Space Minigolf by russeli

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made by russeli for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

Minigolfing without a club !

Control your space rocket by creating wormholes to orbit around and reach destination planet with as little used wormholes as possible.

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Instructions:

  • Click to exit start planet orbit
  • Click again to create a wormhole to orbit around.
  • Reach the other planet to finish a level
  • Less wormholes, better score.

Developers best score for now: 62.

If you manage to finish, please leave your score in comments!

Ratings

Overall 1391th 3.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1305th 2.861⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 919th 3.237⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1308th 3.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1350th 2.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1051th 2.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1043th 2.324⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1419th 2.611⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

sanojian
05. Oct 2020 · 09:15 UTC
Its quite a clever game. Is there some way to see the map before wasting all those brave astronauts scouting?
Amin_JK000
05. Oct 2020 · 09:17 UTC
liked the idea of the game :)
ZakAmana
05. Oct 2020 · 09:50 UTC
I love the wormhole mechanic, adds a nice touch. I wish it had a bit more feedback as I wasn't sure how many I had per level / why sometime it wouldn't pop up as I clicked. Overall nice entry with quite a lot of levels! Good job :)
Rohinth
05. Oct 2020 · 20:15 UTC
The concept is so different I like it!! ❤️
ZEST_is_BEST
06. Oct 2020 · 16:03 UTC
Wasn't too sure how the loops worked at the start - once I figured it out I started doing much better! :P Final score was 318 wormholes :D What's the current record?
JaTDev
06. Oct 2020 · 16:43 UTC
Really interesting idea!

I enjoyed slowly getting the hang of placing wormholes over time. (I was still really bad at it at the end, my final score was over 400 :D).

The placement of a wormhole instantly changing the direction of the space rocket was irritating at first, smoothing this transition might make for a better experience.

I really liked the level design, especially the level with the small hole-in-one gap and an alternative long way around.

Good job!
jndm
06. Oct 2020 · 17:24 UTC
Thank you for kind words! @zest-is-best Current record still stands as 62 :)
kasperhangard
09. Oct 2020 · 17:40 UTC
Quite fun! I liked being able to augment the rocket path with wormholes! Music also somehow didn't get boring even though it was a simple piece.
MrchickenBoy
14. Oct 2020 · 03:29 UTC
I like the idea, though, the hitboxes could have been improved, you can make them shorter. Also, the level design, you can really work on polishing the levels, quality over quantity, always remember that. Other than that, epic game!
Andrfw
14. Oct 2020 · 05:26 UTC
Pretty fun!! it was sad to me that re-trying kept lowering making my score worse, it would have been fun to try the same levels over and over again to try and get the best possible score (I got one of them in like, one wormhole, which would have been cool to have marked down).

Not sure if that's the direction you want to go, just a random idea I had. Great job!
Lychee
17. Oct 2020 · 02:56 UTC
I liked your unique take on golfing! Took a few tries to understand how it works but after I did it worked well. I think it having some kind of minimap would help, or a course overview before you enter the level so you have an idea of where you're going without trial and error. Great job overall!
Macmist
19. Oct 2020 · 22:05 UTC
Pretty nice game with a really cool idea! Hard to master and really cool to play, well done! There is just sometimes I wish we could see the entire level to know where we're headed like you usually do in minigolf, but also in a way that makes for more challenge.
mohmehdi
19. Oct 2020 · 23:06 UTC
i kinda liked that adding all mistakes up to level 20
a little issue in controling the ship it though
and im not sure but i guess wormholes dosnt have gravity thats blackhole XD