PLuTO by CoopNasty

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made by CoopNasty for LD30 (COMPO)
You play as Pluto, who has been shunned by the other planets for not being hot enough! Raise your core temperature by collecting star pieces. Once you're hot enough, you can reconnect with the others!

=====VIEW THE TRAILER IF YOU CAN'T PLAY HERE=====

http://youtu.be/4mHbcJakfJU

=====Controls=====

WASD - To fly through space.

MOUSEWHEEL - In and out to zoom the camera!

**EDIT**Removed view rotating as it was extremely broken.

=====SIDE NOTE=====

I actually lost a lot of work on Saturday at about 3:30am because of a power failure. The 6.0 earthquake that hit Napa Valley knocked power out to my house for about 2.5 hours. I lost an intro video that was going to introduce mechanics and story, along with some other scripts I was in the middle of working on. Sorry to all who were watching the stream and had my video just cut out on them!

Here's the first few seconds of the earthquake recorded from my stream before I lost power, kinda interesting if you feel like watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y7It9s4FYM

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 2.97 788
Audio 2.75 528
Fun 2.47 1015
Graphics 3.50 301
Humor 3.31 110
Innovation 2.63 936
Mood 3.23 358
Theme 2.50 991

Feedback

OnlySlightly
25. Aug 2014 路 04:58 UTC
Love the quirky animation and art style! That was awesome!
marvalgames
25. Aug 2014 路 05:42 UTC
Cool style
馃帳 CoopNasty
25. Aug 2014 路 08:04 UTC
Thanks guys!
Hyoga-3D
25. Aug 2014 路 14:15 UTC
Art style superb, awesome job!
korigame
26. Aug 2014 路 05:34 UTC
Funky art style :)
vulpineblazeyt
26. Aug 2014 路 05:39 UTC
That was pretty cool, although I had a hard time finding enough star pieces. Good job, though!
Leginar
26. Aug 2014 路 06:10 UTC
Well done. The art and style made for an interesting and entertaining experience.
Budda
26. Aug 2014 路 07:23 UTC
Cool little game, well polished. Hard to control though, and I definitely had problems trying to find any star pieces beyond the first one.
brookman
26. Aug 2014 路 07:45 UTC
YOU CAN USE THE MOUSE WHEEL TO ZOOM!

You should really write that somewhere. It took me 5 minutes to find out. Flying aimlessly at the closest zoom level and never finding anything is kind of boring. :)

About the game: I like the style and mood. Nicely drawn character and quite some humor ^^ (achievements). The music is rather minimalistic, but it fits.
Game play wise there is room for improvement. Maybe you should add more star matter (closer together). And please fix the randomly jerking camera. I think rotation is not really needed (you could align the text horizontally).

Keep up the good work!
馃帳 CoopNasty
26. Aug 2014 路 07:50 UTC
OH MY GOD I THOUGHT I WROTE THAT I'M SORRY EVERYONE. MOUSE WHEEL TO ZOOM IS LIKE HALF THE LOOK OF THE GAME. You get a really cool view of the whole solar system when zoomed way out! Give it another shot if you just found this out. I think I might "typo" fix this into the beginning text.
parahunter
26. Aug 2014 路 07:50 UTC
The art looks really good. Very hard to find more star pieces. If you kept rotating the camera movement was also a bit jerky.
cmayhem
26. Aug 2014 路 07:54 UTC
Great art and animation and cool music!
spotco
27. Aug 2014 路 05:46 UTC
Really cute art!

PS. Felt that earthquake too, was in South Bay though!
IAmSpencer
27. Aug 2014 路 06:33 UTC
haha that animation was hilarious, well done man, this reminded me of Solar, it was rather enjoyable :)

(P.S. I froze to death... sorry for 'sucking so much' haha)
馃帳 CoopNasty
27. Aug 2014 路 08:01 UTC
Thanks guys! Also, every time you die you get another random quote. Some are funny, some are just...weird.
mrexcessive
28. Aug 2014 路 18:39 UTC
Hi there. Found it tricky to collect heat. Liked the music.
thecolorhacker
30. Aug 2014 路 11:45 UTC
Cool visuals and concept, well adapted to the theme, liked controls.
Ted Brown
01. Sep 2014 路 20:39 UTC
Watching lil' Mr. Pluto swim through the stars was definitely a "smile" moment for me. :) Loved the fact you could zoom out so far, and how smooth the controls were.
馃帳 CoopNasty
02. Sep 2014 路 01:14 UTC
Thanks man! That's exactly the feeling I was going for. Having people just enjoy floating around and being in space!
jukimv1986
05. Sep 2014 路 03:44 UTC
Sorry to hear about the earthquake, but your game looks great! I could only finish it after really zooming out to gain perspective, otherwise the game was unplayable. Good job!
xrm0
11. Sep 2014 路 10:26 UTC
I find it hard to reach the star pieces.
But I love the art style, the zoom. Very well executed.