Chain The Planets! by Animan

made by Animan for LD30 (COMPO)

Move your planet around to connect with other planets, but watch out for the glowing red asteroids! The more planets clumped together with you, the faster you'll gain points. How much can you get in 90 seconds? Feel free to post your high scores in the comments!

I ended up not posting any journal entries here this time, but I posted several tweets/vine videos during development: twitter.com/Animan13

Side-note: I am aware of a glitch where certain planets, when clumped together, can get stuck off-screen. I just didn't catch it until it was too late. :/

Web	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/123277350/ChainThePlanets.html
Source	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/123277350/Source%20Code.rar
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=31621

Ratings

Coolness	28%	1836
Overall	3.17	596

Audio	2.31	750
Fun	3.31	327
Graphics	3.18	494
Innovation	3.13	575
Theme	4.00	55

Feedback

Hi_ImTemmy

25. Aug 2014 · 11:49 UTC

I got a highscore of 6344! I feel that makes me king of planets.

jgthespy

26. Aug 2014 · 02:57 UTC

I think this is a pretty clever concept and a funny take on the theme. About 1-2 minutes in it sounded like a bunch of stuff all crashed together offscreen and then a crapload of things flew at me from all over. It was more hilarious than annoying.

mramaizng

26. Aug 2014 · 02:57 UTC

5843 - I liked the idea.

Amvere

26. Aug 2014 · 05:12 UTC

7356! This is a cool concept. The art is really good! Fits the theme wonderfully (and literally). I did run into a bug where some of my planets glitched off the screen. I ended up getting a score of 8596 that time because they still counted as connected to me. Great game!

🎤 Animan

26. Aug 2014 · 16:47 UTC

Thanks for all the kind words so far! Certainly aware of not just the "planets stuck off-screen bug", but also how planets chained together but not necessarily attached to you will still add up points. Both of these will certainly be fixed soon once the Compo is finished.

I'd also like to fix the asteroids to where it isn't so luck-based when it comes to avoiding them. This was my first game with a vertical aspect ratio, and I didn't realize just HOW big an impact that could have on such things lol.

My high score is 7216.