This was my third consecutive Ludum Dare and every time around I learn something new. In LD38 there was a high probability of failure for me because I had very little time available. Family commitments and my wife's birthday on the Sunday could (and should?) have been enough reasons to skip the event this time but instead I wanted to see if I could adjust my ambition level to still make a release before the deadline.

When 10 hours remained I had only managed to put 5 hours aside for making the game. I was happy to do the final compile of the game 5 minutes before the deadline which I was really pleased about =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7jwR_lRZE4

The game has similarities to Missile Command and the goal is to protect the [square] planet from asteroids (0 points for uniqueness at the core idea =) But instead of destroying the asteroids the size of the planet determines how much power you have to deflect inbound asteroids.

* Here's the game page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planetary-remains *

Even though it's my simplest and most primitive looking LD game, I personally think it plays better than my other two entries. I managed to get a score of 2730 - can you beat it??

Postmortem, time lapse, and lessons learned will follow.