I was a bit late starting, and this is my first ‘official’ LD48 so I’d better get a move on.

The idea:

A mashup of Lunar Lander and Gravity Wars, but without landing or wars.

A group of humans that were previously captured by aliens have ESCAPED and are floating in space. Your job as head of human probing is to collect all the humans that escaped.

I’ve no idea how this will go.

Edit:

Using Python and pyglet for now. Probably Pixen and Pixelmater for graphics. I’ll hopefully have a Windows and a Mac build up later with source code for running it on Linux.

I’m into the home stretch here anyway, another hour or two and hopefully I should have Harvest finished. Here’s a screenshot that includes all elements of the game.

The general gist of the game is as follows:

The Humans have escaped. You were just transferring them across the galaxy for their annual probe and they blew a hole in the side of the ship and escaped. How inconsiderate of them. You were going so fast that the humans are spread over half the galaxy!

You have to visit all the solar systems and collect the humans.

That’s it basically. You pilot your spaceship around by clicking behind it and firing your thrusters. Keep away from the planets that try to suck you in.

The game is basically a high score game, you have 5 lives which you can lose by crashing into planets. The more humans you collect and the more solar systems you visit, the higher your score.

The game was built with Python, Pyglet, Pixelmater, Py2App, Py2Exe. I’ll have some recent builds up shortly.