Hi Folks,

So I have created another game, this time for the Beginner's Circle Jam #3. The theme was "A different Planet", my first idea was something space related... of course. My ideas include defending you crashed spaceship on an alien planet, a tower defense game in which you had to defend a space station from waves of enemies. In the end I went for the first idea i had which was a casual game about flinging a moon from orbit to orbit.

With this concept in mind,  I created the mechanics for flinging the moon. Followed by the planet and jumping into orbit. With this done I had to come up with a visual theme. I decided to go with a sythwave style visual with a pixelated look. (this is when I made some really bad musing using Bosca Ceoil) This worked well in the end and the final product, especially the particles remind me of Baba Is You for some reason.

After all this I added a dynamic line renderer which makes a circle with as many points as you want which drew the orbit lines. With that done I added some static enemies and some that rotate around stuff, re-purposing the code used to rotate the player. Finally I built out a bunch of levels as my previous games have been criticized for being too short.

All in all I think this project is a success. Its still a bit rough around the edges but Im happy with what I cam up with for the theme and that I executed it to level of polish I can stand.

Still more jams and plenty more games to come in the future!

-G