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A jam submission

The Moon is our FriendView game page

As the Moon, you must protect your best friend the Earth from a barrage of meteors
Submitted by pailey — 16 hours, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#23.8754.143
Overall#53.7424.000
Use of Console#63.8084.071
Creativity#73.5413.786

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Pre-made assets (Optional)
Fonts are from the Playdate SDK

Discord username (Optional)
@pailey

Source code (Optional)
https://github.com/paigeruten/moon-is-friend

Explanation (Optional)
Didn't fit this into the in-game instructions, but you can change the difficulty level at any time from the system menu during the game, in case it's too easy or hard.

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Comments

Submitted

I like the initial explanations - about the right length for me. Fun! I did a bit better once I changed to Easy.

Submitted(+1)

man i love this one! feels incredibly polished, and the gameplay is such a great "easy to learn, hard to master" idea. i just hope the scientists up at NASA are any better at diverting asteroids than i am 😅
if i had to gripe about one thing, it's a little tough to see the thin text and some of the smaller asteroids? if i'm distracted by some other stuff i may not even notice a new teensy asteroid coming through on the other side. overall this game feels great! my current high score is 19 ☄️

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I noticed on hardware how the little ones can sneak up on you (spent too much time testing at 2x in the simulator I guess). I want to experiment with making everything just a bit bigger, and/or maybe adding particles / comet-like tails to the asteroids to make them more visible.

Submitted

I really like this one, and I really suck at it. But it's fun and addictive, and it feels perfectly suited for the Playdate!

Submitted

The gravitational effect is very difficult to master, but satisfying when I got it.  It's like bullfighting with asteroids.

Developer

Haha, I love that description! :D

Submitted

It's so fun!! But... so hard too!! Thank you for making an easy mode :'-D

Submitted

Terrific fun - extremely addictive and fun use of predictable physic. Spent a good deal of time on this even though I'm.... kinda terrible at it.

Great work!

Submitted (1 edit)

This low-key might be my favorite PlayJam entry. Redirecting the meteors asteroids is so satisfying. And when they loop around back revenge!? ;) Very fun. I love that you included clear instructions and difficulty settings too!

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted

This is addicting once you get the hang of it!  Though I've yet to get the gold star...