scalphamission 2021-10-04 13:34
props for making the audio yourself but maybe turn it down a bit. the artwork evoked a pleasant comfort.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Unstable connection
By daniikk1012 and Dama
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1490 | 2.56 | 24 | |
| Fun | 1523 | 1.97 | 24 | |
| Innovation | 1177 | 2.88 | 24 | |
| Theme | 722 | 3.56 | 24 | |
| Graphics | 1007 | 3.31 | 24 | |
| Audio | 881 | 2.85 | 23 | |
| Mood | 1186 | 2.95 | 23 |
props for making the audio yourself but maybe turn it down a bit. the artwork evoked a pleasant comfort.
@scalphamission Thanks for your feedback! We will add settings to the game soon, so you will be able to control the volume yourself.
Good idea, nice audio sfx but a pause button in the middle of the game for adjusting audio would be nicer, specifically the door creek sound. Graphics are nice and the music is homey and fits the vibe very well. Game is cool but hard
Lovely artwork. Seems the cabinet closing sound doesn't respect the sound setting. Really jarring squeak in an otherwise relatively peaceful game. Though ill be honest, I didnt do much more than sit in the breaker panel most of the time x)
@pious Thanks, we will add pause button soon
@greenxenith Hmm, probably it's just too loud compared to other sounds or it is a bug, I'll fix that. About sitting in the breaker panel most of the time, probably I should make internet connection loss more frequent
Nice take on the theme! Wasn't sure on how to prevent losing the network connection though The fusebox sound effect was also a bit louder than the other sounds
@papercypress Thanks for your feedback! You cannot prevent losing connection, but you can prevent losing download progress if you react fast enough and click reload button.
@scalphamission We have added settings into the game @pious There is pause menu now @greenxenith @papercypress I have fixed the volume issue
7 minutes have passed and I haven't finished downloading anything😢
@sunnyrx thing is, download takes 5 minutes, which means you are only allowed to mess up your download in first 2 minutes of a game. If any download resets after that, you will certainly lose.
I gave you a high score for theme because I thought this was a very clever play on it. But, I had to score Fun pretty low because I think the game is missing something gameplay-wise. For this sort of game, I think you need to have kind of an overwhelming number of things to do and it needs to be clear what all the options are (imagine Space Team). Most of the time, nothing was really happening and I was just waiting for something to do. Then the number of things I *could* do was pretty low, and it wasn't clear when the power was off or the connection was dying to something. So mostly it was just clicking through things constantly hoping to find something to do. Then my download reset and I gave up.
I think you could definitely make something out of your clever use of the theme and the nice graphics if you keep working at it. A frantic fighting against the clock sort of game could work very well.
I love the idea of this game, but it seems that if you mess up after a certain amount of time there's no way to recover. I would have liked to see a bit more variation in gameplay somehow. Maybe more tasks to keep track of. The music was nice, but I would have liked it to be a longer track and not just the same four chords over and over. Agree that all of the sounds were loud initially, but I apprecited the web build having volume adjustments in the settings. I would turn down the music initially though. Great use of the theme!
Good game, very original very hard though
@eli-delventhal @yodog Thanks for your feedback! Yeah, the game is kind of boring and there are not that many things to do. Initially we wanted to add some sort of captcha every time you open a device so you have different mini-puzzles to solve each time so you do not get bored and it will takes more time and effort to switch between devices which prevents you from just clicking through things constantly, but we could not implement that until the jam is over and after the jam is over we just got lazy.
You have to be patient to play this game... I became unstable
Fun little pixel graphics and nice music. You don't a lot of ~idle games in the jam so fun to get one here. Would have been nice to be able to see or hear more of what was going on without having to click in and out constantly. Overall nice work! :)