Lost in Translation at Space by elmismopancho
We are pleased to present to you "Lost in Translation at Space"🎉, a game about a Spaceship Captain having a lot of troubles passing by an asteroid field, and his brilliant Robot who is having some difficulties understanding his orders.
To play this game you will only need a microphone, so you can tell our Robot the commands he needs to gather fuel and repair the spaceship engine, so it can help our Captain return home.
It is currently playable only on Chrome, both for Desktop (PC/Mac/Linux?) and for Android.
We hope you enjoy it! And don't forget to leave your comments and suggestions.
Try it on your Android device:
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NEW!😁 Post Event version, with a lot of assets improvements and different modes: English, Spanish and Spanglish!, in which the game is in english but the commands are in spanish.
https://elmismopancho.cl/games/ld39-postevent/
🎮Gameplay video🎥. If you don't have a microphone or don't use Chrome you can watch the video for the full game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhG8VRCxu4
| HTML5 (web) | https://elmismopancho.cl/games/ld39/ |
| HTML5 (web) | https://damnsoft.org/ezfiles/ld39/index.html |
| Other (web) | https://elmismopancho.cl/games/ld39-postevent/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/lost-in-translation-at-space |
Ratings
| Overall | 148th | 3.805⭐ | 84🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 122th | 3.728⭐ | 83🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 10th | 4.47⭐ | 85🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 507th | 3.375⭐ | 82🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 214th | 4.049⭐ | 84🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 356th | 3.125⭐ | 82🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 56th | 3.857⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 265th | 3.513⭐ | 80🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 105🗳️ | 124🗨️ |
the game's text was awkwardly worded and made it confusing for me to understand what i was doing at first, but it's not hard to get the basic plot. just some proof reading probably would have helped, but it doesn't bother me that much.
using voice commands to pilot the ship was unexpected, and novel! i think thats a really neat idea to make your game stand out more. i think i would have preferred simple forward, backward, left, right commands (i sometimes had trouble with the longer words reading my accent) but i also liked the idea of having to figure out what was what, and the standard order of the words made it pretty easy to do that once you got one or two words down.
As sad as it is, this situation makes sense, as the HTML5 Web Speech API specification was proposed and drafted by Google mainly, and it's implemented in Chrome via their own services, but I'm sure that eventually other browsers will catch up and integrate their own API-compatible solution.
Firefox for instance, has been adding a few options and changes for that, but there's no full support yet, so for the time being our game is "Chrome-only".
But, you know what ? I'm dumb. I have an Android phone, and Chrome is installed on it. -_-
So, I tried this game, and this was very very fun to play, especially for me, because I'm french and my accent is not so bad, but I had some difficulties to pronounce correctly some words (special mention for "pepper", wich was mistaken a **very** lot of times with "paper" - and so that poor thing had to deal with some swear words for a while XD). I finally reach the end despite of this, and I laught a lot. I like a lot the art too, and the hilarious dialogues. Very well done !
On top of that, the 80's cartoons aesthetic is masterfully done, and really got the look and feel perfectly.
Great entry!
I will say: I ended up taking a screenshot of possible commands, because I got so sick of saying help in the first area.
I was about to suggest adding music, but then realized, it uses the microphone...
If you do another jam, I would be interested in working with you as a musician.
-m
Nice work!
My wife tells me that next time we go on a trip, she's going to give me directions using these commands. I'm not sure if I'll be able to tell the difference.
Otherwise it all went fine!
The only "bad thing" for me, didnt had all the comants at sight every time, maybe add a clickeable notepad with all the comands is a good idea!, the need to say help every couple of seconds was a bit annoying :grimacing:
To illustrate some of my fun:
- Me: VERIFY == Computer hears: "Is there a fly"?
- XD... I guess this has more to do with the Google interpretation, but I still enjoyed it XD
- Me: GALAXY WINDOW BANANA APPLE SPACE PLATYPUS FATHER WINDOW BANANA
- XD XD XD
- Me: TOMATO POTATO
- need I say more?
The graphics are fun, great!
I can't say I noticed the audio much, but it didn't hinder me in any way. Maybe some suitable music would help?
Overall GREAT entry. Loved every moment of it!
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verify !!!
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I would have enjoyed this game better in fullscreen.
It looks pretty solid and worked so, good entry :)
I'm also really impressed at how accurate the voice recognition was. Technology these days, man.
Anyways, this was great. I had a lot of fun the whole way through, and everything was very polished. Awesome job!
Wonderful work !
It was really fun trying stuff out. My only real complaint would be that the possible commands you can say are not always on screen, you either have to memorize them, ask for help more often or write it down.
At the cable section, after getting [Spoiler] Tomato-Potato right, i thought all the other connections had to rhyme as well. That would have been a nice addition.
The sound effects are really nice and blend well into the game. A little bit of music would have been cool too.
Overall pretty fun to mess around with :D
How did you do the voice recognition? Some post mortem would be cool about that!!
And really, thanks **everyone** for all the feedback!
I really like the graphical style. Reminds me of those "edutainment" games we had at school when I was a kid.
The Audio is also excellent, but lacking in having some nice bgm to go along with it.
Overall this is a great entry. Fantastic job guys :)
Very Clever:)
the sound it's a bit disturbing take care with it haha ;D
In games like that, i belieave that the hardest part is to do great mechanics, but you did it ok :D
Thanks mrtwister, elmismopancho, mspawa, and Ignius :)
Great concept, id' like to see more!
I can't give a fair rating as I can't fully play it, but the graphics that I saw at the beggining seem nice, so extra points there, I guess...
It's just a bit difficult to remember the commands so I spammed the help option a lot :p
Overall a very good game, with a great mechanic and very well built. Congratulations :)
We will upload soon a post event version :D So stay tunned!!
Great work!
And i loved the visual general ambient ! Well done :)