Unnamed Planetary Defender by Blockers

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made by Blockers for LD31 (JAM)
Defend your planet from the incoming asteroids by flinging yourself into a suicidal trajectory into them; try to last as long as possible!

As you destroy asteroids, you collect pieces of their rubble which can be used to cause a large explosion.

Unzip, and run ld31.exe to play

Controls:
--- this game is completely mouse driven, sorry in advance :) ---

LMB - "fling" yourself in the direction you are pointing. the force of the fling is determined by how far you are clicking from the player. once in air, you can click one more time to make a weaker airjump.

RMB - Explode, consuming all of the rubble on your ship. The explosion gets larger depending on how much rubble you have.

Focus Circle - The circle around the player acts as a "focus" region. When your mouse is inside of it, the ship is slightly attracted towards it, allowing you to slow yourself down, adjust trajectories, etc.


Known Issues:
- Sometimes the LD31 process will not remove itself from Volume Mixer, but I fixed this as much as I could. Only happens if you dont close the game using the X button (i believe).
- The game-over screen can sometimes glitch out visually, but you can still restart by pressing R.
- The gravity is sometimes unwieldy and annoying to work with. Sorry

Notes:
I had to submit a little early because my game code became spaghetti. This is the first time i've used Rust for game-dev so it was a great learning experience. I ran into a few annoying compiler issues that stopped me from continuing to polish the game, but in the end i think it came out all right!

Ratings

Coolness 47% 1461
Overall(Jam) 3.67 165
Audio(Jam) 2.87 438
Fun(Jam) 3.88 46
Graphics(Jam) 3.26 507
Humor(Jam) 2.44 579
Innovation(Jam) 3.68 144
Mood(Jam) 3.28 337
Theme(Jam) 3.58 478

Feedback

tppr2046
08. Dec 2014 · 01:20 UTC
Fun!!
I love the shaking effects when attacking!
Grehg
08. Dec 2014 · 19:43 UTC
I liked the minimalism. The explosion sound, camera shaking, and slow motion when hitting stuff was satisfying. Once I got the hang of how to play it was much more fun. I played this game the most so far. It reminded me of this entry: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=11024
Nielz
08. Dec 2014 · 20:06 UTC
Awesome graphics! ^_^
Aevek
08. Dec 2014 · 20:15 UTC
A lot of fun. I tried without avail to successfully put myself in orbit, so I'm guessing there is some safety check there (boo). Cool mechanics, it was very satisfying to destroy things on the way up, the way down, and after accidentally swinging around the planet.
Wezley
08. Dec 2014 · 21:49 UTC
I like it. Good job man! Keep it up!
Hellequin
08. Dec 2014 · 22:01 UTC
I like it! It's so addictive... Well done :) !
guldlock
08. Dec 2014 · 22:08 UTC
Those effects are really nice! The game is also fun! :)
CodeNMore
08. Dec 2014 · 22:09 UTC
Great effects (slowmotion) and simplistic graphics! These controls I've never heard of until now! Well done!
rabbit
08. Dec 2014 · 22:10 UTC
This is a really great idea that will benefit from polish. Great job.
tudd
08. Dec 2014 · 22:44 UTC
Camera shake and sound effects are great, really creates a lot of *bang!!!* feeling when you hit something. Has potential, but as you said, the gravity is pretty irritating. I almost never launch in the direction of my mouse pointer, and it does seem very "random"

That said I like it very much c:
nbilyk
08. Dec 2014 · 22:50 UTC
Cool game. I'd love to watch somebody really good play it, I feel like if I could master the controls it would be way more fun. It's almost as if you can launch yourself from the ship and get into a cool orbit, but I couldn't quite do that.
OctoTeam
08. Dec 2014 · 23:33 UTC
Really cool game! The screenshots didn't look very promising but I liked it a lot after playing it :)
DvigubaiPiktas
10. Dec 2014 · 12:12 UTC
I liked the atmosphere of space invaders. Those explosions and shaking made your game a bit more juicy and quite fun.
Bloxri
11. Dec 2014 · 02:31 UTC
Very fun game, wish it had highscores. Graphics go well with the style. Overall very nicely done. Great submission!
AncientAvocado
12. Dec 2014 · 13:17 UTC
Got a score of 39145 on my laptop without a proper mouse!
Had much fun with it. Simple consept really well excecuted.
schnerble
16. Dec 2014 · 06:19 UTC
Very original - slightly tricky controls, but in an interesting way, and quite fun to play. Nice work!
dunin
17. Dec 2014 · 19:45 UTC
Fun and original concept!
maxmetallica
28. Dec 2014 · 04:14 UTC
fun man i loved it