Gravcycle
In a galaxy full of trash, your mission is to clean - just don’t get sucked in!
Collect Space Trash and survive until the Recycling Zone above will be available (indicated by the lack of the Purple gradient), pick up however many you can manage and bring to the Recycling Zone, repeat the cycle.
Watch out for your speed, dont consistently accelerate, use fuel sparingly and your environment to your advantage.
Obviously avoid the Meteors, but collect the blue Battery Packs, they give you energy to fly.
Space Trash carried by you functions as your HP for protecting you against collisions with flying Meteors, and also as a resource for Dashing, the dash will override your velocity to wherever you're pointed.
Carrying a full inventory of Space Trash will skip the timer and immediately unlock you the access to the Recycling Zone, but don't be overly greedy as the more you carry, the slower you get.
Code, Design & Art: @hyperdotbat
Music: @xxaro (my younger brother)
Color palette: https://lospec.com/palette-list/aero16 (modified)
SFX: https://www.bfxr.net/ + https://freesound.org (modified)
Font: https://font.gohu.org/
This took total of ~18h
I originally wanted to introduce simple ship upgrades and put it off as the absolutely last thing and sadly couldnt manage to add that, didn't even manage to add a Pause Menu😭
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@BluePinStudio yeah it might be a little hard to understand purely from visuals (and I have some hidden mechanic that is absolutely pointless which might have caused no more to spawn), yes the things that are stationary are the ones youre supposed to collect; that is Space Trash, and youre supposed to bring it up to the Recycling Zone (which is technically locked behind the timer which I already talked with my friend afterwards is unnecessary, but it unlocks regardless of time when you have a max inventory of 5 (which also there shouldnt actually be any/such a small limit lol))
You can carry 5 and each additional you collect above the limit instead of recycling does give you some score.
Thanks a lot tho! Ill be sure to check out your entry soon
Pretty cool game and fairly easy to understand without reading the desriptions. Maybe a better indication for the recycling zone would have helped even further. It was fun to play but the small gas tank makes it pretty tough. Wouldn't mind seeing this in the Alakajam tournament tho, lots of potential for fighting over high scores! Art was nice and clear, music very fitting and good as well. Implementing 'r' for restart and getting 100% gas at the recycling zone was really nice choices!
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| # | User | Score | |
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| 1 |  M2tias | 1000 | View all 1 scores |
I started the game, collected 6 things that weren't moving and then the game was over. I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended to be that way? Not sure! Pretty solid entry for a weekend jam tho, lots of art, sound and mechanics going on!