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A jam submission

Space DrifterView game page

Game that was made for TriJam theme Keep Drifting
Submitted by RokKos, alekzs — 11 hours, 32 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#33.6253.625
Visuals#34.0004.000
Overall#53.9583.958
How well does the game fit the themes?#54.6254.625
Did you make it in 3 hours (put 5 by default)#84.7504.750
How much do you enjoy the game overall?#93.3753.375
Gameplay#103.3753.375

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How long was your dev time?
3h and 1 minute

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful and interesting concept.  This could easily turn into a exploration, navigation, resource management adventure.  Nice work !

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

great game and really cool take on the theme, also it’s so satisfaying when you get to manage the gravity and score :p

Submitted

I think this has a lot of potential if you tweak some things a little. Reminds me a lot of Gravitee, an online space golf game I really like. Obviously this isn't the defacto way to fix it, but I have two suggestions:

  1. I agree with JafCraze: the planets shouldn't have gravity until you place them. If you're trying to play properly, it's really easy to have that throw you off-course, and it's really easy to abuse if you want to: since the planets don't hurt you, you can just let the ship hug them forever and earn points (I could only get maybe 30 points normally, but got about 300 this way).
  2. I don't know if planets should hurt you? I'm not as sure about this one, but I think it's too easy to underestimate the gravity's strength and get hurt that way. I'm thinking that either the planets should just knock your ship out of control towards asteroids, or that it should be easier to tell where the ship will go, maybe with a prediction line or if it just moves slower.

I really appreciate the amount of polish with the sprites and music in this one.

Developer

@Poppers Totally agree with both of your points. We might add that planet's don't hurt you. And we also wanted to add the line for prediction but we ran out of time sadly...


Thank for playing and for great comment!

Submitted(+1)

Pretty hard to control but I think that's the point :D

I don't think celestial bodies should affect the ship before they are placed


My final score (while playing it my way :P)

Developer(+1)

Yes I agree with you JafCraze. We will add this in the future