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Orbital by OldPeculier

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made by OldPeculier for LD34 (COMPO)
It's 1979, and you're landing your groovy new spaceship on a cruelly revolving planet.

Just two buttons (the arrow keys) do everything:

* LEFT turns left.
* RIGHT turns right.
* LEFT + RIGHT at the same time to thrust forward.

See how many levels you can beat! The cool kids wear large, polyester lapels and easily beat the first six levels. Are you as cool as they are?

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I'd had vague ideas of making a vector-graphics game for years but had never gotten around to adding vector rendering to my personal engine, "Fresh." When I saw the theme "Two Button Controls" I knew the time for mega-retro minimalism had come. Wonderful theme.

Hey! Enjoy!
Web (HTML5 + WebGL, not Unity) http://www.electrictoy.co/games/ld34/
Timelapse https://youtu.be/xwzBK8j7MXs
Source http://www.electrictoy.co/games/ld34/src.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=25979

Ratings

Coolness 58% 3
Overall 3.97 54
Audio 3.78 72
Fun 3.72 113
Graphics 4.22 55
Humor 2.23 549
Innovation 2.80 672
Mood 3.97 40
Theme 4.00 233

Feedback

RadMcCool
14. Dec 2015 路 11:49 UTC
Really enjoyed the visual style. Could only get to level 5 before my patience broke.
Zeezgames
14. Dec 2015 路 11:50 UTC
Really liked the game, took me a good 5 mins to get the hang of the controls but when i did i got into it :) music matched the style and the graphics were decent for the style of game

really liked it and after voting on some others will come back and try get higher score :D

Thanks
Eshford
14. Dec 2015 路 17:59 UTC
Game looks brilliant! Well done!
pianoman373
14. Dec 2015 路 18:11 UTC
Amazing game. I lost about 5 hours in the beginning of my compo trying to do an orbit-based game, failed, gave up, and made a different game. You really nailed it.
馃帳 OldPeculier
14. Dec 2015 路 18:48 UTC
Thanks pianoman and Eshford and Zeezgames and RadMcCool! Makes me feel happy!
ranseur
14. Dec 2015 路 18:59 UTC
Incredible use of vector graphics! Very cool.
Chewie
14. Dec 2015 路 19:04 UTC
Hardcore landing game with step levels curve and good visuals. Nothing new in mechanics but nice realization anyway.
wilsk
14. Dec 2015 路 19:12 UTC
Fun, challenging little game which looked very nice. Was a little small on the screen but I squinted and leant forward in my chair which helped :)

Also, I'm a sucker for a time lapse!
csanyk
15. Dec 2015 路 04:34 UTC
Fantastic vector monitor emulation. Nice Lunar Landar variant. The orbital mechanics make it a lot more interesting. Made it to level 7 :)
trozen
15. Dec 2015 路 17:23 UTC
Awesome little game! I checked out the code but the engine is missing! Any chance you can open source it?
LeafThief
15. Dec 2015 路 20:52 UTC
We were surprised by how much fun we had with this! Good stuff!
local306
15. Dec 2015 路 22:00 UTC
Clever spin on a classic with the two button limitation
TheMeorch
16. Dec 2015 路 03:55 UTC
Lovely vector graphics! Lander games often frustrate me because the motion is so slow and they often require lots of restarts -- that said, this is a great execution of that genre, with a really nice scaling of difficulty over the course of the levels. Great job!
esayitch
16. Dec 2015 路 07:47 UTC
Very cool and well-made. I think I found out all the ways that you can fail a level during the first level, except maybe the off the pad one xD

Graphics were very suitable, and sound was very ambient and created a really nice atmosphere.

Overall I really enjoyed it, very well-made.
Hot Box Games
18. Dec 2015 路 19:02 UTC
Awesome visuals and Audio, loved the "asteroids"+"moon lander" style gameplay. Simple and perfectly exicuted well done.
dlowe
18. Dec 2015 路 19:07 UTC
Level 8 :D

This was a sweet twist on a retro classic, and I loved it. Thanks for the game!
rnlf
18. Dec 2015 路 20:43 UTC
I dig this vector style. Very well done!

The controls are surprisingly intuitive. I wish there was some more variation in the gameplay, but then I ragequit after trying level 10 for the billionth time.

Good game and extra points for pointing out that it's not a Unity "Web"-Player game.
OwT
18. Dec 2015 路 21:40 UTC
Really interesting and fun little game (also gave up at level 5) :)
PowerSpark
18. Dec 2015 路 21:48 UTC
Great visual style. The game should rely less on patience, though. Amazing graphics too!
mukult
18. Dec 2015 路 21:54 UTC
hmmmm..not able to play it...cant see anything on the browser...might be my fault somehow...
AntiMatterTape
18. Dec 2015 路 22:32 UTC
Lunar lander
*but better
bessdlan
20. Dec 2015 路 12:42 UTC
difficult but very nice game (could go to level 8 but it's very hard :p)
good job ;)
AndreSilvs
20. Dec 2015 路 13:09 UTC
I gave up at level 11, at which point the landing pad was so small the ship barely fits and you actually have to keep up with planet's rotation to be able to land. Not being able to turn while thrusting makes it really hard at higher levels but I guess it's part of the theme. Loved the visuals, nice gameplay. Great job! Also, I would have liked to see my "Landing success rate". (So bad!)
Instant Noodles
21. Dec 2015 路 08:55 UTC
Pretty neat, I like the sounds and the music. Sadly my ship fell down on my first try, but I manage to land it right after that.
ztiromoritz
21. Dec 2015 路 20:32 UTC
Looks very nice.
scorched
24. Dec 2015 路 16:39 UTC
Enjoyed a lot, the controls fit good, though the gameplay is a bit tough and repetitive. Played a couple of games in the past that featured landing in the same way, so not very innovative, but graphics and mood are still great! Also liked the hints explaining my mistakes, but except one - I didn't initially know that I have to land to special pads, I saw these pads as something I needed to avoid :D
arzi
26. Dec 2015 路 15:52 UTC
Looks really good, but insanely difficult :o
Aurel B铆l媒
28. Dec 2015 路 13:08 UTC
Very retro, like the lander Flash games of the 00's :) Lost it at level 8.
hexagore
02. Jan 2016 路 17:42 UTC
So this game looks absolutely brilliant and, I have to say, one of the very few games where I've immediately downloaded the source. :P
BunchaSapsGames
05. Jan 2016 路 00:55 UTC
I loved it! Looks great, good concept.