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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Community Spirit | #2 | 4.296 | 4.296 |
| Originality | #60 | 3.741 | 3.741 |
| Overall | #63 | 3.463 | 3.463 |
| Use Of Theme | #67 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Fun | #105 | 2.370 | 2.370 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team or Solo
Solo
Credit:
I got the font from http://www.pixelsagas.com
Did you follow the theme?
Yes. You use a ship to heat and cool planets to a specified temperature.
Did you (you or your team) do the graphisms yourself?
Yes. Sorry they aren't that great.
Did you (you or your team) do the musics and sounds yourself?
Yes. Sorry it's not the best.
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Hah, seems like we had similar ideas! I love the concept of having to heat or cool planets to the right temperatures, and it seems like it has a lot of potential too. The different planet types I liked especially, since they added a nice bit of variation to the game. Something more to do would've been nice though - collectables, something to dodge, managing different planets at once - since right now the game feels a bit simple. A bit more feedback when heating or cooling the planets would be nice as well, even if it's just changing the colour of them to red or blue. Making the target temperature more clear might've been good as well, but not having any consequences for going the wrong way helped with that - it was nice and forgiving.
The art was good, particularly Big Eddy's sprite - what a character! The way the ship changed colour, and how the sound effects changed, with the different rays added some good variation to the game. The firing sound did get loud when holding it down, though. Maybe it could be a looping sound, instead of multiple ones being played over each other?
Overall, it was a fun little game, and there's a lot you can do with it in future, great work! Oh, and my final score was $424345 - maybe that's cause it didn't reset on multiple playthroughs, though :P
Thank you for playing and for the feedback! I have some things in mind to add to the game after the jam's fully done and one of the ideas I have since implemented in another game I'm in the process of making for another jam...a timer!
good game concept. I really hope that we can overheat or overcool the planets.
you can add screams for over heating and some other sound for over cooling
Nice Character Art.
Thank you for playing and for sharing ideas. I'm planning on working more on this game after the jam's fully done. I have some ideas I'm thinking about already. Thank you very much for the words about my art too, it means a lot.
Great game! Liked the character a lot, and the game concept sure has a lot of potential. I wish we could ask for Big Eddy service's to fix our global warming issue xD
Thanks for the kind words and for playing the game! I'm planning on developing the game further after the jam ^_^
I like Big Eddy's character a lot, I'd love to see a whole cast of characters to match! I liked the rotating planets too, they look cool.
Thank you! I need to confess that the planets were the only 3d objects in the game and have a 2d circle collider. The skins were just drawn by me as 2d images and used as a material. They even have their own names, I just only shared one of the names (the only one not named after a Celtic deity).
That's cool! I figured that's what was going on under the hood, all that matters is the final effect right? :)
Very minimalist haha. Definitely interested in a lore that expands upon the reason why a dog is in charge of planets' climates. Do let me know if expanded upon.
I'm planning on developing the game more after the jam's over and adding more stuff. I'll let you know, if I can, when that happens.
neat little game simple and easy to figure out. You did a good job on the art and music even though you say it wasn't that great they fir the game nicely. The rest seems to be already said by other since I was late to the party.
But good job on your first time using animator :)
Thanks you very much! I'm planning on developing it more after the jam. The animator took me more time to figure out than I'm proud to admit and my job also slightly limited the amount of time I was able to work on the game.
I love the premise of the story XD and the art was super duper cute XD. The only issue I had was the mechanics. It felt there could be more done to it. I hope you make an extended version of this XD
Thank you very much for playing my game and for the compliments. Art's not really my string suit but I want to get better at it so it means a lot that someone called the art cute. I am planning on continuing work on this game once the jam is all over and adding new parts to it and challenge. A good chink of the time for the jam was me learning the animator and fixing bugs as I worked.I am looking forward to making this a bigger project than just a game jam game.
Tell me when the extended version will be and I will play it right away
Thanks I'll keep you in the loop if I can.
The core concept of this game is great! Big eddy's character is amazing. I can see a lot of routes where you can take this idea. You can have planet defenses trying to kill you and messing with the temperature of the planets, change your blaster so it switches cooling for heating and vice versa. Starting off with a simple weak ship and using your money for upgrades so you can go on harder planets! Maybe go on a darker path and mess with the temperature of other planets. With a good core concept like this game, the potential is incredible! Good Job!
Thank you very much for the kind words and suggestions. I'm gonna keep working on the game after the jam's all over and have some ideas and mechanics I want to implement but it might take a bit. Thank you very much for playing my game!
Very original game concept, great use of the theme! I loved the characters and animations on the planets. I'd love to see a few more game mechanics added. Well done!
I'm planning on working on the game more when the jam's fully over and adding in more mechanics as well as some things to make the game a bit more challenging.
Now the thing about this game is that it poses a very interesting ethical conundrum: it's clear that from Big Eddy's speech at the beginning that people live on these planets, and what they think about their planet's temperature being changed by hundreds of degrees doesn't matter.
In addition, you have a beam which can both heat up and cool down a planet by hundreds of degrees in a matter of minutes - a massive amount of energy, comparable to a small star! You're telling me it can also suck away heat??
Now the big questions - who is Big Eddy? Why is he so big? Why does he want these planets cooled/heated? Where did he even get this super powerful ship from, and why does he need you to pilot it? Why doesn't anyone defend themselves? Is Big Eddy really an evil dictator teaching subjugated worlds a lesson? Is he referring to "customers" in the sense of people to be served a fiery/icy hell, or is he really a subcontractor under some other far more nefarious super-being?
And the biggest question: Would you kill millions for a quick buck? It's an easy enough job. Just push the right button for long enough, and you get swished to your next task.
Evidently, yes. Yes I would. If you did too, well, you have a lot to think about.
I don't know what you want me to say, Big Eddy's just your average anthropomorphic bull dog that runs a discount Planet Heating and cooling business. Sure, you could go to Paddz Plus Planet Emporium but then you'd need to pay twice as much and sure, their employment package may include clone tier life insurance but Big Eddy's.....um....we have a really sweet water cooler.
I wish it had more things to do, catchy tune!
Thank you. I'm planning on continuing the game's development after the jam's fully over and adding more to do in it as well as more challenge. The music was just something I quickly put together in 1BitDragon and the sound effects were made through rytmik. Thank you very much for playing.
I really enjoyed working for Big Eddy! Nice job on the dialogue writing :) As others have said, it would be nice if it was a bit more challenging. I also noticed that if you play the game again after you've completed it, the money doesn't get reset so you can potentially rip millions off of Big Eddy!
Thank you very much for playing. I didn't know about that bug. if must've just been something that I didn't pay attention to when I decided to do a static class instead of a singleton method to keep track of the score. I'm planning on continuing to work on this game after the game jam's over and am working on adding challenge to the game. Thank you for the compliment on the dialogue, I was just wanting him to sound like a particular type of boss (I think we all know the one, even if just from shows).
Nice work! But I wish it was more challenging. Big eddy was really fun character. I would be interested to play it again if you decide to continue developing it.
I am gonna continue developing the game. I'm working on ways to add challenge to the game and more things to it in general. I'll have to only be able to work on it when I can though because it's getting close to when I'll have to be back in Colorado to be in my first official play and I don't know if I'll be able to work on it the few months I'm there for the play. If I will be able to, it won't be as often as I'd like but rest assured, I'll be working on it.
I love Big Eddy up in the top left corner making sure I don't *screw this up* like the *last guy.* XD Do you make more money for being faster?
Eeyup. Though, currently, there's only so much you can make ^^'
Big Eddy is a fun character! The art is a little rough, but that honestly just adds character to the game (in a good way!). To improve gameplay maybe you could prevent the level from ending the instant you hit the exact temperature goal. Instead allow players to under/overshoot the temperature so they will have to adjust it in the other direction to get it right, forcing them to be more careful. Good job!
Thank you very much! The art's rough because, honestly, art really isn't my strongsuit ^^' I'm happy with how he turned out though. I'm actually working on some stuff for after the jam's completely over to put in the game. Thank you very much for playing the game and for your feedback, it means a lot.
Only just started, but I already know exactly what Big Eddy sounds like.
Okay done now, as I a few others said it was a bit easy. However, I love the idea of Big Eddy dragging the player around doing odd job work everywhere.
Thanks for playing. Sorry that is was a bit easy, I'm gonna be working on the game after the jam's fully over. I might even use Eddy as a recurring character in games. Thank you very much for playing and the kind words :)
Interesting concept for the jam. Good work on the animations and some good comical writing. I do wish the game was a little more interactive though, or that there was more to do. But I definitely think you should be proud of the game!
Thank you very much! I'm planning on working on the game more after the jam fully comes to an end. I have some ideas though.
i like big eddy :)
Thank you. I'm kinda proud of him ^^'
Love the character of the game, great vibes. Definitely could use variety in gameplay, I think a thing you could do really simply is add multiple planets to a scene to manage side by side. Nice job!
Thank you very much. I'll definitely look into that. I'd need to be adding the ability for the player to move the ship but that's a simple enough thing to do and it's something I've done before. I guess having something, like orbiting moons could be another challenge. I do plan on developing this more after the jam.
Sweet! Excited to see it.
You could probably use the raycast from camera trick to make mouseclicks work across the screen. Have planets orbit or something with monitors on each that people have to click :)
Those are good ideas. Thank you very much for them! I've done a game before where a sprite always follows your mouse. It was a block breaker game where the paddle followed the horizontal movements of your mouse. It's not on here, however ^^' Making the mouse clicks work no matter where your mouse is is easy enough with a simple GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0)/GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse1) and such which monitor the clicks and such. If you meant something else, sorry, i didn't understand what you meant.
For sure! I don't think GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0) returns the position of the mouse though, you need to use something like Input.MousePosition with Camera.ScreenPointToRay and Physics.Raycast to get information from the scene. Let's you get information from the objects you click on :)
If you look for the mouse position you also wanna clamp it,
I like this game and Big Eddy. I think you could take this idea and run with it. Make a space age job simulator.
That's partially the plan. I'm planning on developing this more after the jam's fully done. Who knows? I might make more "job" games in the space age besides this.