Altum by Choppers
Use the mouse to move around the space surrounding your de-powered ship. Attach your grapple to asteroids with left click and left click again to pull yourself towards them. Collect enough energy from asteroids that you reel in with right click, return to your ship and escape the black hole of which you are falling deeper and deeper into.
Be careful when collecting asteroids, as it is easy to leave yourself stranded!
Change Log: Bug Fixed where shuttle would be grabbed and cause and error.
| Altum (Windows) | https://choppers.itch.io/altum |
| Source Code | https://choppers.itch.io/altum |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/altum |
Ratings
| Overall | 623th | 3.21⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 616th | 3.065⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 345th | 3.403⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 827th | 2.683⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 388th | 3.532⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 648th | 2.533⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 591th | 1.962⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 547th | 3.089⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 39🗳️ | 37🗨️ |
But from what little I managed to play I liked it. I like the dual-purpose design; by removing an asteroid you keep it from being an anchor point. I imagine the endgame is a frantic scramble around to find the last asteroids needed to escape.

Anyway, other than that, cool mechanics! Nice color scheme too! More sound would help with the mood.
Good luck in compo!

The gameplay was fun, in my third try I managed to escape!
i think it is necessary to diversify the appearance of asteroids
As for the gameplay, grappling around felt really slow but I really liked having to plan a return path in advance in order to not find myself over a screen away from any asteroid. Seeing the black hole grow bigger end bigger sends a nice chill down one's spine.
Simple, inventive and works really well, congrats!
I had fun playing this! Not sure if there was Audio or not, but it didn't play for me.
I liked the graphics and the general concept. On my first run I died because I ate too many asteroids, on the second one I made it all around the blackk hole (I think) but then got eaten by it. Is there a win condition that I missed? If not that would be very on theme!