This is brilliant! I Didn't understand the "Man" side of the man vs nature theme, but I love the game! I think my mouse might be a bit too sensitive though. There was no sweet spot between dropping planets into the sun and chucking them into the next galaxy!
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Suborbitals's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun to play | #2 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
| Innovation | #4 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
| Educational value | #4 | 3.409 | 3.409 |
| How it looks | #9 | 3.545 | 3.545 |
| How it sounds | #9 | 3.318 | 3.318 |
| How well the theme was used | #31 | 2.045 | 2.045 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Engine
Easel (https://easel.games)
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Thank you! It's one of those weird things where I read the theme, then I thought about it and thought about it until I forgot where I started, then just made the game, and then when I went to submit it I realised it wasn't very "man vs nature" haha. It is tricky to get it just right, that's good feedback, thank you!
Loved this game, so simple but so much fun to play, and has a real skill factor to it. A real relaxing game to play, great to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time. Would love to see more added to this such as maybe changing your view point so you can see more of the wilder orbits. A little more time polishing this would make it something special. Well done on making a really fun quality game.
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The Bell Rock LighthouseClearly I am not the creator of the planets and for good reason! That was really fun and a cool representation of the theme. I really enjoyed this and would for sure enjoy this even on a bigger scale :) thanks so much for the experience.
Update, my son wanted to try some of the jam games (he is 12) he loved this one the most and really enjoyed it, he said its really cool and he did way better than I did.
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Nature's LabyrinthLoved it. Became obsessed trying to get circular orbits instead of wildly erratic ellipses.
Simple - fun, more than a little addictive.
Would be nice to be able to go back and somehow modify or influence the orbits of existing planets.. (I say that, but I've no idea what form that could/should take.. it just occurred to me to mention it).
Good work ;)
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Nature's LabyrinthWelp, venus, mars, earth, jupiter, and pluto are all no longer planets in our solar system.
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Tranquil EyesI don't think anyone would want to live in any of the solar systems I made, they would live very long. This is a brilliantly simple idea and very slickly implemented. No fuss just throw your planets around the sun. Great feeling if you manage to get a nice circular orbit and great fun throwing in an elliptical one in and seeing how long it takes to take out all the previous planets. Find myself drawn back to this for just one more go. Very nice indeed.
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The Bell Rock Lighthouse
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