It's Full of Stars by incobalt
Sometimes we're asked to say who we surround ourselves with, what we like, what influences us. Rarely do we have a good answer, or the right answer, or the answer best at hand. But we make do and build a concept with what we can, and hope that it will turn out all right. Others will try to tell us what we are or what we should be, but it's up to us to position it just right and fit the good with the bad.
Featuring over 30,000 words or phrases to describe yourself as a maker or producer of while trying to make an appealing pattern in the night sky.
Play is described on screen, but the controls are:
Click on a star - Center on star
Click and drag between stars - Connect stars on release
(At least one of the stars must be in your constellation)
Click and drag in empty space - Rotate around centered star
Click and drag with the other mouse button - Zoom in and out
(Hold Option or Alt and move the mouse if you only have one mouse button)
Whenever you are finished, you can wait a minute for the stars to fade. The "x" on the screen is there to get your mouse back (but you can always press escape to do that, per any browser), and quits the program in the Windows build. If you have the Windows version, you will get a chance to save a picture of your constellation before the end. The file will appear in the same directory as the executable. The Web version works best in Firefox. Chrome is both slow and prone to WebGL crashes.
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It's Full of Stars was developed in Unity (Personal) with a combination of 5.3 (WebGL) and 5.1 (Standalone).
Music and sound effects were made using LMMS.
The font is Always Together (http://www.dafont.com/always-together.font) and is one of my new favorite fonts.
What few images exist were made in Paint.Net.
The words and phrases were scraped from various wiki lists.
Featuring over 30,000 words or phrases to describe yourself as a maker or producer of
Play is described on screen, but the controls are:
Click on a star - Center on star
Click and drag between stars - Connect stars on release
(At least one of the stars must be in your constellation)
Click and drag in empty space - Rotate around centered star
Click and drag with the other mouse button - Zoom in and out
(Hold Option or Alt and move the mouse if you only have one mouse button)
Whenever you are finished, you can wait a minute for the stars to fade. The "x" on the screen is there to get your mouse back (but you can always press escape to do that, per any browser), and quits the program in the Windows build. If you have the Windows version, you will get a chance to save a picture of your constellation before the end. The file will appear in the same directory as the executable. The Web version works best in Firefox. Chrome is both slow and prone to WebGL crashes.
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It's Full of Stars was developed in Unity (Personal) with a combination of 5.3 (WebGL) and 5.1 (Standalone).
Music and sound effects were made using LMMS.
The font is Always Together (http://www.dafont.com/always-together.font) and is one of my new favorite fonts.
What few images exist were made in Paint.Net.
The words and phrases were scraped from various wiki lists.
Ratings
| Coolness | 45% | 1562 |
| Overall | 3.26 | 456 |
| Audio | 3.57 | 122 |
| Fun | 2.50 | 853 |
| Graphics | 2.95 | 564 |
| Humor | 1.75 | 683 |
| Innovation | 3.68 | 182 |
| Mood | 3.57 | 136 |
| Theme | 3.05 | 860 |
The controls were hit-and-miss with me. Sometimes I was able to drag a star, sometimes I wasn't.
Finally, the other line is randomly generated, and happens more often if you are connecting far away stars. I'd love to let it be other players interfering, but I wasn't about to figure that out for Ludum Dare.
Anyway - very, very nice game (: It feels a bit raw, but it's rather relaxing and definitely makes you think ^^
I've made a let's play video if you want to check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kK5hVCvmVI