Stellar Wilds

Hello !
My best score was 1.98 light-years … until I understood how to exploit gravity ! So now it's 24.33 light-years !
Congratulations for your first entry, the concept is very interesting, it would be awesome if it were possible to "chain" the gravity attraction, but that's probably harder to have multiple element interacting in the same time without too much bug to fix !
ps: the fullscreen worked for me.
pps: Don't forget to add an image of the game for the preview to be more catchy :).

Game is really nice. Once I got the gravity thing down it was good.

Interesting idea, I like the idea of a sort of endless runner gravity slingshot game, even if the implementation does fall short somewhat. Understandable since this is your first game (72h is kind of brutal in that regard). Good to hear you are going to keep developing it, good luck!

This is cool! I flew over 13 light years to enjoy the soundtrack fully. The glitchy scrolling background almost adds an element of the bizarre - I've flown beyond known space into a realm where the stars no longer shine. I appreciated that you took the time to make the distance meter show the max distance I've travelled, instead of reducing the value when an orbit takes me backwards. I also liked the slow pace, it added a lot of 'atmosphere' to travelling the void of space and gave an impression of travelling large distances. A nice idea, and an excellent first jam entry

Hhhhhhhhmmmm. People are talking about exploiting gravity but I'm still dead no matter what I do once I get sucked into a planet's orbit :')

So for now, controls feels very slow, I don't know if it's a bug or it's supposed to be like that (I suppose it's suppose to be like that and the whole gravity thing is the core gameplay feature ?). It's kinda playing with my expectations built over years of playing other videogames :D Maybe the only real missing part is some kind of tutorial ?

Music didn't feel boring or repetitive for the time I played, nice !

I have the opposite experience to SoKette. I feel like there's really nothing to do. I glide forward slowly and sometimes I roll around a planet. I got past 38 light-years before I let the asteroid hit a planet on purpose.
For a first game and first jam entry it's great. Art is nice, music is good and it's somewhat understandable.
Good job, hope to see you jam again :)

I like the music, a lot. It's a very long loop for a game jam entry!

The planet sprites are also quite nice and varied. I particularly like the subtle outline, which helps set them apart from the background. The asteroid sprite seems rather static; a super fast way to animate the fire tail would be to flip it upside down.

The controls (up/down arrow) feel very slow, is that on purpose? It doesn't matter much because the planets approach slowly as well. Automatically drifting back to the middle of the screen is a nice touch. Maybe a bug: sometimes I get captured into orbit again when I just left orbit in a direction away from the planet.

Great work for a first jam!