Orbital Burrow by Make A Game
"Orbital Burrow" is a game about fending off waves of moles from outer space!
You are a Planet and you're getting invaded by moles and spacedrills!
Use the power of the elements to change your ecosystem and extinguish the threat!
Or bash their ships with your Moon before they land!
TIP!
Press 1 to switch between 640x360 and 1280x720 resolutions.
WARNING!
There's a bug that causes an invincible drill to spawn.
We apologize if it happens to you and we're doing our best to fix it.
We really recommend that you download and play the Windows version if you're able to, thank you!
How to Play:
- Press Left or Right to move the Moon.
- Double tap Left or Right to make the Moon dash.
- You can dash into incoming spacedrills!
- Use W, A, S, D to destroy the drills with the power of the Elements.
- Protect the core of the Planet or it's Game Over!
Known Bugs:
- Drills might ignore if another drill is already digging and try to land on the same spot.
- If a drill lands on the same spot as another drill, it will be invincible to attacks.
- Some sounds may repeat themselves, others might not even play.
- Used Elemental Attack doesn't show on the Combo bar on the bottom right of the screen.
- HTML5 version has some particle issues.
- HTML5 version doesn't properly reset the music, it's best to refresh the page on each restart.
Missing/Disabled Features:
- Elemental Attack Combos.
- Experience Orbs and Elemental Attack Upgrades.
- Mole interaction and Terraforming.
- Points and Score.
You are a Planet and you're getting invaded by moles and spacedrills!
Use the power of the elements to change your ecosystem and extinguish the threat!
Or bash their ships with your Moon before they land!
TIP!
Press 1 to switch between 640x360 and 1280x720 resolutions.
WARNING!
There's a bug that causes an invincible drill to spawn.
We apologize if it happens to you and we're doing our best to fix it.
We really recommend that you download and play the Windows version if you're able to, thank you!
How to Play:
- Press Left or Right to move the Moon.
- Double tap Left or Right to make the Moon dash.
- You can dash into incoming spacedrills!
- Use W, A, S, D to destroy the drills with the power of the Elements.
- Protect the core of the Planet or it's Game Over!
Known Bugs:
- Drills might ignore if another drill is already digging and try to land on the same spot.
- If a drill lands on the same spot as another drill, it will be invincible to attacks.
- Some sounds may repeat themselves, others might not even play.
- Used Elemental Attack doesn't show on the Combo bar on the bottom right of the screen.
- HTML5 version has some particle issues.
- HTML5 version doesn't properly reset the music, it's best to refresh the page on each restart.
Missing/Disabled Features:
- Elemental Attack Combos.
- Experience Orbs and Elemental Attack Upgrades.
- Mole interaction and Terraforming.
- Points and Score.
Ratings
| Coolness | 82% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.85 | 48 |
| Audio(Jam) | 4.00 | 40 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.60 | 82 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.45 | 40 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.32 | 126 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.90 | 34 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.72 | 110 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.68 | 121 |
I really liked it. Some more information on when powers are available or not would be nice in the game itself. Also, what's the combo-box for? All in all, would love to see the next version of this game.
Menus are now accessible, screen now shakes, particles finally work, and we ported the game to HTML5!
Have fun!
@Nimmrod: Yep, we'll be looking into tweaking all those numbers for a post Jam version.
@LukeZaz: It might have been because of an input buffer we had when you'd be able to do element combinations, which was on when it should have been off, since the combos aren't implemented.
@Jod: Our plan was to give the player the power to combo elements to create natural disasters and terraform the planet slices. We got too ambitious. :D
@MrShoestore: Actually, we just found a bug in the HTML5 version that keeps the game from resetting properly. Might have been be that. Sorry!
@borrismoose: Yeah, it needs a lot of balancing, right now the drills just keep on spawning faster and faster until they hit a fixed speed value. Our best time is around 6:40 but we kept losing to that dumb invincible drill bug.
I think that by completely ignoring the dash mechanic you can essentially play forever. I was simply using my four powers to stop the innermost drills and then waiting for the next batch to get close and my powers to recharge. It was working perfectly and then I decided to play around with dashing... needless to say it ruined the tempo I had going and ultimately ended in my losing the game. :)
As of now, the gameplay does get somewhat stale after about 5 minutes. But I saw what you are planning in the how-to-play screen and it looks promising ;) Also, cool take on the theme and I really liked the music, but the mole sound effects did get a bit irritating after a while :p
Anyhow, great job, one of my favorite jam entries!
I sort of picked up skills as I went, so I didn't realize you could bash things with the moon at first, but once I did, I enjoyed it. Overall I made it to 3:33 which I thought wasn't too bad - reading other people's scores, it seems I did quite well.
Nice game, well done. :) Thanks for sharing!
At first I didn't understand what the tornado does, I thought it wasn't implemented (after reading the tutorial), but that is a nice power, since it's different from the others.