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A jam submission

Space is strangeView game page

Submitted by kmsnsk, DIAgames — 1 day, 2 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#1172.6672.667
Roguelikeness#1442.3332.333

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Successful or Incomplete?

Success

Did development of the game take place during the 7DRL Challenge week?

Yes

Is your game a roguelike or a roguelite?

Yes

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Comments

Submitted

I like the very different graphics style!

I had a hard time with the controls. I did not know how to get into the doors. I did not know how to fix things. I think I pressed every key on my keyboard, but except left and right there was nothing. Tried with mouse and only shaking the tool in my hand.

Pity, I would have liked to play it.

Developer

Sorry for such an experience, maybe we should have made a help screen with description of controls, not only mentioning them here in comments and on game's page. I thought it should be enough, but it wasn't, my bad, sorry again.

Submitted

This game has some pretty neat elements.. especially the art. Really well done on that front.

Gameplay was a little rough, but for a jam game that’s not the end of hte world. I really wanted some sort of feedback that I was actually hitting monsters as I fought them.

Got stuck in a weird loop after game over… I clicked the ‘new game’ button, but it just took me back to the ‘gameover’ screen. had to refresh the page to try again

Developer
Yeah, that loop is definetly a bug, we're sorry for that, our goal now is to polish everything. Thank you for playing the game and giving feedback!
Developer
Yeah, that loop is definetly a bug, we're sorry for that, our goal now is to polish everything. Thank you for playing the game and giving feedback!
Submitted

Super cute and simple side-scroller with some interesting character designs.

PROS:

  • A TON of custom art made for this game with each broken piece of the ship getting a custom little "repaired" sprite in addition to its broken state. Very nice touch.
  • Consistent art style throughout making everything visually mesh together nicely.

CRITIQUE:

  • Combat right now ended up boiling down to spamming lasers for me. I attempted to use the wrench and without hit feedback I didn't know if it was doing anything and I completely forgot that I had other weapons.
  • The characters are extremely large on the screen.  I think the purpose was to have more of a "surprise" feel when an enemy shows up, but it feels like you could accomplish this with more special moments like jump scares that have enemies spawning into the middle of the screen or out of things that you need to repair. That would let you back the camera up a bit and it wouldn't feel awkwardly close.
  • The economy of repairing things right now feels odd. I just killed all the things and pressed repair when I walked past broken ship parts, but I ended up almost always needing blue gooey stuff and rarely ever needing fangs. I know where each piece comes from, but I don't really know why I would want to repair any given ship piece over any other.
Developer(+1)

Thank you very much for such detailed review. Everything in this game feels more odd than it should have been, because we had one programmer instead of two and he hadn't enough time to develop everything which was is design document. But we hope to make 2.0 version which should be better.)) Special thanks for your appreciation of my art, it's making me very proud.

Developer

PLEASE PLAY IT FULLSCREEN! Bugs may occure, sorry for that, but in general the game is playable.

That was a horrible day for starship RYAN-2822. The vehicle entered a Strange Space Area, and somehow only one mechanic was left on board. Yep, it's you! Good news is you CAN rescue everybody by reaching captain's bridge. Bad news is you'll never know what to expect around the corner , because this part of space play lots of tricks with space, time and the ship. Your mission is to repair all the breakage on ship and get rid of aliens, which are breaking the vehicle and attacking you. 

Good luck, pal!

Controls:

D, A – go forward and backward 

LMB - attack 

RMB - laser gun shooting

Q - go to another room

E - repair breakage (if you have enough resources)

4 – light grenade 

5 – first aid kit 

6 – time expander 

To repair breakages you should use anything you can find. 

Game by MAD LAB team.