Spaceport by freeworld

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made by freeworld for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

Start your new job at the Space Port now!

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Guide incoming ships to their destination by clicking on them and dragging to signal their path. Don't crash them, or else you might find yourself jobhunting again..

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Applicants are encouraged to share their best efforts in the comments.

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Note: The web export sometimes had loading issues, either hanging for a very long time or not starting at all, so there's also other exports available if needed. I hope they all work as expected!

Ratings

Overall 188th 3.543⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 150th 3.63⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 148th 3.565⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 236th 3.413⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 241th 3.261⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 115th 3.478⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 182th 2.632⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 124th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

Alexander_Mor
02. Oct 2023 · 16:27 UTC
![image 33.png](///raw/51e/a5/z/5d559.png)

Interesting! My score is 11 :D
Donitz
02. Oct 2023 · 21:12 UTC
Relaxing game. I wish the level kept getting more complex as you got further, like you had to plan these long complicated paths for a lot of ships coming from different directions.
🎤 freeworld
02. Oct 2023 · 21:17 UTC
@donitz Thanks for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed what I managed to put together :P

I agree, more levels or some zooming out to more complex obstacles are a great idea!
cheesepencil
02. Oct 2023 · 21:18 UTC
Pretty cute! I adore this for its simplicity. In my efforts to avoid collisions I had ships running really fancy twisty loopy paths, and it worked for a while - until inevitably a ship spawns at the corner and bumps into another ship or the environment.

lots of fun
Martin Bousquet
02. Oct 2023 · 23:18 UTC
The game has depths, it's not as easy as it seems! I tried different approaches but in the end the only thing that would work well was that there's no clear rule :)

I managed to save 19 ships, don't know it that's a lot.
🎤 freeworld
04. Oct 2023 · 00:32 UTC
@cheesepencil I'm glad you liked it and that you had some fun letting the ships circle around :P

Thanks for playing and the comment!
🎤 freeworld
04. Oct 2023 · 00:35 UTC
@martin-bousquet I'm glad it posed some challenge despite only having the one "level"!

Nice! 19 is very fair, I only saw a screenshot of one mad person getting to 40 somehow, but I'm not sure myself how that was even possible :D

Thanks for playing and the kind words!
LDJam user 313326
04. Oct 2023 · 01:50 UTC
Fun game! The graphics are simple but do the trick, the theme is apparent as well. I agree that larger levels would be fun. good job!
quasilyte
04. Oct 2023 · 16:28 UTC
This game is quite unique.

It would be even better with different levels with target numbers of parked vessels.
Starting from a simpler one and then going crazy hard.

Once I realized that you can dock the ship from any side, the game became easier. :D
The port should probably give a game over if you try to dock the ship from the wall side of the dock (it has only 1 directional entrance).
chusmimax
05. Oct 2023 · 02:24 UTC
Fun and interesting, I don't know if I had seen a similar concept before.

Still, I have to agree with other comments, only having 1 possible level seems like a waste of potential.
kuggenhoffen
06. Oct 2023 · 14:07 UTC
That's a cute little game, looks and gameplay mechanics work quite well. Does get a bit boring after couple of tries. Also I'm not sure is it intentional if you start drawing from one ship and draw over another they both will then follow the same line?
Good job on the game!
Linus Lindberg
06. Oct 2023 · 17:57 UTC
Great entry. Beautiful, nice audio and the path drawing feels clean and intuitive. Would work great on phones with touch controls and randomly generated levels. I could play it for hours :)
🎤 freeworld
06. Oct 2023 · 22:25 UTC
@kuggenhoffen I'm glad you had some fun despite it getting boring after a few rounds! Yeahh that's a bug :D Unfortunately I noticed it way too late :P


@linus-lindberg Thank you very much for playing and the kind words! I'm glad you could also see it as a simple game for mobile :)
LeviDSmith
10. Oct 2023 · 00:15 UTC
Very cool. I managed to save 17 ships. Reminded me of Picture Pages, which is really showing my age. Now I've got the Picture Pages theme stuck in my head.
commanderstitch
10. Oct 2023 · 00:24 UTC
Dude. This game is awesome. <3 My best was 18. Music perfect. Graphics, good enough. Neat stuff!
crylica
10. Oct 2023 · 05:50 UTC
I remember playing a mobile game exactly like this but with planes haha. It's always a fun concept to revisit. I think the "dead" zone could have been communicated visually better - had no idea it was a no-fly zone initially (maybe if it looked more like a hazard, like a giant floating asteroid/rock, or lava, poison, etc). A really solid compo entry, good job!
Veka
11. Oct 2023 · 22:48 UTC
Nice compo entry! I managed to get 20 on my best try.
It's really tough getting more than 15, right when you get more than 2 ships to control at the same time, but I loved how quickly you could adjust the route of the ship.

The only critique I can provide (just a small one), was that I felt it was little unfair when the ship spawned on top, right near the hazard zone. The window for realising that felt a bit too short, or the obstancle could have been a tiny bit away from the edge.

Also good job on the audio. I liked the audio cues whenever a ship reached its destination. Made it a lot easier to concentrate on the newly spawning ships.
LDJam user 374472
12. Oct 2023 · 15:30 UTC
It's hard! I got to 7. Liked the music, graphics and mood, these work well together.
What I found confusing about the routes is whether they remain after a ship has used them or not. Sometimes it did, sometimes not. Good job overall!
🎤 freeworld
13. Oct 2023 · 19:23 UTC
@najjaman Thanks a lot for playing and the kind words!

The routes still being shown after a ship has already traversed them sounds like a bug :D sorry about that :P
cdunham
14. Oct 2023 · 05:25 UTC
Cool game! I like how the mechanics are implemented. Would've liked to see more levels or maps of varying difficulty for the player to try to maneuver the ships around.
🎤 freeworld
14. Oct 2023 · 19:48 UTC
@cdunham thanks a lot for playing and the feedback! I'm glad the concept was good enough to warrant more levels :P
stmate03
20. Oct 2023 · 15:13 UTC
pretty nice and simple game, I really enjoyed it, my best score is 13, was going for 15 :(
🎤 freeworld
20. Oct 2023 · 23:11 UTC
@stmate03 almost! :P Thanks a lot for taking the time to play!