L.D. Phone Home by tsjost

made by tsjost for Ludum Dare 46 (COMPO)

Aim your dish towards the other satellites in order to phone home, while making sure to not discharge your battery!
...who am I kidding, I just didn't come up with any better gameplay!

This is mostly a stress-test of my C++/OpenGL engine, that I'm using to create other space-related games, to see how well it's able to handle rapid prototyping/development.

Youtube	https://tsjo.st/f/ld_phone_home_ld46_windows.zip
Youtube	https://tsjo.st/f/ld_phone_home_ld46_linux.tar.gz
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/l-d-phone-home

Ratings

Given

2🗳️

4🗨️

Feedback

Daniel Velitskiy

21. Apr 2020 · 08:51 UTC

nice job

SantaClausNL

21. Apr 2020 · 08:55 UTC

I liked it, you can shoot through the planet which may not be intended 🤔, and the turning is a little finicky, but i liked the graphics and concept. Good job!

johnnysix

22. Apr 2020 · 22:25 UTC

Pretty cool, trying to get aligned and remembering the buttons was challenging but rewarding when it hit 100%.

I got a score of 3. :smile:

Aurel300

24. Apr 2020 · 22:53 UTC

We streamed your game with Danae: [link to Twitch VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599171054?t=04h37m33s) (approximate timestamp)

Good engine test ;) Aiming at the sun was really difficult (for me), and it was hard to keep up the satellite shooting while maintatining the battery!

PTSnoop

25. Apr 2020 · 06:38 UTC

I think I managed to gimbal-lock the satellite a few times there - I'd have preferred the satellite rotation controls to be more quaternion-ish rather than euler angles. It'd be more realistic, too, not having to have a big global Up and Down in space. But then again, it would make the WASD aiming more difficult... Also: I did like the tricky balancing act of keeping the satellite pointed at the sun versus actually trying to score points. Good game!