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Planetoid by Untitled Studios

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made by Untitled Studios for LD 42 (COMPO)

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📕 STORY 📕

Planetoid is a top down adventure style game where you play as a planetoid named Timmy who is trying to escape space (namely to run out of it) because space is running out of space and Timmy needs somewhere to live. Timmy needs to collect the four shards of the spacekey to unlock the great space door and then run the heck out of space. Unfortunately, the SPF (Space Protection Federation) wants to keep the spacekey all to themselves, so watch out for their ships and turrets.

🕹ī¸ CONTROLS 🕹ī¸

A/D: Tilt Left And Right. Space: Tuck in to be affected by the gravity of nearby planets. Shift: Charge up a boost. When fully charged, release to get a burst of speed. You can use your boost to dispatch enemies. Ctrl: Brake F: Toggle Fullscreen

🛰ī¸ OTHER 🛰ī¸

If you see purple arrows around Timmy, they are showing you where a nearby black hole is. Make sure to steer clear. You can see your progress on assembling the key in the top left corner of the screen. Collecting a key shard gives you extra health. You can trick smaller enemies into crashing into planets, each other, black holes, or turret shots.

🌌 SCREENSHOTS 🌌

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:gear: CHANGELOG :gear:

v1.1: Changed sound mix.

Windows https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ncLCfiHs4aybsQ60W_y5EeB5ZcUbR6nw/view?usp=sharing
Source code https://drive.google.com/file/d/17yyBlFDabpAsD7wnja6IBYNSJMDi7G69/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/planetoid

Ratings

Overall 419th 3.278⭐ 20🧑‍⚖ī¸
Fun 437th 3.111⭐ 20🧑‍⚖ī¸
Innovation 501th 2.917⭐ 20🧑‍⚖ī¸
Theme 551th 3.111⭐ 20🧑‍⚖ī¸
Graphics 325th 3.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖ī¸
Audio 324th 2.972⭐ 20🧑‍⚖ī¸
Mood 189th 3.306⭐ 20🧑‍⚖ī¸
Given 21đŸ—ŗī¸ 11🗨ī¸

Feedback

Serious07
13. Aug 2018 ¡ 04:17 UTC
I liked the graphics and music. Controls seemed a bit complicated, it would not be bad to have an indicator that would show the direction of the character's movement.
🎤 Untitled Studios
13. Aug 2018 ¡ 13:36 UTC
@serious07 Thanks for the advice! The bit about the directional indicator really should have been a no-brainer. Plus, your game is really cool!
Serious07
13. Aug 2018 ¡ 13:40 UTC
@untitled-studios Thank you! :smile:
Jakub Kazimierski
13. Aug 2018 ¡ 14:00 UTC
Graphics and music compliment each other really well. Movement is hard to master, but gives a lot of fun.
Albin
13. Aug 2018 ¡ 14:03 UTC
Really fun and hard in a good way. I love the little running animation for Timmy :D Both the graphics and the muisc is great and fits well with the style of the game. Good job!
🎤 Untitled Studios
13. Aug 2018 ¡ 17:20 UTC
@albin Thanks! I tried out your game and its a whole lot of fun! :)
🎤 Untitled Studios
13. Aug 2018 ¡ 17:25 UTC
@jakub-kazimierski Thanks for taking the time to drop a rating! Your game looks really cool! (I love the gameboy look)
mrjorts
14. Aug 2018 ¡ 01:15 UTC
I like navigating with the gravity of the planets and the sprites are really nice. It felt like the charge was a little slow for dealing with enemies, though. I kept getting swarmed before I had time to charge up. Also, with headphones on the sound effects are quite loud and harsh on the ear compared to the music. The music is nice, though :)
🎤 Untitled Studios
14. Aug 2018 ¡ 13:17 UTC
@mrjorts Thanks for your feedback! I tried to design the game so that environmental hazards were more effective against enemies than your boost, but I think those are still underpowered. Also, I believe changing the sound mix is within the rules of the compo, so i might just do that. I just gave your game a play-through and it looks really awesome!
coomzy
15. Aug 2018 ¡ 20:03 UTC
I liked what you were trying to do with the gravity motion to swing the character around but I just couldn't get a good swing going. It was a little confusing to control. Nice job on the music and environment, although I think the edge of the world being grey ruined that a bit, still though cool game
🎤 Untitled Studios
16. Aug 2018 ¡ 14:39 UTC
@coomzy Thanks for rating! I played and really enjoyed your game.
Suchista
16. Aug 2018 ¡ 15:51 UTC
Great and unique game! Yeah, sound effects are a bit too loud. It was hard at first to move around but felt nice after some time :) And the art is cute.
🎤 Untitled Studios
17. Aug 2018 ¡ 12:00 UTC
@suchista Thanks! I tried out your game and it was really a blast. could you let me know what specific sound effects were bothering you?
🎤 Untitled Studios
17. Aug 2018 ¡ 12:00 UTC
@suchista Thanks! I tried out your game and it was really a blast. could you let me know what specific sound effects were bothering you?
Gaming Night
17. Aug 2018 ¡ 12:51 UTC
Cool game here, I really enjoyed playing it ;)
mAnimal
24. Aug 2018 ¡ 14:25 UTC
Really hard and challenging game. Pixelart graphics suits well for this game. Nice sounds and music.
Rahim_Pxr
27. Aug 2018 ¡ 01:01 UTC
Nice game, I hope to see more updates and improvments sooner.
If you don't bother take a look at our game when we focused on Graphics and visuals and see the results that we got:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacelab-42
Eric Kulbiej
02. Sep 2018 ¡ 00:05 UTC
Your game is very nice to play. The general impact is positive.
As a professional game dev I would suggest... just kidding haha
Nonetheless, if you want to work on this project more I suggest making a difficulty incresing algorithm.
Graphics - very nice. Controls are also working very well.
Maybe you could also take a glimpse at my game? I already enlarged it into a wholesome Android game :)
ohmmus
03. Sep 2018 ¡ 04:43 UTC
Well done! It took me a while to get used to the 'floaty' controls, but once I did I had a fun time playing your game!