A downloadable game for Windows

Pilot a spaceship to uncover the origin of a mysterious signal appearing through a black hole! These ships don't have much power so you'll need to rely on using the gravity of planets to guide them as much as possible. Upgrade your ship by collecting star chunks!


Controls and how to play:

Thrusters

  • Using your ships thrusters consumes power.
  • A and D turn you slightly,
  • W and S speed up and slow down the ship.
  • Gliding through space freely uses your thrusters and consumes power.

Slinging with gravity

  • Holding SPACEBAR will let you sling around the closest object, ie, a planet or star
  • This doesn't consume any power.
  • Slinging around a star will charge the ship's batteries BUT it will also increase your ship's temperature

How to not die!

  • You will explode if you hit a planet or star.
  • You will explode if you get too hot.
  • You will explode if you run out of power for some reason... who thought that was a good idea?

Just don't do those things if you want to not explode


Credits:

Game by Charlton Lane

Music by Kevin McLeod

Rising Tide (faster) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5028-rising-tide-faster-
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Rising by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4290-rising
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Hiding Your Reality by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3875-hiding-your-reality
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
An Upsetting Theme by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3362-an-upsetting-theme
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Voxel Revolution by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7017-voxel-revolution
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Created for the Area of Effect Game Jam 2021

Have fun!

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorDragon Galaxy
GenreAdventure
Made withUnity, Aseprite, Bfxr
TagsDifficult, Gravity, Pixel Art, Short, Space, upgrades
Average sessionA few minutes
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
TracingTheSignal.zip 50 MB

Install instructions

  1. Download the zip file.
  2. Navigate to the zip file using windows explorer (Should be in your Downloads folder by default)
  3. Extract the zip file (Right-click > Extract All...)
  4. Inside the extracted folder, double-click the "Tracing the Signal.exe" file.

Windows Defender may show a "Windows protected your PC" pop-up; click "More info" then "Run anyway".

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