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Get Sun by irwatts

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made by irwatts for LD34 (COMPO)
Fill up your petal sacks with raw crystalline sunlight droplets and grow as long as possible!

I noodled with art too much to make a start screen again so the game just starts. Prepare yourself!

Mouse/Keyboard Controls:
A/D/Mouse X: Yaw Camera
W/S/Mouse Y: Pitch Camera
Q/E/Left/Right: Roll Camera
R: Restart
Space: Pause
Esc: Quit

Gamepad Controls:
Left Thumbstick: Yaw and Pitch Camera
Right Thumbstick: Roll and Pitch Camera
Left/Right Triggers: Roll Camera
Select: Restart
Start: Pause

Software used:
Unreal Engine 4
Silo
Blender
Substance Designer
Photoshop
REAPER
Audacity
Windows https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-lDc9jN1WnBNEdpdnBIeTNFTjg/view?usp=sharing
Source https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-lDc9jN1WnBYVpoT3pjRXJKY1E/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=56905

Ratings

Coolness 49% 1391
Overall 3.65 183
Audio 3.57 122
Fun 3.22 434
Graphics 4.64 5
Innovation 3.30 390
Mood 4.05 34
Theme 4.13 133

Feedback

Mixer
14. Dec 2015 · 03:37 UTC
Impressive game! Graphics were superb, and the game play was neat.
Fanttum
14. Dec 2015 · 03:46 UTC
Wow this looks really pretty. Any chance for a mac or web build?
mactinite
14. Dec 2015 · 04:08 UTC
Looks really great, could be really addictive!
ranmaru90
14. Dec 2015 · 04:18 UTC
Very pretty!
MCRewind
14. Dec 2015 · 05:33 UTC
Amazing graphics, what else could I expect from unreal
uvwar
14. Dec 2015 · 06:41 UTC
Really cool graphics, seemed really hard to get myself going at first, but once I had some momentum, it was a breeze. The music and camera got a little annoying after a while but really nice graphics and the concept is cool. Good job!
ezolotko
14. Dec 2015 · 06:58 UTC
Nice mood
ShadedVertex
14. Dec 2015 · 08:18 UTC
The graphics looked amazing, but for me playing the game was like staring at a photo and trying to get the stuff shown on the photo to move. The things ran at 1 FPS most of the time, peaking at 3 FPS or so. That's probably just my computer. Either way, I can't really judge. Still, I'll give you a 5 for graphics!
SuperChihuahua
14. Dec 2015 · 08:58 UTC
My computer is not that good so this game was lagging
mukult
14. Dec 2015 · 09:26 UTC
Ohh man!! This look so sweet... is there any possibility of a mac build by any chance ?
KilledByAPixel
14. Dec 2015 · 19:02 UTC
Sick graphics, reminiscent me of flower. Lots of nice touches like the fov effect on restart. Gameplay feels good. Needs a difficulty ramp, I got to 100,000 with no end in sight. I had some difficulty at first gauging my speed versus the sun drops, I think the problem may be that the camera is angled slightly down, try aiming the camera along the same vector as movement. Also, I think you should simplify the camera by removing the roll component so the planet is always down. Nice ambient music. Great work!
Optimus6128
14. Dec 2015 · 22:16 UTC
Graphically it's great.
The idea is nice, although I had a hard time to really aim for those floating things and most of the times I stopped at 3-5 seconds. There are arrow controls that are bad, then I realized it plays with the mouse a little bit better.
fpwong
16. Dec 2015 · 02:21 UTC
Nice looks & style. Needs a sensitivity for the mouse + keyboard controls (I forgot to do this as well).
DinnerInTheDark
16. Dec 2015 · 20:19 UTC
A very beautiful game, it's quite relaxing. Good job!
knason
17. Dec 2015 · 20:28 UTC
What a beautiful game! nice music as well :-) great job!
KZdev
17. Dec 2015 · 23:30 UTC
Really laggy on my machine so I couldn't play much but rated highly for graphics.
Hot Box Games
20. Dec 2015 · 22:11 UTC
Really impressive graphics!
Good job!