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Etherial Horizon

By zevsehg, Rogaro and darizz

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall14143.2222
Fun15572.8621
Innovation10213.1222
Theme17542.7022
Graphics11463.4722
Audio8453.2722
Humor12512.2319
Mood9003.5022

Comments

lakshyaisagod 2021-04-26 07:15

TODO: review game

fictions 2021-04-26 09:33

The camera rotation was a bit to slow for me, but maybe this was intentional to simulate rotation in space :laughing:

diringer-leo 2021-04-26 11:13

The camera rotation was slow for me too. In terms of 3C, it's not really intuitive that the rocks might alter your gravity that much, and the jump is a bit hard to learn, it was hard to bounce wxith the orange rocks

bungalow 2021-04-26 11:34

This game is sick! Intuitive and responsive controls and super impressive for a game jam!

holyblackcat 2021-04-26 11:36

The asteroids are pitch-black for me, so the game is hardly playable. The flying creatures look great though! The camera was too slow for my taste too.

The problem might be caused by me being on Linux and using Wine.

ben657 2021-04-26 11:37

Bit difficult to use the orange rocks, as others have said. Cool idea though, could see a walking-sim kind of game like this doing really well with some moody atmosphere!

evileptic 2021-04-26 12:35

I still couldn't push off the ball but the game looks great :smirk:

maximbegunov 2021-04-26 14:28

Very relaxing and satisfying to jump between asteroids in space, good idea for a platformer. But sometimes it feels disorienting especially when jumping on the orange spheres, its hard to predict where you are going to go after you jump on them. Maybe some other means of travelling between asteroids would be more convenient like air boost from jetpack or a grappling hook. But overall I enjoyed playing your game, somehow randomly got to the end but only found 3 minerals. The creature is dope.

zevsehg 2021-04-26 14:47

@fictions @diringer-leo thanks for feedback. I added sensitivity setting in pause menu.

eugenik 2021-04-27 19:08

Loved the story and humor, great job to all!.

meta-link 2021-04-28 22:11

The art style and the music are really good ! The game is a bit hard to play, but it's fun. Good job !

chrispy977 2021-05-01 00:38

It was really hard to tell what the minerals even looked like I was looking around some of the beginning astroids for a while with no luck. Finally when I ran into some later in the level I got the idea but calling it out or making the first one a lot easier to find so that people get the initial feel right off the bat would be good. How the gravity switches is awesome, but a bit disorienting for a platformer, going third person might have helped the camera move a bit more naturally. The bouncing element seemed a bit weird for the mood of the game, I think using a jet pack with refuel points/ just a limited use or something would have fit in a bit better. Not a bad entry at all, the atmosphere was pretty cool and the idea is fun. The overall set dressing though made it a bit hard to tell which asteroids were closer to others, this was only a problem when smaller rocks were involved, but again I think the third person camera would have helped to see what was actually close or further.