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Orbital Sling's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #3409 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Enjoyment | #3738 | 2.632 | 2.632 |
| Overall | #3918 | 2.754 | 2.754 |
| Style | #4250 | 2.632 | 2.632 |
Ranked from 19 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?
You are able to rescale the planets which is needed to direct you ship corectly.
Development Time
96 hours
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This is a really cool idea, but I had a lot of trouble actually getting the slingshot to work - I experimented with different planet sizes and angles, but the ship would inevitably fall into the planet and die. I think a slingshot tutorial would have helped me (e.g. something like "set the planet to this size and launch at this angle"), but maybe I'm just too small brain. I did get decently far without really using the planets much but gave up around the area with the up arrow into a few asteroids.
The general mechanics of fuel and "rewind currency" were neat and I appreciated the green line indicating the direction/speed. It was fun to play around with the movement, but I did have a lot of trouble getting the physics to do what I wanted.
i love the art and evironment
Great theme! We’ve got a similar orbit concept in our game too. Would love for you to try it :d
Cool game with really interesting and fun gameplay.
Cool game, nice tutorial, pretty expansive given the time frame
I got decently deep through the galaxy, had fun playing with the scaling mechanics! the controls were a bit clunky but the idea is very cool
It was an interesting game! I like what you did with the theme.
Can you add the fullscreen option (it's a setting on itch) - idk if that's allowed after the Jam has locked stuff, but yeah. I can't seem to see the whole game and I think it's preventing me from progressing. If you add that reply and I'll come back to play for real! :)
Sorry, I had the game window resolution wrong; it should be fixed now so you can see the full game. Full screen doesn't work though.
Yay thanks! I just played for a bit. I love the orbital mechanics a lot. Was fun to zip around and explore. I do wish the ship was a bit faster, as sometimes the gameplay slowed down a lot when trying to navigate around. Great work!! :)