Love the cinematic feel to the visuals and design! Really like the theming of the mechanics being this back and forth between use of tech with the drones and human intervention and guidance of said tech. I like how you handled the controls and teaching the player with the O.S. and how you can quickly and easily switch between drones and the player character.
Was reviewing Sky Patch, saw your review and came to check out your game. I like the premise. I can see past where the game may have felt to another as though they're just following instructions bc it's short. There's factors that made me think of it as more of a tutorial , or snippets to what could become a fuller game. You gave enough of a notice for progression through the days of interacting with the drones , and hint at exploration becoming a stronger thing as well as drones evolving. Neat concepts. I ken adding in some narrative to fill it out, but can also see where if the game was longer, it may have provided that along the way. Keep up the work!
Thank you! It was actually more important to me that almost anyone could get through the whole thing than anything else. (I think there's still lots of room for improvement here too). The drone management systems are actually more elaborate and I thought about putting in more days, but ultimately for a game jam, I wanted to limit scope.
I liked the art, for me and just is my opinion the most entertaining part was handling the drones, I think that mechanics could be modified to be a little more like a tycoon or add more narrative and tell us more about the character and his world, I liked the rest, congratulations
played the game and I go a few things to say about it.
I do like that the idea is that you are taking care of a farm and you are using drones, but the way it's done just feels incredibly linear, like I'm not doing it by my own, but rather following instructions, then in the following days, it became too linear when the drones do stuff on their own, but still need to do a few things.
I also managed to find a couple of ways to break the game and found a couple of bugs, such as that while one drone is doing a task and I change it to a different perspective then go back to the drone while it's doing its task, I the drone can move while doing the task.
Overall, it was a somewhat confusing experience where I'm not playing a game but just following instructions, and if I don't I find myself just lost in this game.
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Love the cinematic feel to the visuals and design! Really like the theming of the mechanics being this back and forth between use of tech with the drones and human intervention and guidance of said tech. I like how you handled the controls and teaching the player with the O.S. and how you can quickly and easily switch between drones and the player character.
Was reviewing Sky Patch, saw your review and came to check out your game. I like the premise. I can see past where the game may have felt to another as though they're just following instructions bc it's short. There's factors that made me think of it as more of a tutorial , or snippets to what could become a fuller game. You gave enough of a notice for progression through the days of interacting with the drones , and hint at exploration becoming a stronger thing as well as drones evolving. Neat concepts. I ken adding in some narrative to fill it out, but can also see where if the game was longer, it may have provided that along the way. Keep up the work!
Thank you! It was actually more important to me that almost anyone could get through the whole thing than anything else. (I think there's still lots of room for improvement here too). The drone management systems are actually more elaborate and I thought about putting in more days, but ultimately for a game jam, I wanted to limit scope.
I liked the art, for me and just is my opinion the most entertaining part was handling the drones, I think that mechanics could be modified to be a little more like a tycoon or add more narrative and tell us more about the character and his world, I liked the rest, congratulations
played the game and I go a few things to say about it.
I do like that the idea is that you are taking care of a farm and you are using drones, but the way it's done just feels incredibly linear, like I'm not doing it by my own, but rather following instructions, then in the following days, it became too linear when the drones do stuff on their own, but still need to do a few things.
I also managed to find a couple of ways to break the game and found a couple of bugs, such as that while one drone is doing a task and I change it to a different perspective then go back to the drone while it's doing its task, I the drone can move while doing the task.
Overall, it was a somewhat confusing experience where I'm not playing a game but just following instructions, and if I don't I find myself just lost in this game.