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Star Collector by boddiul

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made by boddiul for Ludum Dare 58 (COMPO)

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When the night sky burst into a rain of falling stars, a lone collector set out to gather as many as he could before they fade away. Jump, dodge, and chase the starlight in this fast, endless run through the cosmic night.

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I was super busy this weekend, but at the last moment decided to join the jam and make a game in just 3 hours — and I think it worked out!

Engine & Graphics: GameMaker

Sound Effects: BFXR

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Link https://boddiul.itch.io/star-collector
Link https://boddiul.itch.io/star-collector
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/star-collector

Ratings

Overall 45th 3.758⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 48th 3.625⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 140th 3.048⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Theme 18th 4.188⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 35th 4.091⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Audio 65th 3.516⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 97th 2.931⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Mood 37th 3.879⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 8🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

David Sheffield
Oct 06th · 00:51 UTC
Smooth controls and nice physics, when you die and all the stars collapse everywhere it looks great. 10/10 would die again
LDJam user 336676
Oct 06th · 01:12 UTC
very nice, I love the simplicity of it, and the smoothness of everythin.
Ira Baciu
Oct 07th · 01:08 UTC
You participate in this LD too? Wow. A pretty solid game for three hours
Earlybard
Oct 07th · 11:09 UTC
Beautiful game, amazing that you turned this around in 3 hours. I like jumping to intercept stars and wish there was more reward for it!
gamebuilder
Oct 07th · 18:27 UTC
I love the sound effects in this game. The B+W aesthetic also works very well. Between the audio and the graphics, I am reminded of old arcade video games from the 1970's. Not bad for 3 hours! You must be a good coder.

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LDJam user 243193
Oct 12th · 09:07 UTC
Nice simple endless runner game! There doesn't seem to be any way to catch stars when they are falling so we can only grab them from the ground. But it's good enough.
SID37
Oct 12th · 16:48 UTC
A very fun game, I scored 106 stars.
CameronPenner
Oct 12th · 16:54 UTC
I love the 1 bit graphics, and low rez sfx. Feels great to pick up a star, and the crash animation is delightful. Great game for 3 hours! Ever thought of entering the tri-jam?
Purrseus
Oct 12th · 17:04 UTC
Noooo, I stumbled with my 66 Stars!

Incredible work for a 3 hour timeframe! Yes, the game is barebones of course, but still engaging enough for me to collect 66 stars, haha. Great job on the art and sound design too!
Stefan B.
Oct 12th · 17:09 UTC
i could catch them on the fly - nice style, very polished for just 3 hours.
Split82
Oct 12th · 17:11 UTC
Super cool for 3 hours. I would like to see the difficulty going up faster, but otherwise awesome job.
ScrapMetal
Oct 12th · 17:22 UTC
3 hours??? Well damn. Bravo. :clap: So simple, so effective and a lot of fun. Really impressive. Geez. Nice job.
Nazorus
Oct 12th · 18:03 UTC
Very impressive result for 3 hours of work, this is a great example of how good and polished a game can feel when the project is scoped exactly right. Love the aesthetic and the little animations like the starry background and the death animation. Good job!
hijomo
Oct 12th · 18:03 UTC
This was fun to get into the flow. Nice really clean and simple. The ending with all the falling stars was both sad and pretty.
xpoho
Oct 12th · 18:16 UTC
My friend, good style! Reminded me of PICO games ^_^
MAR Zockmeister
Oct 12th · 21:55 UTC
Wow, only 3 hours? Really nice simple game, nice animation and pixel graphics style, sound also fits to the style, nice mood. To make it a little more difficult, maybe the flying stars can also hurt you? And you should remove the debug key '1' :wink:
Catusfelony
Oct 12th · 22:11 UTC
Something satisfying about the sound of all the stars dropping to the ground once you lose. I scored 97, was going to take a screenshot, but it reset went I went to press the buttons...
wo_ri_gou_le
Oct 13th · 06:14 UTC
Simple and effective, someone in google should replace the dino game with this
YibiRabbit007
Oct 13th · 11:00 UTC
It can totally serve as a standby game for the Edge browser when there's no internet!!
ghost-in-the-toast
Oct 13th · 13:02 UTC
I loved it!
ljol3
Oct 14th · 02:39 UTC
like a much more calming version of the t-rex game
Le Don
Oct 14th · 19:26 UTC
Love how well this is put together. The BFXR sound effects are great and the animations are also well done.
torcado
Oct 18th · 16:28 UTC
simple game but fun to play! really good aesthetic, and the sounds are nice. it would be nice if it sped up a bit overtime, but otherwise i think the game does what it needs to :) nice work!