Rescue_Mission

virtual-turtle-studio 2017-12-04 20:07

Let me start of by saying, it's a captivating game. I started of by thinking 'oh, I got plenty of resources, this is going to take forever to drain.' But then things turned south, very very quickly. More and more passengers boarded my ship and I tried to take care of them but there were too many! Then the tragic day came... 6 people died. I didn't mean for it to happen, really!

I like the simple artstyle you went with here. The UI is polished and looks great for this sort of game. As I said, this game can become a challenge very quickly, which was nice.

Critiques/suggestions: I didn't understand all the attributes that the passengers could have, like what 'room attitude' meant (do they like the green rooms more?). Also, I wasn't sure if things like 'sociopath' etc mattered when placing the characters, but these details cluttered up the screen a bit. I also wasn't really sure as to why you would place people in some of the rooms. Like the engine room, or passage, just give you negative things. I thought there would be limits as to how many people fit into one room, but there weren't (maybe a suggestion for the future?). One last thing which isn't really relevant, but I think I encountered a gamebreaking bug which caused the spaceship to fly of, followed by the game crashing.

I did really enjoy this game! It's good and it has potential. As I said, it might be more of a challenge when there were limits on rooms and such, but you did a very good job overall!

daria-s 2017-12-05 04:43

@virtual-turtle-studio thank you very much for playing our game and for your feedback! I think my game description turned out a bit scrambled and some features I even forgot to mention, so it's a little confusing at some points, I'll fix it later.

First of all - yes, we agree with you, room occupation limit is needed, and it was in the game since the beginning, but we couldn't make it work properly, so we removed it temporarily :) And that's why we have the waiting room (the Gateway) - you don't want to leave people here but you'll have to at some point :) As for the engine room, it reduces your travel time when people work here, so it's good - you'll spend less fuel and food for each jump :)

Room attitude and Person attitude mean person will get more stress from working in red rooms and from being surrounded by red people (if that sounds sane :D)

As for sociopaths - they get more stress from people in the same room with them :)

We'll try to make it work properly soon and we'll add new features :)

virtual-turtle-studio 2017-12-05 06:49

@daria-s Thanks for the response! It all kind of makes sense now, haha. It's a shame for you guys to have to abandon the room limit when it was actually almost in :( but that could always be added later of course. I honestly didn't expect such an elaborate system behind these simple characters, but it's all very logical now that I hear it. And yeah, I was really debating whether '-1 speed' meant one less day or one more day of travel time ^^. I hope more people play this, good luck guys!

yngvarr 2017-12-05 12:55

I love this art style! Spaceship looks just like it was made from paper. Music is enjoyable, but loud sounds spoil it a bit. As for interaction, I think that passengers' feelings deserve more visual representation rather then simple colored text (e.g. showing room on click with animated people in it). But still, game flows and I found it difficult to stop playing.

Overall feeling is great! Floating in the space with no particular reason, trying to please everyone in the crew - what can be better? :smile:

daria-s 2017-12-05 15:20

@yngvarr hello! thank you for playing our game and for your feedback! :) We've updated the game today and we fixed the sound problem :) And we intented to make passengers animated in the future :)

jfraser314 2017-12-07 16:40

Pretty interesting and quickly addictive. Man was I pissed off when I finally got in my groove and my crew all died at once! Thanks for the great game.

bismark 2017-12-07 16:48

Great job. I appreciate it ; it's fun and ... relaxing (at beginning ;-)

bryceltaylor 2017-12-07 17:04

Nice. I liked that what you had was polished, but I think it needs some tuning. I couldn't think of any reason to keep anyone in the warehouse since I would pretty much immediately be below capacity. Maybe it makes sense if you play for longer. I also wanted there to be a bit more of a goal to keep me playing other than to just keep playing. Or a time pressure of some kind. I wanted to feel more pressure or tension.

On flight 15 most of my people died and it didn't say why. I wish that it would have a description of an event whenever someone went critical. I also felt like I was keeping an eye on their stress and was surprised when everyone died. Maybe it's that I couldn't watch the days pass to see the condition that was going to kill everyone build up.

A small thing, I wish you had picked a different fruit to grow on your ship. The word Orange and the word Oxygen, while quickly scanning text look enough alike to make me need to look twice. A Peachery or a Kumquatery would be easier to pick up quickly.

I really like the art and I love games about space crews. I enjoyed it overall.

bryceltaylor 2017-12-07 17:15

Update: It turns out I found a bug. Everyone dies every time I fly no matter how many people there are. This was after the great dying I mentioned above.

daria-s 2017-12-07 17:17

@bryceltaylor thank you for your feedback! Most of the things you mentioned were intended to be in the game (like missions, time and room limits, detailed descriptions of all the events, etc), we just couldn't make it in time :) We're gonna polish the game and add other features in the future :)

about the bug: you have enough resourses for the flight and no one is stressed, and people still die? we'll try to look into it.

exnihilo 2017-12-07 17:40

Although not particularly new, I love the concept, and can see myself adding this one to the list of games that I will spend time playing instead of working on the post-jam version of my own game. The UI is extremely clean for a jam game, which goes a long way considering the genre.

That said, some balancing is indeed necessary to make it an actual game. I believe I have now reached a point (with about 50 passengers) where losing has become almost impossible. Refilling your ressources at the station comes pretty much for free, and conflicting personalities can be disregarded since you can stuff everyone in the messdeck for a quick relaxation session. As you said, room size limits are a well-needed part of the mechanics.

Other features I would love to see added in are a full list of passengers, with clickable links to their respective rooms, as well as a (probably optional) time limit between turns for some more tension during decision-making.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing this turn into a more fleshed out project.