Piece of Ship! by Sirplop

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made by Sirplop for Ludum Dare 60 (COMPO)

BACKGROUND:

You are the janitor for the Party Barge, and your job is to clean up all of the garbage they've been spewing out into space. Your ship is old and falling apart, so you'll need to grab the right parts to fix issues as they come up. Be quick about it, and don't run into the barge. Or do. They probably deserve it.

CONTROLS:

W: Move Forward

A/S: Turn Left/Right

Run into objects to collect them. Based on the item required, you may have a debuff, such as being unable to turn left, having reduced time to find the object, or being really, really fast. Collect as much as you can!


I was a little blindsided by the theme (I was hoping for Stars!), and went through a couple of ideas and wasted the first 12 hours of work, so this jam was a little stressful! First game idea that I spent that time on was basically reverse Lemmings, but that sort of game I quickly realized is both hard to fill with content, coding intensive, and also just not very fun.

First time composing actual music in LMMS, as well, which was a lot of learning to do in a couple hours - my previous 2 games just didn't feature music at all!

I'm not much of an artist, which makes figuring out a game I can actually make graphics for pretty tricky. I really need to grind my art skill to a point where I both have my own style (as you might see, this game's style is all over the place), and I can visualize and draw things at a reasonable rate.

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