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Newton Logistics
By tosmaster, PQuiskamp, parkuhrmd, A.D.Chaos and LenaF0203
View on ldjam.com
| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Overall | 42 | 4.26 | 36 | |
| Fun | 76 | 4.10 | 36 | |
| Innovation | 140 | 3.92 | 36 | |
| Theme | 58 | 4.45 | 36 | |
| Graphics | 255 | 4.17 | 36 | |
| Audio | 170 | 3.93 | 35 | |
| Mood | 183 | 4.04 | 35 | |
Comments
bartekde
2023-05-01 23:51
Super cool game. A lot of mechanics I liked, many quality of life features, like zooming out. Very thoughtful. Joining of packages in many directions is the coolest of the mechanics.
Found one small issue, sometimes when connecting cargo, even small, whole ship snaps rotation to other side of the cargo (can't clearly tell what's happening)
Played for solid half an hour. Couldn't wait to try and connect containers (those that have 4 connection points) in different shapes! It can get tight when you get creative, but controls are good for me. cargo-game.png
@bartekde I'm glad you enjoyed it! We had some difficulty with Unity physics, which causes this "jump" from time to time. We also had to limit the amount of cargo due to this. Thank you for the feedback!
trakina
2023-05-02 10:04
Great game. Lots of variety in the challenges, awesome physics, with a great look and feel.
willby
2023-05-02 10:09
I love all the little details like the trains moving around. Bit slow paced and repetative, but what I did play was pretty coooool!
Game is really fun. I like that there is no any penalty for collide with world! Graphic is pretty, solid style. Great contrast for game objects!
I wish there was some kind of radar in bottom center, maybe even with speed vector to show direction
jamesw
2023-05-02 10:21
Fantastic mood and physics! Love the unstability when driving the spaceship, it's also very challenging!
coro-yy
2023-05-02 10:23
Probably the best game I've tested so far! Graphics are great, sound is fitting, 100% hit the topic, a little narrative that gives a nice touch and it just works flawlessly. I especially like that you implemented the change for the center of gravity. 10/10
Well done! The only issue that I had (and it is minor) was that I confused the boxes at the start with the cargo so I thought I needed to move it.
This was amazing! Loved the artstyle and the gameplay really enjoyed trying to complete everything!
coro-yy
2023-05-02 10:26
@furry-fire you're not alone. I thought so too for the first minute :D
krzyhau
2023-05-02 10:31
I'm only starting to play other games, and considering the theme, I was expecting a bunch of fast-paced "deliver ASAP" games, so I wasn't ready for how chill and peaceful this game is.
Gameplay feels nice. Spaceship feels slippery but for good reasons, so that isn't a problem. I very much appreciate the camera with the radar (although the colors of the arrows could've been better - at one point I wasn't sure if an arrow is pointing to the delivery spot or another type of cargo). I'm very fascinated by the cargo locking mechanics, and I feel like it has lots of potential. Imagine some section where you're required to have all of the cargo locked at once, and then have it formed in a shape that allows you to navigate through some section, or need to assemble some structures from them. It's fun to play with, but as the fellow gamejamer above mentioned, can be buggy (something that wasn't mentioned yet is that if you have multiple cargo locked and then eject all of them, it won't go through the delivery spot thingy, and you have to press R so it disjoints).
Visually it's simple and coherent, but occasionally I had trouble determining what's part of the background and what's something I can interact with. I like the music track - it complements the peaceful nature of this game I've already praised.
Overall, good job!
dender46
2023-05-02 10:34
Incredible game with lots of polish!
Movement feels intuitive and responsive despite controlling a large vessel in space. Pulling in and ejecting containers is an enjoyable process. Art and music are chill and relaxing. Sound design deserves separate praise with those tiny clinks and clanks (I mean when ship or containers hit something lol) and brought more atmosphere to the game. It was really enjoyable to play through :smile:
nanolotl
2023-05-02 11:15
Took me a while to get into it, but ended up playing to the end. Quite relaxing with a really fun mix of controls. Minor complaint is that I wish the range on the magnet was slightly longer. Great job.
This game is hella polished! The movement is easy to start but hard to master, just as it should. Took me a while to discover the TAB key, which turned out to be very useful. Good job :)
Excellent game! Controls are nice, vibes are nice, pacing and tutorial is very well done for a jam game, and it's basically a space train simulator? Can you get any cooler of a concept?? Also it ran surprisingly well as a WebGL game (I've been having a lot of performance issues with other games so I was nervous when I saw the word "physics" in the description but it was fine in the end). Only main issue was a bug with cargo bay 3 which got a container jammed down the bottom and required me to reload the page. Also I guess there's room for improvement for graphics? But honestly otherwise I think this game is really quite a fantastic jam game. Well done!
Beautiful looking, really polished game. The music set the mood perfectly. It would maybe have been nice to have a cargo damage mechanic where you get a score based on how many times you bumped the cargo in to something else
bea
2023-05-03 16:56
I think this is a favorite of mine so far! It was very naturally tutorialized creating an evolving and escalating difficulty. It felt so cool to by the end be able to fly around corners using different thrusters with a huge payload. Honestly I would play more of this, I love a game where a cumbersome movement scheme gets to feeling smooth. Kinda snake passish. GG.
That was a lot of fun, I enjoyed the space aspect and how weighty all the packages felt. The jet controls felt tight and nice the whole time which is pretty impressive
Sweet game! Super relaxing taking it slow, and the mood was perfect. I really liked the last mission, it wasn't the hardest but it let me have a fun time playing around:) Thanks for this game!
A really nice and relaxing game. Had a lot of fun connecting boxes and launching them into the docs while listening to the calm music. Pretty fun!
Though I encountered a bug where I was able to offset the camera far enough to get the ship out of the view.
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Yessss! Another space delivery game, we need more of these! This one is great, the arrows are clear, the physics are really satisfying too! The music is chill and the art style really suits. Incredible job!
God I love the look of the space station, it feels alive with the trains moving to and fro and the various out-of-reach parts that make it look like this is one thing going on in a much larger something. Great work with the music too!
ategon
2023-05-07 07:50
Thanks for submitting your game to be played on the stream! If you wanted to watch my reaction again here’s the vod timestamped to your game https://youtu.be/0LdDwOAkfzc?t=4170
@ategon Thank you for playing and taking the time and posting the timestmap!!
Really good fun game, Loved all the extra bits of animation in the background, really added to the world of the game.
praccen
2023-05-07 11:21
Nice physics based game! I like that the movement has a bit of a learning curve to it, and that we weren't punished for crashing so you could really get comfortable moving around. I feel like this would be super cool for speedrunning, I can imagine some runs could look very cool! Great looking and sounding game as well. Hats off!
stuembi
2023-05-09 13:18
Really loved the floating around in space, physic based games are always my favorite :smile: I was trying to grab these boxes in the first room with my magnet for quite a while lol Cool graphics and very atmospheric sounds, the game is super polished for a game jam entry. The only thing I could say, is that the F button is placed a bit weird to pull and hold cargo. All in all, I had fun playing this! Great Job, wish you a successful jam :frog:
macdoom
2023-05-09 16:21
Always loved thruster games :) Loled when ejecting cargo. Took a while to get to the numbered cargo (the real ones). Had fun plying it. Good job!