Vacuum by vividfax

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made by vividfax for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Vacuum is a minimalist game about harvesting colourful nebulae to grow a newly born star. Comets are drawn in by its gravity, and their icy chill will extinguish such a small solar object. Gain critical mass to complete the cycle.

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Ratings

Overall 66th 4.048⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Fun 203th 3.71⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 91th 3.871⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Theme 227th 3.983⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 143th 4.21⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Audio 39th 4.129⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Mood 13th 4.383⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

0xWAVY
08. Jan 2023 · 22:48 UTC
This was awesome! Everything from the graphics to the music, to the little sound effects, really well polished. Cool use of the theme too. A really satisfying play, thanks for submitting!
Paroxysmal
08. Jan 2023 · 22:55 UTC
Very good entry. A good take on the theme. Well done!
sonicpixelation
08. Jan 2023 · 23:00 UTC
Great game! it game me some nostalgia for Solar 2.
The-Vecter
08. Jan 2023 · 23:05 UTC
Really good game.
The art is great, and I like the random level generation/colours.

Sometimes it was hard to tell where the comets were going and the movement felt a bit floaty, but I guess it is space so it's not too bad.
I would also have liked a volume slider for the music/sfx.

Overall I really enjoyed the game!
LDJam user 315550
09. Jan 2023 · 02:35 UTC
Great art and game mechanics. Fantastic mood !
LDJam user 49756
09. Jan 2023 · 02:39 UTC
Holy, the atmosphere here is so nice. Music is chill and gameplay is simple but captivating. Graphics are pretty, that's a really nice game!
arowx
09. Jan 2023 · 11:22 UTC
Great work. Would love it if the star dust was sucked towards comets and the players planetoid.

You might be able to do it with a particle system or a texture and compute shader then again would it be possible with just small sprite quads?

Maybe you could have competing planets, or black holes.
SoonTheSpoon
09. Jan 2023 · 14:06 UTC
Visuals and music played nicely together. Nice atmosphere in general. Moving the defense with arrow keys was a bit obsolete. Good work!
resevoir
09. Jan 2023 · 14:57 UTC
Love how the visuals and audio work together to really create a mood in this game. The colors changing with each playthrough made me play it again and again. It took me about a dozen playthroughs to realize how the planets hovering the sun can be used as a defense mechanicm.
Nodra
09. Jan 2023 · 22:46 UTC
Love the vibe and setup. Adding some progression goals or rewards would be my next step.
plexsoup
10. Jan 2023 · 03:34 UTC
Very nice, elegant game design. Well done.
Henno
10. Jan 2023 · 20:10 UTC
Very good game, I like the concept !
xCarl
11. Jan 2023 · 14:10 UTC
A simple concept but very addictive, always retrying trying to clean all the screen. It is very polished too. Nice game, I really like it!
omphh
11. Jan 2023 · 17:25 UTC
Mood is great in this, loved the audio and art style. Super chill, great entry!! :)
Jiri Hysek
11. Jan 2023 · 18:06 UTC
Nice relaxing experience!
CO5MONAUT
12. Jan 2023 · 13:29 UTC
I really enjoyed playing your game, it's very addictive and beautiful! 5/5
When you go behind the screen and reappear from the other side, it's very confusing because you constantly need to watch the opposite parts of the screen, especially in the later stages of the game.

It would also be cool if comets moved according to the physics of gravity, swirling around a star, but I understand the difficulties that would entail. :)
OminusGalaxy44
12. Jan 2023 · 13:49 UTC
Nice experience! The music was great :)

![image_2023-01-12_084940663.png](///raw/d42/f3/z/5640d.png)

i was so close :( :(
Richard Jedlicka
12. Jan 2023 · 13:59 UTC
Wonderful. Everything is perfect. Love the idea, the art style, sounds, gameplay, controls (big plus for gamepad). It is hard though, didn't finish yet. Well done!
anoushcat
12. Jan 2023 · 14:35 UTC
I loved the music, it was very calming!
The idea, execution, artstyle and overall mood are great!
I wish there was more to it but obviously that's already a very good job for a game jam.
MaximBegunov
12. Jan 2023 · 15:49 UTC
Beautiful minimalitic game. Gave me Solar 2 vibes.
Emmatw
12. Jan 2023 · 19:59 UTC
very nice game, it was entertaining although the mechanics were very simple and it was nice that it became more challenging over time. I loved the art style and music, and the sound effect when comets were drawn into your orbit. I think a nice addition would have been a variety of object to avoid that behaved a little differently from each other.
TRASEVOL_DOG
16. Jan 2023 · 19:45 UTC
Very nice little experience! The nebulae look really great and harvesting one entirely was very satisfying! The little enemies made me take the game slower and I think my time with it was nicer for it. :)
Skosnowich
21. Jan 2023 · 15:14 UTC
Very polished entry. Great audio design! I loved the music and the little sounds when destroying a comet seemed to weave in to the music perfectly. Also the generated nebulas look fabulous!
RaggedyJam
25. Jan 2023 · 11:00 UTC
Loved it everything about it was a great idea and I was challenged by it some so it was great fun. I especially like how you gain bodies in your orbit to help you out as you grow. It seems like your game could work well with the mechanics from the game I was inspired by Shark Shark where if you collide with things smaller than you than you eat it up and grow larger but if you collide with things larger than you get eaten and lose.