🚀 Rocket Drifter by polarcube
As your make your trip back from Mars back to your home planet Earth, you are intercepted by pirates. They know you are carrying precious metals from Mars, and they want all of it for themselves. In order to guarantee an eventual victory, they warp space around you creating a prison in space. There is no escape, at this point the best you can do is cause the most damage to their fleet to prevent them from doing it again to future travellers. Good luck.
🎮 GAMEPLAY / CONTROLS 🎮

[W] [S]: Move Forwards and Back
[A] [D]: Turn Left and Right
[SPACE]: Dash Forwards
[MOUSE 0]: Fire Guns
Your objective is to get the most points possible, while surviving as long as you can. The score is calculated by multiplying the speed of the enemy killed by your velocity -> the faster you are moving the more points you get.
💻 TOOLS USED 💻
- 🎨 Art: Aseprite
- 🎮 Game Engine: Unity
- 💻 IDE: Visual Studio
- 💬 Language: C#
- 🎶 Music: EcrettMusic
- 🔊 Sound Effects: SFXR
| Link | https://github.com/Nicolas-Gatien/RocketDrifter |
| Link | https://polarcube1.itch.io/rocket-drifter |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/rocket-drifter |
Ratings
| Given | 5🗳️ | 14🗨️ |

Glad you enjoyed playing!

I survived until the ship that shoots arrived. Instant kill!
Be careful with uploading commits of your leaderboard config :spy:
Almost beat you :D!
For some reason I couldn't upload my local score again.

I think the best summary I can give you is a quote. "Now THIS is podracing"
No really one of the best games so far, I could see me investing many hours into this game.

Challenging mechanic, but feels rewarding when you hit something :)
I just wish it was a liiiiiittle easier, maybe you should be able to rotate the ship a BIT with the mouse? (like superslow so that it wouldnt make sense to rotate with the mouse only, but oftentimes I missed the ships by a little bit only, and together with having to consider how W and S works it was a little too challenging for me :)
it was still a fun game!
graphicwise simple and solid with a cute ship :) I wish the font wasn't so blurry, I get that you probably wanted to compliment the pixel art, but I thing a pixel style font with clear edges would have done a better job
(for example anything from here https://www.dafont.com/de/bitmap.php)
Just download it, put the .otf or .tff into your project folder, chose the font and DONEEEEE
(edit: okay, I'm using Unity, but this has to work for Godot as well? I might be a bit nit-picky but I'm so sick of tired of Arial and the like in every gamejam considering how little time it takes to use a decent font ^^)
A very awesome entry for a single person, congrats! :)