10 Second Happy Rocket by Starspell

made by Starspell for LD27 (COMPO)

Lift your happiness to the stars!

This game made me learn a ton about making games with box2fp as I had never used physics like this in a game before.

Whilst not a traditional game it is fun for a knock-a-bout. Hope you guys like it and that you find it fun too.

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Suggested Challenge
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Try to lift as many weights successfully as possible. The current record is two weights by sirtetris. Trophy to the victor with screenshot proof perhaps? :)

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Creative Mode Update
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Creative Mode has now been added by request. In this version you no longer have the 10 second time limit in which to complete your rocket. I've made them totally different files with different links for the sake of the competition. DO NOT RATE THE CREATIVE VERSION - that's just for happy exploding fun!

Web (Original)	http://sarah.draknek.org/Games/10SecondRocket/
Web (Creative Mode)	http://sarah.draknek.org/Games/10SecondRocketCreative/
Source	http://sarah.draknek.org/Games/10SecondRocket/src.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=1791

Ratings

Coolness	71%	3
Overall	3.43	224

Audio	2.46	602
Fun	3.67	71
Graphics	2.33	888
Humor	2.78	278
Innovation	3.72	112
Mood	3.06	313
Theme	3.36	366

Feedback

sirtetris

26. Aug 2013 · 09:07 UTC

Haha, cool. :D The intro part is super helpful and the game itself is really fun.

A minimum of random inaccuracy of the rockets would have been nice, though. Once you figure out one rocket will go up perfectly straight it's too easy to win.

Lidfrid

26. Aug 2013 · 09:09 UTC

I was like: "yeeeeeaaaah"
A score with the height reach, would be nice!

sirtetris

26. Aug 2013 · 09:24 UTC

Happyness payload plus 2 weights: http://i.imgur.com/Ie3uoMm.jpg graciously chills its way upwards ... :D
Who manages to lift more weights all the way up?

SaintHeiser

27. Aug 2013 · 02:51 UTC

Hah, Good idea =)
It's really fun I think!

SecondDimension

27. Aug 2013 · 11:01 UTC

Great concept, managed to get to get to the full height with some trial and error.

doonay21

27. Aug 2013 · 18:43 UTC

Cool game with nice concept.

ShitAndSon

27. Aug 2013 · 19:03 UTC

Really nice ! Original and addictive.

motty

27. Aug 2013 · 19:04 UTC

Awesome game, awesome LD entry. Can't fault any part of it.

robbe

27. Aug 2013 · 19:05 UTC

Really well done, pretty original!

madk

27. Aug 2013 · 20:07 UTC

I won! :D

I really wish that overlapped parts became glued to each other.

berkano

27. Aug 2013 · 20:08 UTC

That was neat! I'm not very good at paying attention to instructions, but it became clear what to do after a few tries. Nice job :-)

Jimanzium

27. Aug 2013 · 20:10 UTC

Good to see someone using a tutorial. The game was fun and the idea was rather cool. Graphics were simple but served their purpose

MrBlade

27. Aug 2013 · 20:16 UTC

Great job! I love this game! I wish there was a way to "fuse" small squares with the thruster rects. Anyway, awesome work. Great physics, nice graphics, glad you made sounds to. That added so much to the game. KEEP IT UP!

Vasileiadis

27. Aug 2013 · 20:20 UTC

YES! I MADE IT I BEAT THAT CURSED THING!
Dude I was going at it for a good 10 minutes - this *is* rocket science :P
Really fun & catchy! If you ask me, do something with it ;)
There you go - my first 5* for Fun & Innovation :D

Gabriel

27. Aug 2013 · 20:33 UTC

LOVED IT! Managed to get to the top, but taking two extra weights? IMPOSSIBRU! Sirtetris, you must have used some really obscure form of witchcraftery with that record of yours! hahaha

Hey, Starspell, you know what would be great? A 'creative mode' with no time limit. I'm really curious about what I would be able to build if I had time to play with some more complex structures! :D

Congratulations on the entry, loved it!

🎤 Starspell

27. Aug 2013 · 22:28 UTC

Thanks for all of the wonderful comments everyone! I'm glad that you are all enjoying it so much. I think a creative version would be pretty fun as well to put up so tomorrow I'll post another version without the time limit for fun.

mboaj

28. Aug 2013 · 00:00 UTC

Wow! :) This is really a great idea :) I love the whole building and the whole emerging gameplay that comes out from two block types! :) Congratulations!

TammiLion

28. Aug 2013 · 18:40 UTC

I made it on my third try, lucky me haha. It got stuck after that and the exploding sound kept playing which was actually fun, felt like firework was exploding all around me.

Urfoex

28. Aug 2013 · 18:47 UTC

Made it to the top ^^

Placing things is a bit off. When I click the box will appear one px to the right.

Also: one box, one smiley, one rocket -- takes ages :D

Gabriel

28. Aug 2013 · 19:08 UTC

Haha, the creative mode is so much fun! After like 10 minutes of careful, pixel-precise box positioning, I managed to make a flying wall made of like 30 rockets and boxes that reached like 1800 ft, then some minimal alignment error caused a chain reaction making the whole 'ship' crumble on itself. The best part was the smiley's face when things started getting ugly. hahaha So fun!

About the error in Super Fair Trial Show, from what you described it really sounds like a graphic card issue (that huge blue square was supposed to become invisible through the use of a certain shader, that's why I think that is the problem). But thanks a lot for trying to play and reporting the problem! :D

Nick Weihs

29. Aug 2013 · 07:26 UTC

Good fun to play around with, I liked the addition of the creative mode despite lacking the theme.

Dream Of Sleeping

29. Aug 2013 · 10:59 UTC

Ok I'm terrible at it but it's really good. I enjoyed the creative mode more, but the 10 second version is till good. This could end up being a really really good game, with more rocket parts and such. I hope you keep developing it.

Mago

29. Aug 2013 · 19:50 UTC

Very oryginal and fun game.

MegaMasterX

29. Aug 2013 · 19:58 UTC

This was really fun to me. I like the build-n-run concept quite a lot!

🎤 Starspell

29. Aug 2013 · 20:19 UTC

Cheers for all the wonderful comments guys!

Purplescape

31. Aug 2013 · 21:50 UTC

Awesome game! It took me a while to make a rocket that got to success, and that was with no weights. It was a lot of fun

timothyolt

01. Sep 2013 · 16:41 UTC

4 weights on creative if it counts for something. :P
http://imgur.com/uKMlWLf

Mlle Eole

01. Sep 2013 · 16:54 UTC

"Less is more" good lesson. :)
Simple and fuuuuuun ! :D ~~\o/

Jupiter_Hadley

02. Sep 2013 · 17:46 UTC

Found this game to be SOOO fun! It was awesome! I featured it in my LD27 compilation series if you'd like to check it out! http://youtu.be/FJWNdgd85u0

Jacob123

04. Sep 2013 · 12:22 UTC

Hard game but really fun. I try to spam a bunch of thrusters on the bottom of the screen.

Aslai

06. Sep 2013 · 00:43 UTC

I got it with three weights :)
http://puu.sh/4k5CJ.png

SneManden

06. Sep 2013 · 11:22 UTC

Very fun game! And nice tutorial in the beginning.

porglezomp

06. Sep 2013 · 20:57 UTC

Nice game, I love physics games!

flap

09. Sep 2013 · 10:43 UTC

If we could links between rockets and weight, that would be perfect !

🎤 Starspell

12. Sep 2013 · 14:19 UTC

Thanks for all the feedback and compliments everyone. I'm glad everyone has been enjoying the game. I do intend to spend time developing it into something more after the competition.