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Polaris SpeedwayView game page

Race through the stars against other spaceships, sling-shotting around black holes and dodging planets!

Submitted by steelfeathers — 2 hours, 59 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Polish	#13	4.133	4.133
Graphics	#15	4.200	4.200
Overall	#30	3.693	3.693
Theme	#44	3.800	3.800
Gameplay	#49	3.467	3.467
Innovation	#97	2.867	2.867

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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How does your game relate to the theme?
Space anomalies have red or blue polarity, and will pull you in or push you away depending on if the polarity of your spaceship matches. Master polarity switching to turn obstacles into boosts!

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How many team members does your team have in total?
1

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Comments

RobSubmitted53 days ago

That's really fun!
Very creative idea.
Good Job!

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The Last Golem

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first.sameSubmitted56 days ago

Loved the way you utilized the theme, probably mechanicly the most interesting game i've played from this jam. Great job!

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Orbitageddon

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MaaxSubmitted65 days ago (1 edit)

I agree with the other that you made great use of the polarity concept.
Your art concept is also fitting together great.
I would have liked to see better AI. But that is obviously hard to make in such a short time.
In addition I was missing the feeling of sling shooting with planets. More me it felt like that the major force was direct push and pull. And not really sling shooting around objects more like away from them. Hard to describe. Check out my submission to see what I mean.
Nevertheless I enjoyed it.
My final time on track 3 was 6:21. I am sure that could be improved :D

Edit* nice music you had

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Planet Breaker

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steelfeathersDeveloper64 days ago

This is all good feedback, and nothing I wasn't already thinking, lol. I just ran out of time to bring the full vision to life and make the AI less derpy.

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ForsakenVoidSubmitted65 days ago

Its good combination of the polarity and race concept. loved the game.

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Grape Escape

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Kraken_IsmanSubmitted66 days ago

I really liked how you implemented the core mechanic, it works well and makes the game memorable p.s. sorry, I made the game in a team and I did not upload our game to the jam, so I can not rate your game. Here is our game https://itch.io/jam/wmj2024/rate/3212971

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League of fish

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Black Bucket GamesSubmitted66 days ago

Pretty cool racing game, really dig the art style.

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Dichotomy - GAMEJAM

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calzarkSubmitted66 days ago

the second best racer in the jam :P
jk, its super fun and the music is awesome

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TypeDrifter