This game was winner, Best Video Game, COMO Game Jam III

Orbital Defender

You play as a tiny space craft defending your star from incoming planets. Use your ship's blast-lasers to destroy threats while avoiding collision. Your ship is locked into orbit around the star - you can adjust the size and direction of the orbit to maneuver around obstacles.

Each solar threat you destroy awards you a point - shoot for a high score!

The particle effects in this game are downloaded assets. Models, animations, music and design are all original.

Check out what we are currently working on here:
https://bravado-game-studio.itch.io/

NEW Updates!

Version Alpha 0.2.1 has some new stuff! Check it out!

New Ability: Boost

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Hold L Shift to increase your speed. Helpful for getting to the other side of the sun quickly.

New Ability: Shockwave

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Hold Space to charge and execute a powerful shock-wave which changes your orbit direction as well as destroying nearby planets.

New Enemy: Aggressive Asteroid

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The asteroid enemy barrels toward the sun at great speed. You will need to prioritize taking the asteroid out as soon as you hear its unique sound.

Other Updates

• New sound effects and visual effects have been added
• The rate at which the orbit expands and contracts now accelerates rather than instantly expanding or contracting at top speed.
• Space bar no longer resets the game on gameover.

Controls

IMPORTANT: Although this game is fully supported for use with a mouse and keyboard, it is intended to be played with a controller.

Update (Alpha 0.2.0 and on): We've improved mouse and keyboard input and we now believe it to be a superior input method for OD.

Expand/Contract your orbit - (L Click)/(R Click)
*New* Change orbit direction / Shock-wave attack - (Space)
*New* Boost - (L Shift)
Shoot toward cursor - (E)

Leader-board

New build, new leader-board! The slate is wiped clean.

Wanna be on the leader board? Submit a screenshot of your final score in the comments below along with a 3 character name for yourself!

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