Whalestrom

The year is 3055. Humans have expanded their reach to beyond the stars, but their hunger for expansion came at a cost. A species of space whale was discovered and was hunted to near extinction for it’s exotic meat. Today, only one remains. A safe haven has been found in the N76-GD4 Nebula, but the journey is treacherous. The galaxy swarms with rogue AI units and aggressive space jellyfish. Defend your whale and use your plunder to give it life. And at all costs: Keep. It. Alive.

Original soundtrack composed in the 72 hours by BROOD MACHINA (https://broodmachina.bandcamp.com/)

It sounds like people are running into a bug in the tutorial, so if no more prompts appear after killing the enemy on the first level: After you kill the first enemy you need to fly close to the whale and press F to deposit your resources, then press G to move on. Sometimes the tutorial prompts break and don’t tell you to do these last steps. (Fixed in 23 hour patch)

18 hour bugfix patch

• Hid mouse cursor
• Fixed bug that prevented second enemy type from spawning (meant no organic material could be collected)
• Moved shop menu prices to be next to the correct label (they were switched)
• Made enemies able to damage player/whale
• Made the music not stop after 16 minutes
• Made the whale’s inventory size large enough to be able to actually buy upgrades
• Fixed UI scaling in the tutorial level

23 hour bugfix patch

• Fixed a bug where tutorial progression could break

The original version is still available in case anyone judging LD would prefer to score based on the true original (broken ) submission build. But we ask that you play the version that actually works. The fixed version contains no content, balance, or significant code changes that were not completed in the original jam time.

Controls

• W /S = Pitch Up/Down
• A/D = Roll Left/Right
• Q/E = Yaw Left/Right
• F = Give resources to Whale
• 1 = Select Target in Front
• 2 = Cycle All Targets
• Mouse = precision steer
• Left shift = Throttle Up 
• Left ctrl = Throttle Down
• Right click = Shoot Missiles
• Left click = Shoot Lasers

Credits

• Programming - Jake McLeman (aevek)
• Programming - Eli Wulff (Bongard22)
• Programming - Keenan Wulff (keenan.wulff)
• Programming - Erick Holloway (DrSnowDude)
• Programming, SFX - Chris Meese (floppynub)
• Music - Dylan Satterfield (BROOD MACHINA)
• 3D Art - Matthew Rom (WaylandTheSmith)
• 3D Art - Hayden Yeagley (Rhoka)
• 2D Art, UI design - Joel Barkley (tubulartreehouse)