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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visual/Audio Design | #2 | 4.818 | 4.818 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.691 | 3.691 |
| Polish | #9 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Fun | #9 | 3.545 | 3.545 |
| Innovation | #11 | 3.273 | 3.273 |
| Theme Interpretation | #40 | 2.818 | 2.818 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
What new engine or tool(s) did you use?
Godot 4
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Really loved the visuals in this project!
- Laura
I'm glad you did! :)
I absolutely loved the cutscenes, they where really cool and charming! The visuals throughout are also really great. I do feel like the game could have been a bit longer. Besides that, great game!
Thank you! As a part of the art team, that makes me really happy read it! It was totally worth the effort. We had planned a couple more levels (around 3 if I recall) but time got on our back and decided to cut them out of the jam version... but once we come back to the project to finish it as a full thing, we'll definitely be including them on the final game.
I like the Katamari Damacy vibes! Took me far too long to realize the ship grows bigger haha. Visuals and story-telling are on point! Good humor and cohesive style. My biggest gripe is not being able to skip the intro every time you restart the game. But I had fun and live streamed it if you want to see my reaction. Nice submission!
Katamari Damacy was one of our main inspirations for the game! I'm glad it reminds you of it :)
We'll work on skipping the cutscene. There's a post on the game's page written by the programmer about a bug that prevented us from implementing the intro skip properly.
I'll go watch your stream right now! Thank you so much for your positive review!
Edit: I already watched it! Tysm again for trying it out. I'm sad you didn't reach the city level, you definitely would have loved it. (We even have a flying cow around the city!) You can absorb basically everything you see on screen so try to absorb everything you see, if you ever play again! :D
I love the artstyle of the game, and the animated intro and outro!
initially, I thought that the aim was to pick up specifically the items stated in the list. But after I was able to pick up the other objects along the way, I really enjoyed the gameplay loop, it kind of reminds me of Tasty Planet (a childhood favorite of mine)!
Thank you! I'm really glad people like the artstyle, we worked really hard to make it look the best as we could! I've never played Tasty Planet, but I'm happy to read it reminds you of one of your favourite childhood games. Thanks for the review, again! :D
That game looks awesome and the intro is epic (even when i wished it could be skipped, after watching it the 5th time^^)... actually ways too good for a jam game :-D
Unfortunately the gameplay (or at least the task) is a bit unclear. Played now ca. 5-10 times, and was trying to scan the whole map. My highscore is 70, but i actually just found the cow (but that one seems not even on the Todo list? ) and some plants...but maybe I'm just too blind to find the correct stuff^^
All in all a great game. Congrats to the whole team for a really cool entry!
P.S.:
Had no problems with crashes, everything runs smooth and looks cute :-)
Hey! Thank you so much for the kind words 💙 The main mission on the farm level is absorbing the barn! It even triggers a text the other objects don't have, and once you absorb it you can level up your ship and go to the next level. The cow is on the level too, the name of the mission is "moove out of the way!" (Bad pun with moo)
You are gonna have a blast there! I'm glad you didn't encounter any bug. Thanks again for your review!
oh lol, didn't get that pun 🙈
The design is super cute and love the gameplay loop! Feels very satisfying to keep picking up larger and larger objects. Unfortunately my game keeps getting stuck on a loading screen after the second level :( However from what I did play, great work !!, ill extrapolate for the rating
Thank you so much! Gahh I'm so sorry that happened to you! There was even a The Office reference somewhere in the final cutscene T-T
I'll let the programmer know ASAP! Thank you so much for trying the game out.
Edit: Turns out the hotfix messed up some stuff! We'll try to revert those changes back. Tysm for your patience and your feedback!
Very sorry to hear that you couldn't progress past level 2. We just released a new update with a fix for that.
I love the design and the music!!
Hello! I am the programmer for the game, and we are aware of some crashes on the first startup of the game. If you're affected by this, sorry! But good news: I am working on a fix. And hopefully everyone can try our game bug-free!
Workarounds:
A workaround is to try it again and prevent any input while it's loading.
This game looks sooooo good, but after clicking Start and a few seconds of loading, it crashes!
There's nothing in my logs but:
Godot Engine v4.1.2.stable.official.399c9dc39 - https://godotengine.org
OpenGL API 3.3.0 NVIDIA 536.99 - Compatibility - Using Device: NVIDIA - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
Hey there! Thank you so much for wanting to try our game. We are aware there's a problem with Godot's VideoStreamPlayer that causes random crashes when switching scenes, and that may be the source of the problem.
Try clicking start a few times, and if it doesn't do the trick, redownloading the game should fix it.
It's an engine bug that sadly, is yet to be fixed (https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/78788); in the meantime we can do nothing but try a workaround and wait.
We hope you can play the game soon! :) When testing the final game, none of the people who played had this issue, but we'll look into it regardless.
What a shame, I hope that bug get fixed soon. But finally, it worked at the third try! As expected, stunning visuals and cinematics. It remind me a lot to Donut County. The game lagged a little bit during the gameplay (FPS dropped to ~10 during a few seconds) but I could play the whole thing. Good job! :)
I'm glad you could play it! We'll work on polishing the game in future updates. Tysm!
The game crashes on startup for me :( love the design though, looks super polished!!
Edit: it worked on my 3rd try! It's really satisfying watching the ship grow as we suck in more things
Heya! I'm glad you like it, thanks for playing! If you can, please send us the crash report so we can look into it! It should be located in %appdata%/AlienExpress/log. Thanks again :)