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QT's Cells

By mental-inaction

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1974.0224
Fun7693.5424
Innovation9713.4024
Theme3754.0624
Graphics2304.3425
Audio10193.2323
Humor9063.1222
Mood2334.0223

Comments

thedashdude 2020-04-20 19:32

Accidently started on the wrong day and spoiled the ending for myself. Might want to make sure that doesn't happen. I really liked the story, though, and the fact that "Keep it Alive" wasn't really the goal, just the story.

Make sure to put a link to this page on itch! I had to get here by typing in your username to the LD website. (I got to the itch page from a random recommendation.)

malai 2020-04-21 08:27

That escalated quickly! A little bug i've found, restarting day 5 returns the power cells you have already taken, but you cant get them

zuezazon 2020-04-22 02:17

OH WOW, really awesome game! Your concept was perfect for a game to be made in 3 days! The graphics and animations are really wonderful, I love the the player character, and the name QT 3.14 is really clever. If there was a rating for story I'd give you a 5/5.

zuezazon 2020-04-22 02:17

Amazing!!!

2020-04-22 07:59

Love your tilework and level design @mental-inaction :sparkles:

Very nice effeciently reusing the levels with the help of the story :slight_smile: that also got me hooked by the by.

There are so many little details that I have to go back and count. Like the room names and the box puzzle and the fact you essentially made the music stop when you know :sob:

In all it feels so thoroughly thought through and I can feel you did you best in possible time. This insipres me at some point :)

Very nice :sparkles: :peach:

kodran 2020-04-22 20:31

Wow the art is incredible! The game was really polished and felt really good to play. Great work!

akusan 2020-04-22 21:33

Very deep game you have. The sacrifice that need to be done to keep alive. Thanks for sharing your entry.

billnotic 2020-04-22 23:18

Everything was perfect except the for the music which I found worsened the experience rather than enhance it. Loved the cute pixel art and the fact that the story was actually worth paying attention to is great.

nk-x-x 2020-04-23 09:27

Oh my gosh, the little bounce when you start moving pulled at my heartstrings. +1 for being able to speed up text scroll, always love that feature (especially for replaying!)

I like the core loop, it was super smart finding different ways to make use of the same environment, both for making a jam game, and also it's pretty fun as a player to navigate it in different ways each time and remember where things are.

pinosaur 2020-04-25 16:00

Impressive artwork and polish. Great story too!

lairinlair 2020-05-02 16:42

This is really, really good. All works together very well. The story is something special. Made me shiver. Would love to see this developed into a bigger game. Congrats!

appix 2020-05-04 13:28

Amazing game!Level disign is easy but the story is wonderful! Nice job!

congusbongus 2020-05-04 14:21

Outstanding. The art is very cute, there's plenty of sound effects and juice. A very detailed story as well. One of the best!

ivan643 2020-05-04 14:40

I liked it, but a little sad.

floyams 2020-05-04 14:42

Great game :D

2020-05-05 16:02

Cute graphics! I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/7Pd4SRINH38

junber 2020-05-09 18:28

Amazing game. The aesthetics are really well done and everything just mashes. It's really cool that you (or at least me) walk through all the places you will ever visit on the first game. Unfortunately this also meant that the first day had a really cool puzzle and all the other days felt kinda simple in comparison. I still had a lot of fun and enjoyed the story immensely (though I didn't manage to get the good ending despite a bunch of attempts). Great job!

mental-inaction 2020-05-10 05:04

@junber Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I wish I would've had more time to expand on the map and add in more actual puzzles.

A little tip for finding the good ending: When you're told you have a limited time to do something you don't really want to do, you can always choose to just do nothing.

junber 2020-05-10 10:41

@mental-inaction Yeah, I definitely know that feeling. LD is harsh like that sometimes.

This is exactly what I tried to do in a variety of ways but either the timer didn't start and nothing happened or I just got the "Normal ending" (if that's the best one there is then I'm missed another ending)

ulcius 2020-05-12 22:21

Ohh that was way more deep that I was expecting :o I was very task oriented at the beginning, but the other unit moved my heart. I just couldn't sacrafice it. I was so glad game took that into account and there was an ending for when you are choosing not to do so. Thank you for making that!

vesk 2020-10-17 20:18

What a nice little game! It seems quite simple, but I'm sure it took a lot of time to make and also polish this well, so I'm impressed.