KOCMOHaBT Spaceman by PjchardtTheSecond

made by PjchardtTheSecond for LD 39 (COMPO)

Story of an intergalactic gravitron technician named O who's ship is suffering from apathy.

Use your radio to connect to satellites and power your ship with the game narrative.

HINT: People are struggling to find the satellites. When you use your radio, the remaining satellite positions are shown by the small yellow circles around your ship. Just travel in the direction of one of the circles, to find a satellite. Remember though that planets and satellites move! Given more time I would have made that much clearer. Unfortunately I ran out of time.

Developed using Unity 5.4.3

Art - Photoshop, cell phone camera, ink pen and paper

Music - Wolfram tones procedural music

Audio - Audacity and BFXR

Fonts - veteran_typewriter under author open license, titillium under SIL Open font license v1.1

Windows	https://pjchardt.itch.io/kocmohabt-spaceman
macOS	https://pjchardt.itch.io/kocmohabt-spaceman
Linux	https://pjchardt.itch.io/kocmohabt-spaceman
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/kocmohabt-spaceman

Ratings

Overall	237^th	3.462⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Fun	370^th	3.077⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	153^th	3.5⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Theme	332^th	3.5⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	71^th	4⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Audio	126^th	3.462⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Humor	366^th	2.174⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Mood	100^th	3.593⭐	29🧑‍⚖️
Given		23🗳️	35🗨️

Feedback

cronje

01. Aug 2017 · 05:44 UTC

Woah, that was a very cool story mystery experience. Your consistent art style also helped immerse me in the game and flying around with my thrusters felt good. I see what you meant by letting the ship refuel. very fun game indeed, eventually I simply found myself exploring the map.

Yaroslav Kravtsov

01. Aug 2017 · 08:55 UTC

Excellent entry! I didn't get conception about where to go and what to do, but I had fun flying around and searching for new planets.

AntaresValdemar

01. Aug 2017 · 15:13 UTC

Nice idea, lots of atmosphere in this game. It got too frustrating trying to find the sattelites after a while, I was just floating into nothing and dying too often. But overall I like it, the voiceover narration was a cool touch, nice work!

AntaresValdemar

01. Aug 2017 · 15:14 UTC

HuvaaKoodia

01. Aug 2017 · 18:08 UTC

An enjoyable exploration experience this. Usually these types of "wander around and listen to audio logs" experiences are quite boring, but here having to conserve fuel and use a bit of reasoning to find the next satellite made it much more pleasant.

The visuals are really neat, I especially like the collage technique used on the planets. The procedural music is somewhat odd to say the least, which does help set an alien mood. The voice over is maybe a bit too muddled in places, but it's not bad by any means.

Yeah, certainly worth playing. Can't really tell that it was made in mere 48 hours. Good work!

Tim Eriksen

03. Aug 2017 · 00:57 UTC

Cool game! I really like the graphics and movement :) I would sometimes get sort of stuck to planets so that I would have to use a lot of power to get free from it, but other than that I could find no fault with the game :) Well done!

SvartTand

03. Aug 2017 · 09:44 UTC

Very nice game. The music, sounds and graphics were very good and fit well together! I don't think I found all the satellites. Maybe a some sort of compass or anything that would tell you sort of were and how many are left. I just got frustrated trying to find the last ones. Some of the really small planets were quite sticky. You almost got stuck on it and after that you didn't have enough power to get to somewhere...

But all in all a very good game!

Nick Blackwood

04. Aug 2017 · 15:53 UTC

The artwork is really distinctive and cool! So is the music, which also adds a lot to the mood. It was rather unclear though that connecting satellites restores your power. The fact that the ship slowly loses momentum in the open space is also weird. I doubt I managed to visit all the planets, but flying around and trying to use the gravity to accelerate / deaccelerate was really fun!

Badly Drawn Rod

05. Aug 2017 · 14:01 UTC

Very stylish!

A mini-map, or compass, or something to give you a hint about the locations of the satellites would have helped in all those times that I found myself drifting through space without fuel. However, I liked the art style, the voiceovers, and I thought that the ethereal procedural music fit the theme very well.

christina-antoinette-neofotistou

05. Aug 2017 · 18:23 UTC

Likes:
- Amazing art, amazing mood, amazing writing. Very contemplative game!
- very funny in delicate ways. sardonic even
- great voice acting

Dislikes:
- A bug: On my first playthrough I got stuck because my checkpoint (4th satelite) placed me on a collision course with the nearby planet. I kept crashing, so I had to restart. However I persevered, and it was so super worth it.

Thank you for making it, full marks from me!

ondrej.paska

05. Aug 2017 · 19:25 UTC

Cool narrative style, quite funny :) Art style also cool. I kept getting stuck, so I did not finish it :/

seanwiles0

05. Aug 2017 · 23:22 UTC

I like the art, music, and the story. Pretty good game

MarkWolf

06. Aug 2017 · 03:53 UTC

You have created a very immersive ambiance through the music and the dialogs. I like the concept though I am not really good at it. Speaking again about the art, it is really well done and sensitive.

kr4ft3r

09. Aug 2017 · 02:04 UTC

Everything is great about this game except the power system, made me tryhard which is in contrast to the game's atmosphere, I felt more like just looking around and hearing the rest of the story. Respawn glitches don't help either. Still it felt good to play this game, a good sort of old LD entry which focuses on artistic freedom and style.

NORRIMO

11. Aug 2017 · 08:44 UTC

Well that was an interesting experience. I like your visual style and also the storytelling part through new discovered satallites. The music tells the player great where a next orbit is. Well done. :)
But once I stucked on the surface of a tiny planet and I could not get away from it.

Btw: I have added animations into my Post-Jam version. It contains also a much bigger level than the original Jam version. :)

PixzleOne

16. Aug 2017 · 14:51 UTC

Very cool and mysterical mood through the dialoge, ambient music and the graphics. I enjoyed just flying around and exploring a little bit. Well done!

mrtwister

18. Aug 2017 · 19:04 UTC

Interesting game.
It failed on me at one point where I was unable to leave a planet and thus, continue playing. A bit before that, it started playing an audio track that did not relate with the text, so it was probably glitching already.

Loved the concept and narration, and the game kept me interested.
Sound started becoming a bit annoying as the piano started aggressively overlapping with everything else, but I will probably come back to play it again. I need to see the ending!

Good entry! I enjoyed it a lot.