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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | A New Kingdom | jam | 647 | 3.33 | 3.36 | 2.60 | 3.22 | 2.94 | 3.09 | 2.80 | 3.40 |
Nice game, Simple enough to understand in seconds, would be nice if you added more enemies :) Sometimes the movement powerup spawned at the very edge of a platform and made me fall off. Otherwise a great spin on the theme and a nice style :)
The game has a run time of about 15 seconds. That is after you find out what the game wants from you. As an English speaker, I can say that if the game just throws text at you in a foreign language it isn't much fun trying to find out what is happening. After I found out what was going on the game felt a bit lacking in the.. well... fun aspect. You are thrown into a room with the only thing to do is pick a seat. There seems to only be 1 or 2 left and after you pick a free seat you win, You get an abstract point and you can play again.
Cool game, restricting player movement is adequately explained. Loved the retro style and the linear difficulty increase (Each level a new enemy) The overall mystery to the story was nice, loved playing it!
Maybe flag the game potentially disturbing?
Can't run the game :/
A great, fast paced and fun game! Came from Elysia!
A great game, but the audio portion was a bit lacking. Probably the best graphics I have seen this jam.
A very solid game, fun to play, satisfying to kill the enemies. My only complaint is that it is a bit hard to aim properly at the enemies because of the weird camera FOV or something (They get more stretched out and distorted at the edges) Otherwise a VERY great entry :) Congrats!
A relaxing piece. I played both modes but felt the easy mode is not that much of a challenge and can be cleared easily. The hard mode, on the other hand, is perfect for this theme. The mood of the game relaxes you but when things start filling up it gets quite hectic. Great work!
A fun game definitely. I had a lot of problem with the multi tasking. Maybe if you didn't need to seat them after telling them to go sit down it would be a bit less all over the place. Otherwise I really enjoyed! Good job!
The game is short, a little too short. Even if you just made a few more levels it would elevate the experience a lot. The concept is not within the theme at least as I got it - Avoid the balls. Green and red balls do the same thing, kill you almost instantly. The game can be easily won just by driving off to the side and not caring about anything.
Overall a solid first game and I must say a good job.
What was the reverse talking btw? :)
You know that for you to get ratings you should rate other games right? Because it seems like you don't have any karma or ratings given, which decreases the likelihood of someone finding your game.
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@dylanbr What do you mean? Could you please explain your problem in more detail?
@dylanbr I cannot seem to see why that would happen :( The game should run consistently on all HTML5 enabled browsers no matter what OS. It has so far worked on 7 PCs tested with 3 different browsers including Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla. Check if the issue is not on your end. Maybe a program altering input?
Thanks, for the feedback @cannonperson :) I can adjust it a bit. The reason for the quick slingshot effect on the lava is to push the urgency and the "Running out of space" aspect of the game. When the slingshot was not in place, the player quickly outran the lava and it was nowhere in sight.
@trozen Living there of course :D
Thanks for the feedback :)
@drunkardwolf Thanks for the feedback :) If you notice, the lava slows down when it gets close. This also stops the point counter up in the corner. When the fast sling effect is applied, the points add up faster in return.
Good job sorting it out @dylanbr :)
@antti-haavikko Thanks for the extensive feedback. The baby jumps are a bit of an issue I tried fixing time and time again but it still kept on appearing. I think unity has some weird way of handling Forces applied to an object on the frame it stopped. The current behavior is as if the player had not stopped on the moment the jump was applied even though I am checking for Y movement in the code. With my limited skills, I just scrapped fixing this bug and moved on to other aspects of polishing.
I also added arrow key alt options (Will upload shortly), even though it won't be displayed in the intro tutorial because WaSPie had to leave already.
Thanks for the awesome feedback!
@dylanbr The S key should help you a lot with your problem :)
Thanks @superpokeunicorn for the feedback :)
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
@antti-haavikko Thanks, added it and it reduced the small jumps drastically but one or two sometimes appear.
@tybantarnusa Thanks for taking the time to get further in the game :) I hopefully reduced the small jumps in the newest update.
@ngupsilon Added a 1.5 second delay before lava starts rising.
@gord10ahmet No. Unfortunately when I try to rewrite the code to check on fixed update something just does not work right. Sometimes the player just stays glued to the platform which does not happen when using Update. I think it might just be some sloppy programming on my part but I don't have enough time to fix it now :(
Thanks for the feedback though :)
Thanks to all the movement feedback you guys provided!
I have made the down key (Fall faster) a lot less mandatory to use. The player now starts falling faster and feels less floaty but if you need a higher jump you need to hold down the jump key!
(Uploading in the next few minutes)
Thanks @p1nkmaria :)
Thanks @jepdraper :)
Thanks @yukki :)
Thanks @metju :)
Thanks @nattress :)
Thanks for playing @pabricka @jgower0502 :)
Thanks for playing our game everyone!
@corbak Thanks, the main goal we had set in mind was to make an enjoyable experience, and the theme was one of those that didn't hit home very well... We had a bit of trouble thinking of something and settled on this because it was simple to execute but pushed us as we are both beginners to game making.
@yulia Thanks for playing!
@l-s I'm glad you found it addicting!
@batlordz Thanks for the comment!
@zicboy Thanks for spending the time!
@awix Thanks for the feedback. Yes definitely, the music was basically my first attempt to make something for a game. I will try and get better at it!
@guladam Yes that was a thought I had too but didn't really know where to start. Now I may have a way in mind but it is after the deadline so I cannot change the game further. Definitely, something I will look into when I make the first patch after review period is over. Thanks for playing!
One more thank you to everyone who had the time and played our game!
Thanks for the feedback @avavt :)
The game looks great and the concept is awesome. A truly Great Game!
Cool game, nice concept. Really loved the idea that it is not physical space only discomfort around people.
Great job!
A nice and simple game that accomplishes the theme perfectly. Nice and sharp graphics, more and more challenging the longer you play overall a nice game.
Navigation throughout the ship is pretty unintuitive and the gameplay is not explained very well, but the creepy mood of the game makes up for some of these small flaws. Liked the idea, but I wish the sickness spread a bit more, giving the sense of urgency.
Good job nevertheless.
A nice game overall plays with a claustrophobic concept. Liked, had a nice oddly relaxing music to it.
The controls feel slidey and a bit unresponsive especially due to the fact that as soon as you touch a wall you get reset to the start. If the controls had a bit more authority to them It would make a huge difference.
Nice game though!
Definitely challenging! Sometimes the movement felt a bit disorienting. Maybe turning up the FOV slightly would be nice. Otherwise, a great game, have not found any glitches or anything super distracting. Great concept and execution. Loved it!
Great sense of humor on the intro, Couldn't get very far because of how the trajectory is displayed. I kept running off to space every jump except a few. The art style is perfect and the concept too but maybe make it a bit more "Arcade-like". Great job!
Nice concept. It has a unique way of losing. Loved the simplicity, graphics and overall everything about the game. A nice touch would be a display of your final score at the end or even just a high score label on the main menu.
This was one of the best games I played in the Jam :)
Amazing storytelling! Great use of the theme :) Loved it!
I got motion sickness from playing around a few minutes but here is my opinion on the few minutes I spent in the game.
I immediately got the controls wrong as soon as I started. I feel like left and right (A, D) are inverted. My brain kept kicking in with skills from GTA and other games about how to properly reverse and go forward but it was always wrong when I didn't concentrate on the gameplay. When I did concentrate it was a bit better but that increased the motion sickness factor massively.
The graphics are simple and get the point of the game across. I would suggest maybe binding the action buttons to the user's keyboard and letting them keep their hands off the mouse.
Otherwise, it was a great concept.
Nicely done, the base concept is pretty well layed out. Unfortunately some base mechanics of the game were broken for me. For example I could not figure out how to obtain more currency to buy stuff. I assumed at first that I would get some by killing the bugs that were flying my way but that did not drop any. I played around with all of the spawnable objects and after 5 minutes I figured out that I needed to click on them and then right click to make them move. They got swarmed by the bugs and killed instantly. Some form of on screen tutorial would fit nicely, even if it were just a basic text box to read at the start.
The BEST game I have reviewed on this jam! I have nothing against. It has smooth controls and a simple concept. Love it!