Satellites by Bewelge
Satellites

Launch your Satellites into a safe Orbit!
It's a sandbox-like game I made. Mostly because I couldn't think of a fun interaction. Anyways, your aim is to launch as many satellites into a stable orbit without crashing them into each other!
You can set different options to change the rockets & satellites flights.
You can:
- Set the power, tilt and fuel levels of each rocket-stage.
- Set the thurst-interval, force and duration of the Satellites.
Have fun!
| Source Code | https://github.com/Bewelge/Ludum-Dare-42 |
| HTML5 (web) | https://bewelge.itch.io/satellites |
| HTML5 (web) | https://bewelge.github.io/Ludum-Dare-42/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/satellites |
Ratings
| Overall | 536th | 3.092⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 648th | 2.553⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 253th | 3.382⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 615th | 2.921⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 409th | 3.128⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 317th | 2.987⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 477th | 1.773⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 463th | 2.714⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 50🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
Interesting game - I had fun with this! Sort of like Kerbal Space Program meets Universe Sandbox!
I know you probably didn't had the time, but making a quick tutorial of each options category could have been really cool!
They are some good feedbacks too, good job for that o/
Great game. As mentioned above, a better tutorial might be nice; but tutorials for something like this are difficult.
For outer orbits, the rocket launch feels disproportionate to the resulting orbit height of the satellite, though maybe I'm just not thinking about the relation of these two trajectories. Either way, even if the animations don't match what I'd expect, the sliders seem to result in the orbits I expect, so it works out.