Space email 4000 by Kosmo

made by Kosmo for LD 39 (JAM)

Description

Customize power crystals in a large variety of combinations to meet the demands of the ship, run by your "professional" colleagues. Keep the weapons and shields up to ward off the alien invaders! Don't forget, the most critical aspect of an efficient workspace is managing your inbox.

NOTES FOR CLARITY!

Lt. Shootsalot always wants items for Weapons (the left receptacle)
Safety Frank always wants items for Shields (the middle receptacle)
The right receptacle lets you put in a crystal and it will modify it to fit one of your existing email requests for you

Good luck, and keep that inbox clean!

The following tools/software were used to make Space email 4000:

LibGDX: https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/
Spine: http://esotericsoftware.com/
BeepBox: http://www.beepbox.co
Bfxr: http://www.bfxr.net/
Audacity: http://www.audacityteam.org/
1001 Fonts: http://typodermic.1001fonts.com/

Update 8/1/2017: We slightly edited the emails for spelling and clarity. Gameplay was not altered

HTML5 (web)	https://beenrak.itch.io/space-email-4000
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/space-email-4000

Ratings

Overall	650^th	3⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Fun	673^th	2.75⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	259^th	3.35⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Theme	447^th	3.45⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	584^th	3.053⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Audio	449^th	2.842⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Humor	193^th	3.059⭐	19🧑‍⚖️
Mood	504^th	3.053⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Given		21🗳️	16🗨️

Feedback

fingamer

01. Aug 2017 · 15:35 UTC

Fun game that works as a time killer after you get the hang of whats going on.

eva

01. Aug 2017 · 15:41 UTC

It's a little too much to juggle, specifically the emails, but I had fun playing it!

Linver

01. Aug 2017 · 16:34 UTC

Gameplay loop fully works. I like sprites of Bot-faces and characters. It has a lot of complicated entities to code them, but I did not find any bug.

I like the huge texts, but there are really A LOT of messages at the start. Anyway, I read them coz I can choose to don't read :D
But then I understand that the game is simpler than it looks. There are only two problems: It' unclear that the object will receive the color of an upper color segment, and at some quests, I don't understand what the place to send the item.

I know, it was so small amount of time to make the game, but we need to spend more time to make our games easier to understand without a text. I really need too. xD

TheBlondeBass

01. Aug 2017 · 23:21 UTC

Nice! I like the humor and the resource management was tense, though I will say it was counter-intuitive that sending anything without a request boosted a component.

🎤 Kosmo

02. Aug 2017 · 00:47 UTC

Thanks for the feedback guys!

@linver We were kinda hoping for a bit of email overload -- part of the fun :)

@theblondebass Thanks! We didn't want to punish people too badly. It does not give a meaningful amount of energy in the long run, even if you did it nonstop you would not survive long without doing real requests.

Lino

02. Aug 2017 · 04:29 UTC

This is an interesting idea. I love the graphics. I think the overwhelming amount of emails was achieved perfectly.

Phlip45

02. Aug 2017 · 05:09 UTC

Cool game. I think the pace of the game could have been a little more rushed to punish players for not doing well. The first time I played I survived for much too long by just sending everyone useless garbage. Other than that though. The art is charming, and the music suits it as it is with not being too frantic. Congrats!

🎤 Kosmo

02. Aug 2017 · 05:28 UTC

Thanks @phlip45! Can I assume you played 'easy mode'? On hard mode, you get much less energy for incorrect recipes. Thanks for the feedback!

alwaysinbeta

02. Aug 2017 · 11:08 UTC

Fun game, if very confusing at first! The emails are a really good idea and the different machines for smashing etc were great.

Brandon Diaz

02. Aug 2017 · 15:28 UTC

Cool concept, certainly different from what I expected. I enjoyed the humor and overall tone. Definitely took me a while to really understand what I needed to be doing, but I suppose that's kind of the point.

kalyrical

02. Aug 2017 · 19:01 UTC

Definitely a lot harder than I initially thought. Pretty good game though! I do think it was a little hard since emails really started to pile up even in the beginning. Overall great job though :)

ToonTeamJ

03. Aug 2017 · 14:00 UTC

I liked it, but I spent most of the time waiting for things to charge, which was probably my downfall.

g12345

07. Aug 2017 · 21:08 UTC

I'm just not too sure what to think about the game. It looks rally nice, the music is a bit irritating, the mailbox has so many mail.

What i find annoying is that you cant remove email when the item is sent up, and that you have to scroll the mailbox. Also, too much reading and walking. I mean, keyboard and mouse.

Otherwise, a good job.