PLANET◯ by Jaun

Take the role of nurturing a small, developing planet trying to grow in a dangerous galaxy. Your planet can't do much on its own, but its inhabitants will defend the place from asteroid and other dangers.
How many years will you be able to keep it alive?
HOW TO PLAY
Rotate (drag) the planet with your mouse to aim at the incoming dangers.
Click the buttons over the cities to upgrade them.

BROWSER PLAY: https://jaun.itch.io/planeto!
| Youtube | https://jaun.itch.io/planeto |
| Youtube | https://bitbucket.org/Galbix/ld46/src/master/ |
| Youtube | https://jaun.itch.io/planeto |
| Youtube | https://jaun.itch.io/planeto |
| Youtube | https://jaun.itch.io/planeto |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/planeto |
Ratings
| Overall | 166th | 3.833⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 151th | 3.792⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 236th | 3.667⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 388th | 3.813⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 253th | 3.813⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 365th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 441th | 2.929⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 394th | 3.37⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 9🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
That being said, the idea is novel, the execution is solid, and the graphics are lovely. I also thought it was really funny dying in a few seconds and having my survival time reported in millions of years. Nice job overall.
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I think the controls were a bit confusing, I first tried using arrows and wasd, but then i read the explanation and discovered how to play. Playing with the arrows would be easier, and the tower could be placed using space bar.
Beside that, it is a great concept! A simple and nice game, could be ported to mobile and would be a nice game to play once in a while! Congrats!
Overall, still a good game!
In addition to balancing the enemy progression I think you could have removed the need for clicking to activate the towers.
Great work! Really nice simple concept executed well!
I had difficulties with the drag controller, playing with my mouse - but I have a feeling that this game on mobile would be amazing. It's a fun time-waster and well done, very polished. I really liked how creatures begin to emerge on the surface on the planet, I think it was a stupendous touch.
Really impressed that you done all by yourself this game, so, again, congratulations!
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I like the idea of the game. It's like the old arcade-game Asteroids with a twist.
The upgrade system is neat, and the overall game is very well put together.
But I'm either a really bad player, or then the game is extremely difficult.

I found it impossible to last more than 500+ million years.
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I first thought to myself that "man, these are some unlucky planets", but then I thought that maybe that's not a lot of impact events in such timescale after all.

At least apparently if you compare it to earth, the planets of this game don't even get a whole lot of beating in comparison!
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I also like the fact that everytime you played the planet had a distinct appearance.
I'm not entirely sure did I like the cute eyes though. They're surely adorable, and make it easier to make out the orientation of the planets, but somehow it takes away the "grandeur" of these astronomical bodies.
But that might be just me. The eyes could be easily implemented an impact animation though. (Making them close for less than a second in a painful expression whenever an asteroid strikes).
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But all in all good job! I hope to see more of your stuff in the future.
@dis0rder hey, thank you for going out of your way to play my new entry, and also writing such detailed review! Yeah, the game is definitely not easy hahaha, and is funny that you mention the eyes cause I actually did though about removing them at one point (and like that they give some "personality" to the planet, but maybe they dont really fit with the mood).
So apparently this planets should consider themselfs lucky compare with out poor Earth, I kind of like that.