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The Messenger Assist

By graebor and julianbeutel

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1804.0330
Fun6233.6230
Innovation704.1230
Theme4024.0530
Graphics84.7830
Humor12572.8126
Mood1274.1730

Comments

cheese-team 2020-04-21 02:04

This looks really cool, but it won't open on MacOS. "The application "MacOS" can't be opened."

junebug 2020-04-21 03:24

I love how atmospheric the sounds are! The visual effects and the sounds really sell the location. Very cool!

wowa 2020-04-21 10:26

Wow! This was confusing.. at least at first BUT i had fun with it! Very well done!

arinyl 2020-04-21 11:31

This is an amazing game! Quite hard ahah, I got blow up rapidly... but it's very clever!

xpost2000 2020-04-21 16:08

This is by far the most professional looking entry I've seen. It looks absolutely gorgeous although it's a really confusing game. It would work great as a mini-game in some bigger sci-fi game honestly. The entire thing is very very immersive compared to most of the other entries :)

thebreakfast 2020-04-21 17:06

As always your output never ceases to amaze me! Great work! Fun game, very atmospheric.

You may have forgotten to include the "audio" section for ratings though. Wasn't your music original? And your game is fully voice acted! We should be able to rate you on audio too. I would have given 5 stars for sure.

harry-alissavakis 2020-04-21 17:11

Had to play around 3-4 times to understand what's going on, but that's a really great game! Amazing graphics, lovely work with the audio and voice acting, the aesthetics and overall art direction were spot on! Really great job, well done!

julianbeutel 2020-04-21 17:17

Hey thanks @thebreakfast ! Parts of some of the sounds were from a third party and some other effects used were made outside the jam. For those reasons it was decided to opt out of the audio category. As we were working on it I felt like I really wanted to hit the right tone of the game even if it meant stepping outside the rules of the jam. Really glad to hear you enjoyed it! It was a lot of fun putting it together :)

graebor 2020-04-22 02:00

@cheese-team Sorry about that! I've updated the Mac build on itch to hopefully resolve the issue. If you're willing to give it another shot please download a fresh copy and let me know if it works!

royalsoup 2020-04-23 03:09

This took me about 6 tries before I beat it. It's very short, but since it's very difficult it lasts a while since it takes a bit to figure it out. I had a lot of fun with it! Also, the graphics were insane! What the heck? lol

alphazeba 2020-04-23 03:09

This game feels insanely good and creative! I felt so stressed playing it though and had so little idea what she was talking about the whole time. Played like 4 times and saw sooo much red lol. Great game!

I am also on mac and the mac build was still saying cannot be opened. It did not tell me more than that so can't really say why. played the windows version on a vm

bobost2 2020-04-23 11:48

I had a lot of fun playing this game! The graphics, audio, gameplay - all perfect :D

uberpupy 2020-04-23 12:33

The game looks and sounds fantastic. It's sort but very intense. At the beginning is a little bit a mess, you don't know what are you doing, but it's ok. A really good jam entry. Congratulations.

head-tilt-games 2020-04-24 00:18

This game blew me away. The sound, the art, everything. It was difficult at first, and it was very short. But I think those two things balance each other out, at least for a jam game. Amazing job!

victor-reiner 2020-04-24 07:17

It's great! Great job!

2020-04-24 09:51

Lovely graphics, hectic game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/Xpc46Nkubiw

allas 2020-04-24 10:22

Not sure how I did it but I'm probably an expert spaceship engineer now. Was a bit short but everything else feels like a polished finished game, wouldn't expect this sort of quality from a weekend project.

ecmjohnson 2020-04-24 15:17

Really cool idea and the polish is fantastic! I love the feel of un/plugging the aux power cables. The puzzle aspects are fairly simple here, but the potential for more complex layouts and systems is obvious. Excellent job!

mrleeperry 2020-04-26 16:12

Wow, intense and interesting stuff! I like the kind of possibility space this setting allows, lots of simple actions creating neat little moments. Really cool. Art is awesome, sound turned out great, love it!

mika-la-grand 2020-04-26 17:16

Great art, but I would like a toggle for the motion blurr. The voice acting was also pretty decent. Though, it was pretty hard to understand what needed to be done. I couldn't figure out how to fix the auxiliary power issue (second issue). The mouse sensitivity was also very high; I had to turn it down to 25%.

fadrikalexander 2020-04-27 07:48

I love how the game made me feel in rush and unstable environment, really well done.

jmad 2020-05-09 12:35

Lovely concept, and execution.

2020-05-24 11:19

This game will be a blast in VR.