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Solar System Builder by Atuuh

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made by Atuuh for LD30 (JAM)
This game is a sandbox game, with no defined end. Upgrade your sun and planets to expand even more.

Guiding an asteroid to collide with a planet will transfer the asteroids resources onto it, but if the asteroid is too big it will deplete the size of your planet.

WASD rotates camera
left click brings up object info
double click makes camera orbit object
1,2,3 to change the speed of time
left click an asteroid then click a planet to direct it towards it.

Josh Henderson - Art
Ian Thomson - Code
Kyle Young - Code
Irvine Cruickshank - Music
Web https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111788548/SpaceGame/build.html
Source https://github.com/Atuuh/LD30
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=41115

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1598
Overall(Jam) 2.74 672
Audio(Jam) 3.40 222
Fun(Jam) 2.18 729
Graphics(Jam) 3.64 267
Innovation(Jam) 2.95 435
Mood(Jam) 2.94 461
Theme(Jam) 3.09 415

Feedback

nataku92
26. Aug 2014 · 08:50 UTC
Neat idea but lots of bugs. A lot of the menu dialogs are cut off, and there's no explanation on how to do anything. The font is also very blurry. Asteroids seem to be flying randomly and will often clip through the planets/star.

The graphics seem pretty good and the music is alright.
bob_fish
26. Aug 2014 · 11:04 UTC
I think you should work on fixing a few bugs so we can see the dialogs. Very nice idea though and looking forward to a bit more stable version!
kibertoad
26. Aug 2014 · 11:07 UTC
Ambitious scope and pretty to look at, but controls don't seem to do anything and menus go over screen.
homeworld
26. Aug 2014 · 11:22 UTC
Very pretty, i wish there was some sort of tutorial to teach me how to play though!
Tanser
26. Aug 2014 · 11:54 UTC
I love how it looks man, good job. :)
Kojan
26. Aug 2014 · 14:44 UTC
The graphics are really great and the audio fits perfectly with the atmosphere.
However a tutorial would have been great to teach us the basics
liquidminduk
26. Aug 2014 · 15:01 UTC
great work to Irvine, the music is beautiful and suits the mood perfectly.
It's an interesting concept, but I don't really get why guiding a huge chunk of rock in to a planet would generate resources! haha, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Great work all round
MicroChasm
27. Aug 2014 · 23:06 UTC
Awesome look and feel. I like the idea, and I love the sun. I found it hard to click on asteroids, and a little unintuitive to direct asteroids to planets to gain resources. I liked just moving around and seeing the objects though.
HotBoxGames
30. Aug 2014 · 16:22 UTC
Really good concept - turning this into a full project could result in a great space sim.

Enjoyed the ambient space music too!
ajopart
15. Sep 2014 · 14:05 UTC
Impressive ! Great job. Keep improving the concept