on the Itch page that explains what you're supposed to be doing and what the controls are.

Roitchie13 Oct 2024, 16:34

The art style of this is really amazing. It's such a unique aesthetic and you pull it off so well. It was a bit confusing to figure out what to do but as others have said something like a tutorial would solve that. I'm excited to see what you come up with next.

NatNSpectrum14 Oct 2024, 08:36

The art is awesome and VERY unique! But could use a tutorial, wasn't clear what to do to begin with. Also the text was VERY hard to read. Otherwise, I enjoyed what I did play of your game! Good job!

Arqcenick23 Oct 2024, 22:11

Your pixel are is great and has real character to them! Art is superb. I agree regarding the font usage. Also I couldnt improve the tiers of my resources no matter which upgrades I took, played like 5 games.
This can turn into an interesting breeding/growing game.

Silliest Goose24 Oct 2024, 00:03

The art was very nice! It was a little confusing, especially with the hard to read text. I'm not entirely sure what I was doing, but I made it to earth

FireFalls24 Oct 2024, 02:58

Beautiful pixel art! Unfortunately, I found it really hard to read the text, and I wasn't quite sure what I was doing. I'd love a version that gets cleared up and maybe with an in-game tutorial!