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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Overall | #11 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Theme interpretation | #17 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Innovation | #20 | 3.792 | 3.792 |
Graphics | #27 | 4.125 | 4.125 |
Gameplay | #38 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
Audio | #54 | 3.583 | 3.583 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/Snappy-Sloth/GameOff-2020-client
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I’ve had a lot of fun going through the whole game, I made it through the end! :)
I got hooked on the story, I really liked the narrative and relationship between the player and Astro.
Very immersive experience and innovative, it has a escape room vibe.
I would suggest to let the player to move between screens (panels <-> terminal <-> documentation) using the arrow keys (or A-D keys), in my view it would allow the player move faster and unlock more challenging puzzles to solve.
Great job!
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Headquarter is typing…
Great concept and theme interpretation, we got a bit lost in the manual and the controls, but enjoyed the in interface and the game overall.
So I haven't reached the end just yet, but I really wanted to rate and give my thoughts on it so far. The visuals fit perfectly and I had a lot of fun rushing to read through the manual. The story intrigues me, I enjoy chatting with Astro a lot, it feels like having a good friend among the stress of the mission. The different tasks one has to do are decently varied, the only one that confuses me a bit is the light flicking one, I can never seem to grasp how to do it without frantically flipping them at random haha. I think that the game is missing a stronger sense of consequences that increase in risk over time as it feels like there is not much of that at the moment. Overall, a really wonderful game that I plan on seeing to its conclusion.
We're really happy that you enjoyed the game on all the aspectts of it. First time we're doing a narrative game, it's important to us to have comments and criticism on it too.
We hope to make it a complete game on the next months. We'll try to share as much as possible our progress on Itch and Twitter.
Thank you for playing it!
Cool game! loved the diegetic aspect of the instructions! I’ve never played a game like this, and its fun and tense trying to balance the instruction reading with the tasks! Good work!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your comment :)
Great looking game! Very complex! I'd suggest a different system for flipping through the pages. I was having difficultly selecting the correct page to view.
Thank you for playing it! We received a lot of comments on the manual screen, we'll work on that on the next version of the game ;)
The Skeuomorphic visuals on this are great, clean and work so well.
The mechanics are good and emulate Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes as a single player experience perfectly.
The only real criticism I have is shuffling through the pages can be quite tricky and it's easy to select the wrong page and have to resort. It does add tension when the alarms are going off and you're pressed for time, but I think a "next page" button would have been very nice.
Good Job!
Oh, you teach me a new word :D
We'll probably rework the manual ergonomy, yeah. Thanks for your feedbacks :)
Sweating
I really enjoyed this game! Reading through the manual while the alarm is on… so much pressure! But still, great job on making this. I can see the Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes inspiration which I think really matches the space theme.
Ah ah :D
Thank you!
Good job, it's a very polished game! I enjoyed a lot.
Some feedbacks:
Hope I was helpful and that you keep working on it!
Thanks for all these feedbacks!
I can confirm we plan to polish the gameplay to improve it during the game :)
I've only known Hayley for a few days, but I would kill and/or die for them.
Amazing game, seriously! The artwork, the sound design, the story, everything is perfect! And the tasks strike a perfect balance between easy ones and hard ones. I think you really hit it out of the park!
The only critique I have is that it's a bit TOO similar to Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Even down to the visual design of the manual pages. I think with some slight adjustments, this game could really have its own identity!
Thanks for the feedbacks! Yeah, we'll work on the visual identity of the game, we went to the most evident for the jam :).
This is one of those brilliant games for which you need some time and focus!... I am just too dumb though, anyhow I had a look at it and it is in the peer review video haha See below!
1:33:00 Are You There?
Thank you for the test! I see you solved the first alert by cliking everywhere on the modules' screen hahaha!
You had to first check the manual on the page "Connection problems" to see what you had to do, but it worked for you :D
Thanks again!
Very nice game. Did you by any chance get inspired by "keep talking and nobody explodes"? It reminded me of it a lot :)
Great graphics and very nice gameplay!
Totally! The challenge was to port it to a solo experience. Hope we did well!
Thank you for your kind feedback <3
Loved the clean graphics! Was clear you put a lot of effort into making the game visually appealing to play, obviously the resolution issue but that's an easy fix post job. Very nice job!
Thank you very much, and yeah as I explained below, we realize the resolution issue too late. But thank to like it despite that! :D
One of our first job next week will be to downgrade the resolution to, I think, 640x360, being 1/2 of the actual :D !
Spot on simulation of engineers daily life. This is why they get paid so well ^^
Haha! It could be but it wasn't the idea at first :D
Thank you for playing it :)
This was really fun, and I was stressed as hell! Reminded me a lot of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, except you don't need friends and it has a fun story!
Yeah, Keep Talking was one of our references, and we try to adapt it to a solo player game.
Thank you very much!
really innovative and fun game!
I liked the idea and the implementation!
really enjoyed the stress of a engineer scrub :D
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the feedback :
Wow, I really enjoyed this a lot! It felt a lot like an escape room puzzle, which was a lot of fun; it was satisfying to feel myself getting faster at resolving alerts the longer I played, even as the alerts got more complex. The narrative aspect was also a very nice touch.
Also, is there a way to save progress that I missed?
If I'm not wrong, the game is saving at the beginning of each day. If not... it's a bug, sorry :D
Thank you for your kind feedback! <3
a really, really good concept. text looked good on my laptop and only the flipping between screens were a bit annoying but I loved it, made 5 tasks in my first day, well done!
Thanks for playing! We wanted the answers to be difficult to remember and that the player has to come check several time the manual.
What did you find annoying, the fact that you had to go several times or to have to pass by the communication screen?
Thanks for your feedback :)
it's a great idea but as you said, going past comms screen was irritating. In ideal world it would all be in the same scene but maybe it zooms in on the area after clicking it? So like you have a main control panel with comms in the middle but instead of arrows have a miniature of the manual and controls which you than click to expand/pop up? It's only my humble opinion but I'd change that transition between scenes somehow, other than that it's great!
Yeah, I understand. We're gonna think about this and how to improve it. Thank you very much!
Good concept, would love to play it but the text is so small it's literally unreadable. Is there any way to make the game fullscreen? It launches in fullsreen mode with black bars and the game is a little box in the middle.
Hey, thank you for the kind feedback :). And yeah, there is a huge issue with the rescale, because the game is in 1280x720, and in fullscreen in HD (1920x1080), it would be x1.5, so the pixel won't be square anymore. So we made the choice to lock the rescale only for whole number (1280x720 => 2560x1440, etc...), and we realize the very last day that our game won't fit for the most common screen : 1920x1080.
So our first big thing to do with the post-jam version is to make it in 640x360, to make it rescalable in almost every resolution :) (1280, 1980, 2560, etc...)