SPACE ORBIT by Guldfisk
Your home planet is dying - can you venture into the dangers of space and collect the resources required to save it?
Space Orbit is a top-down spaceship game where you control a rocket flying in and out of different planetal orbits. Your goal is to find, collect and bring back resources from other planets so that your home planet can be saved. Just be careful so that you don't run out of fuel or crash into any dangerous debris!

Controls (Keyboard):
W - accelerate
S - break
AD - steer left and right
Controls (Controller):
A - accelerate
B - break
Left Joystick - steer left and right
Credits:
Douglas Driving - Design & Programming
Oscar Wirdelius - Sound & Programming
Guldfisk - Programming
Anonymous - Art
| Youtube | https://douglasdriving.itch.io/space-orbit |
| Youtube | https://douglasdriving.itch.io/space-orbit |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/space-orbit |
Ratings
| Overall | 268th | 3.92⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 187th | 3.94⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 123th | 4⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 285th | 4.06⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 799th | 3.56⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 349th | 3.7⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 214th | 3.96⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 41🗳️ | 29🗨️ |
It feels very fluid and fun to glide around and explore the solar system. The camera action is really satisfying, and you've established a great sense of scale. The gravity and momentum are very well implemented-- It feels scary to get close to the larger planets.
I love the attention to detail, too. Things like the navigation lights on the ship, the orientation arrow, the little pull of fuel towards your ship, and the in-game start screen all add a very nice polish to a very strong game.
Maybe I'm a potato, but the game is very hard; that's my only criticism really. Maybe it's the zero tolerance for crashing, but after about a dozen playthroughs, I haven't collected more than 20 resources.
Regardless, this is really impressive. Really well done!
it definitely has a nice atsmosphere to it!
I feel the game could have been a bit friendlier by refueling whenever you enter Earth's orbit for delivery tho :p
Well done!