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You play as Pluto, who has been shunned by the other planets for not being hot enough! Raise your core temperature by collecting star pieces. Once you're hot enough, you can reconnect with the others!
=====VIEW THE TRAILER IF YOU CAN'T PLAY HERE=====
http://youtu.be/4mHbcJakfJU
=====Controls=====
WASD - To fly through space.
MOUSEWHEEL - In and out to zoom the camera!
**EDIT**Removed view rotating as it was extremely broken.
=====SIDE NOTE=====
I actually lost a lot of work on Saturday at about 3:30am because of a power failure. The 6.0 earthquake that hit Napa Valley knocked power out to my house for about 2.5 hours. I lost an intro video that was going to introduce mechanics and story, along with some other scripts I was in the middle of working on. Sorry to all who were watching the stream and had my video just cut out on them!
Here's the first few seconds of the earthquake recorded from my stream before I lost power, kinda interesting if you feel like watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y7It9s4FYM
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 50% |
| #110 | Humor | 3.31 |
| #301 | Graphics | 3.50 |
| #358 | Mood | 3.23 |
| #528 | Audio | 2.75 |
| #788 | Overall | 2.97 |
| #936 | Innovation | 2.63 |
| #991 | Theme | 2.50 |
| #1015 | Fun | 2.47 |
Comments
That was pretty cool, although I had a hard time finding enough star pieces. Good job, though!
Well done. The art and style made for an interesting and entertaining experience.
Cool little game, well polished. Hard to control though, and I definitely had problems trying to find any star pieces beyond the first one.
YOU CAN USE THE MOUSE WHEEL TO ZOOM!
You should really write that somewhere. It took me 5 minutes to find out. Flying aimlessly at the closest zoom level and never finding anything is kind of boring. :)
About the game: I like the style and mood. Nicely drawn character and quite some humor ^^ (achievements). The music is rather minimalistic, but it fits.
Game play wise there is room for improvement. Maybe you should add more star matter (closer together). And please fix the randomly jerking camera. I think rotation is not really needed (you could align the text horizontally).
Keep up the good work!
OH MY GOD I THOUGHT I WROTE THAT I'M SORRY EVERYONE. MOUSE WHEEL TO ZOOM IS LIKE HALF THE LOOK OF THE GAME. You get a really cool view of the whole solar system when zoomed way out! Give it another shot if you just found this out. I think I might "typo" fix this into the beginning text.
The art looks really good. Very hard to find more star pieces. If you kept rotating the camera movement was also a bit jerky.
Really cute art!
PS. Felt that earthquake too, was in South Bay though!
haha that animation was hilarious, well done man, this reminded me of Solar, it was rather enjoyable :)
(P.S. I froze to death... sorry for 'sucking so much' haha)
Thanks guys! Also, every time you die you get another random quote. Some are funny, some are just...weird.
Hi there. Found it tricky to collect heat. Liked the music.
Cool visuals and concept, well adapted to the theme, liked controls.
Watching lil' Mr. Pluto swim through the stars was definitely a "smile" moment for me. :) Loved the fact you could zoom out so far, and how smooth the controls were.
Thanks man! That's exactly the feeling I was going for. Having people just enjoy floating around and being in space!
Sorry to hear about the earthquake, but your game looks great! I could only finish it after really zooming out to gain perspective, otherwise the game was unplayable. Good job!
I find it hard to reach the star pieces.
But I love the art style, the zoom. Very well executed.
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Love the quirky animation and art style! That was awesome!