Simple, clever, frantic.

Thank you! Only three words and still a great compliment. :)

Nice game with an assured graphical style. Would really like to see where you take this, too. Very minor thing: Took me a minute or two to realize rmb meant right mouse button! You may want to clarify.

huh. I will definitely state that explicitly. :)

Simple, but effective idea, could be really improved into something bigger.
The song is really excellent but I hesitate to rate it as five stars since it's not your work... but it's not against jam rules, so I'll rate it anyway (say for picking good tune)

Yeah agreed. Might revisit this someday. lol I didn't actually think about the rules when picking music. I can remove it if necessary. You can rate me low on music if you like I didn't make it so I'm not offended :)

I liked the puzzle mechanics. The 3D tech is pretty interesting and adds a neat style to the game. With a bit more polish this could be really nice puzzler.

Pretty damn good overall, I agree that it'd fit well on a touch screen. Keep at this project; there's potential here!

@strega Thanks about the 3D tech. The parallaxing is a pretty cool effect I think.

Thanks jon! It could really be something with some work.

I thought this was overall a strong entry. There were a few mechanical issues that hampered the playability of it but they weren't so bad. Mainly the speed of the camera was too fast, and there was no visual feedback when dragging people to the spaceship so I wasn't sure when it was working or not. A little more complexity with the basics and some polish there and removing some of the unnecessary complexity (shrinking planets I found annoying honestly) and I think this could be very good.

I would like to see that instead of dragging people from each planet, you simply click the planet when in range. Gets so fiddly when trying to drag in two stages for the transfer. Better to get in range and click.

Too frantic for me. Maybe would have helped if it wasn't so picky on having to click on the planets themselves. Dragging to the ring ought to have been enough imo. Pretty cool stuff, though. :)

Very good game design:
- good instructions directly on the screen
- not to many instructions (move people from planet to planet: player must find out this)
- interesting concept... don't know similiar games
- different game mechanics within the game: putting planets together for jumping over gaps or rush through multiple sun systems with one planet

Surely a good game on a touchpad. I advise you to make a commercial app with this concept :)

(some sound effects while pushing planets or people or at the end of a level would be nice... for audio feedback. A little feature suggestion: inertia respective moving planets if you stop dragging them)

woah! So many responses!

@demonpants
Thank you! A settings screen with camera speed will definitely be added. Good point about the visual feedback. For a while there was an audio cue but it got really annoying really fast. A less annoying visual cue will be added. Also you got me thinking about the planet shrinking. Its there because we want the game to be a quick, frantic, action game and removing it would make it more of a puzzle game I think.

@Brassawiking
I agree! We had thought about that but for some reason never did it. Definitely need to change that.

@Trylle
Maybe not your game haha :) Frantic is what I want this game to be so in a sense that is a compliment for me even if its not your game.

@Jeremias
:o Thank you! This is only our second LD so that is a huge compliment.
Giving planets weight and inertia would create a very interesting feel to the game, especially on a touchpad! The game is severely lacking in the audio. There is alot that can be added there with audio cues and music. There are still a lot of mechanics that can be added.

yowza! Fast paced! Really clever mechanics; I like it! Perhaps an ability to zoom in/out? Thanks for sharing! Congrats on your second LD entry!

Cool idea, i like many choice that u made, mechanics of the game first of all!
(it's impossible to play this game in the web browser, you cant right-click!!)

Very innovative game. I liked the graphics and music. Unfortunately, I just didn't find all the precision click-and-dragging to be much fun in a video game. That's for office work, which I play video games to escape from :P. Especially not fun was right-click-dragging, which didn't even seem to work every time it should have.

The game could be made more fun by not requiring as much dragging. For instance, if the green line is there, just let the player right click where the players should go. Also, for me, I got a lot more enjoyment out of the levels that felt like a puzzle: Pay attention and figure out the right order to evacuate the people in, then do it. Then there was another kind of level that I didn't like: It's shrinking OMG fast! Go, click, drag, go!!! That's no fun (for me).

Very good entry overall.

@R3ason
Thank you! We were working on a zomming in and out but never got it functioning properly so just scraped it for the zooming down at the beginning of the level. :) If we continue with this idea we will definitely add that.

@Lidfrid
I'm not quite sure what you mean thats its impossible?

@Jedi
Thanks for the feedback. The controls could definitely use some work. Clicking is definitely an option but there are some issues with that. We would classify it as an action puzzle game so we might need to rework some levels to keep that in mind. :)

Interesting. May need some polish to enhance presentation but it's a nice entry overall. Congratulations.

Great game, pretty neat concept with some pretty fun and challenging levels. Only problem I had was that I found right clicking to be kinda hard to accomplish

Way to create a ton of levels! I really liked how you experimented with the various transportation and driving mechanics as well as mouse skill game genre of just even being able to click the planets at all. Quite stressful and fun. I played at least 8 levels if not 10. Not sure how many there were. If there was a level counter I'd probably still be playing but I have to go to bed. :D Fun game though for sure!

Really not suited to a trackpad. =) It would've been nice to have key equivalents for the mouse buttons to make dragging easier. Better feedback to show you're dragging people would help, too.

A little too frantic for my hardware, but it looks solid. Totally agree that it'd be well-suited for a touchscreen.

Oh, and the instructions in space (a la kinetic text) were quite nice.

a simple and fun game with lot of potential to make it into a full game, maybe ios/android? . Loved the music too . Good job!

Nice game. I agree with some of the comments above. If you change the click zone from the planet itself to the ring, it would be a lot better.

Also, maybe a double click (tap) on the planet to transfer people from that planet to the next, then it is a great game for mobile.

Great concept, a nice unique game. A little polish and some changes on where to click, you got a great game you can sell.

good stuff man :) music is great

Quite good. The music is great and adds tension; the integrated text gets me into the action right away. I found the right-dragging mechanic difficult at first because of the lack of feedback, but once I figured it out it was usually fine. The play mechanic is novel, though it didn't really seem like it led to a large variety of puzzles, so that was one downside. Good all around, though.

This was a neat little game, I had some trouble actually playing it though. The big problem was that right-click-drag is an almost impossible operation on a mac trackpad. I wondered overall if this might have been a more workable game with some alternate ways of doing "interface" (camera, move planet, move people). For example, why do you need to drag the people when moving them? Might a single click suffice and then they go along the one active line? Some of the writing also seemed a little awkward, also.

I really really liked the style though, the thing with diagrams and text naturally overlaid on the game world gave the whole thing a great space-age feel and just the act of rearranging the little universes felt really cool.