Connector by TeamEagle

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made by TeamEagle for LD30 (JAM)
Bring the internet to everyone in the galaxy by connecting the different planets via ethernet cables. Use asteroids as forward hubs. Beware of the intergalactic turrets aiming to destroy your highway of bits and bytes, make them your own!

And most of all, complete your job within the deadline.

HOW TO PLAY
WASD - move in that direction (regardless of ship orientation)
left mouse button - fire cable
mouse - aim ship
L - restart
Escape - quit game :)

TEAM EAGLE IS
Programming - Fedor Jutte (@fejuto)
Programming - Benjamin de Jager (@m0rph3v5)
Art - Sander van Houdt (@dokonimo)
Music - Bram Stege (@fubaruba)
Sound FX - freesound.org

TOOLS
Unity
Fireworks
Audacity

Ratings

Coolness 86% 2
Overall(Jam) 4.21 13
Audio(Jam) 3.84 66
Fun(Jam) 4.13 15
Graphics(Jam) 4.51 24
Humor(Jam) 2.68 273
Innovation(Jam) 4.14 24
Mood(Jam) 3.92 51
Theme(Jam) 4.35 7

Feedback

lucienpro
26. Aug 2014 · 10:29 UTC
Wow, this was really interesting. Good take on the theme. The physics was really effective and smooth which just added to the fun exploration and the overall awesome minimalist graphics. Well Done.
ice cold muffin
26. Aug 2014 · 14:11 UTC
I was waiting for this game! :)
Ludipe
26. Aug 2014 · 14:21 UTC
Nice game, though the gameplay was confusing at first. Loved the art!
liquidminduk
26. Aug 2014 · 14:23 UTC
Actually really enjoyed this one. Takes me back haha!
Great art style!
Kayelgee
26. Aug 2014 · 14:47 UTC
Really fun game. The only thing that bothered me were the keyboard controls, the ship is just waaaay to fast :D
nice Graphics, nice audio, overall a very polished game.
NikB
26. Aug 2014 · 14:49 UTC
Being absolutely honest, I can state you have a real gem here!
sprawl
26. Aug 2014 · 14:56 UTC
The best LD#30 game I've played so far. Great job.

The gameplay was interesting but what made the game really great was the really fun controls and amazing art. I really love how the wires looked.

Well done!
runvs
26. Aug 2014 · 14:59 UTC
Really great game. I liked the minimalist graphics. The sound was great as well especially the "you did it" music. :)
Robotic
26. Aug 2014 · 15:01 UTC
Nice, the wire physics felt very good.
Andro Dars
26. Aug 2014 · 15:05 UTC
This is excellent. Everything does what it's supposed to. If this game was a transaction, it would be a smoooothhhh one.
Shmackson
26. Aug 2014 · 15:08 UTC
Great game all around, nice job!
Literal Games
26. Aug 2014 · 15:13 UTC
Fantastic game! Liked having to figure out how to stop turrets , and the polish was on a very high level in terms of graphics, audio and gameplay!
KR-Eddie
26. Aug 2014 · 15:33 UTC
Great game :)
The physics gave it a really nice gameplay, being able to fling asteroids around and such.
After a while the cables got all jumbled and that was a bit annoying. The WASD to move felt a little weird at first as I was always expecting the ship to move according to it's orientation.
Radio communications on the background was a nice touch :)
zkenshin
26. Aug 2014 · 15:50 UTC
Really loved the wire physics, and the art style. Great entry. :)
dickpoelen
26. Aug 2014 · 15:52 UTC
Cool! I made quit a mess in outer space....
KiAn
26. Aug 2014 · 15:58 UTC
Nice idea and physis :D
capsizedmoose
26. Aug 2014 · 16:03 UTC
this is amazing loved the art and the sound!
BeardoGames
26. Aug 2014 · 16:49 UTC
Wow, super polished and good! Hard to get the hang of, but once you do, it's some great fun! Excellent job!
JetL33t
26. Aug 2014 · 17:28 UTC
To be honest at first I thought this was a wonderful looking not so great game (ship was moving unrealisticly fast and I didn't know I could shoot).
Then I tried it again after reading the HOWTO and realized that this basically turned me into spiderman in space! :P
I really like the physics and the game in general.
Druid
26. Aug 2014 · 17:41 UTC
What a addicting game ! Great work!
Slikker
26. Aug 2014 · 17:51 UTC
Wow this was a lot of fun to play. Great work man!
kikito
26. Aug 2014 · 17:54 UTC
The best game I've played so far: nice looking, nice sound, fun, humorous, and on-theme. One small thing: Add an obvious option to exit the game! I tried all the usual invocations, I had to manually kill it!
DragonXVI
26. Aug 2014 · 17:56 UTC
16:15. Took me a while to get it, but got goin' fine eventually. Love the cable physics, nice simple goal and even some nifty enemies. Nice job!
sharpcoder
26. Aug 2014 · 19:16 UTC
Amazing game. Really fun! This needs to be made into a mobile game I think :P
Kerdelos
27. Aug 2014 · 16:13 UTC
Really enjoyed this game. The only thing I can tell is putting a button to quit or restart the game. But that's really the only bad thing I can see about the game. Great job !
OrangeeZ
27. Aug 2014 · 17:54 UTC
Great entry! Loved the art and rope physics.
simplesmiler
27. Aug 2014 · 18:52 UTC
100 meg, wow...
Anyways, everything about this entry feels very good. It's not very challenging, but still very fun.
You've got my fives. I can easily see this entry winning.
KevinZuhn
27. Aug 2014 · 20:39 UTC
I really like the graphics, the atmosphere, the physics, it's a very interesting game to play. I do feel like I was sunk the first time I played, because I accidentally connected a turret to a random planet and could not get it unstuck, and it shot down any attempt I made at connecting it or the nearby planet. If there's a way to un-connect cables, I don't know about it. Otherwise, a rather nice entry!
HotBoxGames
27. Aug 2014 · 20:54 UTC
That was a lot of fun!
The physics and graphics really made it fun the fly around
KigurumiDevs
27. Aug 2014 · 23:15 UTC
awesome graphics! and interesting gameplay. good job
DrCicero
29. Aug 2014 · 11:22 UTC
We should totally connect out solar system in real life!
sP0CkEr2
30. Aug 2014 · 04:01 UTC
This was a really good game. Nice take on the theme and well executed. Great job.
Carduus
30. Aug 2014 · 17:38 UTC
Niiiiiice! Internet baby!
jjhaggar
30. Aug 2014 · 18:13 UTC
I really enjoyed this game! :D Had to repeat it once to beat it due to those damn turrets! XD Excellent game, dudes! :D
mrjohnson22
30. Aug 2014 · 19:31 UTC
This is a lot of fun! It's one of those games that you can really play with, if you know what I mean. The mechanics were simple enough to be quickly understood but open-ended enough to feel fun. And the on-screen reminder that enemy ships can be hijacked is a great help; as soon as I saw a ship, I immediately thought, "Uh oh! What do I do?" followed by "Oh, okay, I better do that". It was a good decision to keep that bit of info out of the main tutorial text near the home planet.

If I have to complain about something, it'd be the difficulty: there's not much challenge to be found here. The enemy ships aren't enough of a threat due to the abundance of asteroids to repair connections with, and the time limit is so large that the game can be beaten 4-5 times in the same session.

So great concept, great execution, and great game!
Forever.derpy
30. Aug 2014 · 23:40 UTC
Really good game, simple and fun.
Skyfish
31. Aug 2014 · 14:13 UTC
wonderful art style! Simple yet effective.
SteveSalmond
01. Sep 2014 · 09:34 UTC
Found this one to be a lot of fun! Well done :)
ButtonMasherBros
02. Sep 2014 · 16:07 UTC
Hey! You are on today's episode of Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3kmJ2DDWPE
RobotFriend
02. Sep 2014 · 19:37 UTC
oh man.. what an awesome entry.. got sucked in and the base kick at the finish was epic.. great job guys
mechabit
03. Sep 2014 · 01:11 UTC
wow, love the art style and physics in this, well done!
BroCade
03. Sep 2014 · 05:14 UTC
Beautiful graphics, fun gameplay and good us of the theme. So well executed in such limited time, great job!
Rialgar
03. Sep 2014 · 23:42 UTC
there is really nothing not to love in this game
SaintHeiser
04. Sep 2014 · 08:42 UTC
Wow! This is excellent game!
Like your theme interpretation and gameplay mechanics. Game needs more levels to be awesome one =)
SiMouth
12. Sep 2014 · 11:30 UTC
This is really great! Well done
Sheepolution
12. Sep 2014 · 20:39 UTC
From Ludum Dare 21 to 30 this has to be one of my favorite Ludum Dare games of all time! I simply love it. The artstyle is really cool, and connecting the planets is really satisfying. The enemies added enough challenge to the game for it to be not frustrating, but not too easy.

Great job! Awesome game!
Rage Paint
13. Sep 2014 · 06:22 UTC
Great game! Really like the simplistic graphics and dragging everything around.
mcapraro
14. Sep 2014 · 17:23 UTC
this is one of the top games i have played in the jam, WOW! really great mechanic you have going on here, so satisfying and sort of zen too. you have a really great game on your hands here, congrats!
Cake&Code
14. Sep 2014 · 20:41 UTC
Absolutely beautiful game! As the artist of our game, the aesthetic the game really spoke to me. The game itself was really fun with great polish, and it was definitely such a pleasure to play! Your team did a great job! :)
psychomonster
15. Sep 2014 · 07:28 UTC
AMAZING ARTWORK... in caps ;) No really. Nice piece of work. Controlls are okay for me... physics are cool... nice entry!
dancingmad
15. Sep 2014 · 13:36 UTC
It's a really impressive work !
Excellent game !
MiscEtc
15. Sep 2014 · 13:53 UTC
This needs to be made into a full game
Jupiter_Hadley
15. Sep 2014 · 18:18 UTC
Really nice graphics! I included it in part 27 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/DOSk1bi234E
sandbaydev
15. Sep 2014 · 19:08 UTC
Excellent entry! Very thematic, nice visuals, and I liked the background sounds a lot.

Game explained me what to do. I had fun time reaching my goals. The enemies were a nice addition, exactly on the right moment.

The game did became unplayable on my computer after I connected tons of planet, framerate dropped to something very low.

I can imagine this could have tons of potential for various different things. Collecting stuff to build better shuttle. Different enemies. Planets that have different gravity. Solar storms, meteorites...

Very well done, liked a lot. I'd say one of the best entries I've played in LD30.
Teejay5
15. Sep 2014 · 23:54 UTC
This one's a 5/5 for me, beautiful game!