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Astral SteroidsView game page

Godot Wild Jam 68 entry
Submitted by Londolan — 1 hour, 43 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#463.3913.391
Graphics#553.4783.478
Originality#733.3483.348
Overall#753.0503.050
Fun#772.9572.957
Theme#873.2613.261
Controls#922.7392.739
Accessibility#1132.1742.174

Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
4.2.1

Wildcards Used
Pay Attention, 007 & Hardcore

Game Description
Protect the planet by mining asteroids and forging upgrades for your base and/or star-jet.

How does your game tie into the theme?
The base is a star-forge, able to forge new upgrades.

Source(s)
no

Discord Username(s)
Londolan & Vermoot

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
This is my first GWJ.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

It took me a few restarts to understand what I was doing, but it started to get fun after that.  Really impressive for a first GWJ.  I dug the music, too.  

Developer(+1)

Glad you had fun on our entry and the music!

Submitted(+1)

Wow! For a first submission, this is incredible! Also very, very difficult. :P Main thing I'd say is a pet peeve of my own, which is to include WASD as valid directional controls - it's easy to do, and helps those of us that don't have arrows on our keyboards (I had to do a remapping for this and a previous game, so it was okay, but still, easy to add in project settings under input). At some point I thought I was really kicking butt, and then I got absolutely nusted and wanted to start again to see how far I could get - that's a great sign for any game!

I can't wait to see more from you! 

Developer(+1)

Hahahaaah! Thanks very much, BackAt50ft!

Submitted(+1)

I liked the visual perspective of this game! 3D-top down looks good! I liked that you included a screen-edge marker for the forge! I also liked the way of purchasing upgrade, by walking into the structures. Music and SFX was rad too!

I had hope to build more upgrades, but halfway through the game I thought the asteroids stopped spawning. I followed asteroids edge marker to the end of the map, but there didn't seem to be any in the indicated direction. On my way back, a stray asteroid hit Earth.

Developer

Thanks, Busride!

Did you follow the marker to the left or to the right? Let me see if this is something to fix for a later version…

Submitted(+1)

The visuals are awesome !! I love the mood, and how big the planet feels

Developer

Thanks, Elidef!

Submitted(+1)

Viiiiiiibes. Good work, this played, looked, and sounded great

Developer

Thanks, Ross! Appreciated.

Submitted(+1)

Appreciated the stoic quotes. It's a pretty zen game. Well done

Developer

Thank you! Fo shizzle, to become zen-like I like to go to death metal concerts.

Submitted(+1)

I really like the way this game looks. It kinda feels like a minigame in Final Fantasy VII. Similarly to those minigames, this is unfortunately a bit unintuitive at first, but you start to understand after a while.

I think if the dots at the edge of the screen indicating the asteroids were some kind of icon it would have been faster to figure it out, but the current version works fine, it just takes a little bit to understand.

Overall, I enjoyed it. The aesthetic is nice and I like the quotes when you die

Developer

Haha, thanks for the compliments, Dennis! I’ll learn from your feedback for my next project.

Submitted(+1)

Wow. The visuals are stunning, those shaders are really putting in work! The audio is great and sounds effects are well mixed. And the gameplay loop is super fun. Watching the forge upgrade, the shadows on the planet from materials, being able to see where asteroids and the forge are off screen so you can just throw the materials to the forge, it's really the whole package. It's clear you put a lot of thought into this, excellent job!

Definitely felt some performance issues early on that ironed themselves out. In the end it's a game jam, so I feel like that's to be expected.

Developer

Awww, thank you LG! Yeah those performace issues at the start should be fixed in a later version.

Submitted(+1)

Love the art and music. Shame about the freeze/hitch up bug, hope you are able to figure that out post jam as the game concept is very cool. Well done!

Developer

Thank you, Amadan! Yeah, the freeze bug at the start I would like to iron out in a later version.

Submitted(+1)

I really liked the retro art style and music! I had some issues with lag on the web browser but that was probably an issue my end. Overall had a good time playing :D 

Developer (1 edit)

To help starting players, please see this video for more clarity about the gameplay.

Submitted(+1)

I love the visual style! It was difficult to get into at first, I didn't understand anything, but i got it eventually :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks, Subvirtual! Good think you got the knack of it :-) Hope you liked the gameplay loop.

Submitted(+1)

I had some issues while starting the game, some freezes and sometimes the Enter key didn't started it... but after that, the game run smoothly. It took some time to understand what to do but once you get used to the controls and where things are it gets better.  I liked it :) 

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you! Sadly, I couldn’t find the origin of the freeze bug before the deadline. Maybe in a later version, I’ll be able to fix it.

Thank heavens that the freeze up is only at the beginning of the session.

Submitted(+1)

I destroyed an asteroid and all of the materials got destroyed with it, that's annoying

Developer

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature ;-) There’s a description about that on the game page, and how to prevent them from exploding.

Submitted(+1)

Wow, cool game! Love the retro aesthetic you got with the graphics and sound (and even the gameplay). Will say, it def took me a minute to figure out what was going on since the asteroids didn't get in my peripheral for a hot minute.  It felt pretty slow at the beginning, which I think led to my confusion with what was going on.

I also experienced significant performance issues when starting the game. Doing things for the first time like grabbing power-ups, getting destroyed, and unlocking stuff would freeze my game for about 10 seconds then continue playing. 

Regardless, awesome stuff~!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! Yeah, the lag at the start I noticed too, but only in HTML5. Wasn’t able to figure out why that happened before the deadline. But it’s nice that you enjoyed the game!

Submitted

re: lag I suspect it's from a long-standing issue with particle/shader compiling, most apparent in web builds.

I think for games with lots of particles, it calls for addressing it with some of the workarounds suggested in these threads/videos.

(I'm trying to track down if there is a solution implemented into Godot Engine, but I don't think there is yet)

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/29973

https://travismaynard.com/writing/caching-particle-materials-in-godot

Developer

Awesome! Gonna look into that :-)

Submitted(+1)

Very creative take on the theme, and I love the retro visuals and audio.  A bit hard to understand exactly what was happening at first, but once I got it I had a good time.  Well done!  

Developer

Thank you! I thought that figuring out what is going on is part of the fun. I might be wrong about that, whoops.

Submitted(+1)

Hard to get far enough into the game to understand the game loop. I really like the art style!

Submitted

Hard to get far enough into the game to understand the game loop. I really like the art style!