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Slingshot Delivery by i_cam

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made by i_cam for Ludum Dare 56 (COMPO)

Go around the system delivering presents to your cool alien creature friends! Use your grapple hook tail combined with gravitational sling-shotting to find packages in the wild, and deliver them to friends!

Controls:

  • Click - use your grapple hook in the direction of your click, which can be used to slingshot yourself!
  • WASD - Use a jet-pack like acceleration force, helpful for altering trajectory to avoid asteroids
  • R to reset (added by popular demand for all present challenge runs)

>> Play now on itch.io! <<

There are 17 presents total, see if you can get them all! (it's very hard tho lowkey, i've only gotten 16)

Bug fixes on itch.io build: - Present hitbox is bigger - Grapple hook has more forgiving hitbox - Added immovable asteroids & simple tutorial text on start planet - Adjusted "space"ing of asteroids & planet in level - Moved Blobert to upper planet of his duo (it was cold on the other one) - Planet gravity is doubled - Added reset button (R)

OST UPLOAD https://youtu.be/RPeZRz7NmCQ?si=NvO0DJsHwPaItsfx

Link https://i-cam.itch.io/slingshot-delivery
Link https://github.com/cmaciver/ld-56-space-game
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/slingshot-delivery

Ratings

Overall 113th 3.661⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 48th 3.929⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 71th 3.804⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 308th 2.589⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 246th 3.054⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 53th 3.815⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 87th 3.537⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 135th 3.481⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

SMoore
06. Oct 2024 · 23:22 UTC
Very fun physics game! Slinging myself around felt really good and intuitive, especially with the wasd commands to help out a bit.
MisterCarson
07. Oct 2024 · 02:05 UTC
This game is so sick. Sling shoting yourself is a blast and it's super sick at high speeds. I will say there does feel like there is a lot of asteroids, but you do learn to navigate around them. Just a few less to make it more open would be cool. I was able to get a high score of 11
StoicGoose
07. Oct 2024 · 22:18 UTC
Love the space opera vibes with the music and all.
Wren Erickson
07. Oct 2024 · 22:38 UTC
I love how fast you can move, and the music is so heroic!
🎤 i_cam
07. Oct 2024 · 22:39 UTC
@stoicgoose thanks! had to write the music last second bc art took so long but im glad it came out well
🎤 i_cam
07. Oct 2024 · 22:41 UTC
@wren-erickson glad you enjoyed, tried to make the movement as fun as possible, there's definitely some cool emergent tech
IonBingo
08. Oct 2024 · 00:48 UTC
Super fun combo of gravity and grappling demonstrated in a simple game loop. I like the music and I wanna see more with this idea
Kotolazer
08. Oct 2024 · 08:22 UTC
I loved the physical interactions in this game. It seemed very fast paced, but if you play it more, it only goes better
Game-mon
08. Oct 2024 · 08:31 UTC
Cool game! Physics take a bit of getting used to, but are fun for sure. The thing I would improve a little bit is communicating information to the player: what should I do? where should I go? But I get that exploring randomly can also be part of the fun as well. Anyway, a nice entry!
safalevent
08. Oct 2024 · 08:48 UTC
Loved the physics and slinging using asteroids
Sviborg
08. Oct 2024 · 11:17 UTC
Spinning physics! 🚀 Spinning was incredibly intuitive and just plain fun, especially with the WASD controls. The space opera atmosphere and heroic music added a great atmosphere! 🎶 Overall, the dynamic gameplay and physics interactions are just the bomb! Keep up the good work! 🌟✨
🎤 i_cam
08. Oct 2024 · 17:09 UTC
@thomas-bringer ultimately i agree with you. if i had one more substantial non-bug-fix feature i could add it would be either a minimap or onscreen "crazy taxi" arrows when you are near a present or a creature. i rectified this in the short term by zooming out the camera just so you can see more at once but the problem still persists. thanks for the feedback!
🎤 i_cam
08. Oct 2024 · 17:09 UTC
@sviborg thanks so much, glad you enjoyed!
Tad I Guess
08. Oct 2024 · 21:35 UTC
Really satisfying to zoom across space so quickly, had a lot of fun just flying around (the little guy is also very awesome.
A Priori
08. Oct 2024 · 23:42 UTC
I got a really bad score because I spent too long just swinging around and having fun with the movement alone. Great submission!
Thomas Gelman
09. Oct 2024 · 03:00 UTC
This game has fun physics! Honestly the movement is super fun, and the idea to give an astronaut a grappling hook is super innovative and makes for a unique movement feeling, especially for how fast you can go! The music is awesome too, I'd love to see a more fleshed out version of this some day!
Blazejmg917
09. Oct 2024 · 20:52 UTC
This game is suepr fun! I love the wildly fast movement you can get if you nail the grappling hook! I managed to get 11 at max but I just kept wanting to play it! The background visuals are super nice and I love the intense space music, its stuck in my head at this point hahaha.

I think the only suggestion I may have would be towards some sort of indicators of where to go, its certainly fun flying around searching so they aren't really necessary, but having a firmer sense of direction would be a different type of fun!

But that's just a nitpicky suggestion, you did a great job with this game!
🎤 i_cam
09. Oct 2024 · 23:18 UTC
@blazejmg917 thanks for the high praise <3
Loveschach
10. Oct 2024 · 05:43 UTC
Sometimes I wish I was a weird cat guy flying through space delivering packages to noses.

Eventually I quit my job, broke free of the bounds of gravity and saw the face of god. On the whole a pretty chill time.
LDJam user 359614
11. Oct 2024 · 10:25 UTC
loved the physics and the fast paced movement, good job!
🎤 i_cam
11. Oct 2024 · 15:28 UTC
@pralista omg thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed it!
🎤 i_cam
11. Oct 2024 · 15:30 UTC
@loveschach banger quote lowkey. it is entirely intentional that you can escape the map and simply bask in the glory of parallax star background. might make it a wall paper we'll see...
Ido
16. Oct 2024 · 11:58 UTC
haha, i'm just a normal cat doing normal cat things in space