Congrats on the submission 👏

I really really love this concept, I think it is super cool, and I think the aesthetic and soundscape is perfect. Like others, I struggled with the movement and hacking (it sounded like I was moving / turning while I was hacking?). I also couldn't quite remember the tones for the different directions, so I wonder if there is a different kind of sound you could do for the different directions  (or maybe I need headphones that distinguish front and back better 😅).

Thank you again for building and sharing this for the jam!

I really like the idea of the game but I must say that I quit it early.
I couldn't figure out where I was in the room, even after changing to headphones with spacial audio. I made a similar mistake(?) like Patricia. On my first attempt I found the beacon immediatly, then I changed to headphones after struggeling to find the robot for 5 mins. Next try I stepped two steps to the left - and had to search for the beacon for 2 mins or so. Stepping 2 times back didn't seem to work, so either the tutorial placed it somewhere else than the first time or I was simply unable to get an idea of the room. 
I was extra confused when I read something about 90 degree direction changes - I thought it was simply moving up or down in a top down style. I suspected it to be a labyrith, but when I crushed into a wall I could walk 3 or 4 steps further before crushing into another. So I thought I can tear walks down, but I am not sure anymore... 

Also I had issues with the Simon says riddle. The sounds were only played once during explanations followed by a very fast list of keys. When I pressed a key while hacking it only played the sound of the first key I pressed and none else. Instead the "bumb"-sound played again and again as if my charakter is running around while I hacked. 

I think what would have helped me is: 

• getting feedback what my movement does (am I walking to the right or am I changing direction of view as well, which indicates that I have to rotate my mental map)
• getting feedback on the wall-bumbs. I guess that the sound snipped only played every three or four times I hit a wall even though I still stand in the same spot?
• getting feedback on the directional keys during the hacking. shiftBacktick mentioned something about rhythm - I had not the impression that rhythm mattered although what I did was certainly not what the game wanted. But I couldn't find the right keys as there was no sound feedback as well so I guess I probably failed both.

I would really love to see a better expalined version of it as I feel that is has a lot of potential and might be very fun!!

Ok, I was able to download it today. I wonder why I wasn’t able to do it before.

1. The controller inputs aren’t working - not the A button to start, nor the D-pad to walk around.

2. I can’t hear my steps when walking. I also did a big mistake of walking a couple steps to the right before trying to find the beacon, and now I feel a bit lost. I also don’t know if I ever bump into a wall. I also am not sure whether this is a top-down or first-person perspective, which I must say my game also doesn’t explain, but I think is a cons of both. Absolutely lost after doing this detour; I am wondering if that’s because I’m sighted and untrained on audio.

I will continue to play later. Cheers!

Edit - Part 2:

I’m not sure if that’s me, but I’m having trouble navigating the spaces. I destroyed the first creature, and got to level “2”, but here I just kept bumping into walls and as I tried to follow the sound, I couldn’t really find the creature. I had to abort mission, as I’m feeling mostly lost.

I can also say I felt a bit confused about the mini-game mechanic. I appreciate that you were quick to explain and it wasn’t an overly long tutorial, but I think it also wasn’t explicit enough as I didn’t quite understand what was happening. Did the music make the monster more vulnerable? Was that a code I inputted on his electrical padding? I don’t think so because you mentioned this is about cardinal directions. I think it happened a bit fast. I just copied the sounds you asked me to make - down, left, right, up, and that was good because you taught me it; but I guess it could be fun if I also got to memorize the sounds, maybe if they also played to my left, right, and down and up in front of me? Or in some way like this. Well, I am sorry I couldn’t proceed much far into it.

I can’t download this, for some reason. Clicking on download has nothing happen.

Nice submission!

The overall presentation is ear candy, from the opening titles, to all the vocal effects and finer audio details that immersed me.

I had to restart this a few times, because it wasn’t recognizing the arrow keys when my Xbox controller was plugged in on Windows 10. Once moving around, I had difficulty with localizing some sounds and determining whether they were behind me—a little lowpass filtering or gain attenuation can go a long way, and I think you could enable full movement if you further refined the directionality, like with other parameter changes or introducing more layers of sounds!

I personally wished the hacking minigame was more of a memory game than a rhythm game—if nailing the timings is part of the intended difficulty, then you may consider an accessibility setting that makes them more lenient.

The Mac version tells me:

“Project Softspace v1” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

This was fun. A few notes:

I think the game is held back slightly by only allowing you to turn in what seems to be 90 degree increments. I often had to wiggle around and move back and forth to shoot an entity properly. Maybe having additional keys, like q and e, for more fine control there might be nice.

I sometimes felt like the environment reverb/echos were a little bit loud and made spatial information harder to track.

But the sounds were excellent in my opinion, and it was a fun time overall.