Homos Save the World

astralore 2018-08-19 03:49

I'm not sure how I feel about the concept, but it's certainly unique! If you'd like more people to play it, maybe you should host it on itch.io? People will find it more immediately trustable than a google drive link. :slight_smile:

I found the controls a little difficult, kind of dizzying. I also think it is very much too easy to win at the very beginning, and too difficult at the end. Possibly if the world started with more people and the spawn rate was decreased, it would be more competitive at both ends of the time range?

Otherwise I thought it was well-put-together. Good work!

atom0520 2018-08-19 15:48

@astralore Thank you for playing my game! I find your advices quite helpful! :) I would consider hosting my game on itch.io after making some modifications. I will also increase the initial number of people and give player some special abilities like imposing one-child policy and giving away free condoms to make the game difficulty more consistent throughout the entire game.

glock00 2018-08-20 08:27

I like the idea of taking earth's population as an example and I absolutely understand the humorous intent behind the idea. However, if you want to bring this to a bigger audience, be careful with advertising with "eliminating" certain sexual orientations. Do it more subtle. You have some starting points with condoms etc. Not that I take this personally, it's just some advice from a marketing (and a bit moral) perspective!

konsumopfer77 2018-08-20 10:05

intresting concept. its a funny idea even thou it fells weird to think that homosexual couples dont wannt to have kids. the problem with an lesbian planet would be, that they still could use sperm thats "injected" without penetration. and there sure are sperm banks, if there has been at least two biological genders on that planet.

konsumopfer77 2018-08-20 10:26

ps had a weird bugg when i tried to run the game on an win10 lapetop of a friend, some kind of error and i had to restart the system. Not sure if its because of the game or because of some problem with stupid windows.

atom0520 2018-08-22 05:25

@glock00 Thank you for your advice! It makes sense. The word “eliminating” does sound a little radical. Although I just wrote that word in a playful way, I think I'd better take it off in case it might irritate some people that do care.

atom0520 2018-08-22 05:56

@konsumopfer77 Thank you for your review! Your thought is interesting! It's possible that some homosexuals do want to get kids by either adoption or resorting to sperm banks. However I think either way homosexuals cannot produce kids by themselves, and they always need at least one person of another gender to produce kids for or with them. Therefore if we can make a world with no man or no woman, then nobody can produce or have kids any more even if some homos may still want to. However I'm not sure if that situation would make human beings evolve to get the Asexual Reproduction ability. If that's the case, our world would be hopeless. >_<

As for the bug, I developed this game using my win10 laptop, and the game runs properly on my laptop. However since I'm not an expert on Unreal Engine, I'm not sure if I have overlooked something that might cause the issue on your friend's laptop. I feel very sorry for that and would let you know if I find the reason later.

leave 2018-09-02 16:01

Cool game, im interested in how you implemented to gravity but i cannot seem to find the source code. Also to reduce the game size, try baking the assets and excluding start pack content. Try removing the extra/Redist and debug .pdb.

atom0520 2018-09-02 16:26

@leave Thank you for your review! I didn't include the source code because I didn't join the COMPO. But I'm fine with being open-source so I've added the source code link. As for the gravity, my solution is to adjust the actor's rotation and apply a gravity force towards the planet center every frame, and once the actor reaches the ground reduce the speed in the gravity direction to zero. Moreover I feel sorry for the game size and I'm still quite new to Unreal Engine. I have excluded the starter content but I didn't know there're still things that can be removed inside the build files. I'll try that later and thank you very much for your advice! :slight_smile:

leave 2018-09-02 17:13

@atom0520 Thank you for posting the source and the explanation, im also new to this and learning from your code. I checked again and I was wrong, your assets.pak is nice and small. And thank you for playing my game!

jordantanner 2018-09-02 20:01

Definitely a funny little game-- the concept is definitely unique and interesting, though may bother some folks. The FPS controls felt pretty good, and the gameplay was challenging. Solid entry!

atom0520 2018-09-02 20:32

@jordantanner Thank you for your playing! The game is just a joke. I mean no offence to heterosexuals. :sweat_smile: Just to promote some population awareness.

gildar76 2018-09-02 23:48

Fantastic game, have been thinking about something similar, but that was for a diferent theme. Like that you did it in first person on a planet :)

atom0520 2018-09-03 00:52

@gildar76 Thank you for playing my game! I'm glad you like it. :slight_smile:

fernando-tonon-de-rossi 2018-09-03 01:13

It look like a star trek episode... kkkk

atom0520 2018-09-03 01:24

@fernando-tonon-de-rossi Maybe it's the space star skybox that makes you get that feel. :smile:

ohmmus 2018-09-03 01:40

Incredible game! I had a smile on my face the entire time!

atom0520 2018-09-03 01:58

@ohmmus Thank you for playing my game! I'm happy to hear that my game feels fun to you and makes you smile! :slight_smile:

the-tophat-demon 2018-09-03 03:20

It's disorienting, but silly, and it's pretty good for what it is. You seemed to have addressed most of the game's problems in the update, so I won't reiterate on those. I would recommend finding a way to get rid of that motion blur on the FPS controller; it makes the game even more disorienting. Also, you should look into a tool called "Resource Hacker" to change the icon on your executable. I find the way that the player moves around on a small, spherical ground quite fascinating; I feel a desire to explore that kind of movement further in a future creation.

atom0520 2018-09-03 04:00

@the-tophat-demon Thank you for your review and suggestions! I think the motion blur might have something to do with the camera rotation. I'm considering if it would feel better if I disable the camera rotation or reduce the camera rotation sensitivity. I will try them later. I also like the feeling of walking on a spherical ground and actually that's what I implemented first in this game. But for the performance issue, I would also make the planet much bigger, and that would be even more interesting as then you would feel you are walking on a endless planar surface just like how you feel when walking on earth. Hope you can take some inspirations and come up with something more interesting and innovative in your future creation! :slight_smile:

prajwal 2018-09-03 06:30

5 for innovation,awsome,had fun

atom0520 2018-09-03 06:39

@prajwal Thank you for playing my game! I'm glad you like it. Hope my game wouldn't mislead you. :sweat_smile: Good luck!

randomphantom 2018-09-03 07:19

Didn't quite understand how to play it. The people seem to transform randomly (I presume its them multiplying, but the effect is really jarring), and its hard to click on them and I'm not sure what to do exactly - do I just reassign all their genders to a specific gender? Interesting concept though and gender assignment seems like a really hilarious idea!

cristihkj 2018-09-03 08:19

I like the game, but, the idea of homos is kinda against my rules! xD

Overall, great job! :D

atom0520 2018-09-03 14:54

@randomphantom Thank you for playing my game! Your feedback reminds me that I should have given some explanation on how humans transform. Actually each human would take the same number of seconds to grow up (transform from small to big) and humans can only bear children when they are grown-up. Your understanding of the game is correct, the game is bascically about resigning everybody's gender to the same (an extreme way to solve overpopulation). You may find hard to aim at a moving human or a human hiding in the crowd, and that's kind of the point. Naughty humans are easier to cope with when they are standing still or when their population is sparser.

atom0520 2018-09-03 14:59

@cristihkj Thank you for playing my game! I'm glad you like it. Just keep up your rules until our planet runs out of space. :smile:

gustavo-christino 2018-09-03 18:40

Evaluation ...

0 - Main Mechanics: Find specific targets in a set of two types of targets to neutralize them. Fighting against time.

1 - Secondary Mechanics: I do not think it's fitting to analyze secondary mechanics.

2 - Learning Curve: It was quick to learn how to play, since they are common commands to computer games and the main mechanic collaborates with the simplicity of the commands.

3 - Flow: The game starts easy and gets worse with the passage of time (if the person is bad at first). In parts this is because we are learning to play. One suggestion would be to add an additional mechanic (perhaps a powerup to be "touched" in the mouse click) to temporarily paralyze men, women or create some kind of barrier that favors the player a little if he is almost lost (perhaps walk slower, or even walk away from the planet a bit and such). I believe that the flow issue will be favored.

4 - Love Points: The apparent humor was what most caught my attention. Music is interesting in relation to purpose. Graphic art is nice.

5 - Presentation of the Narrative: Does not fit very well in the analysis.

6 - Art Polishment: There is always room for polishing. It was very good considering the time of Ludum Dare.

7 - Monetization Attractiveness: Out of curiosity many people could download, but it would need to increase a lot with additional mechanics to sell (I believe). Unreal exports very "big" games (in bytes), this complicates monetizing in the sense of making a game for smartphones and selling cheap or even monetizing for advertisements in applications. A last-minute idea would be an MMO based on this game (with people invading the planet of others, throwing plagues and all, hahahahaha).

8 - Community Generation: I believe that a continuation of this project can easily generate a community if I create a Facebook page, because of the theme and such (invite me to follow the page if I do).

9 - Cultural Dialogue: The theme "homo" ends up attracting, as well as the theme "super world population", that way culture can bring a lot to your game. On the contrary, the game may lead people to reflect again on the themes and the "solution" presented. With a bigger game (in case of continuity of the project), I believe that more relations between culture and its game can arise.

sambi 2018-09-03 18:46

You say what now? I almost didn't play your game since I was afraid it was commenting negatively on gay people being represented in media or something like that :sweat_smile: .

I liked that you didn't use shooting people as the basic mechanic and instead made something weirder (and better I think). Hard game!

atom0520 2018-09-03 19:11

@gustavo-christino Thank you very much for your detailed review! I really like the idea of multiple plannets, (although I think I'm not gonna make a MMO based on this game XD) and I think a game including multiple planets which you can invade and walk around on would be very interesting. The powerup is also a good idea which may require me to think about what kind of object in reality can be put into this game as a powerup. Unreal games generally have bigger sizes, which are not very suitable for mobile devices. But if I can further reduce the game size and optimize the code to get a more stable FPS, maybe I would consider porting the game to mobile platforms later. Anyway thank you for all your analysis and suggestions! :slight_smile:

atom0520 2018-09-03 19:22

@sambi Haha don't worry. It's a LGBT friendly game. It's also a heterosexual friendly game as no one forces you to be a world-saving hero. You can either make a gay planet or a lesbian one, or just be a good heterosexual and watch our world go out of space with your loved one(s). :slight_smile:

wrenpirate 2018-09-04 05:15

I would totally play this if I had a Windows machine. :sob:

atom0520 2018-09-04 05:42

@wrenpirate I'm sorry I just made windows version. 0 0 However here is a game video which can let you know how the game feels like https://youtu.be/WUg6pxxbivQ

wrenpirate 2018-09-04 05:49

@atom0520 No, I'm not going to watch what I can't have. That's a tease!

atom0520 2018-09-04 05:53

Haha that's OK. I'm still glad you are willing to play! :sweat_smile:

lonazen 2018-09-04 09:10

Cool idea i enjoyed it ^-^

atom0520 2018-09-04 14:21

@lonazen Thank you for playing my game! I'm happy that you enjoyed my game. ^-^