A View from Above by OfficialCodeNMore

A View from Above is a game narrated by, well...a crazy narrator. The narrator is doing his best to show the player a good game, but the game doesn't turn out too good, because the programmer doesn't do his job very well.
Links
- Play in the Browser: https://codenmore.github.io/ld/LudumDare38/index.html
- Source Code: https://github.com/CodeNMore/codenmore.github.io/tree/master/ld/LudumDare38
Ratings
| Overall | 392th | 3.038⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 253th | 3.192⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 198th | 3.346⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 351th | 3.192⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 510th | 2.308⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 99th | 3.5⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 19th | 4.111⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 266th | 3.12⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 39🗳️ | 26🗨️ |
The graphics are okay and I like the voiceover. The text seems to have a small bug where it sometimes is pretty blurry and sometimes very sharp. Not sure what's causing that.
Overall I enjoyed it and got scared a bit by the end because the sound was much louder than the rest of the audio. It ended a bit too soon, but it's a game jam, so who cares. Nice work!
Voice acting in an LD game!
I liked your idea of an infinite scrolling image masked by a circle to display the spinning Earth. It looks surprisingly good!
I commend you for working even with a limited time frame and not giving up. That's how winning is done. The rotating earth via sprite mask was very clever! Keep it up.
Nice work, good to see something wacky and interesting
One comment - it would be nice to be able to skip the text, or always have the text advance. I was playing without audio, so it was kind of frustrating to have to wait for seemingly-arbitrary amounts of time on some text, but could advance other text immediately with the space bar. (I realize you intended for players to play with the sound on, but the reality is that not everyone will. From an accessibility standpoint alone, it's good to assume that the person playing may not be able to hear the audio of the game.) Still, that's a pretty minor point, and didn't really detract too much from the overall presentation.
Not sure how I feel about goat explosions. :smile: