Away from Home by pirate-rob
Hello!
This was a fun game to make and I'm glad that I joined this competition. I had plenty of fun designing planets to explore and strange traps and hidden resources. The hardest part of making this game was the shrinking menu system, it kept on having bugs non stop.
This game is kind of split into two parts.
1. You have to collect coal and machine parts in order to fly home and win the game.
2. If you don't fly home you can shrink the worlds so that they are tiny. You can also change their climate and gravity. and you can plant and harvest plants.
Press F1 for more info on the shrinking system and on the game in general.
Thanks goes to:
Lumberjack_Liam for Ideas and support.
Missjaykay for support and testing.
Lava_laura for the hot chocolate.
Ysmor the wise for suggestions and testing.
Titou for ideas, bug spotting and testing.
*Spoiler!: for those of you who want to find all four parts but can't find the last, here are the locations: Second planet in Alpha, Beta, Third planet in Gamma, Last planet in Omega.*
This was a fun game to make and I'm glad that I joined this competition. I had plenty of fun designing planets to explore and strange traps and hidden resources. The hardest part of making this game was the shrinking menu system, it kept on having bugs non stop.
This game is kind of split into two parts.
1. You have to collect coal and machine parts in order to fly home and win the game.
2. If you don't fly home you can shrink the worlds so that they are tiny. You can also change their climate and gravity. and you can plant and harvest plants.
Press F1 for more info on the shrinking system and on the game in general.
Thanks goes to:
Lumberjack_Liam for Ideas and support.
Missjaykay for support and testing.
Lava_laura for the hot chocolate.
Ysmor the wise for suggestions and testing.
Titou for ideas, bug spotting and testing.
*Spoiler!: for those of you who want to find all four parts but can't find the last, here are the locations: Second planet in Alpha, Beta, Third planet in Gamma, Last planet in Omega.*
| Windows | http://www.mediafire.com/?b4ghar32hr38yw3 |
| Source | http://www.mediafire.com/?mbl2z9bjsf4zf83 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=12069 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 54% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.30 | 239 |
| Audio | 3.38 | 98 |
| Fun | 3.23 | 199 |
| Graphics | 2.80 | 479 |
| Humor | 2.39 | 346 |
| Innovation | 2.97 | 414 |
| Mood | 3.10 | 204 |
| Theme | 2.87 | 514 |
On the bad side, I couldn't understand what I was supposed to do besides collecting coal and parts, and I couldn't know how many I had collected after a while, so I lost motivation after having lots of fuel and no way of knowing how close I was from finishing the game... Another interesting thing is the plant mechanic, although I only found out about that (or that Space was a command altogether) after reading some comments - I liked the idea and found it interesting, but have no idea how to use this in terms of gameplay. Also didn't realize how I can shrink planets or get back home, or why I have triple jump sometimes. In short - looks like a great game (seriously), but it needs some further explanation in the beginning! Maybe you could add some to the description? Cheers, and congratulations for the entry, it's really good!
I liked the minimalist graphics and your commitment to create content to populate your game =). Unfortunately the menus don't have a synergy with the rest of the look&feel (that otherwise was pretty consistent and moody), but alas... GameMaker =).
Nice job =D
Really nice calm music 5/5 here for sure :)
good job
The game could have used some sort of indicator to show how many parts you had already collected.
Cheers, and thanks for the game!