I can't see the ships because of some reason. My screen has an aspect ratio of 16:9 (1080p), I am not sure if it is the aspect ratio or the resolution or something else. Maybe you can upload a browser version. Here is a screenshot from my screen.
Hi Mika - thanks for checking out my game. I'm sorry you're having a problem with it.
Here's what I think is happening because I had a similar problem showing it to my friend on his laptop:
My friend has a laptop with a 14" 1920x1080 display. Under Windows Settings - Display , it says "125% (Recommended)"
This makes the default text size large enough to read - especially as one gets older.
His screen had the same effect yours has -- the game is so magnified that the yellow lines that make the border of the playfield aren't visible. And the player's ships are off screen.
I was able to make the game playable on his laptop by going into the Windows Display Settings and changing it so that it is 100%.
This allowed the game to use the screen properly and be full screen.
After playing the game, I went back to his Display Setting and changed them back to 125% because without that the text is too unreadably tiny.
Let me know if this helps you. I've posted below a screenshot of my Windows Display Settings with the Scale and layout section circled. That's where I'd think the problem lies.
On my laptop (low power Pentium CPU and probably state-of-the-art a decade ago) the browser version ran at about 3 frames per second and was completely unplayable. I didn't have any way to playtest it on a better PC, so I figured it was better to just make it a software download. I also ran into problems trying to make a Godot-based game show as full screen when uploaded to itch.io. Those may be technical problems I can address in the future, but not within the limits of the game jam because I didn't have enough time to research them.
This is my display settings which has 100% as the recommended setting.
I think that's because I have a 1600x900 screen that's 17" so text on my screen is usually pretty readable.
I'm glad I happened to know what the video size problem was. I suspect that's something to watch for now that that's a built-in Windows option that changes how games interact with the display.
Yes, that is a common comment "TOO uncontrollable".
The physics test I did to learn Godot where I had an "Uncontrollable Spaceship" was a lot more controllable than this contest entry.
As I have stated before - I lacked the time for fine-tuning the game jam entry and all the interactions of mass of the ship, amount of gravity, objects on the playfield, playfield design, etc made this MUCH less controllable than the physics test version.
Below is what I had before the Wowie Jam! (the version seen in the video I posted to Jonas's response) -- but I started with a blank slate for the jam because I have learned a lot more about Godot since then. Unfortunately some aspects of the tuning which were correct (by luck) in that version, I was unable to match in the game jam version
In this earlier version I didn't even have the hand grenades - if you play carefully and avoid letting yourself get turned upside down then everything is slow enough that you can calculate how to get yourself to bump into the things you need to go any direction you want to. (The ESC resets the sandbox if you do get stuck.)
I guess that's a bit of the negative part of a game jam -- when you know that you could have made it much better if you didn't need sleep so badly.
I will definitely watch for this as I develop the game further -- spending time tuning it so that the player is better able to control the ship is important. It should be uncontrollable, but not THAT uncontrollable.
https://uncontrollablespaceship.itch.io/003-sandbox-to-test-racing-2-players