AsterVoid

by gamedevtraum

co-authored: @dennispersecond

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.91

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.73

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.27

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Fly. Mine. Fight. Survive!

How to play:

On ship
```
WASD - move
F - interact
mouse - orientation
```
In Space/Captains seat
```
WASD - move
Q/E - rotate
F - collect space debris
```
Tools
```
1 - baseball bat
2 - mine drill
3 - welding

left-click to use the tools

You are on a ship inside of an asteroid ship, repair the stations from outside with space debris floating in space.

Mine yellow-glowing asteroids to get "energy ore" and pack them into the chute of the generator.

Mine oily black asteroids to gather "oil ore" and pack them into the chute of the generator.

Mine purple-glowing "Voidolite", if you get them all, your company will be satisfied.

Oh and before we forget: it seems that some aliens, called voidmites are attacking our personal,
be beware and use your certified bat!

Good luck,

Your Bravo Company.
```
```

Software:

Modeling: Blender

Engine: Unity

Texturing: Substance Painter, Union Bytes, Photoshop

Tools: Blender

Comments44

okuar5 Apr 2025, 19:05

I like this pixelated textures. Is that a shader?

DennisPerSecond5 Apr 2025, 20:39

@okuar No, it's the real texture resolution without filtering, for that I use in Substance Painter the addon "Pixel8er" (which on the other hand is an internal filter XD). We hope to safe with that some performance and get a unique style at the same time^^

okuar6 Apr 2025, 13:23

its looks pretty cool. i like the wood inside the spaceship - reminds me of home:)
how big a level are you planning to make?

DennisPerSecond6 Apr 2025, 14:03

@okuar yeah, the ship should feel like a save haven, so I'm glad that we seem to hit the right tone :D

About the size. we are planning on one big asteroid field where you can mine ressources, but also can be attacked by some slimy "Voidmites"

okuar7 Apr 2025, 06:51

sweet! looking forward to try out the demo.

EZduzzit7 Apr 2025, 17:30

That alien creature looks really awesome! I love the cardboard look of the ship too.

DennisPerSecond7 Apr 2025, 17:43

@ezduzzit thank you :D

Ricesteam8 Apr 2025, 02:29

Wow, quite the epic entry. I'm impressed some people can release something like this in 2-3 days. I had a bit of issues getting the game to run. The game blacked out when I went to pilot the ship. But I fixed it by refreshing my browser. It was fun exploring the ship and outer space. The controls a bit janky but I can't blame you. You might also want to include a downloadable version.

GameDevTraumauthor8 Apr 2025, 02:35

@ricesteam yeah!! the controls when you are floating in space shouldn't be like that, we found out of that problem 5 minutes before jam ends :rofl:
thanks for playing our game!, I'm testing yours right now

AbDev8 Apr 2025, 03:49

Really cool! Amazing artwork for the jam I think there are a lot of people that would enjoy playing a polished game like this - me included. Wishing you the best of luck!

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 04:01

@abdev I am glad, that you enjoyed it :3

wles8 Apr 2025, 04:33

More games should give you the option to climb out of your ship and hit aliens with a baseball bat

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 04:48

@wles Hell yes, that's what I mean too!

bearcage8 Apr 2025, 05:33

That was fun, great job taking on something so ambitious (3d, three different control modes, *and* thonk-y bat-to-squid combat)!

I had a little trouble with gravity, I think I might've entered the ship a little fast or at a strange angle -- had to off myself by mashing x to get respawned. Gravity stayed slightly sideways, but not so much so that I couldn't get through another mining trip.

Thanks for sharing your game!

Lucasito8 Apr 2025, 10:51

Very nice ! Not very fluid on my laptop, but I cannot blame you for that. The graphics and the sound effects are really great !

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 11:28

@bearcage best way to stabilize the ship ist to sit in the captains Chair. This Brake all rotations^^

Thanks for playing🤗

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 11:30

@lucasito thank you, yeah there is much going in, we where a bit too ambitious😅

Levi8 Apr 2025, 13:49

woah woah, top points for mood. I really felt like I was tasked with being in a homely spaceship, out cowboy-ing among the stars, and gathering resources on my eternal quest. A lot of complex work done in a short time :)

Shadow Veil Society8 Apr 2025, 13:58

I can see where you were going with this and what a great entry! I think you should keep going with this. Think there is something truly fantastic here, with some more time to execute

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 14:13

@levi thank you very much, then we hit the spot, good to hear :3

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 14:16

@shadow-veil-society yeah at the end it was hard to get it all together, but maybe in the future we can present the whole, fleshed out idea

LDJam user 148878 Apr 2025, 14:40

Pretty beatiful artstyle and the concept is also great!

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 15:02

@hope42morrow thank you! :D

someone8 Apr 2025, 18:19

Can you make a downloadable build since the web version's performance is unplayable.
Also when trying to restart the mouse is still locked so I can't press the start button.

It is a neat concept and has some great atmosphere so I would love to be able to play it properly.

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 19:40

@someone I will ask @gamedevtraum if he can do that^^

Aizomon8 Apr 2025, 20:00

Wow love the mood! Really got into the zen mode when mining. Great music. Smart mining with the subtle "aiming" skill test. The energy going down while you're away mining seems to be a very effective way to form the motivation of "opimizing the mining". One thing that I noticed being a bit unforgiving was the "U" shape on the back of the spaceship making the returning a bit too tricky sometimes. Walking inside the spaceship feels a bit weird as if you're always sliding. Other than that, I believe there's something here to be explored further! Neat concept and really well executed to prove it!

DennisPerSecond8 Apr 2025, 21:23

@aizomon Thank you for your criticism! The goal was to create a certain game cycle that makes the player use the components of the game. Unfortunately, it's not quite smooth yet, but I'm all the more pleased that you had fun with it^^

Anhell069 Apr 2025, 17:53

A game about how to go into outer space and not start to puke from dizziness! 10 vestibular apparatus from 10

DennisPerSecond9 Apr 2025, 18:22

@anhell06 unfortunately, we hadn't found out why the character gets such a strong spin when you touches something in space 😅

TurboLaser10 Apr 2025, 10:07

Wow, the game looks and feels incredibly promising. Beautiful environments—it's genuinely pleasant just being in this world. Unfortunately, the more ambitious a project is, the higher the chance something might go wrong. In my case, enemies somehow pushed me through the wall of a safe cabin straight into open space

yancharkin10 Apr 2025, 11:27

Everything is cool — the graphics, audio, music, and atmosphere are all great. But the controls definitely need fixing; for me, it was almost unplayable.

DennisPerSecond10 Apr 2025, 13:59

@turbolaser yeah, collision need some tweaks, sorry for your bad experience with that bug 😅

DennisPerSecond10 Apr 2025, 14:01

@yancharkin, next big fix will be on the weekend, maybe you want to try it then again🤗

Franciszek Pyrć11 Apr 2025, 17:12

This game is really good visually and sound design wise, however I think the gameplay is too slow.
Combat also felt a bit unfair, I could only exchange damage, so I fell into the loop of damaging, dying and respawning

GameDevTraumauthor12 Apr 2025, 13:01

@dock-frankenstein absolutely, we haven't time to properly balance different parameters, we also couldn't implement few mechanics like oil-drinking, and the detector and thrusters modules, you can only pull the levers but the purpouse of those system weren't included in the version we deliver. The creatures should attack the ship if you are inside, but when they do that is super buggy because of how the movement of the creatures was implemented. We are working on fix several bugs and finishing the prototype this weekend

lolli4212 Apr 2025, 15:04

love the vibes and space physics. it looks very good and the music is sooothing

DennisPerSecond12 Apr 2025, 17:16

@lolli42 yeah its part of our upcoming fix^^

Emsea15 Apr 2025, 07:23

Had a great time playing this with my friends on our livestream. Feel free to check out the VOD here.

DennisPerSecond15 Apr 2025, 23:42

@emsea thanks for playing, was a nice Livestream with you guys :3

Autotrophian20 Apr 2025, 00:27

this rules! , I loved floating around in space : )

DennisPerSecond20 Apr 2025, 01:39

@autotrophian thanks for playing :D

deadroach21 Apr 2025, 20:10

This game is fantastic! Love games where you can float around freely and that's what this one is all about. Counting up all the streams I've played it on I have played this game for a grand total of 1 hour and 13 minutes. It's fun flying the ship around and bonking the pussy-faced squids. Looking out at all the floating rocks is quite mesmerizing, this is one of the most visually appealing games I've played on stream this jam and I can say with confidence it ignites my sense of exploration like nearly none of these jam games have. I consider this a very FERTILE game, as I see so many ways this can be taken moving forward that it gets me excited to revisit this with each new update. So far each patch has improved the game tenfold, great work overall