Cosmic Crossing Guard! by JDcierski
You're short on cash and decided to pickup a part-time job as a crossing guard. A Cosmic Crossing Guard! Your job is to keep all the celestial bodies of the universe from colliding. Try to assist as many planets as possible without getting fired in this classic frantic arcade game.
Controls: Mouse Click: Grab Space: Pause
| HTML5 (web) / Windows | https://jdcierski.itch.io/cosmic-crossing-gaurd |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/cosmic-crossing-guard |
Ratings
| Given | 0🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
The music is well made. The shoot effect could be dialed down a bit on the volume.
You don't have much control over spawning meteors on the edges of the screen and thus colliding ...
Well Done!
One frustrating thing was collision on the edges. Like 2 planets spawning really close to each other. As soon as I saw them on the edge, I have like half a second to react. And this was bigger problem with gas giants because they are huge, they have lots of contact surface, and they moved really slowly, thus they were in the "danger zone" for far too long. :D
Anyway, I really enjoyed it, love that in real life space is vast, collisions are very rare... and here.. well, space is limited. Keep up the good work! :)
Oh, and maybe you should make the inverse of this: "you have to collide celestial bodies." I mean, destruction is always more fun than avoiding destruction, right? :smile:
Good game. I just kept shoving everything quickly out of the nearest edge and reached 3050. And yeah the out of screen edge collisions are quite annoying. Actually having the objective be set to make the stuff collide and explode might be more fun than just pushing them away. Maybe because there is more feedback on collision than just moving out of the view. Good stuff though and fun little game. Nice work!
I liked the gravity mechanic too, it added some depth in a very theme/setting -fitting way.
After a few tries, I managed to get a pretty good strategy of pausing the game as soon as I saw something, and then clicking it and unpausing and flicking it back the same way it came. U-turns everywhere. The best crossing guard there is. Love it.
