Save The Pink Skins! by gajop

In this game you play as the friendly neighborhood alien trying to save the local pink skins from extinction. Defend them from the many meteors on route to their planet, but perhaps let a few slide as they tend to breed uncontrollably.
Controls: - WASD to move - Left Click to shoot
Tools: - Rust - ggez - gimp - bfxr
Rust is a great language, I had a lot of fun.
Changelog: - Fix Windows build: https://github.com/gajop/LD46/releases/tag/1.1

Ratings
| Overall | 281th | 3.692⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 276th | 3.615⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 553th | 3.25⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 114th | 4.115⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 562th | 3.385⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 439th | 3.308⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 26🗨️ |
Anyway. Good work!
A nice twist on a classic formula. I definitely found controlling the ship challenging with the high inertia!
Great job overall!
@westmave I didn't make shooting the planet reduce population because that would make it too controllable. This game requires a little bit of planning (both in controlling ship inertia and population)
I like the physics interaction with asteroids and the twist that you have to let some through.
And of course You need gravity in it! It would be great then I think
Graphics ar ok
Also having asteroids burning and slowly desintegrating to dust when they are too small is a cool idea, as well as the need to let some pass through. Combined with the different damages amount depending on the asteroid's size, it works pretty well.
The ship may be a bit too hard to control though, so that I didn't really have to let asteroids pass through as I missed some anyways when there were too much of them (but I may just be bad at good old arcade games haha). And I validate the idea seen in other comments to have your vessel slowly orbiting around the planet if you're close enough and not moving.
Old style graphics are nice, simple and effective. The planet is really nice with its rotation and the one of its atmosphere not having the same speed.