Vanishing Space by Doctor



Vanishing Space is a Spaceshooter. You are surrounded by an endless void crawling towards you. As your goal is to achieve as many points as possible, youre primary objective is to avoid the void by flying around performing awesome moves and collecting energy by destroying every obstacle in your way.
Controls:
tilt spaceship: [A/D]
speed up : [W]
fire at will : [space]
use boost : [shift]
Everything in the game was made by us, Minewar, Doctor and Zetraeder, in 72 hours, using Gamemaker Studio 1.4, Paint.net, sfxr and Ableton Live 9.
Update: As you may noticed, our itchio-site now features another file called "VanishingSpace - PostJamUpdate". We proudly present the piñata-update. During the exploration of the vanishing cosmos you may find one of four lost piñatas floating in space. Shoot em up and gain enrgy by doing so, but dont let your joy distract you from the great danger caused by the approuching void. Also, this update includes some adjustments concerning the energy, e.g. you will lose energy even when standing still. To counteract this, just shoot some meteroids and find the piñatas.
| Windows | https://minewar.itch.io/vanishing-space |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/vanishing-space |
Ratings
| Overall | 824th | 3.174⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 526th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1159th | 2.455⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 313th | 3.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 652th | 3.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 341th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 826th | 2.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
Loved the way you implemented the turning and the particles are cool.
One minor problem to me was the sense of a lack of purpose.
Everything else is great.
The game is fun, maybe turning is a little too sensitive, but it's not out of control -- it was fun to try getting it right.
One thing to improve is to make it clear that the top bar is your energy. Also, it would be nice to have some feedback about how close to the void you are, so you don't throw yourself into it because it's too late when it appears.