Save the sun by Kongo

Hello Human Beings!
It is now year 2137. Earth scientist have managed to confirm that natural Sun's energy will soon disapear. This will lead to imposion of our main star and wipe out our homeland. It is inevitable that our life as we know it is doomed.
Top Earth scientist started a project to move our planet from it's orbit and fly it outside of a Sun blast radius. Unfortunatelly they will not be able to finish it on time.
The United Council of Human Beings have emerged and came up with solution to fuel Sun's energy by throwing asteroids with minerals into it's core. This method may buy scientists enough time to evacuate Earth. Therefore project "Buy more time" has been officially approved and Captain Un has been selected to lead this mission on starship "Delay".
Will he be able to stall the inevitable destruction of the sun long enough for Earth to evacuate? Maybe you can help him?
Time of gameplay: 10 minutes.
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Credits:
Programming:
- Kongo
- Cieku
Graphics:
- Diler
Music: - https://opengameart.org/content/spacelife-14
Good luck to you!
| Link | https://kongo555.itch.io/save-the-sun |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/save-the-sun |
Ratings
| Overall | 58th | 4.161⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 296th | 3.742⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 94th | 3.984⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 33th | 4.403⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 37th | 4.629⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 413th | 3.429⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 90th | 4.21⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 29🗨️ |
Throwing asteroids into the sun felt really satisfying!
Great job!
the concept and mechanics were great, it was a lot of fun to figure out the best ways to flying the asteroids back at the sun to get them there quickly.
Personally I did find the sound effects a bit grating after a while, and the typos in the writing were distracting at times.
Overall very solid!

Also is this what geologists will do in the future?
Here is my playthrough:
https://youtu.be/g4-AQ7NRaAg
Awesome entry! The art really looked amazing, liked the cutscene and the death animation :)
It's a fun concept!
controlling the spaceship is a bit confusing at first, I narrowed it down to 2 reasons:
1. you don't control the spaceship with screen orientation how most players are used to but rather in which direction the ship "looks" (I figured that out pretty quickly because we've once done a jam entry with exactly the same thing and I know that it can confuse people ^^)
2. I personally would prefer if the ship didn't rotate too much when just pressing "go forward", although it might be fun if it weren't combined with the "player view orientation", so maybe add a version where you move the direction in which the player looks with WASD and then like space or something for adding fuel? Just an idea :) Would love to try that, so if you do that, tag me!
The mechanic to rotate with the meteor to build up acceleration was really intuitive, I liked that!
And when I managed to throw the meteor into the sun it felt really good! :)
I really liked how you can heal yourself at earth and get upgrades etc. that was a fun mechanic!
What would have been very nice is additionally to the radar an arrow indicating where the sun is and maybe a little screen at the edge alwyys showcasing the sun (so you can see the explosions even if you're farther away for positive player feedback)
All in all a cool entry! You can be proud of yourselfes :)
I'm really surprised that this game does not have more ranting received. Awesome job with the game!
We love that someone else took our idea and improved in some areas, but giving credit is the bare minimum.