2021-04-26 23:53
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Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → The Space Between Us
By lanedavis
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3 | 4.60 | 35 | |
| Fun | 6 | 4.50 | 34 | |
| Innovation | 190 | 3.93 | 34 | |
| Theme | 682 | 3.81 | 35 | |
| Graphics | 1 | 4.84 | 35 | |
| Audio | 1 | 4.71 | 34 | |
| Humor | 9 | 4.51 | 34 | |
| Mood | 4 | 4.68 | 35 |
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Reporting in from Simpathey's stream! This game is stellar.
There's so much character and polish to the whole experience, and the minigames never get in the way of the experience. My only suggestion would be to detect if the player has caps lock enabled by checking to see if all letters are capitalized/excludes all non-capitalized characters. It could return a message along the lines of "you left caps lock on again" or something else that still adds to the atmosphere while cluing in the player.
Otherwise, all I can say is that you should definitely take this project further and at the very least get a Google Play Store release off the ground. If you needed to come up with a game loop for a more premium version, you could potentially have a survival time at which you've fully harvested the planet and have different stages with new difficulties for minigames, then have planets that have different dangers (like a tundra world that causes your machinery to freeze up, or a paradise planet where your gerbils desert/go on strike). I think you're onto something great and to some extent, you're already there.
Also as a quick heads-up, Charlie Bruber's name link is broken on this page.
Sfxs, music and graphics are all great, just the puzzles sometimes little bit overwhelmed, such as in the o2 distribution, sometimes I can't really know how to fix it which wasted me a bit time before I could move on the next puzzle. I feel maybe the puzzles could be more comprehensive? But other than that I really enjoy the whole process and this is really work from just three days work! Looking for any further development!
Wowza! The amount of polish in this gem is amazing! Well done team!
The graphics and sound were excellent. I'm really impressed that all this was accomplished during a jam, even by such a large team (though sometimes just cooperation with a team is a challenge in itself). Definitely got some "Among Us" vibes running around fixing a spaceship. One issue I had, probably not very common, was that the UI didn't scale to my display, because I'm playing on an ultra wide. I was able to see enough to play, but some stuff was larger than it was suppose to be and got cropped from the screen.
the best game I've seen so far, could almost be sold on steam just like that !
How this isn't a full release yet?? :scream:
Great game, the design, sound, voice overs, really great overall. Huge congrats to the team. I just missed a "mini map" of sorts. I know the arrows help point into the next objective but not knowing the layout of the game difficulty a bit, specially for such a tense game where things got into your attention really quickly.
Besides that, just a awesome game. I'm really impressed for the quality in such a short amount of time.
Incredibly complete game! Art is incredible, voice acting and dialogue is great!
It felt like I missed some voice lines due to random stuff breaking mid-dialogue, which was fine, but I'm a little sad that I missed some stuff :D.
The larger 4x4 and bigger doors were a bit tedious to unlock, I feel like they could have maxed at 3x3 and been fine.
It really threw me through a loop (in a good way) when the password game told me to NOT type in the password.
Overall, great job!
Great art, loved the voice acting. Super polished for a jam game. It's got a feeling to it, which is not easy to accomplish. Managing the ship is a nice premise. I like in a spaceship game, its really more about the relationship. From a mechanics standpoint, it wasn't clear where I was supposed to go. Unlocking the bigger doors was a little slow. I think this is a situation where being explicitly clear about where to go would be fine. Overall a great creation, really impressive.
*Emergency Meeting* I feel like playing among us but with a different vibe, amazing cast of dub. The only problem (for me) is about the doors, so many codes to open the dooooorrrrsss!!!
Even for a team of people, this game is beyond expectations!! Really great job!!! Some of the challenges were a little too hard. There was one that clicking the squares would either disable the ones surrounding it or enable them, I couldnt figure out what to do on that one, should I disable all the buttons or enable all the buttons, and the doors, took me a while to find out that I had to press the numbers in the right order, I was clicking everything frenetically, even pressing keys on my keyboard LOL, a LOT of that because of how good the atmosphere was set!!! The cadet making the captain why he was in one of the rooms that had nothing to do with one of the problems on hand, was hilarious!! Great Game for sure!!!!!
The game was stellar. I am going to be sending this to a few ppl to play because I liked this game that much. Just a phenomenal entry.
This game looks great. I liked the game concept and especially the dialogues were funny.
The style and polish of this game is awesome! I love the voice acting as well, some really fun dialogue and interesting characters. Brilliant, well done :)
Amazing game that I spent a lot of time in! Best game yet! Great voice acting, satisfying movement and minigames, polished animations, fitting and great audio/art design! Also very funny writing.
A very minor complaint: The 3x3 puzzle was super hard for me and I died because of it (i thought that you have to make the whole board empty). But this was also in part because I was panicing from the red bars and background which added a lot to the mood. Very immersive game.
But in order to find issues with this game you have to look extensively for them. It probably would have taken me 3 days to make the title screen!
Great game, all of you make a really good team to produce something like this in such a small time. The gameplay loop was tight and each mini-game was simple, worked well, was easy to digest in a small time, and well presented. Atmosphere, art and sound was great, and I loved the monologue at the end. Thanks for the fun, look forward to your future entries.
This game is absolutely insane, especially for a game jam. I have no words to describe this. Amazing job!
A very cool game, it has everything: cool storyline, great art, interesting gameplay, amazing voice acting! This is a very high quality work. I didn’t understand how it fits the topic, but I definitely enjoyed it!
This was an incredible experience, I have trouble knowing where to start. The dialogue is fantastic, kudos for having voice acting, it adds so much to the experience. The graphics look like something you would expect to find in a full release on Steam; not a game jam.
The mini games are different and interesting (my favorite one was the puzzle where you had to turn on the lights). But the thing that really stands out to me is that the game is better than the sum of it's parts, everything just fits together so well. Impressive that you managed to create such a coherent experience with a large team; it's no easy feat.
What a treat! The dialog and voice acting were SUPERB. I'm impressed. It must have taken a lot of coordination and talent to pull off this gem in a weekend. Congrats!
EDIT: 8 days later and I still haven't beaten it!
Well this is very posh :)
Arts are amazing and dialogs are very fun. The UI is clean and well finished.
There is too many doors with password, it's make the game repetitive and annoye the player. Also, there is console where the player have to write the password, it's very complicated for people using azerty keyboards : add a support of azerty keyboard or at least make the text input visible.
The amount of work to make a game like this is huge, so congrats ! :clap:
Game looks very polished, and very pretty ! I like the among us inspired gameplay, took me some time to understand what I needed to do, but once I did I was running around everywhere
PS : those password minigames are not fair for us none QWERTY keyboard user :p
What a cool game. Awesome graphics, simple minigames (which is good), great music and sound design. Everything is just amazing.
I have one problem with it tho: I thought the dialogs were funny, but maybe there were too many of them. At some point I just wanted to complete the tasks while listening to the music and enjoying the mood, but it was impossible.
Still, that didn't really bother me too much. Great game, congrats!
Creating such a complete game with a large team in under 3 days must've been very taxing, but you guys menaged to create one of he best games I've played so far! :thumbsup_tone1: :thumbsup_tone2: :thumbsup_tone3:
This game is just amazing! I have no idea how a game with such good graphics, audio and polish is even possible in just 3 days. Just stunning!
I absolutely loved this game! Lots of fun gameplay and minigames, lovely cartoony graphics with music, sound and voiceover to match. This was a really highly-polished production, and a brilliant entry! More please!
There's NO way this was made in only three days. So much love and polish and personality... I'm clapping my hands in excitement here. This one is gonna be the jam's winner, mark my words.
Really great entry, I love the aesthetics and the audio work is really good too! The game is very polished and really feels like a complete game, and the gameplay is pretty fun. I just wish there was more minigames, but I guess it was because of the lack of time.
Great game and a very successful combination of humour and tension! I liked the conversations, although I have to admit I could not always follow everything as I was too busy repairing. I feel like playing it again, just to hear the parts that I have missed. And to solve that one puzzle I was unable to solve, you know which one I'm talking about!
Wow the team is increadibly big) The game was very fun. One of my favourite on this jam
Game took couple of tries to master, the story and voice overs made me smile more than anything in this jam. The cadet having crush on the captain was just soo cute and that she babbled on and on in the end until I went to her like "shush, it's alright" 😂🥰
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