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A jam submission

Foo HeppyView game page

Solve puzzles and learn an alien language to rescue a stranded colonist.
Submitted by Nathan Wiles (@NathanWiles13) — 8 hours, 55 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#184.0384.038
Game Design#973.6983.698
Fun#1243.5473.547
Theme#1833.6043.604
Overall#2413.2963.296
Graphics#4523.0573.057
Audio#7871.8301.830

Ranked from 53 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
The protagonist believes he's alone on an abandoned colony planet. He soon learns that he's wrong.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, with the exception of one attributed button sound effect.

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Submitted

What a great concept, i thoroughly enjoyed completing this

Submitted

Great game, good graphics. It holds you!

Submitted

I like the controls and graphics, although I think that you should maybe add sprint option because it feels like I'm really slow and it takes a lot of time to come from one side to the other. 

Submitted

Control is really smooth!!!

Submitted(+1)

Interesting idea, but I barely managed to understand a few words except for the numbers to complete the puzzle, and then I rescued the alien. Felt a bit strange as I thought the one I had to rescue was Hep. But then again I barely understood what she said.

Playing full screen made the UI a bit wonky since I couldn't click the X button and the game seemed to softlock. But outside of full screen it was okay.

I didn't hear any soundtrack outside of the button click, maybe some sounds when the alien spoke (just gibberish talk like in Banjo Kazooie or Animal Crossing).

The intro was nice, and the graphics albeit simple were easy to understand and cohese.

Overall, I liked the idea of discovering the alien language, just wish it was a bit more fleshed out.

Developer

Great feedback, thanks very much for your thoughts. I’m hoping to build off this idea to build something that makes better use of the full lexicon so that people end up beating the game with a more confident understanding of the words they learned.

Submitted

wow this is such a cool mechanic - the puzzles are really fun! i think some music would have been very atmospheric / being able to walk faster for longer distances, but i had a great time :)

Submitted

pretty cool game! I like the art style and the language puzzles

Submitted

Cool game! The language mechanic reminded me a bit of No Man's Sky. Movement/interactions felt great. Only thing I would've liked to have was a sprint button just to bump up my speed a bit when I had to go further distances. Fun puzzle/exploration combo though! Great work!

Submitted

It's very fun guessing the alien words and solving the puzzles using those guesses. The art art and animation was good. The only thing that was missing was some more audio / music. Great job!

Submitted

Think the overall concept of the game was both interesting and challenging. It was as if I was trying to solve a riddle/puzzle to understand what the aliens were talking about. The game would feel more complete with a nice BG music though!

Submitted

It´s a really nice game. I really liked the challenge. And imo the art style is great ^^. Just some music would be nice.

Submitted

First time I see that board with simple operations XD . It was very cool and fun to learn alien language and find out codes and understand other stuff. I think a good chill background music would be nice. Yes, I am the one who says that :) 

Submitted

Amazing! Figuring out the alien language was so fun, I wish there were more like this! It could be difficult at times but that only made it even more fun to crack in the end, amazing work!!

I’d appriciate it if you could check ours out too!

Creative and unique concept.

Submitted

Lovely game, interesting premise! It was a bit challenging until I got the hang of it, I didn't get all the words but I believe I got most of them right!

The character was a bit slow and I didn't hear any audio, I don't know if it was an issue on my end, but otherwise that was a great unique game! Good job!

Submitted

Loved it! I love languages in general so a game revolving around trying to understand an alien language was very fun! Yes the art is not the prettiest, but it has its charm.

I feel like the character could move a little faster though.

But overall I really liked your game, very unique, well done!

Submitted

What a unique game, I have never played anything like it! Im so impressed with the gameplay and the puzzles that challenge my maths skills (0 * 0 is 0 right? xD)

Submitted

Greeat game! The puzzles are very cleverly put together, and with perhaps some polishing on the introduction and maybe art, I would probably spend money for this game.

Submitted

Amazing game with a brilliant concept! It was quite confusing at first, but I solved puzzle. It has great potential and I wish to see the full version one day

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