mgmarlow 2022-04-05 02:37
This is great, nice job. I struggled a bit on some of the terrain but yeeting myself into the sky w/ the boost was fun.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Life On Mars
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 41 | 4.24 | 83 | |
| Fun | 138 | 3.95 | 83 | |
| Innovation | 206 | 3.80 | 83 | |
| Theme | 190 | 4.10 | 83 | |
| Graphics | 10 | 4.72 | 83 | |
| Humor | 2.90 | 13 | ||
| Mood | 20 | 4.48 | 82 |
This is great, nice job. I struggled a bit on some of the terrain but yeeting myself into the sky w/ the boost was fun.
This looks and feels fantastic *When it is able to run*. Mabey think about optimization and other upgrades to the rover that are unique and fun. Great tough with the music.
@bigdylann did you try downloading and playing the windows build? It is HIGHLY recommended to download the game.
I love the atmosphere of this game. Such a great idea for the theme!
Fun little game! I LOVED the intro, and the atmosphere. The music playing really gave these "lost alone in space" vibes, similar to WALL-E.
Sadly, for us the mouse speed was super fast so it was very difficult to look around. Perhaps something was wrong there? Apart from that cool concept, nice graphics, overall very satisfying to play.
Overall great game! I enjoyed the graphics and the gameplay. Getting around the terrain was rough and it felt that I could handle the Rover better without wheels rather than getting them.
Love the mood in this game. There is something about driving around in a barren wasteland and listening to cheerful oldies that hits a sweet spot for me :D
Really good! I love the natural tutorializing you did here, and the graphics are real nice! I think it may not have been intended for the wheels to make it a lot harder to climb rocks though (I got them and then went back down for a battery then couldn't get back up).
Loved the game. Great choice of music for the game. The main menu screen, the terrain, and the gameplay was awesome. The only thing I would have changed would be the movement for the rover. I found it difficult to navigate in a certain direction using the mouse. For example, if I wanted to turn left and right I had to look in that direction, but sometimes I just wanted to look around without having the rover move that way. I think having just wasd movement would have sufficed. Overall, amazing game though.
Great game! I'm into astronomy and being able to explore Mars via a rover is very fun and exciting for me!
OMG i love this game, the atmosphere, the graphics and the music...wow
@zettelkasten Try to download the windows build if you're experiencing input issues.
@nella The original rover movement was keyboard based but it was way too clunky, we figured mouse movement was the most intuitive solution. You need to stop the rover to look around which will also reduce the energy drain of the battery.
extremly awesome game <3 very chill music, beautiful graphics, unique movement (in a good way). Very awesome.
I love it. The music, the vibe, the artwork. Only thing I would change would be the menu buttons.
The art is absolutely fabulous. I can not believe you guys created a game that looks this good in such a short period of time. The way the hills look, the sky, all of it....just incredible!
This is certainly one of the BEST looking games I have played so far, and I have played quite a few games! Exceptional work!
Also, the music slaps!
The game is really fun and clean ! Congrats !
* The graphics are incredible! :stars: * The HUD is great. It adds a lot of immersion! * Sometimes it's too hard to control the rover. But, maybe, that's the point :thinking:
Fantastic graphics, great music, easy to understand gameplay, great UI design. The shadow mechanic is very cool and create quite the challenge for me. When I first started the game I thought to myself "Oh the screenshots show a rover but I'm just a box?" then after a few seconds I figured it out. Very cool idea to upgrade the rover.
I spent a long time looking a the wheels haha. The bounciness and turn on the wheels looked great.
The controls were a little hard to turn around. I thing that was the one difficulty I had.
Overall a great job.
everything about this game is so good but i am so bad at it :D
I loving this game. It has such a strong and charming atmosphere to it due to the graphical style and the use of older songs. The gameplay is simple, with just having to control the vehicle to collect upgrades, but it is so much fun, and the battery power management adds a layer of depth to it. The graphical effect when in shade does a great job at properly illustrating just how bad that is for the battery power and helps the player remember to avoid shade after the first interaction. I did sometimes have issues with almost getting stuck due to getting caught on a corner while the rover is facing it, which caused frustration, but that's the only thing I could hold against.
You guys did a great job. Congrats!
I loved the mood so much. It was relaxing, and I found the gameplay nice and interesting. I felt transported into this situation, and the music gave it such a movie vibe. The art was fenomenal too. Really great work here. Congrats!
This is gorgeous ! I'm happy you added a real and challenging gameplay to this and not only focus on your fabulous arts. Don't know what happen when you run out of energy but I really had to struggle for that !
Very beatiful graphics and cool soundtrack!
Wooow this is very good!
It looks absolutely stunning, and I loved the music choices! Some controls feel a bit weird at first but it makes it always so cool to get the next reward!
As someone who started playing Crumble on my switch just yesterday, I absolutely loved this one:
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@doot Crumble life form detected on Mars!
This is one amazing game. Can't believe you guys manage to create those visual in such a short time. It's soo well polished. All those little animations, UI elements, sounds. Everything fits together soo well. Nothing feels like it was added in a last minute. I love the progression, how you get new tools over time. The orange ambiet works soo well. I can't believe this worked well with DoF and other effects in WebGL. Really impressive work!
This game has a great vibe and the music choice fits it perfectly. Really great game
You even polished the sand! Impressive stuff!
Great graphics, and overall theme!
The mood from this game is just amazing, i'm at a loss for words
Great mood, great graphics as said above. I liked how each upgrade felt unique and impacting. The feeling of progression is so satisfying here. I had some issues with the controls, especially after unlocking the wheels, I often struggled to go where I wanted. The shader when we are in the shadow is nice but a bit strong sometimes, it was hard to see how to go further when in the shadows. The UI is beautiful and elegant. Animation is great, the music choice is really nice, that's a really great job. Well done!
what an experience u guys should focus more and publish this
Amazing game feel here! Moving around feels really good, and as other have said, each upgrade feels like it really changes the way you play. Although I feel maybe the motion blur might be a *bit* much...
Can't tell you how much I smiled once music I recognised from Fallout 3 started playing :smile:
Very polished game, enjoyed the progression. The scan effect was great, the sand deformation dimples were a nice touch. Really great journey. It also played great on WebGL.
Nice graphics! Music set a good mood, rover was really hard to control which was a little frustrating
Awesome graphics and atmosphere! I very existe game like this one
The music selection is perfect, really enhances the mood. I think you should respawn with all upgrades though.
That was really fun! You made an awesome job on the 3d lvl desing + physics and horrible-but-fun controls. I would love to play this little rover on a larger map and without having to look at the battery level because I had so much fun trying to climb everywhere.
Overall, that's a pretty solid Jam game you made here. Great job!
Really cool game! Great music and I love the Mars setting!
Great game. The graphics are really cool. ：）
Oh wow! Well done! That's a lot or game for a weekend of work! Very cool with the upgrades, love that you start out as just a cube!
I fell into a crevice just after already been struggling for a bit too long to be in a mood to start over from the beginning but I enjoyed it a bunch up until then! Perhaps keeping the collected upgrades on restart or having checkpoints on the pickups would be something. Full scores from me nonetheless!
We had a quite similar idea but stuck to 2 dimensions. Someone in our comments was kind to link us here :)
Wow, amazing! The graphics and mood is really top notch. So many great little details! The gameplay was also very enjoyable and I really enjoyed exploring Mars!
Damn this one looks so great, nice job ! The sound design and the mood are also really good !
I struggled a bit with the character controller : the game make me want to explore and try to find ways to reach different areas but it's kinda hard to manage to move correctly without turning the robot upside down.
Otherwise the game is very polished and daaaamn those lovely shaders are beautiful !
Absolutely lovely game. Music selection was great and really set the mood. A lonely reminder from planet Earth. The play area was well designed and the character controller worked fairly well. I did find myself upside down a lot, I think it would be a bit easier if the rover wouldn't get turned over quite so easily. The scan mechanic was really fun, as was the boost. Superb entry, guys. You should be very proud!
Game looks really amazing, love the cold effect when going into the shadows. It's really fun to start as a box and find stuff on the way.
The very much copyrighted music tho idk. Don't get me wrong I love the tracks chosen, they work very well with the mood but I would say pretty much every game would get much better if they used a Queen song or something.
It's is a beautiful game. There was another game that I played that had similar constraints as your game in LD. Which was a Mars rover with limited power supply. But your has more complexity and it is a 3D beautiful world. Audio was great and complements with the art style.
I really like the mood of the game, and the fallout's soundtracks suits it well! The hardest part for me was the controls, and how the mouse speed was scaling when playing with full screen. Good job! BTW 11 Ludum Dares ago, I made my own space rover entry :-) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/space-rover
Really gorgeous game and the music really fits with the amazing graphics!Found myself stuck on my roof quite a bit haha! You have to plan around the shade and so many great visuals in this! Well done!
Really beautiful visuals and mood! The scanning vfx was really effective. Pretty relaxing, but I really struggled with the camera sensitivity.
Gorgeous graphics! I don't play a lot of modern games, but I was very amazed by the visuals and don't recall ever seeing anything like this before. The way the screen changed when you were in shadow and slowly recovered when you got back into sunlight was a nice touch.
I struggled with the very sensitive mouse controls (web version, I don't have Windows), and I struggled when I first got the wheels because I fell off of the platform that would have taken me into the wider open area and had a hard time jumping back up without falling on my side.
Falling into craters was scary.
I enjoyed the tunes. It gave it a campy kind of feel somehow.
Well done!
Wow, this is an amazing game! That's a ton of level design for 72 hours! Gorgeous intro, and 3D models. Right at the very end I finally figured out that if you hold forward while in the air, you tip forward! That. Is important to know. Very impressive game!
Thanks everyone for playing our game and leaving feedbacks!