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A jam submission

Sun EscapeView game page

GMTK 2021 Jam - A spatial fuel survival game where you must escape an exploding sun.
Submitted by Nidel, yuyuiopyuyu — 27 minutes, 30 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#11013.5003.500
Overall#18873.0633.063
Originality#22993.0423.042
Fun#24872.6462.646

Ranked from 48 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The rescue ship and the mothership are linked to face a growing sun. The rescue ship must fetch all the needed fuel tank with its energy ray. At any time the rescue ship can be pulled by the mothership by their only link, a tractor beam. Good luck.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Submitted(+1)

Really interesting! It makes you want to keep playing to find out what's next! I would only modify the spaceship's movement! Congratulations!

Submitted

The artwork and the visual effects of this game are pretty cool. I can tell it is very professionally made. The game mechanics are quite interesting too. However, the controls of the rescue ship are too hard to master, making the game a little bit difficult. But anyway, I really like this game. Nice job for a 48h work! Had a lot of fun!

Developer

Thank you for letting us know what you think! I'am glad you've liked it and I think we'll go and develop it a bit more in the coming weeks :)

Submitted(+1)

Cool game! It's nice to see a non-pixel-art game for a change! The visuals are really good and the music complements it.

I struggled a bit with the controls in the beginning and understand what it is I have to do. I suggest placing an easy fuel container very close to the mothership to show the player quickly what they have to do.

The game progresses really nicely and keeps looking better and better.

Congrats on submitting!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your answer! I appreciate. Some crucial steps are missing to give the right info.

As you said giving more clues about what's going out would be a thing. I wanted to have some camera movement with exploding planets then go to your ship to setup the "hurry up" feeling. But well.. you know :)

Submitted(+1)

The graphics are nice and the idea is interesting. However, the way of controlling the small ship was sooo unintuitive for me (or I encountered some errors)

Developer

Thank you ! What would be better controls in your opinion ? As we want to give some space vibes to the ship and keeping a certain idea of difficulty until you can feel that you've mastered it.

NB: I've to check your game, it's on my todo :D

Submitted(+1)

wow guys, loved this game it was a very interesting concept, I believe you can do something much bigger than this on the game, I would suggest you keep working on this one, I will come back to this one later, for now I managed to escape :D, the art was top notch, although I think trails are a little out of the thrusters but overall very good one :)

Developer

Thank you for the feedback :) We think we'll continue to update the concept further, we've got some ideas to test. But first I need to clean the messy code :D By the way, if anything rings your bell, feel free to drop a comment ! Have a nice day

Submitted (1 edit)

This is such a cool idea for a game, I haven't seen anything like it before! I guess you like space RTS games then!

Things I liked:

  • The overall scavenging nature of find some fuel and get out.
  • Without reading the instructions, I knew what was supposed to be a fuel tank just from the art alone, even though looking at it objectively, I'm not really sure how? Perhaps it's the fact it has the same graphics as the back of my ship? Maybe that it's glowing?
  • The artwork is great, it's cohesive and has a nice sci fi feel to it. 
  • The use of the theme, you're joined to your ship. It's loose but it works!
  • The ability to control your mothership is a nice touch.
  • The camera zooms out when you control the mothership which adds a surprising amount of depth.
  • The trails on your ship look great! (Although when you're not moving they look a little funny!).
  • Space debris is interactable, it's fun to crash into it to move it out the way
  • The warning when the sun gets too close

Suggestions:

  • The controls seem a little too spacey, I felt like I was on ice and didn't really have as much control over my ship as I would have liked. I wonder if mouse controls would have felt better? (ship flies towards mouse, click to pick up / interact). 
  • I wish the big fuel tanks gave more fuel
  • I would have liked to be able to steer the mothership, and with some kind of radar/indicator to locate where the transporter is, because right now it's just straight ahead!
  • A restart button for when you know you're dead! I have to refresh the page currently.
  • Make it run faster in a browser! For me it randomly had framerate issues. 
  • I would have liked to be able to turn around while being towed back to the ship. Towing is quite slow, but useful as a brake when you're flying really fast in the opposite direction (because it immediately kills your velocity), so while using it to brake, I would have liked to be able to turn around, and then once in the right direction, use the thrusters of my own ship.

Overall, I really enjoyed playing and I hope to see more! Will you be developing it further?

Developer

Thank you for the review, it's really constructive! I appreciate. You're right with the exploration it's something important we wanted to developp but we lacked of time for the demo. For the future of the project, we have to talk a bit my mate and I to figure a bigger picture so at the moment, why not :)

If any other idea or things that could pop into your mind or just something you might like, feel free to drop a msg !

Submitted(+1)

Nice game. The controls got a bit chaotic at times, but I presume it was a design choice to make it a bit harder. All in all it was pretty tense and the music only aplified that feeling. I was actually quite sad when it ended so soon, but welp that is the charm of gamejam games. Good job!

Developer

Yes we wanted to focus more on exploration at the beginning... but you know... time flies :D

Thank you for your feedback, controls should definetly be improved.

Submitted(+1)

I managed to escape :) The ships look great! It reminds me a little bit of an old game called Solar Jetman.

Developer

Congratulations and thank you for playing! I'll have a look on Solar Jetman :)

Submitted(+1)

Did you model everything during the jam? If so I will applaud you, because the models look amazing!

The controls are a bit weird and the game is short, but it was fun and it looked really good

Developer

Yup ! It's my mate yuyuiopyuyu who did them all, thank you for playing btw! :) We wanted to add some differents items to collect but time was a bit short.

Submitted(+1)

Cool concept that fits with the theme. Very cool graphics, the control is really confusing.  but it's okay, 

Submitted(+1)

I enjoyed the art style and the gameplay even though it was hard to control sometimes. Nice job!

Submitted(+1)

I absolutely just love the artstyle for this game! Although the controls can be a little difficult since the movement is made to mimic that of movement in zero-gravity, I think that kind of choice for movement adds a nice amount of nuance that allows for more depth and creativity in how you can control the rescue ship. Great job :D

Developer

Thank you for the lovely feedback :) 

Submitted(+1)

Nice little game) Cool models and graphics, really fits the atmosphere! Great execution of physics, feels like it should when there is no gravity, only exeption - sometimes that fuel cans start spinning menacingly)

Submitted(+1)

Really pretty game, the little ship feels great to control. There was one weird thing where the fuel canisters went out of axis and starting spinning around. A little slowdown while towing fuel would be worthwhile too, I think. The zoom out while piloting the mothership helped to reduce the amount of flying to find fuel.

Submitted(+1)

Cool concept that fits with the theme. I had a hard time controlling the ship and I would have liked to use WASD instead of the arrow keys but Overall it was fun. Good job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your feedback! I think it's something I won't redo :p I made the choice of the arrows for avoiding azerty/qwerty issues. But I would go for the default qwerty layout in hindsight.

Submitted(+1)

You can always have both controls available! Just make sure holding both W and up doesn't result in double speed!

Submitted(+1)

Very cool graphics, some bugs mess up the experience a bit but I had fun!

Submitted(+1)

I looove the concept !

Really fun to switch between both ships.

The game might need a little bit of polish but it's okay, congrats !

Very beautiful game, but the control is really confusing

(+1)

Very beautiful game, but the control is really confusing

Submitted(+1)

At some point, [E] to interact with mother ship stopped disappearing, even when it flew off with a small ship. Accordingly, he could not collect fuel, because he was just returning to base.

Developer

So sad, sorry for the inconvenience, that's the most annoying bug that still running :(

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