Inhabitable by inzombiak

You and your Sun have been chilling for eons, but pests have started showing up trying to infest you.
It's only a matter of time until they sap you of any nature and wonders you had. Use your hands to grab the invaders and chuck em into the Sun before they cover you with industry and late-stage capitalism.
Controls:
Use mouse to move arms around.
Click and hold to grab, then flick into the sun.
Ships will release pests right before they explode.
Use asteroids to bash em out of the way
| Youtube | https://inzombiak.itch.io/inhabitable |
| Youtube | https://inzombiak.itch.io/inhabitable |
| Youtube | https://inzombiak.itch.io/inhabitable |
| Youtube | |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/inhabitable |
Ratings
| Overall | 376th | 3.875⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 68th | 4.139⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 479th | 3.681⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 590th | 3.958⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 133th | 4.086⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 38th | 4.292⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 688th | 3.676⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 47🗨️ |
Overall good job and thanks for the game!
love the audio and the animation !
Feel free to test my game as well ^^
I felt like I could defend myself quite well by just grabbing an asteroid and swinging it all around me (maybe the gameplay is a bit unbalanced here) – but in the end, I still got… humans. Felt like the music track would've benefited from being a bit longer.
I found it a little bit weird sometimes when pests would seemingly travel through the sun to get to me, but otherwise everything seemed to be going as I expected. I found that the best technique seemed to be to just grab an asteroid and continually use it to deflect everything. :stuck_out_tongue: Now that I say that though, I wonder if it it might be possible to gather asteroids around you and build a kind of rock shield. Tips for anyone who plays it after me perhaps? :wink:
I think it's super tough to get final bits of polish into a game jam game, but for the sake of being constructive I'd definitely say that a score would provide a little bit more punch to the game, maybe in addition to having some additional animations for the Earth.
Also incredible story element - infestation by late stage capitalism is truly a beautiful set-up. :joy:
Anyway, well done!