Ludum Dare #56compo

Slingshot Delivery

by i-cam

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.93

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.59

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Go around the system delivering presents to your cool alien creature friends! Use your grapple hook tail combined with gravitational sling-shotting to find packages in the wild, and deliver them to friends!

Controls:

- Click - use your grapple hook in the direction of your click, which can be used to slingshot yourself!
- WASD - Use a jet-pack like acceleration force, helpful for altering trajectory to avoid asteroids
- R to reset (added by popular demand for all present challenge runs)

>> Play now on itch.io! <<

There are 17 presents total, see if you can get them all! (it's very hard tho lowkey, i've only gotten 16)

*Bug fixes on itch.io build:*
- *Present hitbox is bigger*
- *Grapple hook has more forgiving hitbox*
- *Added immovable asteroids & simple tutorial text on start planet*
- *Adjusted "space"ing of asteroids & planet in level*
- *Moved Blobert to upper planet of his duo (it was cold on the other one)*
- *Planet gravity is doubled*
- *Added reset button (R)*

OST UPLOAD https://youtu.be/RPeZRz7NmCQ?si=NvO0DJsHwPaItsfx

Tags: #2d, #godot, #gravity, #physics, #space, #zero gravity

Genres: action

Tools: Godot

Comments23

SMoore6 Oct 2024, 23:22

Very fun physics game! Slinging myself around felt really good and intuitive, especially with the wasd commands to help out a bit.

MisterCarson7 Oct 2024, 02:05

This game is so sick. Sling shoting yourself is a blast and it's super sick at high speeds. I will say there does feel like there is a lot of asteroids, but you do learn to navigate around them. Just a few less to make it more open would be cool. I was able to get a high score of 11

StoicGoose7 Oct 2024, 22:18

Love the space opera vibes with the music and all.

Wren Erickson7 Oct 2024, 22:38

I love how fast you can move, and the music is so heroic!

i_camauthor7 Oct 2024, 22:39

@stoicgoose thanks! had to write the music last second bc art took so long but im glad it came out well

i_camauthor7 Oct 2024, 22:41

@wren-erickson glad you enjoyed, tried to make the movement as fun as possible, there's definitely some cool emergent tech

IonBingo8 Oct 2024, 00:48

Super fun combo of gravity and grappling demonstrated in a simple game loop. I like the music and I wanna see more with this idea

Kotolazer8 Oct 2024, 08:22

I loved the physical interactions in this game. It seemed very fast paced, but if you play it more, it only goes better

Game-mon8 Oct 2024, 08:31

Cool game! Physics take a bit of getting used to, but are fun for sure. The thing I would improve a little bit is communicating information to the player: what should I do? where should I go? But I get that exploring randomly can also be part of the fun as well. Anyway, a nice entry!

safalevent8 Oct 2024, 08:48

Loved the physics and slinging using asteroids

Sviborg8 Oct 2024, 11:17

Spinning physics! 🚀 Spinning was incredibly intuitive and just plain fun, especially with the WASD controls. The space opera atmosphere and heroic music added a great atmosphere! 🎶 Overall, the dynamic gameplay and physics interactions are just the bomb! Keep up the good work! 🌟✨

i_camauthor8 Oct 2024, 17:09

@thomas-bringer ultimately i agree with you. if i had one more substantial non-bug-fix feature i could add it would be either a minimap or onscreen "crazy taxi" arrows when you are near a present or a creature. i rectified this in the short term by zooming out the camera just so you can see more at once but the problem still persists. thanks for the feedback!

i_camauthor8 Oct 2024, 17:09

@sviborg thanks so much, glad you enjoyed!

Tad I Guess8 Oct 2024, 21:35

Really satisfying to zoom across space so quickly, had a lot of fun just flying around (the little guy is also very awesome.

A Priori8 Oct 2024, 23:42

I got a really bad score because I spent too long just swinging around and having fun with the movement alone. Great submission!

Thomas Gelman9 Oct 2024, 03:00

This game has fun physics! Honestly the movement is super fun, and the idea to give an astronaut a grappling hook is super innovative and makes for a unique movement feeling, especially for how fast you can go! The music is awesome too, I'd love to see a more fleshed out version of this some day!

Blazejmg9179 Oct 2024, 20:52

This game is suepr fun! I love the wildly fast movement you can get if you nail the grappling hook! I managed to get 11 at max but I just kept wanting to play it! The background visuals are super nice and I love the intense space music, its stuck in my head at this point hahaha.

I think the only suggestion I may have would be towards some sort of indicators of where to go, its certainly fun flying around searching so they aren't really necessary, but having a firmer sense of direction would be a different type of fun!

But that's just a nitpicky suggestion, you did a great job with this game!

i_camauthor9 Oct 2024, 23:18

@blazejmg917 thanks for the high praise

Loveschach10 Oct 2024, 05:43

Sometimes I wish I was a weird cat guy flying through space delivering packages to noses.

Eventually I quit my job, broke free of the bounds of gravity and saw the face of god. On the whole a pretty chill time.

LDJam user 35961411 Oct 2024, 10:25

loved the physics and the fast paced movement, good job!

i_camauthor11 Oct 2024, 15:28

@pralista omg thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed it!

i_camauthor11 Oct 2024, 15:30

@loveschach banger quote lowkey. it is entirely intentional that you can escape the map and simply bask in the glory of parallax star background. might make it a wall paper we'll see...

Ido16 Oct 2024, 11:58

haha, i'm just a normal cat doing normal cat things in space

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