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Planet Jumper by HotBoxGames

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made by HotBoxGames for LD30 (JAM)
In Planet Jumper, you'll play as Larry - a young space explorer who loves nothing more than to travel across the various planets in his galaxy.

Recently, more and more planets seem to have been colliding together - and what happens when two planets collide? Thats right, coins appear! Lots of shiny gold coins! Larry wants to seize this opportunity by collecting as many coins as possible - try to help him out!

Don't forget to use your trusty jetpack to fly between planets.

CONTROLS:
A/S or Left Arrow/Right Arrow - Move left/right
W or Up Arrow - Hop
Space - Jetpack

FEATURES:
- Listen to awesome space music!
- Hop from planet to planet in our randomly generated space!
- Collect coins and visit more planets to increase your score!
- Enjoy the scenery as planets collide and merge making all kinds of weird shapes!
- Post your score to our online leaderboard and become Ultimate Planet Jumper Champion!

If you play in the browser, make sure you try fullscreen mode!

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We're quite pleased with how this game turned out, but like everyone we wish we could have added more. If we had more time, or managed to get things done a bit quicker, we would have looked to do the following:

- Add a minimap
- Utilise PhysX (for gravity on planets and such)
- Recode the 'hop' mechanic
- Add more powerups
- Add drills/explosives for digging through planets
- Create a much larger level size
- Add automatic camera zoom

What a weekend! We had a blast creating this for LD30 and hope you enjoy playing it too!
Web http://ld30.hotboxgames.co.uk
Windows http://ld30.hotboxgames.co.uk/projects/ld30/download/PlanetJumper.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=39707

Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.37 280
Audio(Jam) 3.47 184
Fun(Jam) 3.30 230
Graphics(Jam) 3.41 374
Humor(Jam) 3.12 151
Innovation(Jam) 3.14 325
Mood(Jam) 2.91 486
Theme(Jam) 3.54 210

Feedback

goosetickler
27. Aug 2014 · 17:11 UTC
Fun little game! I love the world expansion as the planets collide together. Every now and then I had a strange collision issue but it was neat little game, good job!
TeamEagle
27. Aug 2014 · 19:45 UTC
Hopping around is fun, except for when jumping into the void. Took me a while to land on a planet again :D

Crashing in each other looks cool as well, nice one.
danbo
27. Aug 2014 · 21:17 UTC
I was expecting more of these types of games but this was pretty well-presented! I like the planets joining together.
tbamberg
27. Aug 2014 · 21:17 UTC
Great fun, would be nice if the planets exerted some gravity, or else make the jump speed faster. Drifting off into the void can be a real bummer
TeamConn
27. Aug 2014 · 21:25 UTC
Nice game. I was wondering how limited steering while in flight would have changed the game.
LastResortGames
27. Aug 2014 · 23:18 UTC
This download is incredibly! slow.
pighead10
27. Aug 2014 · 23:22 UTC
Drifting off into the void got really frustrating since there was no minimap or gravity on the planets, but otherwise a nice game with good polish.
torcado194
27. Aug 2014 · 23:22 UTC
pretty neat game! i like the music and the jumping. pretty difficult though trying to line things up. nice job!
SoulGame
27. Aug 2014 · 23:39 UTC
Nice one. The concept is funny and rather well realized.
With a little less rigid character controls (a minimum of air management maybe), the game could be more pleasant.
Well done anyway :)
🎤 HotBoxGames
28. Aug 2014 · 12:42 UTC
Hey everyone, thanks for all the positive comments - it really is appreciated.
We're quite pleased with how the game turned out, especially considering it was made in just over 2 days!

We couldn't agree more with most of your suggestions, if we had longer to complete the project (let's say a week) we would have loved to do the following:

• Add a minimap
• Utilise PhysX (for gravity on planets and such)
• Recode the 'hop' mechanic
• Add more poweups
• Add drills/explosives for digging through planets
• Much much much larger level size

Thanks again for the comments & don't forget to post your scores to the leaderboard! :)
badlydrawnrod
28. Aug 2014 · 19:43 UTC
There I was, happily wandering around a planet when worlds started to crash around me. I began to wonder if I had a portable black hole in my pocket.

Quite innovative - I enjoyed the bright colourful planets smashing into each other. I think the core mechanic could have done with a little tuning, but it was fun nonetheless.
DragonXVI
28. Aug 2014 · 21:56 UTC
Nifty! Thought it was fairly straightforward at first, then obviously things got ridiculous pretty quickly :D Interesting spin on a nice idea! Could see it workin' well with some smoother Mario Galaxy-esque physics too.
MunkeeBacon
30. Aug 2014 · 16:29 UTC
Nice little game. The camera movement could have been better.
GuillaumeGwi
30. Aug 2014 · 17:20 UTC
Hell ! It's not connected world it's crashing worlds ! hehe was funny when all planets started to crash towards me... but you can't die ? Too bad :( I wished there was a time limit somehow... (maybe if planets transforms to stars and then black hole hehe)
AdricZero
31. Aug 2014 · 13:37 UTC
Your entry was similar to Hop Hop Planet, but moved a lot faster, was more interesting and had more humor. Music and sound effects were very good too.

Hop Hop Planet:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=35485
Ramiel
31. Aug 2014 · 16:48 UTC
Nice little game.
Cool graphics.
belowzerogames
31. Aug 2014 · 21:08 UTC
Very nice game just think my PC is a little too slow to run it .
FXCesinha
01. Sep 2014 · 00:06 UTC
Awesome, i love planets, nice graphics too.
Nooner Bear
01. Sep 2014 · 00:23 UTC
Well made! I occasionally flew off far into space, but good all around :)
IsaacL.Balogh
01. Sep 2014 · 19:50 UTC
I like the idea of the worlds colliding to change them (although it seems to spawn too many worlds at once) good job!
rhaasken
01. Sep 2014 · 19:52 UTC
Great audio and graphics. It looks very polished. The controls and the collision were a bit frustrating though. It was hard to get the character to do what I wanted.
handkor
02. Sep 2014 · 14:15 UTC
Great concept. This game is fun.
Pavel
03. Sep 2014 · 06:47 UTC
Very good idea and theme implementation. Was fun to play.
t4u
03. Sep 2014 · 21:23 UTC
Nice graphics but nothing prevents you from endless jump if you miss the planet.
jukimv1986
06. Sep 2014 · 03:20 UTC
Awesome space music and leaderboards! Good job!
local minimum
06. Sep 2014 · 19:21 UTC
First time I didn't get that whatever world I was on would attract other worlds. Plus, I was unlucky that it was a rather abandoned place without neighbors. I hit space and flew off thinking it might work, but nope. It took quite a while too before I hit the edge of space. So I would recommend having some limited oxygen supply or so when out in space so you can't space-travel that far.

Second try, my initial place was more suitable and that made it much more intuitive and fun to play. So besides that first run experience, a really nice game!
Acuity
08. Sep 2014 · 00:52 UTC
My first game started on a planet with nothing nearby. Not knowing how to zoom out yet... I just jumped off into space and died at the edge of the screen.
klianc09
10. Sep 2014 · 18:59 UTC
Really fun game. Sometimes I had issues with collision and hopping between planets. The jetpack seemed like the less buggy version of switching planets.
The music makes this so much more enjoyable.
I often died without any apparant reason, maybe something indicating why you died would be great.
Rage Paint
13. Sep 2014 · 21:40 UTC
Really nice game. Loved how the planets merged together. The thing that through it off was there were some times when pressing W to jump that I would go flying or using A/D to move would switch directions. Other than that very fun.