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Theme interpretation
A satellite in orbit is failing and losing its connection. It's your goal to retrieve what data you can before you lose the connection completely
Players Notice
The game is entirely text-based and played in a terminal
Development Software
Godot and Aseprite
Accessibility
Tried my best to make the help commands descriptive and simple enough that even someone with no experience in a terminal could operate the game
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I really like the style of the terminal! The typing is satisfying too along with the sound effects. I think more quality of life would benefit the game a lot. It takes a really long time for all the text to finish typing, and while stuff is typing out, you are unable to scroll. This really hurts the pacing of the game in my opinion, as it slows you down. It would also be nice to be able to scroll with your mouse cursor, rather than only being able to scroll one line at a time using the arrow keys. Other than that, it was a fun and unique game! Well done with the entry!
Cool style and sounds! I like the retro style and feel of the game. I won't delve into the gameplay itself because I lack the skill to not lose in a blink of an eye.
cool interface, a bit hard to understand for me but I like the style and how the sound feels like an old machine
Very interesting, it's the first time I try a terminal management game. I did not manage to retrieve the data, it was too hard for me ^^'
edit : I managed to get to 93 percent after multiples tries, I'm wondering if checking status too often is not drying off the battery ?
cool interface XD
I like the typing and text shown sound
the objective is clear and fun to try around to manage the system XD
Wow this is hard. Finally got a successful run after a few tries. I am normally not too into text-based games, but I enjoy this quite a lot! I like that tense nature of the game with real-time "gameplay" going in the background, which I think is quite unique for text-based games. My winning round left me with around 3% battery left with dangerously high temperature, it's a super close call, but I guess this is where the enjoyment came from. The ending message is cryptic, but it brings a nice tone to the game, so I am not complaining. The game doesn't tell you too much about the inner workings and does require a bit of guesswork, which may be a hit or miss, depending on the person you ask, but it landed well with me. Well done!
For some criticism, I'd say there are way too many texts waiting to be typed, and it gets a bit anxious at times. Especially the help menu, where I don't think you could ever win a round with that open once. I ended up memorising the whole instruction set in order to just get a chance at winning, which I don't know if it's a good thing or not. Maybe a post-it note somewhere on screen or something? I would also guess the message after you called "align" instruction is incorrect, where every time I see "signal improved", the signal is actually worsened. This took me a few tries to realise, and it felt a bit unfair if it's intended.
Anyway, in general, this is a nice and innovative entry, and I like it very much! Well done!
A simple terminal simulation text based game, it's an interesting entry.
Visuals:
Obviously the game is text-based so there isn't much going on, but despite that the game feels good to look at and the UI is nicely made.
Audio:
The clicking sounds satisfying, but i wish there was more going on audio-wise.
Gameplay:
The game is pretty difficult to graps, it would help to be able to use the help command before starting because i just found myself restarting over and over trying to read the help instructions. I ended up unsure of what i was supposed to do with the ALIGN command.
Overall:
Pretty interesting and well executed entry. Wish i could turn down game volume down in game. Overall a pretty solid entry. Good job!