Orbital Brothers by ezolotko

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made by ezolotko for LD27 (COMPO)
You are a commander of space biology exploration expedition, sent to a distant planetary system. The subject of your research is highly unusual - a life form like no other known in the galaxy - the rocketoids.

This game was made using MonoGame, Visual Studio, Paint.NET, Bfxr, and GarageBand.

EDIT: uploaded a post-compo bugfix build which resolves speed and resolution issues, and fixes other bugs.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 2.65 929
Audio 2.47 594
Fun 2.69 752
Graphics 2.60 726
Humor 1.97 730
Innovation 2.49 895
Mood 2.49 745
Theme 1.98 1146

Feedback

Radnen
26. Aug 2013 路 05:04 UTC
The scrolling gets nauseating, lol. Collecting the enemy is an interesting concept nevertheless.
馃帳 ezolotko
26. Aug 2013 路 08:32 UTC
Nauseating - yeah, reminds me of getting home really drunk. Everything orbits around :D
Kwrky
26. Aug 2013 路 13:37 UTC
Interesting feel, how did you achieve the scrolling effect?
eolhing
26. Aug 2013 路 13:46 UTC
Nice game, I like the idea of grabbing things and destroying others.
馃帳 ezolotko
26. Aug 2013 路 13:55 UTC
@Kwrky - the idea was to have an "orbiting" feel, so I use polar coordinate system and then translate it to cartesian viewport.
Loerden
26. Aug 2013 路 14:10 UTC
A little bit to fast I think,
or Im just bad :D
doctorscientist
26. Aug 2013 路 14:17 UTC
I like the little green aliens. Its funny to see them drifting along seemingly unaware of the hazards. Its quite fast paced maybe try and slow it down a bit.
馃帳 ezolotko
26. Aug 2013 路 14:24 UTC
Hi guys, I suspect that game pace depends on screen resolution somehow (lower = faster), so I will try to fix that sometime
Xgor
26. Aug 2013 路 14:50 UTC
Even if the game says it's uses a lot of 10s I don't really see any of it in the game. The game feels also kinda stale.
Cool scrolling effect though.
leparlon
26. Aug 2013 路 14:51 UTC
Fun game, liked the audio .
There is a bug, you can lose 2 hearths at once if you hit another enemy while dying.
cwkx
26. Aug 2013 路 15:13 UTC
Another nice shooter :)
kunzbe
26. Aug 2013 路 15:16 UTC
The story on the intro screen sounds interesting. But the game did not fullfill what I imagined
doonay21
27. Aug 2013 路 13:01 UTC
Awesome game, a little bit too fast for me, but still really like it! :)
RobotParking
27. Aug 2013 路 13:14 UTC
LOVE THEM ORB BROS
ZeppelinCaptain
27. Aug 2013 路 14:44 UTC
Cool stuff, quite well balanced as well I think. I quite liked the scroll effect, gave a unique feel to it.

The randomness of when the species appeared was a turn-off though, since it made it more luck based.
馃帳 ezolotko
27. Aug 2013 路 14:47 UTC
@ZeppelinCaptain Thanks for the warm words!
johnl
27. Aug 2013 路 15:40 UTC
Interesting idea using the tractor beam to pull the aliens closer, but perhaps the instructions should be a little clearer, as there is no description of things shooting at you and that they are in fact not the things you are trying to collect.

I might not have understood what was going on, but the ship seems to spin around very slowly so ends up pointing more to the left rather than towards the enemies.
馃帳 ezolotko
27. Aug 2013 路 15:42 UTC
@johnl this is because the ship is orbiting!
AdventureIslands
27. Aug 2013 路 15:55 UTC
Interesting idea to fly and shoot while trying to capture creatures, the game's pretty rough around the edges though. It wasn't clear in game that you need to capture the green creatures, and sometimes when level started enemies spawned right on me hurting me.
Endurion
27. Aug 2013 路 16:06 UTC
Love the radial scrolling, although it's feeling uncanny somehow.

The 10 second theme seems shoehorned in, but it's a solid game.
Little problem, the player ship can move outside the screen (bottom).
ratalaika
27. Aug 2013 路 17:20 UTC
good job
馃帳 ezolotko
27. Aug 2013 路 23:43 UTC
@Endurion actually, I left the ability to move out of the screen intentionally, I liked the idea of having more maneuver space
Kragnir
27. Aug 2013 路 23:50 UTC
I get dizzy from the scrolling. The rest of the game seems nice.
馃帳 ezolotko
28. Aug 2013 路 06:17 UTC
Guys, I actually like you are getting dizzy, because on the first day of development I had a hard hangover. It means I succeeded in passing my feelings to you!
Tainted_Code
28. Aug 2013 路 12:50 UTC
Dat scrolling effect ^_^ The enemy grabbing is really cool!
Reaperguy
28. Aug 2013 路 13:38 UTC
The game is too fast, it's almost impossible to avoid the enemies coming down, and it took me some time to figure out that the green aliens were the ones i had to take with me.
Otherwise, nice game and good concept!
Mekuri
28. Aug 2013 路 20:40 UTC
I like the idea, and I really like the graphics, especially for the reocketoids. The spinning was nauseating though, so I wasn't able to play for too long before I had to stop. The theme is a bit vague though, but apart from getting nauseated, I liked your game.
馃帳 ezolotko
29. Aug 2013 路 14:33 UTC
Thank you guys all for the responses!
Jeremias
29. Aug 2013 路 14:42 UTC
The enemies appear damn fast, making it harder to dogde their ships than their bullets ^^ If you make a post-compo version, I would focus more on the beam feature, letting the player move the alien step by step closer to him while dodging the asteroids.
Linusson
29. Aug 2013 路 17:23 UTC
This game was fun. :) The first round I wasn't really sure how to use the beam, but then I got the hang on it. :)

It was a bit confusing that you could leave the screen with the ship, but it was also my best avoid enemies trick as they didn't seem to kill me out there. :D
Ciaran54
29. Aug 2013 路 21:53 UTC
Woah i feel dizzy :P Pretty fun, but also a bit too fast for me.
BenWhi
30. Aug 2013 路 17:46 UTC
Pretty good arcade game with a tractor beam twist. I liked the how fast-paced it was, but you need to add some boundaries so your player can't go off the screen like that.
馃帳 ezolotko
08. Sep 2013 路 19:15 UTC
Hi guys, finally found some time to make a bugfix build - made the game to be slower, display resolution independent, and fixed some other bugs.