mega-marlon 2021-10-04 23:58
These are some really cool graphics! The game overall is entertaining, but the graphics are fantastic. Really cool stuff, Great Job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Divine Intervention
By yogurtthehorse and 13x666
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 223 | 3.93 | 87 | |
| Fun | 493 | 3.64 | 87 | |
| Innovation | 207 | 3.84 | 87 | |
| Theme | 250 | 4.05 | 87 | |
| Graphics | 21 | 4.65 | 89 | |
| Audio | 4.00 | 3 | ||
| Humor | 318 | 3.64 | 84 | |
| Mood | 145 | 4.06 | 86 |
These are some really cool graphics! The game overall is entertaining, but the graphics are fantastic. Really cool stuff, Great Job!
Amazing concept! Thought both tasks were related to food, so the rover one definitely surprised me! I wasn't able to beat the second task though, I don't know if it was a bug or what, but I was only able to see 1 page in the book, I never found out what the purple light was.
@casa-ocho. We forgot to illustrate it and scary to make changes after deadline, it is stated in the description :)
@casa-ocho press W! It was supposed to wipe the sand off the solar panel after the sandstorm. But the effect is both invisible and undocumented. Oops.
And thanks!
awesome graphics! and the game is also fun even though I had a hard time at first
08:51 AM and 05/10/2021, at the the current time this is the BEST visuals in whole LD49. Gameplay could be a bit more inviting, a bit too hard for me.
@publicidadeba glad to hear you liked our style! We wanted to make first level a simple tutorial, but development is so UNSTABLE so everything went out of control :( I guess you'd like to hear @13x666 made me remove salt mechanic from on-screen left button to keyboard's Q to make it easier
beatiful art and cool music!
It's a bit hard at the beginning but wow, it's georgeous. Congrats.
Fantastic illustrations and overall fun gameplay. Took a sec to figure out how to play but after I got it, it was entertaining. Nice work!
Really nice graphics. Fun idea. I couldnt complete task n°2 at all on a azerty keyboard.
@spawnie there is a bug we will fix soon with purple LED. If it's blinking press W, that should help
lol this is a very frustrating game but I enjoyed it regardless. I loved the pixel art graphics and how it didn't take itself too seriously while at the same time being very detailed. Having the sound effects and visual cues to tell the player what needed to be done was wonderful (with the exception of your purple light not being in the protocol issue lol)
It's no a problem with the purple led (I lose before that), it's juste that I don't know where all those keys are on a qwerty keyboard. even if i switch to qwerty it's really hard to perform.
i realy liked it
Amazing art, flawless victor in that area! I wouldn't be surprised if you win in that category! :)
As for gameplay, that is a bit punishing and hard to remember all the keys to press, the learning curve is quite steep. As an idea, if a task would initially only require one button so one can get the hang of it. After successfully completing the task it could progress to that task level 2 which then requires 2 buttons and so on.
Also like the "juicy" feedback when pressing buttons etc, feels really good! :clap: :clap: :clap:
It was a bit hard to start, I read the book, then the lights started coming up and I totally forgot what means what. 😅 But managed to boil some nice spaghetti from the seconds try. Are the rules for keeping the right temperature and mixing actually the way you should cook pasta in real life? I just drop it into boiling water and forget about it for 10 minute or so. 😅
@Lawrence you don't do divine spaghetti usually. That's the difference!
Beautiful artwork! Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how to get past task 2, but will try again soon! :D
@marc-grabow we wanted to make a tutorial level and pasta level supposed to be that level, but, as I said, development is quite UNSTABLE and everything went out of control
Super nice game, impressive art style and very fun self-improving gameplay. I believe there is a bug in task 2 where u lose hp without anything broken or no storm even when there isn't purple light. other than that very fun and beautiful game!
Loved the graphics and the first task. I think the unstable food is a great take on the theme, the rover was a bit of a letdown, but its also fun and fits on the Divine Intervention, Inc. narrative that is also pretty funny.
State of art graphics, really amazing job.
Music perfectly fits gameplay really and sounds lovely.
Gameplay-wise this project is very interesting, for final player it is structured as follows: - Read manual - Try - Read manual again - Try - Learn manual by heart - Finish task
Buttons on the screen, the ones you called "fidget toys" are amazingly fitting in this style of in-world-UI. First thing I did (right after reading manual, of course) was clicking on all these buttons to get satisfying animations and sounds. Kinda sad not all of them were interactive, but this is just a note for future you.
Overall: Amazing, I've had my fun with this game
@vlandemart thanks for a review, nice to hear that! We have A GIANT BUNCH of sounds we didn't have time to add and that's really sad :(
Okay, you did it, I thought that our game is about playing on piano, but this one is for sure a level up in keyboard-is-piano concept :sweat_smile: A special respect for a quite cute pixelart, wish I can draw like this!
@erlionie I still want to add level where you have to hold Q and M while pressing F, but people say I am crazy. They think I don't know...
Thanks for a review, pray God to connect with us and add your piano to our game, we will be looking forward to it!
------------------------- /me looked into your portfolio
Ой, мы с Юрой весь день обсуждаем какой там у вас крутой концепт. Прямо ух!! Хотим релиз игры
@erlioniel We had a literal piano level idea in our Trello for this game :D
Also, I can confirm: we're both deeply in love with your entry, it's incredible
@spawnie @casa-ocho we published a bug fix for the second task, maybe now it will work
The art style is really impressive and very neat, I love it. The game play is also super cool and I really like how you imagine this game with the theme unstable. I found the beginning lacked a little bit of guidance but once you know what to do it is super fun !
Fantastic game! Great visuals and I like how simple the gameplay seems but is actually quite hard to remember all the steps at first. This could be a super cool minigame collection with more tasks overall. :D
Good entry! I really liked the art style. Each minigame felt unique and hectic which added to the fun. Keep making games :smile:
Oh that bass in music I like a lot !! nice art also, great work!! xD
I loved how the game looks. The sound fit very well too. Good job
Really fun idea! I love the frantic gameplay of trying to juggle 3-4 tasks at a time, and memorizing the keys that corresponded with everything. Having the entire game be functionally located on a tiny in-game monitor is also a fun touch, and I really like the entire aesthetic. Very well done!
Wow,that's impressive. Really digging the mood and the graphics. well polished, it's almost unbelievable that it was done over a week end. :thumbsup:
The best visual on this jam! You need to be very focused to complete the tasks! This game is worthy of a full release :)
Fantastic art and music. Gameplay was fun, albeit I would prefer to keep manual opened while playing.
However, there is need to rethink controls. For example, I was able to beat rover mission just holding all 7 keys
@thunderkerrigan actually we started on Sunday bcs of my university :)
@yogurtthehorse Oh come on man... I already felt ashamed but now that's just adding insult to injury ... :smile: congrats again :thumbsup:
@gdman actually we had more tasks in that level but timeeeeee Снимок экрана 2021-10-06 в 16.57.21.png
@yogurtthehorse what I mean, when you hold A for example, SDFG should be disabled, etc.
Really enjoy this game, one of my favorite so far! I can see it holds a lot potential for co-op mode that you can play locally with your friend. I also really like the design of the screen, it is very cohesive. Great work!
Ooooh ! I loved that one ! Well done !
@ruofusun Thanks, nice to hear that! The co-op idea is pretty curious. We actually did bring up games like Space Team during brainstorm, and this setting could be a nice driver for a concept like that. We'll explore it for sure :)
This game's art is so gorgeous! I spent entire minutes just fiddling with the buttons.
Of course the gameplay is very cool too. I love these games where you're just a guy behind a screen or a desk.
Good game. Very nice graphics, beautiful and neat pixel art with good animation. I liked the gameplay. But unfortunately I had a bad time keeping track of so many parameters :(
It was very interesting! Music sets a dynamic pace, and graphics complement it. It's great that there are several tasks and they are so different. The buttons around are the best. Definitely a good experience :) Thanks!
@muros divine protocol wasn't made by a human being to be easy, it was made to practice it as a holy truth, so it's pretty normal
I absolutely love the concept and the idea of a Junior level divine intervention agent :D. The art is some of the best I've seen for this jam.the gameplay felt like the right level of challenging, although the second task definitely seems less complete than the first. My biggest complaint would be the keybindings on the second task, I ended up using both hands for the asdfg tasks and it felt a little awkward.
@firequake You're absolutely right, the second task isn't even 50% of what we originally intended it to be: we started adding it several hours before the deadline, and it's a miracle it exists at all :D I agree, FG keys should probably be moved to something like KL so the level may be played comfortably with two hands. Once we get back to improving the game, that'll be part of it.
Thanks a lot for playing!
I loved this game! it's so polished and has a good use of the theme. Would be cool to see a expanded version of this game.
Beautiful art and graphics!
Really fun and polished game.
really nice and fun game!
I loved the art style and how well the gameplay flows, such an great game, I took a while to adjust to the controls but when I learned it was just fun making everything stable, I had an wonderful time playing it
What awesome graphics! Something reminded of the old game "The Neverhood". And all these buttons ... they can be used as anti-stress)
@montazhnikus The art style came out like that because it started off as a rough sketch of “some device with a screen”, and then I refined it without messing with the shape too much, so it got this “clay-ish” quality, and I ran with it. When it started to look like The Neverhood, I even considered finding a Neverhood-like music to go with it, but didn't find anything fitting :D Neverhood is legendary!
Thanks a lot!
Cool game! Really liked the graphics and the music was relaxing. I found the puzzles fun but a little challenging, and I was able to eventually complete them (most of the challenge was just hitting all the keys in the mars rover level as they are very close by each other). I thought the theme was very funny and creative. Overall really unique and fun game. Great job!
Whoa! I NEED MORE OF THIS; WHY IS THERE ONLY 2 TASKS??
Seriously, this is exactly my kind of game. It's a bit like a simpler single player Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes. The whole presentation, nah, the whole game is perfect!
If you actually decide to add to it I will come back for sure! :heart:
@purrseus Hahah, thank you so much! We really wanted to make more tasks, we had about 6 distinct ideas just out of initial brainstorm, and the concept itself seems endless. But we were lucky to manage at least two levels in the end (the rover level is actually very incomplete, it's a miracle it works at all, we started implementing it a couple of hours before the deadline!)
We're planning to expand the game, yup!
hi hi!
how funny that we made nearly identical games! i loved ye oldey timey computer aesthetic, and the tangible integration of the menu items / controls into the visuals.
i liked that for the pasta, you had to open the lid to stir / add salt. creating dependence between the temperature and these two other parts meant that i had to more closely manage the temperature, so that i had a buffer space for when i needed salt/stirring. the first time, i lost because temperature went to low when i needed to open up to stir.
critiques of your implementation:
the most important thing i found missing from your game was audio feedback, and more strong visual feedback, for pressing the various buttons. i often couldn't tell if i was pressing the right button, or what was happening when i pressed any button. i think getting this right is critical, otherwise i can't build up an intuition for the controls; how what i'm doing is effecting the game.
i think the learning curve could use work too, you throw a bunch of rules for what button to press under what circumstance all at once at me, and it was pretty difficult to get going. i think going step by step to gain mastery would let you make the latter levels more difficult, because the player has already learned the basics.
possible bug: i beat the first two tasks, but the third task never unlocked.
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@sakura-magika thanks for feedback. The situation with our games are really fun, yeah.
About feedback: we had a whole bunch of sounds to add, our audio-designer was very kind to give all of them to us. BUT the problem is with time. We started developing only on Sunday and the second level we added in last like SECONDS before the deadline.And only half of it, bcs timmeeeeeeee. But we are going to polish game and publish it I guess, so the feedback sounds are only the matter of, again, time!
The learning curve... The thing is.. Pasta level supposed to be a tutorial level with like one or two tasks to manage, because you are a junior afterlife worker, right? But Ludum driven development (LDD) is very UNSTABLE and by the time we finished with engine of game we thought we have time only for a single level. The second one was added in the last hour or two. So we had to make something more than simply tutorial and here we are
Again, thank you for your feedback!
Great original game! The art is amazing. It was easy to cheat on the second task by holding down all the buttons. Perhaps each button should have drained a power source, leading to failure if buttons are held too long.
@japayne yeah, you could read about situation with the second level the comment before your... TLDR: it's half-finished due time limitations. Thank you for your feedback!
Thank you so much for submitting this gem to the stream. I had a ton of fun playing it (though it wasn't easy when trying to concentrate on so many things and multitasking haha)
Very happy that I managed in the end!
Where does one even begin with a game like this? Well for a starter, the graphics are absolutely stunning! I love the idea and the execution is super good, it feels so polished. One of my favorite things was the fidget switch, the sound effect and visuals made it such a satisfying little detail!
I did not feel like the game was too short, this is a game jam entry. I would much rather play a short fantastic entry like this, than a much longer and less awesome game.
I would love to see you guys run with this idea and make more levels and add more features. Someone suggested making it co-op, like "Keep talking and nobody dies", that would be awesome. Either way, please let me know if you decide to continue development!
@simon-rahnasto thank you for your kind words!
You can follow up me on itch.io Ihttp://yogurtthehorse.itch.io) or @13x666 on twitter (http://twitter.com/13x666) and check for news. I guess we will have several updates :)
@yogurtthehorse Followed on itch and twitter, thank you! :smiley:
theme graphics humor and mood are all 10/10. though the gameplay just didnt resonate with me, it certainly was satisfying getting the hang of wrangling that fucking spaghetti but. after that i was just to exhausted to continue, this might just not be my kind of game though so wont give you a low score for that. congrats on submitting and thanks for sending your game!
The graphics were amazing and the game play for the 2 tasks (I think there are only 2) are pretty fun. I liked the protocol book too. The only feedback I have is that it's pretty obvious the game is unfinished.
Amazing visual style, and great gameplay to boot. My only complaint would be that there's no reason not to leave the light on the whole time in task 2 - the first one felt much more fleshed out with taking the lid off affecting the temperature. If you were looking to further expand this, I'd suggest adding more 'familiar' tasks ala job simulator - it's funny that making pasta is hard because I know what making pasta is like, but it's not that funny that running a mars rover is hard because I don't have experience running a mars rover.
Super cool vibe. I especially liked the art style and the music! It was super cozy and it compliments the "stressful" parts perfectly and keeps them in check.
Really great art style. Would love to see more tasks if you keep adding to it.
Really cool concept! The art and audio are really well done. It look me a few attempts to memorize the actions. I liked how each level had a different control scheme. I do wish there was a timer to show how much time was remaining.
Thanks for all the kind words, guys! @jessefreeman @salohcin894 @alanxoc3 @rextgun @simon-rahnasto
@strega There actually is a timer in the form of the progress bar at the bottom of the screen, but it's a bit bugged and not working in Task 1, oops. Working fine in Task 2 though :)
@zachary-barbanell What's worse than just light, you can just hold E-A-S-D-F-G simultaneously and almost auto-win, but that's a secret! Good point about familiar tasks: pasta level was supposed to be an easy tutorial followed my more similar “everyday” tutorials before tackling mars rovers and geopolitics and mental health and other things the player is probably not used to controlling :D But time was really tight!
Totally excellent art and sound/music design! The gameplay is simple but quite challenging and clever. Pretty polished overall too, I couldn't find anything that was particularly glitchy or poorly implemented.
I second everyone who would like to see a few more tasks implemented!
This is a very good game, I like it very mutch. I personally into that type of game where you have to think and retry over and over until you realize the correct sequence of steps. I would sugest that the interactive elements on the screen were a little more highlighted, because sometimes I couldn't tell what were clickable or not.I hope you guys do continue the development of Divine Intervention.
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172137556?t=01h11m10s)
The personality on this one is top-notch. :ok_hand: Would love to see what y'all had in store for future tasks!
@coleslaughter Hey, I'm glad you linked the recording! @yogurtthehorse was there with you on the stream, but I (the second dev) couldn't be there at the time. Seeing people play your game is always so much fun, had an awesome time watching you. Thanks for playing, and thanks for the feedback! :)
Оказывается, варить лапшу и управлять марсоходом - это почти одно и то же... Непонятно только, варить лапшу так же сложно, как и управлять марсоходом или управлять марсоходом так же легко, как и варить лапшу?
@xpoho марсоходом конечно же сложнее, ведь для этого нужно получить много разрешений и пройти кучу тренировок, а лапшу любой дурак делает. Логично же?
Very nice design, but most buttons seem to not work and maybe the controls could be less complicated (and no recipe book to check with).
@ardorugus the book is like literally on the table. Check it out!
I mean, loose the book and introduce the controls and narrative without it.
@xpoho you're quite inventive in your feedback).
@ardorugus that would be another game, I guess :)
Fantastic art! The game-play is a little overwhelming at first, I'd love to see this broken up into more Wario-Ware-esque stages of difficulty so the player gradually learns all the controls over time.
The art and music are both excellent, but I'm in love with the handwritten text! It fits in with the art style so well and takes the visual experience to a whole other level.
The gameplay is a little unforgiving to beginners, and maybe could have benefitted from a slower introduction of the multitasking elements so there's time to get comfy with each task individually before having to combine them, especially for the Mars rover where I struggled to memorize all the key mappings. But it felt SO rewarding when I finally succeeded at making pasta for the first time! I'd love to see this expanded with more tasks.
Very funy game, I like concept and art
Really great graphics & audio - I love the sound and animation of the lever switch
Congratulations, i love EVERY SINGLE PART of this game, it felt so polished and really well made, i wish there was more levels ! I'll definitely look forward for more content from you guys :)
@llaumegui Thank you so much!
I absolutely loved the art style of the game! It reminds me of all the point-and-click games I would play growing up as a kid. Amazing job!
Oh ! We had the very same idea ! So fun ! 😂 Great job guys and very nice art. Come on play our god experience. 😉
@tayteus Thanks! We absolutely will check out your take on the idea! :)