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Trijam #121: The 3 hour game jam

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A jam submission

Through The ChronobeltView game page

Manipulate Temporal Leylines to guide your Space Colonists to safety!
Submitted by Coffeepot (@CoffeepotCoder) — 3 hours, 32 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#74.0914.091
How well does the game fit the themes?#114.0914.091
Gameplay#133.4553.455
Overall#133.5763.576
Audio#153.4553.455
How much do you enjoy the game overall?#163.1823.182
Did you make it in 3 hours (put 5 by default)#293.1823.182

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How long was your dev time?
2 days of brainstorming, 3 hours of meaningful development, and 5 hours of debugging!

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JafCrazeSubmitted2 years ago

I can tell a lot of thought went into this (at least 2 days worth!)

Suggestions:

  • Shrink as well as fade ships when they reach the planet so it looks like they're landing/descending
  • Option to invert scroll (took me a while to get used to it)
  • Alternative controls:
    • Hold and drag the temporal ley lines
    • Arrow keys: Up/Down to manipulate, Left/Right to select temporal ley line
    • My mouse wheel isn't 100% reliable and I don't want to jeopardise the colonists because of a faulty mouse

Great concept and execution overall!

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Sliced Spacetime
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CoffeepotDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Heyyo, I appreciate the feedback! Those are some great suggestions. I've written them all down on my project-board for a post-jam update!

When all you have is 3 hours, planning and researching ideal APIs is key, but no amount of planning could protect me from all those bugs xD
So I'm thrilled to hear you enjoyed it; thanks for playing! :D

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KirbynatorSubmitted2 years ago

Commander Mode is "Some of you are going to die, and Im okay with that". Nice work on the game! 

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Subspace Subway
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CoffeepotDeveloper2 years ago

This is painfully true, but in the pursuit of galactic human colonization, sacrifices must be made!

Thanks for taking the time to give it a whirl, and I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! :D

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Martin CiriceSubmitted2 years ago

That's a nice and polished submission! Well done! The game is hard for my little brain tho

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Spaceshift
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CoffeepotDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

No worries there; it was hard on my brain putting it together, and even I can't wrap my head around Captain difficulty!

Thanks for stopping by to give it a whirl! Glad to hear you liked it :D

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Quadratic GamesSubmitted2 years ago

Okay so my hiscore is 22/50 :) I went with the strategy of focusing on one shipline at a time and slowing the others down... Surprisingly I found the scroll direction (on the rinngs) counterintuitive :( Probably because when one scrolls a webpage or whatewer, with scroll-wheel rotating up, the content on the page moves down.

Anyway, pretty nice submission.

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Planetary Timeloop
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CoffeepotDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Hey there, that's some great feedback! I can see how that might be somewhat of a deviation from player expectation, but I suspect it could be easily be remedied with an "invert scroll-wheel" checkbox. I appreciate your thoughts :]

Glad you liked it, and 22/50 ain't bad at all considering Commander level is basically impossible, so well done!
Thanks for playing! :D

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