Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Pax Lefay
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Oort's Orbital Postal Service | jam | 1016 | 2.98 | 2.55 | 2.75 | 2.94 | 3.34 | 2.33 | 2.92 |
I'm glad we're not the only ones who looked at the prompt and went "limited space.... in the back of a truck? in space?" :smile:
Really well executed. A little slow for my liking, but it's a minor complaint. Otherwise, well done!
Super cute!
The prickles are my worst enemy. Why won't they just go around the corners. (in a very loving tone)
It's fantastic! A lot of really well-considered puzzling. Required me to think, you really feel limited by the space. The music started to grate after a while, but I think that's just a time constraint, you can't really do much more than have a short loop. Certainly in my top 5 favourites so far this jam.
Cool concept, took a minute to get the hang of though. I think it really could do with some kind of tutorialising (just demonstrating the matom interactions)
Really fun! I'd love a hit/hp indicator and a wider FOV, but otherwise it works great, and plays great. Good job!
Cool mechanic! I couldn't find a great reason to move the agents out of one protective triangle shape though, without knowing in advance what direction the president was going to move in.
Creative puzzles, good ambience and humour. One of the puzzles required me to walk on a wall block, not sure if that was intentional - I couldn't find a floor-only solution. Love the reality-breaking puzzle at the end.
Very moody and evocative. I feel like the minigames could have used more polish, but they worked in essence. I liked the ripped-up note - I immediately knew what to look for when I found the combination lock, and the puzzle to rearrange it was an appropriate roadblock.
Problems embedding godot, so itch.io instead. Couldn't figure out if it's possible to put an iframe in the post, but it doesn't look like it so -shrug-.
Sneaking in a last minute edit in submission hour to fix the ctrl-w bug. Thanks Jack!
We're largely getting comments that the controls are awful. Which, I agree, they are! So I'm giving a short breakdown on how that happened:
TL;DR Oort has an accelerator pedal :smile:
There was a previous walking iteration of the character controller with normal character controls, and a ship controller with accelerate/brake/pitch/yaw. Because Oort was able to get out of the van at odd altitudes and places, they needed to be able to fly. I made an attempt in the last day to rewrite Oort's controller, but the change between flying and walking was running into collision bugs elsewhere. Oort spent a good amount of time in development T-Posing through space and glitching through floors
So as one of the last major changes on the project, we ripped out everything in Oort's controller and just had it inherit from the ship controls :laughing:
Interesting roguish kinda cardgame, good job! The UI and design is on-point, except for one part: I didn't see the indication of which icons meant what in the top right for my first couple runs! Might be worth adjusting the size on that to match the size of the icons on the cards
You've nailed the difficulty pretty well imo, it's exactly the right kind of tricky
Great across the board. Addictive, a great use of the theme as the defining mechanic, and catchy music!
Really difficult subject, it would have been easy to overstep, but I'd say this is handled as sensitively as it could have been. I wasn't able to buy more than 4 boats without allowing smaller boats to sink which... that might be a bit too heavy? Good job on navigating an absolute minefield and shipping a decent strategy game on it.
Fun, but very hard XD. I'd love to see a couple extra levels/layouts in the future, moving in difficulty with more/less pot types.
This is really solid. Feels like some performance drop as enemies get more numerous, but other than that, fantastic job!