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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #1889 | 3.062 | 3.750 |
| Fun | #2298 | 2.722 | 3.333 |
| Overall | #2438 | 2.835 | 3.472 |
| Originality | #2984 | 2.722 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 12 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?
You join together objects to make bigger objects and use that bigger object as a projectile
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?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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Fun mechanics! Moving around quickly and smoothly. One strategy I found, I liked building up trash pieces to big amounts as backups if I couldn't plug up a 1m or 2m black hole or find enough pieces to plug it up in time. I'd suggest moving the Black Hole Collapse Timer to the left / near the Hyperspace Requirement increment. That way, I'd only have to look in one spot to have both information. I had been ready to plug a 8m hole with a 10m pile, but then I lost on time.
Other things I noticed: Jumping on the platforms was a bit wonky. couldn't always get up the next step easily. Had to step back a bit and focus on jumping, which lost me some time.
Also, it's not super intuitive that when you are holding a yellow junk pile, you can't combine objects to it. I was able to pull objects towards me, but it would not stick to the pile.
*Possibly, you could color it red as you try to pull to indicate that it cannot be combined? Or, make it so it does combine.
In the beginning rounds, 1-10, it felt a bit easy as I was able to easily plug up 1m black holes. So I spent my time collecting trash to build up multiple yellow hyperspace piles. However, I did notice the difficulty later as it the blackholes were increasing faster.
Maybe new levels / some better movement / different types of black holes / key objects may make a hyperspace behave differently?
Really fun game! I really enjoyed it!
Gameplay works and I got up to round 17. No performance issues, but maybe I missed something in controls. Didn’t understand when yellow trash is pickable or not or when it can be combined or not. Gravity gun worked otherwise as expected.
Thanks for the review! A lot of the player feedback was unfortunately under developed because of time constraints 😅
Cool game. I love the concept of plugging a black hole with a bunch of random space junk. I would have liked to see a more complex level to make the collection of junk more interesting and encourage you to use different mechanics aside from just walking around. That said, by about 10 rounds in, the pace picked up and it started feeling fun!
No disagreement here! If only there was more time 😭
Good job with what you've all made in it!
The gameplay loop feels like it needs to be readjusted, you all clearly have the skills otherwise in your respective fields. Adjusting the gameplay a bit, and the game will be great!