Despair

namidasai 2020-10-05 10:31

I really liked the art and I think the gameplay showed interesting concepts! Unfortunately I was not able to experience it properly... I was excited to test it out after reading the tutorial but not sure it's playable in this state. Here's a couple of issues spotted: - enemy ships' gauges not displaying any changes upon player action. They all stay grey on my screen. - sfx and music not playing. You seemed really proud of them yet i'm not hearing anything! =( - on hover for the various actions is not super precise, I thought there wasn't a tooltip until I found a very small spot of the icon where it displayed. Again, really a shame coz I was so pumped after the tutorial. But hey, that's game jams for you!

flopo 2020-10-05 10:51

This game fits the theme very well and like the art style. But I agree with NamidaSai with what could be improved.

enderr42 2020-10-05 15:39

@flopo @namidasai thanks guys, sadly i found those issues 2 minutes before deadline in build :(. I think it covers "gamebreaking" though, so ill keep digging

enderr42 2020-10-05 20:22

[UPD] Ship gauges and sound in web should be working now. Everything less is unfair to fix after submission IMO.

josh-roby 2020-10-06 00:41

It took me a few minutes to grasp the concept of the game but once I did, I was totally into this. I'm a Cursed Planet! Survey vessels come here and everything goes wrong and then they make a horror movie about it. Absolutely lovely.

(I think I managed to break whatever loop was updating the status of the ships. Half of them are stuck halfway through a blue-circle countdown and one has popped out of its orbit but hasn't actually left.)

enderr42 2020-10-06 01:37

@josh-roby it was heavily inspired by a recent rewatch of Alien :) And yes, you have come to witness the artificial not-so-intelligence, sorry :(

judgezedd 2020-10-07 14:38

There's a lot of content in the 'base' of this game that I think will give you a very wide scope for expanding in the future, if you wanted to. I really enjoyed it, and I'd certainly like to see a little more 'of' it.

jelle-vermandere 2020-10-07 14:39

I really like the calming space atmosphere while I'm terrorising the crew! nice work

ommadawn 2020-10-07 14:42

Really good concept and great job, especially for a compo :) Pretty fun to mess around with those humans :smile:

kittymac 2020-10-07 14:44

I really like the concept! As I have been rewatching SG1 I feel I was in the right mindset to enjoy this game :)

ditam 2020-10-07 14:48

A cool game concept that's currently a bit hobbled by bugs. I started with all skills unlocked, but kept receiving messages about unlocks. My ships also got stuck in the circle countdowns, as reported by others above. Sometimes I had multiple skills selected with a green border (I'm not sure if this is intentional to batch attacks), and I could not target any ships. I also had hitbox issues when it comes to closing dialogs and viewing descriptions - maybe stemming from the fact that the game was running in a resolution bigger than fullscreen?

I'll be watching this page during the rating period, to see if any updates come out.

abiral 2020-10-07 15:20

The concept of this game is really awesome. And loved the art style. Good luck!

enderr42 2020-10-07 15:20

@ditam OMG i forgot to remove the "godmode" flag before last build, im so sorry. Updating now Will also look into other stuff you mentioned, thx a lot

thx everybody for playing, glad you enjoyed it, bugged as it is

shelvid 2020-10-07 18:38

Got to level 7 I think, loved depressing people, 10/10

roikku 2020-10-09 17:58

Nice art :)

eugenik 2020-10-09 18:03

That was insane!! Great job!!

obi-one 2020-10-09 20:28

The game is great! I like the style and how the game is accurate. Well done!

noakishere 2020-10-10 04:06

Really enjoyed the music, it is apparent that you have a good musical ear. I enjoyed making the ships going insane. Really cool content. There is a lot to improve to make the gameplay even more enjoyable but overall great work. :)

squimmy 2020-10-10 04:44

This is a fascinating concept for a game.

Unfortunately, a lot of the time I didn't feel like I knew quite what I was doing. Perhaps tooltips, with more detailed information about the ships and what their different actions mean, would have helped. Also I would have liked some way to view a reminder of the different ship types. I forgot what they all were with seconds of closing the tutorial. :slight_frown:

The game was also a little slow to get started. It's important not to overwhelm the player with too much to do at the very start, but spending most of the time just waiting for your only ability to cooldown is not very fun either.

Nonetheless, this was fun. The different abilities to be unlocked were all interesting and I really liked the music, too. Good job.