Laika

"A swarm of asteroids is headed straight for Earth! As the only living being in space around Earth, Laika is the only hope left for humanity! She must smash the asteroids apart with her heroic barks!"

Created by Lunarexxy
Itch: https://lunarexxy.itch.io/ (oh! you're already here!)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Moonasaur

Controls
WASD/Arrow keys: Move
Space/J/Z: Bark!

Fun facts

The game was inspired by Jonathan Coulton's song "Space Doggity", as well as the extremely good friend of all humans, Laika, who died in her duty to bring humanity to the stars.

The project was started one evening on 16 August 2018. I don't remember why I stopped working on it. I polished it for the Fragment Jam by adding the ability to exit, restart, and adding music and sound effects. It's effectively a complete game, although I wanted to add a lot more.

The game took just under 6 hours total to make and polish.

Saving the Earth is hungry work. I wonder if there are any tasty treats floating around in space...

Legal

The music used is from the "Songs From An Unmade World" albums, created by Josie "Visager" Brechner, and used under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode )

The whine sound is by AustinXYZ on freesound.org.
It's not from a dog that's actually sad and that's what's important.