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A jam submission

Just Get Star Ted!View game page

My submission for Shovel Jam 2025, theme "Just Get Started!"
Submitted by joshatron — 7 hours, 11 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1573.6883.688
Overall#1593.8023.802
Creativity#1753.8123.812
Presentation#2103.9063.906

Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Preferred Name
Joshua

Newbie?

Newbie

Yes - I'm new to game jams!

How does your game fit the theme?
I wanted to find a clever joke based on the theme name "Just Get Started!", but something obviously went very wrong because I ended up with "Just Get Star Ted!", a game about a star named Ted being chased around. Being one letter off must mean it fits pretty well though, right?

In all seriousness, this is actually the first time I've publicly shared a game, so I think it does fit in that I actually just got started and fleshed out a full (albeit small) game rather than obsess over small details before getting bored and abandoning it.

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Submitted

Really awesome game i really loved the intro story where the black hole requests a big planet to satisfy his hunger with the scream and screen shake made it so much beautiful also loved the background with the starts constantly lighting up and off really loved it also loved the mechanics also the powerup where space is pressed it clears all the planet also really well done when colliding with a planet it not like gets damaged like any other typical game you made that the planet drags the blue planet really awesome touch there well done, also if you dont mind you can give my game a shot too :).

Submitted

having the planets having their own personality was very funny and i nice touch , the movement of the game feels smooth. The gravity pull i get from hitting the other stars are very fun. Would love for you to check out mine

Submitted

Great game! I liked how you get pulled in when hit with the other stars and how the audio changed the more stars you had stuck on you. I really enjoyed it!

Submitted

It's pretty fun, though you can get a good score by just staying in the corner

Submitted

nice game! i really loved the music it fits really well the atmosphere

Submitted

This is very amazingly polished from visuals to the audio to gameplay...It feels like premium version of Dodge The Creeps(Godot doc reference) The Intro was amazing btw but i skipped it in second gameplay xD

All the best for next games and game jams

Submitted

“Solar Flare, is that a DBZ reference?” I liked the jokes in the game, and the visuals and lighting are so nice. You’ve kept it simple but polished it so well, great work!

Submitted

The polish on the visuals is great! The intro is very neat and I especially adore the lose animation as you Ted gets sucked into the black hole. Also love seeing someone else take inspiration from the same cosmic concept, having the stars be bigger and have harder patterns to avoid based on the actual colors of stars and the energy they'd have. Phenomenal work!

Submitted

Love the puns of "just get Star Ted" and "your Hole-iness"! Also really liked the visuals, and how the cutscene and dialogue matched with the music, very cool and satisfying to watch. The goal of avoiding the black hole was a great addition to the dodging gameplay.

Submitted

Love the play on word! I find it very funny that we got really similar ideas for the titles of our game but still ended up with vastly different games. Solid bullet hell.

Submitted

Nice short and fun game, it reminded me of Hexagon, but in a differenft way. And the joke was clever, I saw it on the brainstorming channel and thought that nobody would do it but here we are :D

Submitted

Cool game with a really cool concept! Great work!

Submitted

That was a clever word play. The controls were w bit "rigid" but otherwise it was really fun to play.

Submitted

Holy! Awesome submission, really liked the graphics and the puns. The overall game design is really interesting too! Super polished and awesome experience, good job :)

Submitted

What a super cool game. I was actually shocked when the stars hit you and it just pulls you into the black hole - that is genius game design. Any other game would have made you loose health but the fact that the mass of the star pulls you in its so cool. The animations are presentation for this game is great as well, a very well designed game. 

Submitted

You had me at Star Ted but then you went far an beyond with Black Hole-ness! Fun little game, very polished with details like the menu animations and the intro cutscene and poetic puns.  Really enjoyed it ^_^

Submitted

Cool game! Really liked that the "enemies" actually just pul you to the black hole instead of making you loose a life

Submitted

really fun game! it looks and sounds simple but good, the little cutscene was nice, the controls are easy to use and intuitive, the gameplay is great and the fact that getting hit doesn't just remove health but instead makes the game harder, and i can't resist a good pun

Submitted

Hilarious game, I love seeing all these unconventional interpretations of the theme. The writing is punny, and the little into "cinematic" was really cute. Responsive controls and the space environment was really pretty! Great job!

Submitted

Really enjoyed the puns, I like how we both had wordplay! Also don't know if you meant it this way but the pun holliness and maybe black hole ines (like a name, maybe I'm overthinking). Is this really your first game? It looks great really wonder how you made the black hole. I really loved how the planets made you heavier instead of just deducting a life, I was positively surprised. Maybe it's just me but I think it would be fun if there were levels or some sort of progression like that idk subjective ig. Great game man!

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