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A jam submission

2019 7DRL Hungry Little Space RogueView game page

A barely feature complete 7 day roguelike involving a very hungry astronaut
Submitted by geldonyetich — 3 days, 7 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Aesthetics#692.8583.500
Innovation#752.4493.000
Completeness#792.4493.000
Fun#832.0412.500
Overall#852.3132.833
Roguelikeness#942.4493.000
Scope#1141.6332.000

Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • Completeness (3): Polished little game. One thing that was a bit weird was that if you hold nothing, pressing use or drop does not generate hunger, but every other failing action does generate hunger. Inventory management is also weird since items don't seem to cycle. (If I have shovel, ration, ration in the inventory, after cycling, the shovel always remains the second item)

    Aesthetics (4): Looks nice, controls are fine, though a bit nonstandard. I also quite liked the description.

    Fun (3): Figuring out how things worked was pretty fun, but once I got the hang of things, it seems impossible to lose unless you run out of farmable land or stop paying attention to food. Inventory management also gets tedious, as I'm repeatedly hitting H, H, L to sell rations. 8-way movement also feels too lenient, since I can always harvest my crops without wasting steps.

    Innovation (3): The strict food timer sets a really different pace for the game and makes the game feel very puzzle like at the beginning in order to avoid wasting turns.

    Scope (2): Not much other than farm, eat, and sell.

    Roguelikeness (3): Lack of combat and a winning state makes the game makes the game feel different from a roguelike

  • Pretty looking space farm-em-up. Unfortunately there's not much to do beyond the initial plant/harvest/sell loop.

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Comments

Developer

Thanks for the great feedback, judges!

Submitted

I'm not able to move down with the S key for some reason?

Developer(+1)

My bad, the instructions are misleading.  It's in the WASD position, but actually it's more like WAXD, since it's the full 8-point cardinal directions mapped on both the left and (via the numpad) right side of the keyboard.

Submitted

Oh okay thanks for the clarification!