OSC: Dawn by crhallberg

made by crhallberg for LD23 (COMPO)

OSC:Dawn is a scientifically-plausible, physically-implausible space game. You play as the remote pilot of the real-life, ion-cannon-driven spacecraft DAWN, trying to help the recently discovered race on the drawf planet CERES; by dragging the planet with you.

HTML5. Made in and for FIREFOX (seems to dislike other browsers, actually. :/).

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WAIT DON'T GO JUST YET! My friend made a game and couldn't upload it so I'm linking it here. You'll be judging this game, but my friend deserves credit for making such an awesome game himself. He just got screwed by a registration glitch.

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Game With A Fantastic Title by Brett Taylor (aka BATzerk) - http://brettataylor.com/ld23/
MAC: http://mobiusflip.pbworks.com/w/file/52991236/application.macosx.zip
PC: http://mobiusflip.pbworks.com/w/file/52991231/application.windows32.zip
SOURCE: http://mobiusflip.pbworks.com/w/file/52991228/GameWithAFantasticTitle%20-%20SourceCode.zip

Web	http://www.crhallberg.com/ld23/submission/
Source	http://www.crhallberg.com/ld23/submission/download.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=10884

Ratings

Coolness	42%	736
Overall	2.52	709

Audio	1.43	713
Fun	2.52	596
Graphics	2.56	602
Humor	2.21	431
Innovation	3.41	204
Mood	2.62	475
Theme	2.96	479

Feedback

Casino Jack

23. Apr 2012 · 07:17 UTC

Not sure if it's just my crappy machine, but every time I played at a few seconds in the screen stopped redrawing properly (the ship, planet and text were essentially stamping continuously on the background).

🎤 crhallberg

23. Apr 2012 · 17:42 UTC

Are you playing in Firefox? Try as I might, I couldn't get any other browser to clear the canvas properly. I'll try to get it to port better to other browsers.

🎤 crhallberg

23. Apr 2012 · 17:51 UTC

Is that better? Works in Chrome for me now.

Cosmologicon

25. Apr 2012 · 13:17 UTC

It seems to lock up for me after getting it in the landing zone. The action freezes, anyway, but the shot meter is still blinking.... I'm on Firefox.

Sorry I can't play your friend's game, I'm on Linux! :)

greg20man

28. Apr 2012 · 08:54 UTC

I'm not sure what I just did but it said I saved the day, yay me! haha

mess110

28. Apr 2012 · 10:17 UTC

yeaaaa!

racarate

30. Apr 2012 · 01:56 UTC

Whoa, I played this on Chrome on Ubuntu and man, it crawled! It took about three minutes to get to the asteroid. I tried on Firefox and it was much better. It ran nice and smooth until the "stop in the landing zone" sequence and it just slowed down again. I liked where you were going with it though. The slow introduction of game elements was spot on. The concept of towing a planet is powerful, and the mechanic of action-growing corn by towing your planetside into the sun is hilarious. Too bad no music though, it's so hard to get into a silent game even in space.

racarate

30. Apr 2012 · 01:58 UTC

Also, a bystander noted "It looks like a science teacher made this game!"

matthias_zarzecki

02. May 2012 · 15:17 UTC

Ha, this is great.

Shigor

05. May 2012 · 19:48 UTC

Firefox (on mac) tends to get very slow, chrome works better. Both stop responding after parking in the zone.

mneubrand

09. May 2012 · 05:24 UTC

Interesting concept. Just seems very short. Played through in like 30 sec or is there supposed to be more things happening after parking in the zone.

🎤 crhallberg

13. May 2012 · 21:30 UTC

Thanks for all the great comments guys! Wish I could've gotten the final level working, spent too much time on the tutorial, I'll post the finished version when I fix the math!

Zener

13. May 2012 · 21:43 UTC

Short but I love the idea!

lorancou

13. May 2012 · 22:27 UTC

That was quick :) I love your graphics!

lorancou

13. May 2012 · 22:36 UTC

And you friend's game is great, to bad he couldn't register for ratings. Very nice music, the graphics are fresh, and the gameplay is fun. I give it a 5/5! If I was him I'd go get the admins so they give it the place it deserves, even if it won't get a proper rating now.

Jedi

13. May 2012 · 23:00 UTC

I felt a little lost but I bet I would feel lost in space anyway. Was something supposed to happen after I parked the sphere? I didn't rate the audio because it wasn't working right on my computer

masterhyjinx

13. May 2012 · 23:03 UTC

Fabulous concept and use of the theme. Nice to see someone use HTML 5 too. I really liked the set up and the mechanics (Use of the sun). I didn't get very far because when I get to the first goal of putting the planet in a zone performance drops significantly and I can't seem to move the planet at all.

(It seemed to malfunction in Chrome with colors painting everywhere)

johnfn

13. May 2012 · 23:24 UTC

Cute. The controls could be a little better, but I understand that there's some attempt at physical reality going on here :) Too bad it's so short, because the concept of the planet giving you resources is super clever.

Make A Game

14. May 2012 · 00:16 UTC

What a bizarre idea, certainly new for me!