Hey this kinda reminds me of the game I made, with a similar slightly engineery theme and using a dangerous vehicle. We've both taken very different directions from there though which is pretty interesting. I especially like the theme of this game, it's always nice to have an actual backstory on what's going on in a game jam game.

The art here is really nice, but my terrible pc seemed to disagree with that and I ended with a pretty terrible framerate. Thankfully it cleared up a bit every time I left the ship to go to an island.

For the gameplay itself it's a very fun concept, but by the time I finished the game (#Board-AI) it did get a bit old with the only things happening being putting out fires and flying to islands. I think a big area you could expand is in adding more ship controls and more reason to use them. For examples of ship controls you could add burners to the balloons that you need to manage, and thrusters that can spin the ship, and to encourage using these you could make the island spawning distance much higher and add threats to avoid. Some more threats could be turbulence and making the floating rocks actually damage your ship if you fly into them and make you fly out to pick them up. One last thing that could be fun, a grappling hook! It could be so fun swinging using the floating rocks and would make the flying a bit easier since I found it increddibly hard as is (that could've just been the framerate or a skill issue though).

I like the vibe of this game. It's nice going around on an airship. The art is good for a game jam.

I think the tutorial could be a bit more intuitive. The prompts for picking up the gun, helmet, etc could appear after you've already picked up the jetpack. Plus having an E interact prompt on the steering wheel.

The controls could be better as well. It took me some time to figure out how to stop the airship's engine after I'd already started it. 

Also I was looking for a way to view the objective after going through the dialogue/a way to go back to previous text prompts. 

I think what you have here is neat and could definitely be expanded upon for a future project/full game.

I played the game through to the end text (forgot what the secret # was); it is definitely very ambitious, but unfortunately turned out a bit rough around the edges. Despite the jank though I can imagine what the idea was, and I can easily envision a more complete game with more unique islands, polished mechanics and whatnot.

Besides the obvious bugs, I think the ship model could be altered because currently it’s really hard to jump out and get back in; also I’d add some sort of distance fade so that the islands and rocks wouldn’t just pop into existence when spawned. That’s more of a style thing though and I guess it’s unfair to ask of a jam game.

I feel like this needs some improvement to the UI, I can’t really tell what I’m aiming at especially on the first part of the game (maybe add a text above the aim cursor to indicate what you’re currently highlighting/hovering?). Also the lighting on my end is dark compared to your screenshots (bugged? or is it some settings stuff?). The premise is creative though and has some neat potential I feel, the RNG could use some tweaking : converting 25 skystones and only getting 4 metals is pretty frustrating.

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Lovely! Not too hard to figure out; fund game loop; lost the HUD early on on both tries, otherwise it worked. Ran out of time (RL) after collecting the first electronics. Keeping this to finish later. 

Sidenote: We made a Vacuum game as a class project a couple of years ago.  It's such a fun concept. 

Cool game! Love the skyship vibes and the jetpack is very satisfying to use. A bit of a nitpick, but the "hit to fix" could be a bit faster between strikes, to me at least it felt a bit sluggish

I cannot continue in the game, the box keeps on opening and closing without picking up the item. If you restart the game I lose the ability to rotate the view with my mouse.

PS. You left a comment on my solo submission, but that submission has been deleted in favor of the group submission. May I ask you to replay it (it has different setup) and re-comment/evaluate please?

I did encounter a few bugs like not able to pick up the object from the box as the player keeps opening and closing the lid on pressing 'E'. But it was an interesting concept. Nice submission as a solo developer!

Since our game had a flight/engineering theme (though both go in unique directions) I wanted to check this out. Really nice concept, and impressively immersive for a solo project. Nice work. Would love for you to check out our game, Skytanic :) https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-13/rate/3347107