Ragtag Rescue by Tim Ruswick

Your ship was destroyed. Your crew was spaced. You are their last hope. Save as many as you can while building and upgrading your ship!
CONTROLS: ASD control RED/GREEN/BLUE and corresponding components MOUSE - drag and drop parts to your ship to install them.

CREDITS: ART: KindredDev http://twitter.com/michaelkocha
Music: Nathaniel Catt https://twitter.com/Battlepus1
Logic: Tim Ruswick http://twitter.com/timruswick
| Youtube | https://timruswick.itch.io/ragtag-rescue |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/ragtag-rescue |
Ratings
| Overall | 117th | 3.978⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 128th | 3.867⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 88th | 3.977⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 74th | 4.148⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 138th | 4.205⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 67th | 4.011⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 175th | 3.57⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 296th | 3.682⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 6🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
* graphics were great (go kindred)
* would be nice to be able to 'zoom out' after your ship get bigger, got to a point were my ship covered 50% or so of the vertical space on the screen.
It was really hard to control but that's probably because I built my ship like a total idiot haha
Great game overall, really enjoyed it.
I do think it is missing a big element that could make it go from great to fantastic - the ability to rotate items before placing them, and possibly some way to remote items once they have been placed. It is far too difficult to consistently collect the crew if steering is impossible at the start since you can only go in one direction with a single thruster. Nonetheless, this game was very fun to play, and the neat little screenshot feature was an amazing addition.


its going awaaay
However, the game needs more gnomes. Also didn't see any goats. Might want to work on that

I ended up not really using the cannons - jumppads and the (indestructible?) plus blocks are just way more effective while cannons destroy your own blocks. Maybe destroying asteroids could give you points as well.
Some bigger parts to attach to your ship would also be nice.
Really enjoyed it ! Remembered me katamari good time :)
Congratulations for the game!
This is our game:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/soundscapes
The only things I noticed is that there is a barely noticable visual artifact with the bouncer and the game just doesn't end.
But maaan I would give it 6 Stars if I could :D Great game, thanks for sharing!
I see that a lot of others are saying you should be able to rotate parts before attaching, but I think it is better how it is where you end up with things not quite how you want them! It would be too easy if you had more control. It's too easy to play indefinitely though, I rescued 25 crew and could easily have kept going. Basically once you've got a thruster of each colour spaced approx. 120 degrees apart, the ship is flyable.