Planet Drop

Devlog

• BAFTA YGD Nomination
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Planet Drop has been nominated for a BAFTA Young Game Designers Award. After a very long break, I would like to go back to Planet Drop and add more unique planets as well as general support for a Stea... Continue reading

  
• Controller Support
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Everything in Planet Drop, including gameplay and menus is now fully compatable with controllers... Continue reading
• New Planet - Golden Planet
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Added a new planet which has a unique trait. It can combine with any planet, even a sun but it only has a 1% chance each turn of appearing... Continue reading

  
• New Planet Wheel
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  To show the evolution of the planets, I originally had a wheel but that didn't convey the information very well and wasn't aesthetically pleasing. Instead I replaced it with a cleaner column showing t... Continue reading

  
• Instructions Menu
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Most people have already played a Suika-like game before but I wanted to add an instruction manual so that everyone could understand the game even if they haven't played anything like it before. Plane... Continue reading

  
• Music Select Screen
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Music select screen featuring five different tracks from abstraction as well as music and sfx volume sliders... Continue reading

  
• Cover Art
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Designed the cover art for Planet Drop (using the background generator by deep-fold, also used for the background in-game)... Continue reading

  
• Credits
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Added credits to the game as I have used assets from itch.io which are very generously freely available for use in games. Special thanks are for key playtesters and rocknight studios who run trijam (t... Continue reading

  
• New font
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  All text in the game now uses the peaberry font by emhuo, which is a lot nicer than the standard font... Continue reading

  
• New art
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  The original art (which I had about 10 minutes to do in the game jam) has now been replaced by absolutely beautiful art by bemusingname... Continue reading

  
• Leaderboard
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Planet Drop has an online leaderboard now, showing the top 10 entries. So far the highest score is 6000, will it be broken?... Continue reading

  
• Trijam #277
  June 15, 2025 by DanLikesGames

  Trijam is a game jam where you have to make a game in just 3 hours. Planet Drop is a suika-like themed around space. It came #6 of 41 games in the jam - a result I am very happy with. The game has a l... Continue reading