GMTK Game Jam 2020

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A jam submission

Orbital Target PracticeView game page

Launch yourself into a target by orbiting around meteors.

Submitted by gamecoder95 — 1 hour, 17 minutes before the deadline

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Orbital Target Practice's itch.io page

Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Originality	#2122	3.056	3.909
Overall	#2803	2.629	3.364
Fun	#3083	2.416	3.091
Presentation	#4349	2.061	2.636

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Your character can easily fly out of range if you do not choose your orbital targets well enough. You have no control over your character's movement save for the selection of gravity targets.

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

We used pre-existing art

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

We used pre-existing audio

Comments

EntropySparkSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Neat stuff! Perhaps additional levels could make things more interesting with obstacles/an obstacle course.

Submitted

Fire Season

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gamecoder95Developer3 years ago

Thank you for trying it out and for your review! I'm happy that you see potential in the idea :)

We planned on making it more like an obstacle course - due to lack of time we haven't been able to add them to the submission. However, we may expand on this as a second game, so we'll definitely take that idea into consideration.

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tiredlyrebirdSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Love the concept! I think there's a few kinks to iron out, though. There's a really easy dominant strategy: just pick one asteroid in front of you, get a tiny bit of momentum and just wait until you reach the end. It's boring, and there's not much stopping you from doing it. Maybe a timer would help with that?

I could see this being really fun though with levels to beat or a score/time attack mode. Work on this, this definitely has potential!

Submitted

The Crowd Has Spoken

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gamecoder95Developer3 years ago(+1)

Thank you for trying it out and for your review! I'm happy that you see potential in the idea :)

I agree 100% with all your points: this game needs a lot more than what was made for the jam in order to be more playable and fun. I like your suggestions of having a timer or score element - that would make for a good party game mode.

Whichever direction we take, we'll definitely look into expanding on this concept as potentially being our second game.

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DroeiSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Love the game but seems to require some polish! :)

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Cat'le Herdin'

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gamecoder95Developer4 years ago

Thanks! And understandable, needs to be dunked in a bucket of polish haha we may actually build on this into a more playable game in the future

Thanks once again for streaming the game :)

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Jared BrandjesSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I'm still confused about what the goal of the game is. I assumed I need hit the green square by using the gravity of the spheres to influence my position but that didn't seem to be it.

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Gary Loves Trees

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gamecoder95Developer4 years ago

That's exactly the goal of the game. What made you assume otherwise?

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Freddiepon4 years ago(+1)

Dem graphics

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gamecoder95Developer4 years ago(+1)

Prime quality shovelware graphics :P

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