Lonely Rover by Skoggy

"The lonely rover is stuck on a small asteroid. You must rebuild your broken rocket so you can return back home!"
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| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/lonely-rover |
Ratings
| Given | 6🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
First the negative: the screenshake was too much for a constant thing but I get why it was there
But otherwise: the controls felt good, the death felt meaty, I always knew when I could grab something. Good game!
Gameplay is fun, it felt a bit too hard to grab the parts correctly when you had to do it quickly (e.g. close to the lazers).
Almost didn't make it because of this stupid block decided to start bouncing around defying all laws of physics. Then finally I managed to grab it from the air and could then use it to get past the laser.

I think the screen shake was because your camera is too strictly following the rover which is shaking while driving around. A simple addition of damping the camera movement would get rid of the shakiness.
I think the camera positioning could stand some refinement. And it could be clearer how to build the spacecraft -- I tried putting more parts on the yellow square, but they wouldn't go and the square turned red, which I take to mean that I'm doing something wrong, wrong ordering or something. Then I picked up a part and tried to put it down and it just kept bouncing, and I was like whaaaaa?
Overall the sounds are great, but the rover's movement sound got old quickly.
I played this on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/143780402 - time 0:07:25