Hey everyone! So my first Ludum Dare wasn’t a complete bust! Even though I missed the Compo, I managed to complete my game for the Jam. Loooong hours of programming and debugging are behind me and many more are ahead. I’m so tired that I’m not able to sleep… 😀
Anyway I would like to share my final game with you. My game description on the submit page still needs some work though so I’ll probably make a video later.It was my first Ludum Dare and overall great experience!
The game I created is actually quite simple – I just spent too much time playing around with nonessential stuff. Main goal of the game is to collect “Scrap” from various planets. You are limited by the time spend in each Solar system. You have to spend there exactly half the time and if you spend too much time, you are going to blow up. Main mechanic is TIME controll. Everything moves only when the time moves. So sending slow scouting ship to outer planet will probably cost you one person, because the ship will either jump on time or blow up. You can pause the game at will. To make it a challenge there are enemy ships – you can target only one at a time. (After submitting I realised that the enemy ships are waaay underpowerd. So there is not much challenge, sadly ).

Game features fully randomly generated solar system each time. Each planet has 6 types of biomes and two major ones are considered for resource calculations. In addition each planet has individual orbit and rotation speed. There are 6  classes of Stars and planet distribution in system is done according to the class of the Sun.
Sadly there was not enough time to balance whole game and use this cool looking star system fully. Also fighting does not have visuals (only audio) and game is missing tutorial which will probably make it unplayable for anyone who hates reading.

Anyway, quite a long post. Thank you very much for this competition. Now I’m stoked to play all the wonderful games you all created!
Also I’ll be happy for any feedback positive or negative, doesn’t matter, I just want you to try and play my game! (LINK!)