Moon Racer by LukeWaffel

You are playing as Pen, a friendly alien trying to drive across the moon. Pen is driving his beautiful UFO that uses 'Space' as fuel. But there is only one problem! Pen has a leak in his ~~gas tank~~ 'Space container', so he keeps running out of ~~gas~~ SPACE!
* Controls * A/D - Driving left and right (While on the moon) A/D - Balancing yourself in the air (While in the air) Space - Handbrake
* Links * Game: https://lukewaffel.itch.io/moon-racer Source: https://gitlab.com/LukeWaffel/LD42-Moon_Racer.git
* Credits * Art: Ilse Wensink (Discord: Ilsaaah#6872) Programming: Luuk 'LukeWaffel' Domhof (Discord: LukeWaffel#0835 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/LukeWaffel | Google: lukewaffel@gmail.com)
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/moon-racer |
Ratings
| Overall | 735th | 3.25⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 229th | 3.639⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1246th | 2.139⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 7🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
- good physics! We like the bobbing of the ship and the way it bounces around. It's really satisfying to watch
- sound effects and music sounded really good! But I don't see any credits for the sound/music. Are they original or did you forget to opt out of that category?
- the art is adorable! the style is memorable and nice to look at :)
- really wish there was jumping.. would have made it a lot more fun
- We love the menu animations! They look great. However, they became a little annoying after the first few plays of the game because you had to wait for the animation to finish before you could try again
- whenever you mess up/flip upside down, and you want to restart, you have to wait until the fuel empties before you can wait for the animations :P before you can click restart to try again. All this waiting time adds up and gets frustrating :'(
Overall, we had a lot of fun playing it. Your cute little alien, Pen, made us smile :) <3
Just really wish you could press R to restart. It would make the game so much more enjoyable. Waiting isn't fun.
Keep up the good work! We can't wait to see more games from you guys!! :D
Glad you liked it! :smile:
Was really difficult though, hiding the timer mechanic with a fuel bar.
Not sure if randomly generated levels really lent itself to the gameplay, while really cool, I (personally) feel like part of the gameplay style like this is feeling the accomplishment of learning the levels and retrying until you "finally get it right".
Thumbs up with the music, haha!
Controls are a bit tricky but overall good game!
Thanks for the great feedback :angel:
My only critique would be that once the ship flips over it's nearly impossible to correct. I found myself often waiting for my fuel to run out because I had no other option. Luckily it goes down rather quickly so I really wasn't waiting more than 2-3 seconds, but I'm sure if you had more time it'd be a thing you could fix.
Overall really cool game and great entry to LD42!
Glad to hear you liked the game :smile: Saving and showing a highscore definitely is a must for me too, and rather easy to add :slight_smile: