The Sun Wants a Hug! by nimmems

Unfortunately, your spaceship is not equipped for sun-hugs. Destroy asteroids and satellites to collect resources: green galacti-coal to keep your ship in orbit and blue iso-fuel to power your thrusters and escape the sun's deadly orbit!
- > WASD moves your ship
- > Spacebar (tap or hold) to fire your blasters
Your missed shots will remain in orbit and can damage your ship. Watch your back!
"The Sun Wants a Hug" is a project by Black Totem Games (@blacktotemgames on Twitter). If you liked our game, give us a follow! We have two long-term projects in the works that we are eager to show people!
Resources Used: - FL Studio 20 - Audacity - GameMaker Studio 2.3 - Clip Studio Paint - Inkscape
Ratings
| Overall | 724th | 3.558⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 459th | 3.625⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1135th | 3.021⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1360th | 2.958⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 454th | 3.94⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 585th | 3.417⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 112th | 3.98⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 936th | 3.261⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
You got me with the animated title picture, veeery cute !
The game art is as funny as anounced which is great, loved the fact that you could choose between ships and that the last one has a totally different style (I of course took that one, I mean it's freaking guy riding a rocket and shooting lasers out of a blaster gun, what more do you want !)
The gameplay is quite straightforward and I feel a bit repetitive, one clever addition was the lasers going back round and becoming a threat to yourself, though I do feel like there are too many objects flying around from the start to take full advantage of it.
I think perhaps having fewer and smaller obstacles might lead to more misses and therefore much more of your own lasers coming back to you !
It's a solid entry, a proper menu, the music does its job, it's funny and allows a quick fun play so well done all.
Keep up the good work !
Feel free to check my entry and give my your opinions
Cheers
Damien
Graphics and audio were great as well. Solid jam entry!
Really love the artstyle and mood you set up, I could also get behind the gameplay. Speaking of though, while I did catch on how to use the orbiting projectiles to my favor, it still felt a bit too hard to manage. Maybe that's because of all the debris on the screen and the hectic atmosphere, though. All in all still a great entry though. Shine on! (get it, because sun? nvm...)
The controls were snappy and responsive, no gripes with that. Dodging the stuff from the right and your own shots from the left were a nicely balanced challenge. Good work!
Pretty simple game, but fun for what it is! I feel like having the obstacles be smaller and more numerous would have been an interesting tweak (?)