SINGULARITY by Syrapt0r

made by Syrapt0r for LD 42 (COMPO)

Description

When the universe is threatened by a black hole, a small tribe of humans starts a journey to survive. Will they succeed? Only time will tell.

Features

Randomly generated universes
A super deep trading system
An even deeper story

Controls

ALSO CHECK THE IN GAME TUTORIAL, IT EXPLAINS MOST OF THE MECHANICS!

W, A, D - Move

Shift - Move faster

Space - Actions

E - fire missiles

Screenshots

Changelog

1.1

You now see your health and fuel in the shop menu
Fixed a bug where no gold would spawn after you beat the game once

1.1.1

Fixed a bug where the ship would be glitched after using a shop

1.2

Fixed a bug where the black hole would deal no damage
Flying out of the safe zone without fuel now kills the ship instantly

1.2.1

Made menu navigation much more intuitive
Added Web Version (seems to have broken particle colors)

1.3 (Web only)

Some balancing
- Rocket launchers will no longer fire directly after leaving a planet / spawning in a new universe
- Asteroids will despawn if they would hit the ship less than 1 second after spawning
- Slightly buffed cargo gain per gold piece
Optimization
- The game no longer uses unnecessary files to store data
- Reworked saving algorithm to be faster
Changed the color of important messages from red to blue

Windows	https://syrapt0r.nulldev.org/LD/LD_42/v121/SINGULARITY.zip
HTML5 (web)	https://syrapt0r.nulldev.org/LD/LD_42/web/v13/
Source code	https://syrapt0r.nulldev.org/LD/LD_42/v121/SINGULARITY_SRC.zip
Source code	https://syrapt0r.nulldev.org/LD/LD_42/web_src/SINGULARITY_WEB.zip
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/singularity

Ratings

Overall	47^th	3.968⭐	65🧑‍⚖️
Fun	62^th	3.889⭐	65🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	301^th	3.302⭐	65🧑‍⚖️
Theme	344^th	3.586⭐	66🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	123^th	3.852⭐	66🧑‍⚖️
Audio	23^th	3.911⭐	64🧑‍⚖️
Humor	291^th	2.553⭐	59🧑‍⚖️
Mood	56^th	3.73⭐	63🧑‍⚖️
Given		68🗳️	55🗨️

Feedback

Swini

12. Aug 2018 · 23:41 UTC

I saw your game in the news. Like the fuel, cargo system! Cool font! The stars are on different layers= cool effect. Good and mininmalistic A++;

Taner

12. Aug 2018 · 23:44 UTC

Great game, keep up. Good idea with the fuels and cargos. The enemy ships are also cool with the misslies :D

Andrew Friedman

12. Aug 2018 · 23:44 UTC

I love the whole random generation aspect of it. Well made!

Grewoss

13. Aug 2018 · 00:01 UTC

Great game, i played quite a while :)

negativegeforce

13. Aug 2018 · 00:30 UTC

Found and reviewed this because you reviewed mine. Best one i've tried so far. This is a great little game. It has alot of gameplay. The minimalism works well for it. Everything was intuitive. The shop system is simple and works great. The only trouble I had was finding the wormhole to get out of the system but thats minor. Great job.

Listonos

13. Aug 2018 · 00:55 UTC

Great game! A lot of content, looks good, fun to play. A little bit of variety in what planets offer would spice things up. Also the fellow rockets never dropped any gold when I hit them with missile.

Jole

13. Aug 2018 · 08:38 UTC

I really enjoyed this one. The music and sounds were really good. Also liked it was fast paced.

deformhead

13. Aug 2018 · 08:41 UTC

So much work here, very good, well designed, the sounds, pixel art and gameplay are great !

Ittinop

13. Aug 2018 · 08:45 UTC

Love the music, reminds me of FTL. :smile:

MissAlpha

13. Aug 2018 · 10:41 UTC

Clean and solid game, nice job, alot of fun to play!

MutsKun

13. Aug 2018 · 15:13 UTC

I like the minimalism in this game, it also controls very well. I find it weird that you are able to find the warp portal thingy even though you haven't bought the upgrade yet. I also think that it would be more fun if the prices of the stores were different depending on the type of planet you visit or depending on the level, just so you have more diversity in the game. now it's the same for every level. I did enjoy playing it though, cool concept and a fun graphics.

Mathiouza

13. Aug 2018 · 16:16 UTC

Really cool game ^^ I really enjoyed the graphics and mostly the music ! It is really cool ^^ Maybe should you make something to have more vessels to attack ?

Overall cool game ^^ Keep coding :)

Korso

13. Aug 2018 · 16:22 UTC

Very solid. The movement feels nice, and the mechanic of collecting cargo and visit planets is really cool. Love the music and the overall design. Good job!

XCVZXC

13. Aug 2018 · 17:28 UTC

Very expanded game! i coudnt believe its compo entry. I love the music, it fits perfectlu in space travelling kindof game :)

Leave

13. Aug 2018 · 17:35 UTC

Very entertaining, i like the design of stars in the background. The singularity could be a bit scarier.

Thought Reactor

13. Aug 2018 · 18:04 UTC

Really fun! Love the depth in the mechanics and variety of art.

Oneiros

13. Aug 2018 · 19:28 UTC

The game is very pretty. I think the interface works really well. Good job :)

psjuk0

13. Aug 2018 · 19:44 UTC

Really fun game, love the trading mechanic. A great achievement for 48 hours work.

NullDev

13. Aug 2018 · 20:44 UTC

am of like

Kornel

14. Aug 2018 · 08:56 UTC

Love how the game looks :slight_smile:

HoldMeImScared

14. Aug 2018 · 10:32 UTC

So much fun! I like your visual design, down to the stylistic yet very readable font choice. Your sound effects and music are absolutely on point. Just all around an excellent level of polish in a compo game, especially given the depth otherwise - you struck a great balance there.

🎤 Syrapt0r

14. Aug 2018 · 14:30 UTC

Thanks for all the feedback and positivity so far, I really enjoyed reading all the comments ^^

@listonos More variety on planets was planned but I didn't have time to implement it. I planned to have desolate planets with no items / shops and I wanted some planets where you would just find gold / missiles.

@mutskun The warp marker just serves as a help to find the wormhole. It felt unfair if you got stuck in a universe with no way to escape the black hole, that's why I made the wormhole usable from the start. That way there's still a chance to escape even if you're out of coins. As for the planets, see above :)

@leave I totally agree. I actually experimented with camera shaking and more UI indicators but both didn't really feel right so I just left it the way it is ^^

Samuel Kriman

14. Aug 2018 · 15:41 UTC

This has a really good aesthetic and feel. I visited 9 universes before dying to the singularity because I couldn't find the warp. One exploit I found is that visiting a planet removes the missiles.

LastLeaf

14. Aug 2018 · 15:48 UTC

Great fun. I quite enjoy the visual design and the music.

The idea is great. It is a great compo game. Hope you can make it more complex. Different kind of resources? More enemies?

Yngvarr

14. Aug 2018 · 15:52 UTC

I expected Asteroids-style controls from this game. =) Looks pretty solid yet monotonous. Also, wonderful parallax effect with this stars!

StJester

14. Aug 2018 · 16:47 UTC

Wow! the game looks very cool. It is polished well and overall this game is a decent entry! Thanks for creating!

turbo.torbo

14. Aug 2018 · 19:28 UTC

Cool game with a lot of content for this short amount of time. The random generation is neat and the music + sounds fit the game pretty good. really liked it!

eroz33

14. Aug 2018 · 19:39 UTC

Loved the game, very well polished!

ThePelranthean

14. Aug 2018 · 22:14 UTC

Hard to think of anything constructive to say beyond what has already been said. So, to begin with, good job; this game is fun to play.

Variety in planets would have been a nice feature, but you didn't get around to it, and even so the game still works.

Being able to use the wormhole right from the beginning is nice, though it can lead to simply finding the wormhole and leaving the universe without really exploring much. If you grind in the plentiful first levels and then just buy enough fuel, you can get quite a ways into the game without doing much. But the alternative of requiring a certain amount of money does feel a bit limiting (especially in some of the sparse universes).

Overall, I think you did a good job cutting back on features that weren't needed and focusing on what made your game enjoyable, which is ultimately what is important. So well done maintaining focus on this project.

Andrey Ugolnik

15. Aug 2018 · 05:04 UTC

Very nice art style, build web version, please.

LemADEC

15. Aug 2018 · 15:48 UTC

Nice art and variety, very good controls and effects.
A bit hard when the universe hardly has enough gold to refuel.

Vekstr

16. Aug 2018 · 05:49 UTC

Nice simple game, but I didn't quite get the theme. I also never needed to use the booster until I forgot it even existed, so I died on universe 11 feeling cheated.

Oh and I couldn't get the missiles to shoot where I wanted?

tetra

16. Aug 2018 · 19:48 UTC

I think the presentation is cool. I didn't really know what to do so I was chasing the warp points. Same with trading, resources etc, I wasn't sure where to get cargo at the start. I think it controls well, but I felt a bit directionless midgame. I think the background music is good. Most of all, I think the game would benefit from the plot being described, maybe some sort of mission to achieve on each level.

gameplay here at about 2 mins in: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/298139021##

Antonin

18. Aug 2018 · 08:19 UTC

I really liked the music and I find that the game is cool with cool graphics. The controls are very hard when you have an AZERTY keyboard. It took me sometime to understand how to get coins but now I am ready to conquer space ! Great work.

Brallex

18. Aug 2018 · 12:15 UTC

Ok you really need to add this as a web browser game!^^ I can't play it so I'll rate you based on the screenshots and description + some comments, but I really would like to play your game man!
Write me if you will x)

🎤 Syrapt0r

18. Aug 2018 · 15:11 UTC

@andrey-ugolnik @brallex Web Version is now up ^^

The particles seem to have lost the right color but everything else should work.

Barrier

18. Aug 2018 · 15:38 UTC

This was pretty cool! I got through all 10 levels and then got crushed in 2s by the thing.
I didn't even realize you had shift for faster speed.

Weiiswurst

18. Aug 2018 · 15:43 UTC

Ja guut, gegen nen IT Studenten hab ich als 13-Jähriger keine Chance :c
I have absolutely no chance against someone who is 9 years older than me.. ;)

ChicoDeLosMates

18. Aug 2018 · 15:55 UTC

I'm not a tutorial person and i thought i had to prepare for the singularity, not escape from it through the black hole haha
Great game!

Brallex

18. Aug 2018 · 20:49 UTC

Now I played it! And it was so much fun!! I really liked the gameplay, the music and audio, the slick art style from the menu(and ofc the rest of the game) and of course the trading system. Although I didn't stand a chance when the final boss level appeared, I really enjoyed the rest of the game!
All and all a great game, well done!
And thanks for building the web version for us:)

suve

19. Aug 2018 · 18:43 UTC

Enjoyable, minimalistic style. The gameplay is simple and intuitive. Good job!

🎤 Syrapt0r

19. Aug 2018 · 21:34 UTC

@weiiswurst Well I started making games just 4 years ago. Just imagine the level of skill you'll have in 9 ^^

arron-fowler

19. Aug 2018 · 22:04 UTC

This felt impressivly complete. Lots going on, all working as you would expect. Good work.

rexpeppers

22. Aug 2018 · 20:17 UTC

Wow, great effort!

Shakedimus

22. Aug 2018 · 23:01 UTC

Nice game, music combined with the simple aesthetic provided a very poished experience. Good controls also, I was wondering can you make rockets following you crash into other ships or asteroids?. I don't really like this kind of games normally but it's very well done, kudos!

🎤 Syrapt0r

22. Aug 2018 · 23:31 UTC

@shakedimus you can make them crash into asteroids to get some gold out of them, yes :)

I forgot to add the same behavior for other ships though ^^

Lagman9000

28. Aug 2018 · 19:40 UTC

Wasn't sure what to do at first but good fun once I had the hang of it! Cool chill audio and decent intuitive controls.

Roman Petrov

29. Aug 2018 · 12:04 UTC

It's like Elite, but very minimalistic :) And I loved Elite when I was a kid. Didn't have enough time to complete all 10 universes, but it was very fun to play. Great game!

Zinski

30. Aug 2018 · 21:08 UTC

This little space exploration game is one of the best games I could play in jam! The sound and visual atmosphere are great! I liked the original mechanics of this game even if I think that some visual feedbacks would make the experience even better! Great job! :)

By the way please feel free to leave us some feedbacks on our game!