Nice graphics, fun game. I included it in my GMTK Game Jam 2019 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)
Play game
The NOVA Project's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Design | #873 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
Adherence to the Theme | #1041 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Overall | #1062 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
Originality | #1185 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
This was really neat and cool! Gotta love an unconventional use of an engine like RPG Maker. The game's blend of platforming/flight with one minute/hour time limits is something really interesting - a thought I had would be, could you make battles have to be completed in 1 minute or else you start taking more damage or something (as well as making battles factor into the 1 hour time limit overall)? That could be cool.
I really like the art and your black/white with hints of colour, it's really good and super stylistic.
I do have a couple bits that I think could be improved:
Sound design - more ambience/sounds outside the beeps and boops of UI buttons would be nice and would further sell the theming of your game. Perhaps calming/elevator music in the bits where you have infinite air to signal that you can relax a bit, whereas it could be more tense ambience in 1 minute air segments. But yeah, this game would benefit from a lot more sounds, chiptune and synthesized audio bytes and tracks would work spectacularly :)
Clarity - making it more clear where I can fly and where I can't, it was a bit confusing and having a 1 minute time limit added to the stress a bit.
More dialogue - I'm interested by this story! Please don't limit yourself in telling an interesting story by the 1 minute and 1 hour limits, as you can only show so much to the player in those times - perhaps dialogue could pause time, taking place in some kind of codec that all happens in a single second? That way you can really expand the story and what you can do in it - however you'll need to consider how cutscenes with moving characters would work.
More content - PLEASE FINISH THIS GAME! I REALLY WANT TO PLAY THE WHOLE THING. PLEASE FINISH IT, IS THERE ANY PLACE I CAN FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS ON FINISHING IT? (Or if you need help with anything in the course of development, I hope that I could help out in any way?)
Good entry!
This was neat! I like the idea of blending a platformer with an RPG. I feel like there could be a bit more direction given in the level design; keep working on it!
Cool idea! with some more polish could be great. I liked the pokemon like effects during the fight encounters! Good job~ please check out my game if you have time.
Nice job making a kind of platformer out from RPG Maker! It was pretty unique, and I'm sure you could have achieved a really creepy-lonely-stressful ambience just by adding the right sound track.
Good job: you should defintely continue this if you have enough time and motivation.
I enjoyed what I played and would be happy to see a completed version of. The main thing stopping me from getting completely into the game was that I was confused. I wasn't really sure when I could fly and when I was grounded, I wasn't really sure where to go, and I wasn't really sure what the controls where. The latter could be fixed right now by adding a paragraph to your game's page! As for the former two, I think changing the backgrounds where you can fly to be more obvious or having a visual cue on the player would help. I'm sure when you work on this more, there'll be NPCs to talk to (and maybe a map?) that'll give some more direction.
Please keep working on this! As I said above, I would love to see a complete version!
Leave a comment
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.