Trajectory Express by icxon

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made by icxon for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Trajectory Express

Take a ride in a boxiest of rockets. Watch the sun rise 584 times over one shift. Drift across the pinkness of space towards your next destination. Be a good space postman. For a while, that's all that matters.

This is Trajectory Express. And we always deliver!

CONTROLS:

  • Space, LMB - Thrust
  • WSAD, arrows - Steer
  • Shift, RMB - Rear thrust (Hopper only)
  • Mouse - rotate camera
  • R - restart
  • M - mute music

GAMEPAD:

  • R Trigger - Thrust
  • L Stick- Steer
  • L Trigger - Rear thrust (Hopper only)
  • R Stick - camera
  • Start - Menu

TOOLS:

Ratings

Overall 296th 3.843⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 341th 3.686⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 219th 3.8⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 353th 4.132⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 208th 4.257⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Audio 209th 3.864⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Humor 694th 2.907⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 329th 3.818⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

hatheus
02. May 2023 · 04:53 UTC
Awesome game team! The graphics and music are great! Has such a nice pleasant feel to it, very calming. The ship controls are great as well. Really fun little game, and an awesome achievement in such a short timeframe.
Rosa Nussbaum
02. May 2023 · 04:56 UTC
This is super cute! Really pretty, love the art and the music. Pretty hard to control the ship, had better luck on the hopper than the gyro, though I think the difficulty makes it interesting. Reminded me of outer wilds. Nice UI, good overall, I enjoyed it.
Whysguy52
02. May 2023 · 04:59 UTC
them controls LOL had me struggling for a minute but i got the hang of it.
Lichtung
02. May 2023 · 05:09 UTC
I loved this experience! Music, art, idea was great! Very glad the "hopper" exists! Game was kind of broken for my brain because I play invert y-axis and I could not get used to the controls. Still loved the overall idea even though I sent my rocket off course countless number of times because of the controls.
🎤 icxon
02. May 2023 · 05:19 UTC
@lichtung

Oh! I've been thinking about invert y-axis and camera sensitivity settings. But got busy working on gamepad support last minutes :dizzy_face:. Thanks for playing!

@rosa-nussbaum

I have not played Outer Wilds yet, but I know that game is a masterpiece. This comparison is a compliment to us!
a333
02. May 2023 · 05:34 UTC
@lichtung @rosa-nussbaum Ey! My Hopper gang, stay strong!
@icxon here is a Gyro enjoyer, and I glad we included both.
ZhennaPerks
02. May 2023 · 19:38 UTC
Music, art, all the little wobbles of the ship, immaculate. This is such an approachable feel and I love how there's 2 ships to pick from. I went with the Gyro (and I'll probably go back for the Hopper).

Controls were a bit of learning curve for me and I ran into a bunch of planets. I do wish the planets still had some sort of outline or highlighting when my camera was inside of them because I often fell into planets that I couldn't actually see. I appreciate that "close enough" let me complete the missions because I didn't reach the point of getting too frustrated or losing the fun.

Overall, great entry. Thanks so much for sharing!
SolidHinken
02. May 2023 · 21:08 UTC
omg! The atmosphere in this one! Is just right. Loved the controls as well.
LDJam user 336851
02. May 2023 · 21:16 UTC
Great game with insanely good atmosphere, the only thing i would change is the hitbox of the lost parcels at the start since it can be quite hard to collect them. It is also really calming to fly around in the little ship :).
DGo
02. May 2023 · 21:18 UTC
Great game! I love the movement, good job :)
st00nsa
02. May 2023 · 21:19 UTC
Best entry I have seen so far. Love the gravity force of the visually appealing planets. It was hard to play without mouse (touchpad only) but I found this experience enjoyable anyway.

Love small detail live a screen effect on collision.
Dominic Graziano
02. May 2023 · 21:21 UTC
really fun and challenging. I'm super thankful that you added that chunk to help me know what the top and bottom of the ship was... man is space disorienting!
Cody Holt
02. May 2023 · 21:21 UTC
The controls were the biggest obstacle to enjoying the game, but once you get the hang of it everything feels pretty smooth.
winie
02. May 2023 · 21:26 UTC
Lovly graphic
DashNothing
02. May 2023 · 21:27 UTC
The art direction is so charming. Very well done!
pedrohpf
02. May 2023 · 22:57 UTC
Really nice one! I like the flying around a lot, though found it hard to orient myself to turn in the direction i needed when using the gyro. The hopper was easier to use for me.

Oh and YOU have a nice day as well ;)
LTyrosine
02. May 2023 · 23:46 UTC
We went for similar idea. It was very challenging to find a way to control a craft with total freedom of movement + inertia and so on. This game manages to simplify it a little. Also liked the simple 3d models and cool music.
Lvl99Chicken
03. May 2023 · 00:43 UTC
Great submission! I really liked the visuals and music. Controls were hard at first but satisfying once I understood them. The models are simple but fit well with the rest to make a cohesive style.
Patrick Abernathy
03. May 2023 · 01:27 UTC
This was neat. The ship felt floaty which i guess is normal for being in space. The controls were hard to get used to so i kept running out of fuel.
peterfiftyfour
03. May 2023 · 10:29 UTC
Really love the visuals of this one :) The planets turned out real nice too!
kromeboy
03. May 2023 · 11:18 UTC
I think that I have an issue with one of the connected controller. Is there a way to disable controllers and play only with keys?
BlumBlum
03. May 2023 · 12:39 UTC
The atmosphere is really cool, the controls are quite complicated to lean,
but the gravity of the planets is really cool.

The game is really good !!
🎤 icxon
03. May 2023 · 20:03 UTC
@kromeboy,

There is no such setting in game, you could try disconnecting your controller device physically before playing. Sorry for that!
DGSpitzer
04. May 2023 · 05:00 UTC
Pretty fun to play! In the last 3 heavy pacakge I almost run out of my gas but in the end made it!
vydra
04. May 2023 · 13:49 UTC
Don't like the idea and concept of gameplay.
StrangerYann
04. May 2023 · 17:02 UTC
very impressive graphically and in terms of scope --- the colours are tame and soothing, it's a nice atmosphere --- reminds me of worms 3d's maps a bit --- that being said I got mega-confused by the inverted controls for the Y axix (up/down) --- an option to make it possible to control the ship like you would a plane would make the game much more enjoyable in my experience --- impressive scope, good job :-) :sparkles:
PavelDlouhy
05. May 2023 · 16:22 UTC
Good graphics, interesting music and pretty polished GUI. Not bad at all. Pretty hard game! Reminding me of hard games from 8-bit era... ;-)
arron-fowler
08. May 2023 · 15:49 UTC
I loved the way this looked. A simple game loop made very challenging with the controls! I can't say I found it much fun. I spent most of my time correcting the things I had done by accident. Mind Blown. It sounded great too and I was pleased to finally return to base. It was a messy flight!
Sodoj
14. May 2023 · 22:11 UTC
This game has a very nice skybox - that is not something I compliment every day, but together with the start particles it makes for one of the prettier cosmoses in jam games. The game itself is neat, although I really wish there was a way to invert movement, the default movement scheme was really counter intuitive for me personally. Still it did not deter me completely from enjoying the game, so well done!
D3kryption
16. May 2023 · 07:03 UTC
This is damn cool. The music, graphics, gameplay all of it just works so well.

I love the skybox and the grids you've done. But everything just works

I ended up playing quite a few times and showing some friends !

nice job :)