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Starbound ClawShell Service

By cursedembassy, Nurf, N0va and 5huNo.3

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall11172.9032
Fun10612.8132
Innovation11102.6332
Theme9513.4532
Graphics9373.0132
Audio5613.2133
Humor4063.4033
Mood10542.8532

Comments

partysquadmember 2023-05-02 21:29

Turns out if its not counter strike, I have no idea what keys are wasd lol. Awesome dialogue, fun two parter with sorting and driving. Good game that works!

mathead 2023-05-02 21:48

Hahaha the dialogue is great "At least I'm not a fucking lobster" got me laughing out loud :DD

After driving the cart, the game seems to froze on me with no way to continue :/

bmanstudio 2023-05-02 21:48

Nice simple game, I didn't know what to do when I got here: Screenshot 2023-05-03 at 0.47.19.png

blo 2023-05-02 21:50

very cool game personally love the lobster and the robot having a domestic i hope they fight to the death<33333

milano23 2023-05-03 14:49

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So its punishment if you score high in the first area, LOL. Is he saying I am from Melmac when delivering the mail? Good graphics and sound. Controls were annoying in the last stage but that is only because I had to deliver so much mail and I was on keyboard. Probably would have been better if I used controller. The delivery on the third stage is not intuitive. You have a highlight with an exclamation mark indicating where the delivery is supposed to go but it can only be delivered next to the small house not the big object. Took a couple of tried to figure that out. I was disappointed there was no comment from the lobster or the robot at the end. Good game I had fun. Thanks. P.S. Also there was no way to exit the game when completed. The X at the bottom did nothing

perryseity 2023-05-03 16:21

I loved the graphics, color scheme, and the audio! The conversation at the beginning made me laugh too. I did get a little stuck at the part with the circular road (same screenshot as BmanStudio above). I wouldn't mind having visual text on screen when characters are talking too, since with the voices (which I loved!) it could be hard to understand at times. Overall I got a fun chuckle out of this and really liked it!

samoussa 2023-05-03 16:46

I also had a good laugh when reading the conversation at the start! As the others, I did get confused at the circular place mentioned above, but up till there it was very enjoyable and funny game ! Great job on the voices and graphics, I loved them ! I must agree that maybe adding subtitles could be helpful. Congratulations !

cursedembassy 2023-05-03 16:55

@milano23 - Yeah, I forgot to add mouseclick. it was intended to have that, but I'm an idiot, so ESC is your friend here lol. The delivery area is around the mailboxes, so I understand that can be a little confusing. The controls were mainly meant (This parts also to @samoussa and @perryseit) The controls were mainly used and tested for controller, and adding arrow key driving was like a last minute thing because I almost forgot lol. it's a lot easier to drive with a controller, I understand not everyone has controllers lol but I made it with the intentions of being able to port it to as absurdly many platforms as possible lol Thanks for playing tho <3

larrymartinjr 2023-05-04 01:28

The art is good, the voices were not always easy to understand and I just got stuck on a screen that would not let me do anything.

xlores-liang 2023-05-04 11:20

Fun bunch of minigames! And cute (must be something wrong with my cuteness detector) voice.

The first 2 levels were a liitle too slow for the minigames genre though.

cursedembassy 2023-05-04 12:51

@larrymartinjr which version did you play?

local-minimum 2023-05-04 16:33

Fun entry. I must admit though that I was quite confused about the delivery rules on the last part of the game so I just mashed all XYAB buttons when close to the lit-up house. Perhaps it wasn't even the house but the mailbox that was the target?

cursedembassy 2023-05-04 18:12

@local-minimum aye, I thought it would be more obvious.. I probably should have had some clearer directions.. but yeah, it's the mailbox that's the target here, the mailboxes has a radius where they'll accept your input, and the input matches the input from the firts mini game. thanks for playing <3

chris-chen 2023-05-06 08:21

Cool game, i enjoyed the dialogue between the lobster and robot (though I would have liked subtitles as I didn't quite understand some of their lines). The driving part could definitely use a bit of polish, and it was a bit weird that I still had to press the correct WASD button to deliver the parcels and without any prompt (or punishment for hitting the wrong button). By the end of the last part I found myself wishing I didn't get so many parcels in the first part haha. But overall I liked it, good job! I'm a mailman, I'm a mailman.

ravernt 2023-05-06 15:54

Hilarious little game! I got stuck at the last part (I think game froze), but overall, I enjoyed my time. Well done!

3ggplant 2023-05-08 04:15

Played the Web version and got stuck on the part after the jumping. Dialogue was pretty hard to understand because of all the filters and stuff on the voices, so subtitles would really help here. It's pretty confusing playing on keyboard and seeing X/Y/A/B next to the WASD, especially since A is shared between the two.

cursedembassy 2023-05-08 14:58

@3ggplant yes, I was gonna add a script that detected wether or not you had a controller connected, and just omit it from the HTML5 version alltogether, cos it doesn't work there, but ran out of time lol. thanks for playing!

solidhinken 2023-05-09 13:50

The Voice-acting is just amazing! GJ

ava-skoog 2023-05-11 17:17

Chaotic! So much stuff, in game and out (wow, all the consoles!). Sounds like you all had a lot of fun making this. Had some fun playing too, just a couple of issues that seem to have been common based on the comments.

Amazing how you made such as a repetitive music track somehow not be grating and actually a bit of a bop, and the hidden rap on top!

Not sure I can add a lot that hasn't already been said, but I too would've liked subtitles since the effects muffled the words a bit. And just in general the controls/explanations. But cool stuff, well done, and props for all the platforms!

fluburbio 2023-05-20 00:27

I love the sound design and humor, it gives your game unique identity 😁 I had some trouble understanding everything too, but I love how you don't take too seriously. Awesome work!

ethernalstudio 2023-05-20 11:55

Very fun and interesting game, even though its minimalistic its still interesting and fun.