"Gastronaut, what, like *hit the gas*, like gas pedal, is it a space racing game?"  No, no—it is farts. I can't blame you for not expecting farts, hahah.

Thank you so much for playing and commenting! 

I am so glad I was able to finish and share this with you all. Thank you for playing and for the kind comment.

Thank you! I figured, if I'm gonna make a game about farting through space, I'd better at least try to make it look as good as I can, hahah. This is the first time I've managed to incorporate an animated tutorial sequence into a jam game, and I had a great time with it. Definitely going to continue trying to do so going forward. 

Thanks for playing and for the kind comment!

Ahaha. Thank you so much! That, honestly, is the best mix of emotions that I could have hoped to evoke with my entry. 

The planet is mostly shader magic! It's five layers: water, landmasses, cloud shadow, cloud (sized slightly bigger than the others), and a non-rotating shadow overlaid over the whole thing. The layers are each done in greyscale and colorized via values fed into the shader, and the shader also inflates the rectuangular textures into a "sphere". (It's still 2D so it isn't a proper sphere. Shaders are spooky but 3D is even more so.)

The shader handles the bulk of the "rotation" by shifting the textures, but also the planet object is rotated in order to get a rotation that looks like it's not fully along one axis or another.

Oh! You also used Godot, one thing that was integral to the look of the planet was setting the texture filter to Linear instead of the usual Nearest for pixel games. Gives it that sort of softness.

And all this for a fart game. What *have* I done. 

Thanks for playing, and for the incredibly kind comment!

Thank you! 

I usually run out of time before even thinking of adding a tutorial so I really wanted to make sure I got that done this time—it helped that the idea for it hit fairly early on. 

The radio chatter was, in contrast, a very late addition. I thought that I would be shipping with only the fart sound effect, but then I found out that NASA has audio recordings archived and free to download and use, so the chatter is actually a recording from an Apollo mission in the 80s, chopped up and mangled to be incomprehensible and static-y. 

Could I have just manufactured my own sound in less time? ...yeah probably, but it wouldn't have been as authentic! And that matters, I guess! Hahaha. 

Anyway, thank you for playing and for the kind comment!

I definitely ran the gamut of "this is so funny" and "is this actually funny" while working on it, but basically every time I thought I'd gotten over the idea it would catch me off guard in a test play all over again, haha. Thanks for playing and for the kind comment!

Thank you for the kind comment! I *intended* for the game to be a little more frantic, a sort of cascading correction of direction as you toot wildly through space, but, uh, one thing after another and in the end I absolutely did not manage that. 

I plan to revisit it post-jam and rework it into something more fluid and dynamic and, well, fun, hahah. Anyway, thank you for playing!

Thank you! I delved into shaders, which felt appropriate for a planet, as shaders are moon-magic.

I'm so glad you enjoyed! There's a very fine line between "entertainingly jank" and "irritatingly jank" controls, and I've definitely landed on the wrong side of that line for most people—not that I *wanted*, necessarily, for the controls to be jank at all, but it was more a matter of damage control vs being able to actually fix things by the end, hah. 

Anyway thank you for playing and for your kind comment.

I wish there was, too. It'll be something I have to tackle post-jam, as I just couldn't make it work the way I'd envisioned during the jam period.

Anyway, thank you for playing!

The movement is, I readily admit, definitely Not Great. I struggled with it a lot. Everything else was far more in my wheelhouse, haha.

Some of the issue with timing the fart button push is, embarrassingly, an issue I created myself and didn't realize until too late. I intended the sprite to be readable as direction, but each frame of the sprite covers 1/16 TAU. And that's more than enough variance to at be annoying at best. And that's without taking into consideration any bugs in the movement, of which I know there's one that I could not get ironed out by jam's end.

My takeaway really is that even if an idea is simple to explain it doesn't follow that it will be simple to implement. However, it does give me a post-jam chase task: fixing this game! 

Anyway, thank you so much for playing and for the thoughtful comment.

The movement didn't turn out nearly the way I wanted it to—feels a bit like, y'know those amateurs-failing-to-make-professional-cakes pictures, where obviously they had good intentions but the end result is a bit of a mess? That. That's this game for me, hahaha.

I struggled so much with the movement system and had intended to add *some* sort of rotational control, it just didn't happen. A post-jam update will come, and the astronaut will be able to kick his feet or something. 

Anyway, thank you for playing and for the comment! 

Thanks so much for playing! 

I admit that the movement didn't end up as good as I *wanted* it to be, but now I have something to conquer with post-jam updates.

(Fun fact: internally, the tutorial is called the *tootorial*.)

Thank you for giving it try! 

I admit that the movement didn't end up being quite the way I wanted it, but jam timeline dictated that corners had to be cut. I don't make the rules. (Ignore that I— I literally made the rules for movement—)

My google search history now includes a frantic question—"movie about farting in space???"—but it does not include my stunned realization that there's apparently been not one but *two* such films: Rocketman in 1997 and Thunderpants in 2002. It further does not include the existential dread borne of the realization that these movies are, respectively, 27 and 22 years old.

All that to say: Thank you for playing!