GRAVCOMM by doomista

made by doomista for LD30 (JAM)

First big LD entry of mine and my friends.
Simply put, you and your ship are the only trade connection of two planets. While travelling from one to another you are affected by gravitation fields of other space objects. Find out the best trajectory to safely land with your shuttle. You can help yourseft with a single afterburner but more challenging is to finish levels without it!
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Mousewheel - adjust launch power
Mouse - rotate shuttle
LMB - launch shuttle/use afterburner
R - restart in case of need
ESC - return back to main menu
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Creative team:
doomista - coding, overall design, music
Tripeq - level design, overal design
Papooch - art, remarks
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Help and Options in main menu are not done, thus they're not working
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Give us feedback so we know it is worth it to continue work on this project

Windows	http://1drv.ms/1qd1zY1
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=36672

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall(Jam)	3.27	353

Audio(Jam)	2.82	470
Fun(Jam)	3.31	224
Graphics(Jam)	2.98	532
Humor(Jam)	2.70	261
Innovation(Jam)	2.98	417
Mood(Jam)	3.05	401
Theme(Jam)	3.43	260

Feedback

rustybroomhandle

26. Aug 2014 · 10:26 UTC

Fun concept - I like your iteration on the theme. :)

GraveyardPolice

26. Aug 2014 · 10:30 UTC

Nice concept, but if you want more people to play I reccomend placing the executable in the base folder, currently you have to dig for it in the BIN folder. also, I wish the after burner had some effects, more force to it, or some type of significant feedback so that i can actually tell when, how, what it is doing.

g_o

26. Aug 2014 · 10:32 UTC

Wow! Awesome for a great entry!
I liked the prediction system!
Pretty polished, and kinda fun!
great :)

Tosic

26. Aug 2014 · 10:45 UTC

Really nice game, also the theme is well interpreted!

Reverend Speed

26. Aug 2014 · 14:31 UTC

Lovely little game - enjoyed running my own NASA. Great work!

J-d-H

26. Aug 2014 · 18:09 UTC

I like the gameplay. But feel the musik is really anyoing.

parahunter

26. Aug 2014 · 20:38 UTC

Quite fun. The font is really hard to read. Afterburner did not seem to do anything.

🎤 doomista

26. Aug 2014 · 20:45 UTC

@parahunter, @GraveyardPolice: afterburner does really help even it's a bit weaker. You have to know that force vector of afterburner adds itself to the main movement vector of the shuttle. We tested all the levels so it is possible to play them without the AB and in each level we found at least one or two alternative ways using the AB. If we will continue with development we will do something about the power.

Capitals

26. Aug 2014 · 20:47 UTC

The sound for completing a stage is satisfying however the general music is irritating. Despite this it is a really enjoyable and fun game.

🎤 doomista

26. Aug 2014 · 20:59 UTC

@Capitals: sorry about the music, music artist was unavailable and this was something for debug I created while playing with this: http://www.earslap.com/page/otomata.html

🎤 doomista

27. Aug 2014 · 11:10 UTC

By the way, you can manually turn the music off in the config file (in the Data folder) by setting the MusicVolume parameter to 0

CodeNMore

27. Aug 2014 · 14:03 UTC

I like the concept and controls, good use of theme.

PERECil

27. Aug 2014 · 16:59 UTC

This game reminds me a similar game where you had to shoot missiles at enemy planets (some kind of Worms! in space). Very cool.

nerd burglars

27. Aug 2014 · 19:22 UTC

You mastered theme and you mastered the fun. Great entry!

🎤 doomista

28. Aug 2014 · 11:04 UTC

Thanks all of you guys for the support! It's very important to me, so I know that there's reason to continue the development :)

ice cold muffin

28. Aug 2014 · 12:21 UTC

Really nice idea! Really enjoyable!

JNyknn

28. Aug 2014 · 12:50 UTC

Interesting idea and challenging gameplay.

PeerPlay

28. Aug 2014 · 21:34 UTC

Loved the game, music was annoying.

LexGear

29. Aug 2014 · 13:15 UTC

mac :(

🎤 doomista

29. Aug 2014 · 15:00 UTC

To everybody who has linux or mac: you can try some kind of emulator but I don't have any mac or linux computer so I cannot port and test it, so sorry. Maybe for some future LD I will have some linux installed for porting, but right now I am unable to do so.

jomomomo

29. Aug 2014 · 21:25 UTC

I can't play on windows... any chance for a web version?

🎤 doomista

29. Aug 2014 · 23:05 UTC

I am purely a SDL+OGL desktop programmer, so no :/ . I definitely have to learn something web friendly for next LD

sudorossy

30. Aug 2014 · 13:28 UTC

Solid game. Graphics aren't the best, but not bad for something made in 72 hours! :)

Tex Killer

01. Sep 2014 · 08:28 UTC

Interesting. Couldn't finish it because my mousewheel is broken, but it is fun.

geekygenius

01. Sep 2014 · 21:33 UTC

Cool concept for a game. I liked the music. I couldn't figure out how to use the afterburner though.

Moosefly

03. Sep 2014 · 09:30 UTC

Very safe approach on the theme and a good execution. Solid gameplay, but I feel like it didn't quite hook me. Something was missing, but I can't say what. Maybe the afterburner should be more powerful and a required part of the solution for each level? The music got somewhat annoying and in my opinion the predictor was too long. Still, a good solid game. Well done!

Joona@MooseflyGames

Anti

14. Sep 2014 · 13:06 UTC

Fun concept and pretty nice execution. Feels polished and a great entry in general!

Jupiter_Hadley

14. Sep 2014 · 18:58 UTC

Nice game! Feels complete and well done. I included it in part 24 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/3RN80xyak-c