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A jam submission

AltairView game page

Welcome to the Altair, a modular spacecraft! | Made in 48 hours for the GMTK Game Jam 2021
Submitted by luwaidev (@luwaidev), Raphael Kwok — 1 hour, 26 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#4083.6673.667
Overall#6133.6373.637
Originality#8543.6443.644
Presentation#9553.6003.600

Ranked from 45 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 spacecraft is modular, and is joined together with other spacecraft modules.

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

This is a fun concept, I love how unwieldy all the spaceships look (kinda reminds me of the board game Galaxy Truckers in that way). I do wish is that it were more obvious what each of the blocks do, the help screen describes some of them but there are others that don't match anything on the help screen. Also the process of connecting a free floating piece to one's ship seems like it could use some ironing out. It was pretty common that a piece that appeared to be connected to multiple points on my ship would turn out to be just connected to one, or I would find it impossible to attach a piece to my ship, or a piece would attach diagonally (off-grid) to my ship.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! We encountered a lot of the issues regarding the ship connections and will definitely fix them after the jam!

Submitted

Nice! I look forward to playing it again!

Submitted (1 edit)

Nice game, I really enjoyed it!

Just a few comments:

1) Attaching new modules feels weird (I'm not sure why, sorry hah)

2) The warning signs are GREAT but sometimes they appear on the wrong position.

3) I had an enemy spawned behind some asteroid belt, so he was unable to chase me but he keep firing in my direction.

Overall is a great submission, congrats!

Developer(+1)

Thanks you, I really appreciate the feedback!

Submitted

Fun game with a decent amount of strategy! Docking new modules was a bit awkward though as it was too easy to punt them off into a corner. I definitely see potential in it!

Developer

Thanks so much!

Submitted

Really polished game! Very satisfying destroying the enemy's core module and watching all the other parts float about. Great job!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

Really cool idea, fun to play, but would definitely benefit from more polish on the interactions - specifically I found joining new parts especially tedious, sometimes repeatedly bumping into the pieces without managing to catch them.

Also in the end I ran into an enemy core I just couldn't kill - I shot everything around it down, but the core itself just wouldn't die :/

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback! We found that bug but we weren't able to fix it in time :(

Submitted

Cool idea, definitely lot of potential!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

It's a very fun game, lots of potentials.

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Great idea, great execution. really fun to play, and great music as well. I'll be adding this to the list of games to play when I am bored and need something to do.

Developer

Thanks! It's so awesome to see that you enjoyed the game!

Submitted

Reminds me of Captain Forever. Also I such in both. :)
Nicely done in such a short time!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

Very interesting concept with the power ups you get on the go by destroying the other ships and stealing their cannons. Good job, well done!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Great game. The take a spachipshooter but add the concept of taking your dead uponents parts is great. What could have been improved is more parts(which you might wanted but didnt have the time and that i understand)  and to improve how the parts connected.

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted

Amazing game! Hard but fun at the same time.

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

I'd love to see you turn this into a galaxy-hopping exploration game like "Heat Signature", the base mechanics are really fun and I can tell with a bit of polish they'll make for an intriguing full game. I had a hard time in the beginning with enemies running away, it'd be a nice quality of life change to have the first few ships you encounter have their engines pointed toward your ship so the difficulty curve is lessened a bit.

Developer

Thank you so much! I'm glad to see you enjoyed the game! 

Submitted

This is definitely one of the better games I've played in the jam so far! I absolutely love your interpretation of the theme, very original idea. It was confusing at first to figure out what was happening, and I didn't realize that you could pick up floating parts until much later in the game. Once I figured that out it was quite cool! Art style is a bit all of the place with the pixel sizes, but really great work for a 48 hour jam. :) It'd be cool to see this expanded upon!

Developer

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the feedback! 

Submitted

Nice mechanic and concept! Love the art style as well.

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

Good job! You have the beginnings of something cool here

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

This was so cool! I love how you can stack the pieces of other spaceships on yours, it makes for a great game. And the visuals are so pretty!

Developer

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted

Amazing base mechanic and brilliant sound design / music!

Developer

To be honest most of the music and the sound effects was pre-existing but thanks!

Submitted

Ok I really really like this game concept. I found it hard to connect the modules together, but the gameplay overall was very smooth and polished. The combat was pretty cool too. Awesome job!

Developer(+1)

Thanks!

Submitted

Really nice game nice graphics and interseting mechanics !

But I think it will be even more cool with a scoring system to have a goal ! ;)

Developer

Thanks, I'll definitely make sure to add a scoring system after!

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