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Moon Slinger
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About the game
A sentient planet is minding its own business, floating among the stars, when some people who did not get the memo arrive to spoil its quiet stargazing. Moon Slinger is a small arcade defence game: you are the planet, and your only weapon is the moons that orbit around you. Rockets, flying saucers and space rocks come in from every side, and the way to deal with them is to swing your satellites into them.
The trick is in how you move. The satellites trail behind the planet on a tether, so steering the planet in small circles whips them round and round like a slingshot. Before each run you choose what hangs from your build screen: there is a small moon, a heavy moon and more slots to unlock as you play, and every kind of satellite behaves a little differently. Enemies explode in puffs of colour and add to the score in the corner, and a thin ring around your planet is its shield, which the hazards chip away at until you are out.
It started as the studio's entry for Ludum Dare 38 and was later ported to the Godot engine and published as free, open-source software with a few additions: score feedback, adjustable audio, configurable controls and a mouse- only way to move.
Playing it here
Click Play and wait a moment while the game loads (about 14 MB, downloaded only when you press the button). Click inside the game once so that it receives the keyboard. From the menu choose Play, pick your satellites on the build screen and press Play again. Instructions in the menu shows the same controls as below.
There are no save slots. The game can be played with the keyboard, the mouse or a gamepad.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| W, A, S, D or the arrow keys | move the planet |
| Right mouse button (hold) | move the planet toward the pointer |
| Left mouse button or Space | shoot (once unlocked) |
| Esc or P | pause |
Tips
Think in small circles. Wide sweeps launch your satellites too far away. Tiny loops keep them close and fast.
Keep the shield up. Hits drain the ring around the planet. Back away from a big group instead of trying to bash through all of it.
Mix your moons. The small moon and the heavy moon behave differently, so try both and see which suits your style when more slots open up.
Mind the lasers. Some ships fire from a distance. Move across the line of fire rather than away from it.
FAQ
Can I play with only the mouse? Yes. Hold the right button and move the pointer.
Does it work on a phone? No. It needs a keyboard or a mouse.
Is it free to share? Yes. The code is under the GNU Affero GPL, the art and sounds under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, and the music is CC0.
Credits and licence
Moon Slinger was made by Wandering Door Games. The code is under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later and the original artwork and sounds under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The game runs on Godot Engine 4.5.1 (MIT).
- Music "Signal Pursuit" by Vitalezzz, CC0. Source: OpenGameArt.
- Font "League Gothic" by The League of Moveable Type, SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Changes in this version: exported for the web, under a neutral name (the authors reserve the original one) with the title drawn as text; without the studio's logo and icons (the authors reserve those); with the renderer set to the one the web supports; and with the original font (Newyear Coffee, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs, which does not allow modified versions) replaced by League Gothic. The licence texts, the complete source and the build script are linked from this page.