Tau Zero by sharpcoder

It's time to seek bigger and better worlds than the tiny one you currenetly inhabit. Navigate the perils of space while you travel the final frontier.
NOTE: This game is not mobile friendly. Sorry.
Controls
It's all clicking. So, hold down the mouse to power up your ship and blast off. Be careful though, you only get one shot!
Links
- (HTML5) http://sharpcoder.github.io/ludumdare/spring2017/
- (Source) http://sharpcoder.github.io/ludumdare/spring2017/src.zip
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/tau-zero |
Ratings
| Overall | 692th | 2.737⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 644th | 2.6⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 725th | 2.211⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 600th | 2.905⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 593th | 2.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 553th | 2.125⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 655th | 2.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 4🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
One idea would maybe to have the stars move a bit? As when I flew past my destination I wasn't sure if I was still moving!
@alisoncox - that's a great idea! Parallaxing the background would add a subtle but cool effect.
@pfeyffer - that would also be a great idea.
I'm planning on making a post-compo version. These are great suggestions, I'll see what I can do :) thanks!
Gameplay is lacking a bit, you can't see how far you have to go before you actually leave the planet so you can basically only charge the thing and try to hit the arrow.
All in all, it's a good entry.
the main menu loads on chrome but as soon as I fire the rocket it sticks to the top left corner and the camera just stays on the launch planet.
Nice graphics and sounds, but unfortunately can't really rate the gameplay :worried:
But I don't know why but in Firefox the game always opens at 1000x150 px canvas. I had to resize it manually to play correctly.
Managed to go to level 4.
Some suggestions:
It would be cool while gaining the power zoom out from planet to see the actual target.
Gravity was cool. But without zoom in, zoom out it is difficult to understand where am I in the space.
Well done.
Cool. I had a similar idea for a previous LD, didn't do it though.
At one time, I launched so hard that my plane exited the play view. I could here sounds of it launching, but there was nothing on the screen.