Asteroid Belt by Lattyware

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made by Lattyware for LD23 (COMPO)
You play as a man fed up of living on an asteroid, find your way to the edge
of the asteroid belt, and to a real planet.

I originally had a much grander game in mind, but then I hit some problems and couldn't get it finished in time, so instead I ripped it down to a simple game to get something submitted. Check the about page for more about what I was aiming for.
What was implemented is mainly just commented out and left unused.

Note the builds are untested off my own machines, they should work, but let me know if not.

Ratings

Coolness 17% 1039
Overall 2.00 863
Fun 1.78 857
Graphics 2.11 796
Innovation 1.78 869
Theme 1.89 861

Feedback

Jhelle
28. Apr 2012 · 11:58 UTC
Got a black screen running it :(. Screenshot looks fun though.
ExciteMike
28. Apr 2012 · 12:17 UTC
I found Earth!
caranha
28. Apr 2012 · 12:20 UTC
Interesting, the idea to navigate the asteroid belt. It took me a while to get used to the "mouse pushes away", and I couldn't quite figure out how to control acceleration, but those obstacles were surmountable.

You need to put a bit more explanation IN the game about what you were supposed to be doing - a small text as the game begin "find your way to the planet", would suffice. As it is right now, I spent quite some time messing with the X asteroid until I figured out it was just for show!
PabloAM
28. Apr 2012 · 12:40 UTC
Not bad, remains me a classic game ;)
Raptor85
28. Apr 2012 · 12:47 UTC
requires unstable dev-branch gcc 4.6 to run due to unstable glibc2.14 dep so can't test, sorry. (i'm on stable 4.5 and a 4.6 upgrade would be pretty dangerous to do on this system right now)
🎤 Lattyware
28. Apr 2012 · 20:53 UTC
@caranha: Yeah, I would have had far more if I had gone with my original plan for the game, but unfortunately the physics stuff didn't work out well towards the end, so I had to massively simplify the game - it was originally going to be an RTS-like game where you had to colonise asteroids to build up enough resources to build a spaceship to get to the planet. There was quite a bit of explanation for that, but unfortunately it all had to be scrapped.

@Jhelle: Weird, what platform?

@Raptor85: No worries.
gormio
02. May 2012 · 17:54 UTC
On Linux 64-bit here. I see the splash screen and then after a while it exits with this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in <module>
File "main.py", line 100, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/app/__init__.py", line 264, in run
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/app/xlib.py", line 93, in run
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/app/__init__.py", line 187, in idle
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/clock.py", line 700, in tick
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/clock.py", line 303, in tick
File "main.py", line 78, in update
File "main.py", line 65, in scene
File "scenes.py", line 66, in _load
File "scenes.py", line 171, in load
File "entities.py", line 109, in populate
File "entities.py", line 86, in __init__
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/resource.py", line 492, in image
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/resource.py", line 437, in _alloc_image
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/image/__init__.py", line 186, in load
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyglet/image/codecs/pil.py", line 62, in decode
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1676, in transpose
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 164, in load
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/PngImagePlugin.py", line 381, in load_prepare
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 231, in load_prepare
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 37, in __getattr__
ImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed
davidwparker
07. May 2012 · 18:04 UTC
Sorry, I don't have Windows so I can't play.
asfdfdfd
07. May 2012 · 18:37 UTC
Controls a bit hard.
icefox
10. May 2012 · 08:52 UTC
Cool little game! Great physics. Took me a little while to realize what was going on though; better instructions might help. But hey, rocket pants!