ulis43 by Anonyte

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made by Anonyte for LD 43 (JAM)

Something went horribly wrong with your crew's spaceship.

Now you need to survive by allocating crew members to resource production facilities.

Some facilities need specific resources to produce other resources.

Crew consumes resources to survive.

Should the less productive of the lot be allowed to chew on your precious resources?

|WATER PLANT|OXYGEN PLANT|FARMING PLANT|ELECTRICAL PLANT|HQ / MACHINE ROOM|TRAPDOOR| |---|---|---|---|---|---| | WATER<em>PLANT.png | OXYGEN</em>PLANT.png | FARMING<em>PLANT.png | ELECTRICAL</em>PLANT.png | || |Consumes Electricity / Produces Water|Consumes Electricity and Water / Produces Oxygen|Consumes Electricity and Water / Produces Food|Produces Electricity|Consumes ressources|Flush staff to space|

Every crew member has a particular set of skills more or less usefull for certain rooms, a good captain should learn and know how to work his crew!

Screenshots

Source code	https://github.com/elkhadiy/ldjam-43/archive/v1.0.1.zip
Windows	https://github.com/elkhadiy/ldjam-43/releases/download/v1.0.1/Ulis43_win32.zip
Linux	https://github.com/elkhadiy/ldjam-43/releases/download/v1.0.1/Ulis43_linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/ulis43

Ratings

Overall	749^th	3.143⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Fun	855^th	2.762⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	601^th	3.048⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Theme	386^th	3.643⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	637^th	3.286⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Audio	283^th	3.475⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Humor	594^th	2.69⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Mood	784^th	2.929⭐	23🧑‍⚖️
Given		24🗳️	19🗨️

Feedback

2016mcook

04. Dec 2018 · 15:11 UTC

Not a bad concept. It just needs a better feedback system in place so that players know what is going on within the game and how their actions have effects. With a little polishing and explaining I think it could be great. Good Job!

JohnnyGinard

04. Dec 2018 · 17:38 UTC

Very cool idea! Hadn’t thought about that! hehe :P :top:

Corvin

04. Dec 2018 · 17:43 UTC

Wow! Perfectly match with the given theme. Really good game :thumbsup:

BloodJohn

04. Dec 2018 · 21:54 UTC

need tutorial, need more feedback, need text.
too many stats :(

aker

05. Dec 2018 · 16:48 UTC

I like the idea behind the game but it is a bit hard to understtand what you should do at the beginning. Maybe write a short tutorial or something like that before the game or in the gamedescription here on this site. Nevertheless I like the setting and graphics a lot and think it has much potential for an entertaning game once you unterstood what to do :D

JuDePom

05. Dec 2018 · 17:06 UTC

@2016mcook @johnnyginard @corvin @bloodjohn @aker Thanks guys !

Yeah, we were running out of time for tutorials or at least clear indications ^^ We didn't have any graphist, so I've spend (so much) time trying to have some graphics.

I think we gonna try to polish it, make the design more consistent and all the things that should have been integrated but weren't (like random events as a fire, a flood, a breach 'cause once your resources are stabilized, you only have to sacrifices the new useless crew member).

Pat Farnach

05. Dec 2018 · 20:33 UTC

Fun game. Agreed with above comments that it's a bit chaotic at the beginning. I enjoyed the audio although it felt slightly out of place for a space colony. The pixel art is simple and nice. I hope you keep working on it!

NNNIKKI

05. Dec 2018 · 21:56 UTC

Nice idea, but I felt like there was too much information to take in at once, and I didn't quite know what to do, and I game-overed no matter what I did. I think that a sort of pause-time thingo would help.

BoopsGames

06. Dec 2018 · 00:31 UTC

Yeah, i really really wanted to figure this out, but couldn't. More instructions on how to allocate the crew even in the LD page would be helpful! Also, the dudes were hard to click and there's not enough time to evaluate what each one is good at.

I can see the potential for this to be fun if i could just crack the code! The art style is really cute, though!

JuDePom

06. Dec 2018 · 08:22 UTC

@boopsgames Thanks !

Actually, you can use the color of the shirt as a good indicator !
- Blue => Chemist (for O2 and water)
- Brown => Farmer (for food)
- Orange => Engineer (for water and electricity)
- White => Cooker (fo food)

BoopsGames

06. Dec 2018 · 09:54 UTC

That's good to know! That's the kind of instructions that'd be helpful on the page.

Remco

06. Dec 2018 · 09:56 UTC

For anyone playing on Linux: `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./ulis43 &`

The music was nice and the art style cute. Other than the comments the others made (more feedback, more help-screens), I find that I don't have a whole lot to add, as it's a simple game otherwise (which doesn't have to be a bad thing).

Fluffi

06. Dec 2018 · 13:34 UTC

I like the background music, some sound effects would be cool for when you throw crew members out in space. The game is way to fast it was really hard to ballance my ressources at the beginning. Also a goal would be nice. I like the concept though.

JuDePom

06. Dec 2018 · 14:18 UTC

@fluffi

Actually, we make the game that fast because it was really easy for us (we were playing 2 times faster that what we released ^^), but we do know all the coefficients for the rooms so we didn't have to guess them.

Maybe I will post a comment with an updated version this evening or tomorrow (with at least a pause button).

Myrrhe

06. Dec 2018 · 21:19 UTC

That was cool, graphics and sounds were nice !

The main flaw was the absence of explanation on screen about the different component of the ship, wich made the thing a bit hectic.

It just nees a bit more polish (also, I think it's the first game of this Jam I see made with Pygame :p)

ursagames

07. Dec 2018 · 13:50 UTC

Your game was played on my stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on the third day of Ludum Dare streams. Thank you for sharing your game with us! You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8

Titorrm

10. Dec 2018 · 12:32 UTC

A little complex to understand at first try, but after i understand how to manage my ressources and I succeede in keeping everyone alive for a few minutes.

elysiagriffin

18. Dec 2018 · 20:59 UTC

Hey JuDePom! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you'd like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/346057870?t=05h50m18s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin