10 Seconds to Launch by Just Tom

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made by Just Tom for LD27 (COMPO)
--- About ---
10 Seconds to Launch puts you in the role of the last Bus Driver in the Universe, be swept away on an intergalactic journey of good time keeping and public transit. Get ready to drift around planets, fly faster than the speed of light and keep a good schedule as all employees should.

--- Play ---
WASD, Arrows or gamepad (A to accelerate, B to reverse) will have you scooting around the Galaxy. Follow the route pointer next to your ship and get to the next route in 10 seconds, miss it and you'll wreck the schedule. Ship as many passengers as you can, crashing into the wrong planet will lose passengers!

--- The Universe ---
As the last Bus Driver in the Universe, you must jump between galaxies and ship passengers. Each Galaxy is randomly generated but themed none the less. Each Bus route and galaxy will get progressively harder as you aim to complete all three levels.

--- Technical Note ---
This game may not work on Mac

All assets and code were created or generated personally. Unity, Paint, Flash 8, GIMP, MonoDevelop and sfxr were used to create this game.

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1281
Overall 3.33 296
Audio 2.63 506
Fun 3.07 432
Graphics 3.07 442
Humor 2.57 389
Innovation 2.85 633
Mood 2.75 536
Theme 3.31 420

Feedback

anjack
26. Aug 2013 · 13:21 UTC
Great title and tag line! This game is very fun! The controls are very easy to use and the sound effects excellent!
Elrobo
26. Aug 2013 · 13:34 UTC
Fun, simple, I liked the delivery sound effects.

130577 passengers shifted, I laughed at the "epilogue".
RHY3756547
26. Aug 2013 · 13:53 UTC
Nice work! I really like the subtle parallax effect on the background and main bus station. The gameplay is kinda like Crazy Taxi in space, enjoyed it! Sound design could use some work, but the game is otherwise good.
Ghostik
26. Aug 2013 · 14:07 UTC
Its really dificult. Simple and nice graphic style btw!
Sam Oates Games
26. Aug 2013 · 16:10 UTC
Love the graphics and the score system once you get to a stop, nice attention to detail! Easy controls. Very nice work.
Sebastian
26. Aug 2013 · 17:03 UTC
Nice man, enjoyed it!
tripleVisionGames
26. Aug 2013 · 19:35 UTC
Great graphics and fantastic controls. Really like the gravity pull from the planets as you sweep past them
Marcellus
28. Aug 2013 · 20:18 UTC
nice little game, I felt like playing a space-pinball version od crazy taxi. good job.
senseidav
28. Aug 2013 · 23:11 UTC
134.000 passengers carried, now I think I am able to comment.

I liked your game, it maked me to look at Pc some minutes.

In general I think Its funny, the gravity of planets, which depends in the size of them, its really good obtained.
I liked also the changing combustion colour, with has an alpha channel who make it dissappear in seconds.

As a matter of fact, i think it has some bad points too:
Althought its the same concept of running a race with checkpoints or laps with the possibility of losing with time out, you never can crash.

So that, this does the game easy, anypeople there has said its difficult but im not agree with that (I scored 100.000 passenger fiest time I played).

Another thing is how you named it:
some kind of coincidence has done that your game and mine had the same "10 seconds to launch" title.
This will score down our game innovation points, but that´s life.

Good work and keep on going.
senseidav
28. Aug 2013 · 23:13 UTC
I should say one more thing. You and me must learn how to add music to out games, and must do fast :D
ananasblau
29. Aug 2013 · 00:03 UTC
it tick all the boxes, sound, graphics, all there. I played a lot of Solar 2 the other week but you are close enough, for a prototype anyways. the rocket, can I upgrade it to a less noisy nucular one? :D
truiton
31. Aug 2013 · 08:36 UTC
Fun little game :D
GFM
31. Aug 2013 · 16:11 UTC
Nice game! :)
It's nice that every planet has gravity. It adds to the challenge.
kraj0t
03. Sep 2013 · 21:46 UTC
Awesome :-) Simple, yet fun to play and finish.

BTW, why don't you add the link to your timelapse video? I found this game of yours thanks to that video, which Youtube recommended to me as a related video to my own timelapse. And yours is a quite nice timelapse video, lemme say ^^