Ludum Dare #58compo

Star Collector

by boddiul

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.19

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.09

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.88

*When the night sky burst into a rain of falling stars, a lone collector set out to gather as many as he could before they fade away.
Jump, dodge, and chase the starlight in this fast, endless run through the cosmic night.*

I was super busy this weekend, but at the last moment decided to join the jam and make a game in just 3 hours — and I think it worked out!

Engine & Graphics: GameMaker

Sound Effects: BFXR

Tags: #2d, #gamemaker, #pixel art

Genres: platformer

Tools: Bfxr, GameMaker

Comments23

David Sheffield6 Oct 2025, 00:51

Smooth controls and nice physics, when you die and all the stars collapse everywhere it looks great. 10/10 would die again

LDJam user 3366766 Oct 2025, 01:12

very nice, I love the simplicity of it, and the smoothness of everythin.

Ira Baciu7 Oct 2025, 01:08

You participate in this LD too? Wow. A pretty solid game for three hours

Earlybard7 Oct 2025, 11:09

Beautiful game, amazing that you turned this around in 3 hours. I like jumping to intercept stars and wish there was more reward for it!

gamebuilder7 Oct 2025, 18:27

I love the sound effects in this game. The B+W aesthetic also works very well. Between the audio and the graphics, I am reminded of old arcade video games from the 1970's. Not bad for 3 hours! You must be a good coder.

LDJam user 24319312 Oct 2025, 09:07

Nice simple endless runner game! There doesn't seem to be any way to catch stars when they are falling so we can only grab them from the ground. But it's good enough.

SID3712 Oct 2025, 16:48

A very fun game, I scored 106 stars.

CameronPenner12 Oct 2025, 16:54

I love the 1 bit graphics, and low rez sfx. Feels great to pick up a star, and the crash animation is delightful. Great game for 3 hours! Ever thought of entering the tri-jam?

Purrseus12 Oct 2025, 17:04

Noooo, I stumbled with my 66 Stars!

Incredible work for a 3 hour timeframe! Yes, the game is barebones of course, but still engaging enough for me to collect 66 stars, haha. Great job on the art and sound design too!

Stefan B.12 Oct 2025, 17:09

i could catch them on the fly - nice style, very polished for just 3 hours.

Split8212 Oct 2025, 17:11

Super cool for 3 hours. I would like to see the difficulty going up faster, but otherwise awesome job.

ScrapMetal12 Oct 2025, 17:22

3 hours??? Well damn. Bravo. :clap: So simple, so effective and a lot of fun. Really impressive. Geez. Nice job.

Nazorus12 Oct 2025, 18:03

Very impressive result for 3 hours of work, this is a great example of how good and polished a game can feel when the project is scoped exactly right. Love the aesthetic and the little animations like the starry background and the death animation. Good job!

hijomo12 Oct 2025, 18:03

This was fun to get into the flow. Nice really clean and simple. The ending with all the falling stars was both sad and pretty.

xpoho12 Oct 2025, 18:16

My friend, good style! Reminded me of PICO games ^_^

MAR Zockmeister12 Oct 2025, 21:55

Wow, only 3 hours? Really nice simple game, nice animation and pixel graphics style, sound also fits to the style, nice mood. To make it a little more difficult, maybe the flying stars can also hurt you? And you should remove the debug key '1' :wink:

Catusfelony12 Oct 2025, 22:11

Something satisfying about the sound of all the stars dropping to the ground once you lose. I scored 97, was going to take a screenshot, but it reset went I went to press the buttons...

wo_ri_gou_le13 Oct 2025, 06:14

Simple and effective, someone in google should replace the dino game with this

YibiRabbit00713 Oct 2025, 11:00

It can totally serve as a standby game for the Edge browser when there's no internet!!

ghost-in-the-toast13 Oct 2025, 13:02

I loved it!

ljol314 Oct 2025, 02:39

like a much more calming version of the t-rex game

Le Don14 Oct 2025, 19:26

Love how well this is put together. The BFXR sound effects are great and the animations are also well done.

torcado18 Oct 2025, 16:28

simple game but fun to play! really good aesthetic, and the sounds are nice. it would be nice if it sped up a bit overtime, but otherwise i think the game does what it needs to :) nice work!

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