Solar Thief by JellyFame

made by JellyFame for LD23 (JAM)

You're an alien from a tiny world running out of energy.
Your sole mission is to extract Sun's energy and bring it back to your needy world.

Have fun.

- works best in newest Chrome browser, Safari and Firefox also supported
- requires fair computer hardware (CPU primarily)
- not quite finished yet, extended version coming soon

Thanks to Vlado for levels, AI and support.
Music by Kevin MacLeod

Windows	http://www.jellyfame.com/SolarThief
Web	http://www.jellyfame.com/SolarThief
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=12511

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall(Jam)	3.00	132

Audio(Jam)	3.15	90
Fun(Jam)	3.04	84
Graphics(Jam)	3.63	86
Humor(Jam)	1.97	171
Innovation(Jam)	2.27	205
Mood(Jam)	2.58	161
Theme(Jam)	2.61	173

Feedback

Pixelulsar

27. Apr 2012 · 21:54 UTC

Story seemed unfinished because the point was to get energy from the sun, yet you never get to the sun. Graphic were pretty good.

gritfish

29. Apr 2012 · 02:08 UTC

Graphics were great - were the little moons/satellites enemies? I wasn't sure whether I was meant to shoot them or not. Advancing the level even if you die was a good idea though. A points tally at the end would have made that system work even better.

pawlmurray

29. Apr 2012 · 23:18 UTC

Definitly a good start. Good graphics and controls, but still has a while to go.

matthias_zarzecki

02. May 2012 · 09:36 UTC

Lovely shooter!

Christina Antoinette Neofotistou

10. May 2012 · 12:50 UTC

awesome graphics :))

Mago

11. May 2012 · 07:45 UTC

Great graphics, especially planets. Fun game too bad is so short

Johnicholas

12. May 2012 · 13:06 UTC

Nice variety in the enemies!

trylle

12. May 2012 · 13:15 UTC

Er, I think every time I died it went to the next level. Never actually got a game over, but cool enough. :)

I actually thought the movement was a bit sluggish, lots of inertia and fairly slow acceleration (would be easier if I could move sideways), couldn't really dodge attacks.

Good effort, though.

onehandclap

12. May 2012 · 13:16 UTC

Definitely a good start, now I'm curious to see the extended version. =)

someone

12. May 2012 · 13:17 UTC

Doesn't work properly in Firefox 11.0 64bit in Linux, No music and sound effects cause it to stutter badly. Runs fine in Opera though.
Didn't realise why the gun would stop working at first, you should mention the energy thing somewhere.
Also getting hit didn't seem to do anything.
Good game.

xillix

12. May 2012 · 13:34 UTC

The game play is fun.

Skywilly

12. May 2012 · 14:28 UTC

So easy, so quickly ended, but... so fun !

ericdpitts

12. May 2012 · 14:42 UTC

I liked the graphics and your music as well! I would have liked to be able to get to the sun though. :(

namuol

12. May 2012 · 15:55 UTC

Looove those planet graphics. Lots of nice content here, actually.

It was a bit too easy for me (I got through without dying once), but I'm sure you can address difficulty in the extended version (my suggestion would be to make the "wave" weapon's strength diminish more the more it expands).

Nice job doing this from scratch in javascript/canvas.

Valeour

12. May 2012 · 16:04 UTC

Good, but just seemed silly having to dive into the satellites to pass each level, I just ended up skipping everything else.

davidpeter

12. May 2012 · 19:15 UTC

It became really easy just destroying the satellites (at least I think that's what I did) to end the level and beat the game. Fun though!

smvilar

13. May 2012 · 00:01 UTC

I didn't understand the gameplay... but nice graphics!

egerlach

13. May 2012 · 01:10 UTC

Awesome graphics and sound. Keep up the good work and this should be a good game!

csanyk

13. May 2012 · 02:01 UTC

Solid game but felt too easy; I beat each level without really knowing what I was doing.

Daniel

13. May 2012 · 02:35 UTC

Intense action :)

apfrod

13. May 2012 · 12:05 UTC

loved the irregular-shaped planets!

the enemies seem to be doing a lot more clever things than make any difference to the gameplay

like the automatic paused state.

Angerus

13. May 2012 · 14:14 UTC

I'm find it to easy ( you jsute have to aim the satellit and nothing left matter) but well it was fun! Maybe It will be more interesting with a invincible protection on the Satellite which disappear when you have kill all the enemies...

🎤 JellyFame

13. May 2012 · 14:31 UTC

Thanks for satellite shield idea. This will probably be implemented in extended version.

Lawrence Esswood

13. May 2012 · 14:57 UTC

Great visuals/audio. It was a little too easy to play however. Also, did you know your audio does not loop? (I'm on firefox)

🎤 JellyFame

13. May 2012 · 15:12 UTC

Did not know. Will be fixed in extended version. Actually doesn't loop in Chrome either. I guess we havent played it for eight minutes without reload.

quixotic-project

13. May 2012 · 15:33 UTC

Fun game, but it was over too fast :)

crippledgames

13. May 2012 · 16:07 UTC

Very good graphics

Fenyx

13. May 2012 · 16:35 UTC

Love the music and the graphics, not a fan of the sound effects. You should actually have a game-over sequence when you die... It makes more sense...

dr_soda

13. May 2012 · 21:38 UTC

The graphics are nice, and I made it to the "end" but I can't say as I ever really figured out what I was doing. I think just adding clarity to what the user is supposed to do would help tremendously.