What!?!? Humanity has discovered wormholes! Control the deep space probe Oracle 1, as you journey through space. What kind of planets are there out there in the depths of space?
Use your command terminal to guide the probe through the depths of space by instructing it to weave between the stars!
Guide:
Your job is to send commands to the Oracle 1 probe via your terminal.
Generally, your interface should look like this:
there are 3 commands you can send: 1. Thrust 2. Rotate 3. Wait
You can add them to your terminal by clicking their respective buttons
For each function, you can modify the Parameters to influence how each action behaves. By clicking on the parameters (Circled here) a dropdown will apear showing options.
1. Thrust: - Param1 - Duration: How many seconds to thrust for - Param2 - Power: How powerful of a thrust to execute
2. Rotate: - Param1 - Degrees: How many degrees to rotate clockwise (or negative for counterclockwise)
3. Wait: - Param1 - Duration: do nothing for a duration
Note that each of these is color coded: - Green -> Thrust - Yellow -> Rotate - Grey -> Wait
When you execute your commands by clicking the `reset` button, a line will follow, the color indicating what command was ran during that segment of the path.
Credits:
Kevin Lam - Programming
Ian McDonald - Programming, Sound Design, UI
Justine Olshan - Programming
Christian MacNeill - 3D Art
Wade Bribach - Space Probe
Justin Wu - VFX
Gahwon Lee - Music
Please post your favorite solutions in the comments!
Didn't play through the whole thing (I plan to later!!) but this is SO cool for a jam game. I love the decision to require the player to actually manually slow their velocity instead of applying a magical space drag! I would totally play a full game of this.
I was really annoyed when it was over, I just wanted it to keep going. I love physics games like this, and to combine it with a programming game is just over the top.
This is fun! I wish there were more fine grained controls for waiting, rotating, and thrusting, but that's part of the challenge. I prefer the levels that have gravity.
Super fun! The graphics look really nice (I love the little keyboard UI), and the entire concept was fun to play around with. Took me a second to get the hang of things (esp with rotation), but that process was enjoyable too.
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LDJam user 08 Apr 2025, 19:38
Very satisfying to play. Was a bit confused on the fact that I could not delete previous actions be pushing reset, but otherwise very nice gameplay and nicely teamed graphics.
Holy moly it is supercool. I know for sure i'll never work for NASA now haha. But really felt the mood as i tried to figure out how to order everything to reach the objectives. Wish there was a speed up option sometimes because it probably took me 25 tries on the 3rd level with asteroids lol.
This is great! It's nice to see another robot programming game. I like your interface too. The camera button surprised me. I wasn't aware it was a 3D game until I clicked it. Well done!
This was a lot of fun! It took me a little bit too long to realize I could pick different values for each command and I killed far too many little probes! Maybe I should've tried more math instead of trial and error! Really enjoyed the game!
A really solid concept! With a few additions to diversify the gameplay—like ship upgrades or different types of obstacles—I’d definitely buy a full version of this game!
The sounds that plays when the satellite leaves the play area is super familiar... but can't place it. Great game. Really liked the pseudo programming aspect. The line changing colors to match the commands was a good touch. Would be nice to get leaderboards for fewest commands, least fuel, and shortest duration. Would be really cool to have to control multiple ships and have them dock / or miss each other. + moving obstacles etc. Nice entry!
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Awesome amazing little game!
Edit: Oh hell yes last map win!
Thanks!
With a few additions to diversify the gameplay—like ship upgrades or different types of obstacles—I’d definitely buy a full version of this game!