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Perihelion by pastel-breakfast

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made by pastel-breakfast for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

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Perihelion

Play Now on Itch!

Perihelion is a monster-building game where you play as Dysnomia, the moon-daughter of Eris. You're trying to grow the toughest, smartest, and scariest creatures possible before you reach perihelion, your closest approach to Earth.

Optimize your build order to find the most interesting ways to grow your tiny creatures!

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Created by - gamln (game design, game code) - pastel-breakfast (engine code, art) - cupid (character design, art)

We built Perihelion from the ground up over the last several days in lua using the LOVE framework. Unfortunately we ran out of time to finish implementing scoring, cut-scenes, and audio, but we hope you'll enjoy the intricate gameplay and lovely atmosphere (or lovely vacuum as the case may be).

Screenshot from 2024-10-07 16-05-36.png

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Changelog

  • 2024-10-07 Fixed broken upgrade and ui states after game over, entities drawing over buttons, and incorrect stat bar values
  • 2024-10-07 Published initial jam release
Link https://github.com/junebloom/ld56
Link https://pastel-breakfast.itch.io/perihelion
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/perihelion

Ratings

Overall 674th 3.421⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 844th 3⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 551th 3.294⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Theme 410th 3.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 79th 4.45⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 559th 3.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 410th 3.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 7🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

HangoverGames
08. Oct 2024 · 11:50 UTC
Great pixelart! I think it would be great if you add tutorial, and make something with fonts, because it was painful to read. Anyway, congrats on release!
MadHumster
08. Oct 2024 · 20:32 UTC
Agree with comment above art is beautiful but font is insanely hard to read.
Yizhang Li
08. Oct 2024 · 20:36 UTC
Such a beautiful image, I think I have a lot to learn from you guys. But the fonts are a bit hard to read and it took a lot of time to recognise them, all in all a very good game i love it!
Smothbreen
08. Oct 2024 · 20:39 UTC
art is quite nice but the onboarding is pretty bad and I couldnt really tell if what I was doing had any effect or how would win or loose the game.
Kalbshack
08. Oct 2024 · 20:45 UTC
Sadly I have to agree to the others didn't quite catch if I was playing it right. But really nice color pallet/graphics.
Lussard Studio
08. Oct 2024 · 21:08 UTC
Was hard to understand how to play but the art is really cool ! :smiley:
🎤 pastel-breakfast
08. Oct 2024 · 21:14 UTC
Thanks for all the feedback! We made the font right at the start, before we knew how much text would actually be in the game, so we'll definitely make that more readable if we choose to update the game.

I'd also love to have proper on-boarding for the start of the game. For now, I added a how-to-play section on the Itch page that explains what you're supposed to be doing and what the controls are.
Roitchie
13. Oct 2024 · 16:34 UTC
The art style of this is really amazing. It's such a unique aesthetic and you pull it off so well. It was a bit confusing to figure out what to do but as others have said something like a tutorial would solve that. I'm excited to see what you come up with next.
NatNSpectrum
14. Oct 2024 · 08:36 UTC
The art is awesome and VERY unique! But could use a tutorial, wasn't clear what to do to begin with. Also the text was VERY hard to read. Otherwise, I enjoyed what I did play of your game! Good job!
Arqcenick
23. Oct 2024 · 22:11 UTC
Your pixel are is great and has real character to them! Art is superb. I agree regarding the font usage. Also I couldnt improve the tiers of my resources no matter which upgrades I took, played like 5 games.
This can turn into an interesting breeding/growing game.
Silliest Goose
24. Oct 2024 · 00:03 UTC
The art was very nice! It was a little confusing, especially with the hard to read text. I'm not entirely sure what I was doing, but I made it to earth
FireFalls
24. Oct 2024 · 02:58 UTC
Beautiful pixel art! Unfortunately, I found it really hard to read the text, and I wasn't quite sure what I was doing. I'd love a version that gets cleared up and maybe with an in-game tutorial!