This is a game I would have loved to make. Awesome job! 

Hello Sebastian,

Thank you for sharing source code with us. I am a fairly new developer so it is great to examine other good developers code styles. When I download and open it in Unity, meshes are missing. There is a prefab problem i think ? How can I manage to work this out ? Could you please help me ?

This is a great game with an excellent interpretation of the original comic. That simple little terminal was brilliant! I really love programming in games, this one brought back memories of writing turtle programs in MS Logo at school. It also had great graphics and sound, the rover model was amazing and little touches like the motion of the sun at the beginning made the whole experience so polished. Definitely the most polished and complete game of the jam.

I only found two issues: the way the player is sent back to the start every time the code is re-run and the lack of deterministic physics making certain moves unreliable. The first could be solved with some sort of simple rewind mechanic but the second is harder to fix in the time allotment of a game jam. However, it might be possible to write some simple deterministic physics since the rover basically moves in 2D across a height map. Neither of these issues are critical though.

I also want to say that I used your RPG character tutorial to model, rig and animate the bird in my entry so I want to thank you for making such a great set of tutorials! Without them I wouldn't have been able to make any 3D models at all.

I had a lot of fun playing your game well done. The polish makes the slow pace feel good, instead of boring.

2 things I would like to say:

First: Did I get the record  if I did it in 7 steps? A leader board would have been really good.

Second: Just mentioning it if you didnt notice, the little robot is moving a little different everytime.

Man, that comic is sad. :,( Let's see how you interpret it in your game.

It slightly deviates from the heart of the comic, and focuses more on the opening panels than anything, this game is really good!  The idea of executing commands to control the robot is solid and well-implemented, the 3d space is gorgeous and fully realized, the graphics and colors are simple but effective, and the music is melancholy but beautiful.  I love seeing the things the Spirit Rover thinks throughout the game, and their movement is pretty satisfying as well.  

My main complaint is the level of challenge in this game, which is partially because of how the game itself is framed--hear me out.  At the start of the game, you simply present us with the controls and a goal, and leave us to it.  Because of this, I overused accelerate, left, and right, trying out wait and break once in a while but not much.  Eventually I gave up on the level when I kept failing a turn and looked at the walkthrough, where I noticed the skilled use of wait and brake.  If there had been a tutorial (or heck, maybe even a video) modeling things like wait and brake, I might've actually used it more, but I felt no reason to use it with the information presented to me, nor did I really feel the need to experiment with it (since the game didn't really give me room to do so, because of the level design--it's a tight space).

I understand this is my subjective opinion, but I truly feel that this is a flaw in the game. There no real room or space for the player to experiment with the commands, nor are the commands modeled before the game starts, which made Spirit Rover more challenging than it needed to be.

And it really is a fun, decent challenge, with some interesting tools to utilize to get Spirit to the end.  But if I had been more familiar to those tools, I could have had a lot more fun with it.

Even so, I found this game beautiful, funny, and a nicely challenging.  Thanks for making it. :)

This looks stellar.  One thing I'm not sure of though, is that the delete and backspace keys don't work for me. So its kind of hard to go back to make corrections to the commands, or am I missing something? Played the web version.

Cool idea and very polished! Reminded me of human resource machine! 

Anyway one thing I do want to mention is I'm doing a review of design on the games in this jam so here's a shameless plug to my channel if you want to be notified of the vid when released: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Vj46GGL9VMUvd4YTMtjXg

Love it. It has a very peaceful atmosphere and great visuals making for a nice challenging game that is very relaxing to play and easy to pick up.  Great job man!

Very cool concept. Reminds of games like Quadrilateral Cowboy, just in a much slower sense. It is slow, but hey - that's what you expect on a mission to mars. Good work! The visuals, sound, and game play are a solid aesthetic, I can't recommend any improvements as this is 100% solid experience all around. Nice. 

Also I knew I knew your name from Youtube! It was really cool for you do the cross-over with Brackeys. (I'm not rating high because of that - it was a good game without my bias)