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Average League by N.O.X

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made by N.O.X for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

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In Average League you are the operator behind the city’s emergency hero spotlight. When trouble breaks out, it is YOUR job to call the right hero.

The catch is that these heroes do not save the world with super strength, or cosmic powers. Their abilities are much more specific, much more ordinary, and sometimes strangely perfect for the situation.

Your roster is filled with gloriously mundane heroes.

One can tear the fabric of space to shift grandmas to the other side of the street.

One can instantly locate a missing sock.

One can plug in a USB stick the right way on the first try…

Your mission is to search through the heroes directory, find the hero needed for the job, recreate their logo, and cast it into the night sky before things get out of hand.

In a city full of oddly specific problems, only oddly specific heroes can save the day.

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HOW TO PLAY

To complete a mission, you have to re-create the logo of the hero displayed on the top left of the screen.

The game is divided on 4 screens :

  • Bottom --> Hero book with all the necessary Informations.

  • Left --> Cut the shape of the displayed hero's logo into the circle (get at least 50% accuracy) .

  • Right --> Change the color of the light to match it with the displayed hero's logo.

  • Center --> Manage the battery of the spotlight projector, its position into the sky and its sharpness.

Once the mission is completed (or failed), go back to the center screen to start the next mission!

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CONTROLS

WASD / ZQSD -> Move between screens

QE / AE -> Scroll the pages in the hero book

Mouse Left Clic -> Interact

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Let's Play

https://youtu.be/pl_eiNtOSXQ

Made with Godot 4.6.

Itch.io https://alineo.itch.io/averageleague
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/average-league

Ratings

Overall 227th 3.852⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Fun 363th 3.46⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 208th 3.746⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Theme 232th 4.065⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 47th 4.532⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Audio 122th 4.016⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Humor 125th 3.771⭐ 61🧑‍⚖️
Mood 300th 3.844⭐ 63🧑‍⚖️
Given 80🗳️ 92🗨️

Feedback

Agent p
Apr 20th · 23:07 UTC
Super fun! I love the theme and gameplay! Though it was kind of confusing, that once you succeed in making a logo, correct color, and positioning, what do you do? So it kind of lost me there.
But overall super innovative and awesome!!
TermiGht
Apr 21st · 07:59 UTC
It was confusing at first to what to do but on the second try i got it. It is a nice game I had fun with it!
Akadream
Apr 21st · 08:04 UTC
The game is fun and innovative overall! It would just need to be polished to improve the game feel to be less rigid.
Yukiiii
Apr 21st · 15:21 UTC
I was a bit confused at first, but the setting is really interesting！
Wraithind
Apr 21st · 18:35 UTC
Hilarious concept, loved it, and the art was amazing, though it did make some of the scenery objects hard to read at times. Took a while to figure out what I was supposed to do exactly, but figured it out eventually. Drawing the shapes is difficult without being able to look at it on the same screen but not impossible. Hardest part was figuring out you needed to put the signal on the cloud for me. Overall, nicely done.
Ron88
Apr 21st · 19:02 UTC
Impressive art and audio. I could not get the light and the cloud aligned, I saw that in the video it triggered success very fast but in the game it did not. Overall cool game but could be better explained
japes
Apr 21st · 19:16 UTC
Great art and music and a super cool idea but unfortunately my cutting skills were just not up to scratch - best i got was 84% of the first shape.

I think being able to actually see the shape (or maybe parts of it) would make the difficulty reasonable. As it is it was just totally beyond me.

But I see other players managed to do it, so maybe that's just me.
LDJam user 375016
Apr 21st · 19:19 UTC
I like the how you positioned each screen and I love the graphics. At first it was confusing, but I managed to figure it out. Position of the clouds is changing way too fast or my speed of moving signal is way too low - this was frustrating especially when I aligned it, but somehow it didn't trigger the winning condition. Overall, fine game.
Lizz
Apr 21st · 22:20 UTC
That is an interesting one! Took me a few tries to get a grip on things, the timer freaking me ooouuuut!
sebastianscaini
Apr 22nd · 02:13 UTC
I really liked having to cut out the logo for the signal, that was a really cool mechanic! I ended with a score of -150 somehow though, is it meant to go negative?
frozenfire92
Apr 22nd · 02:13 UTC
This was totally average (just kidding it was great)! Loved the concept and the cutting out the logo was fun albeit frustrating at times :joy: Great characters and art! Keep on making games
LDJam user 423872
Apr 22nd · 02:47 UTC
This looks amazing! The character designs are top notch!
alexey_bobrovskiy
Apr 22nd · 08:34 UTC
Excellent exploration of the SIGNAL theme, excellent art and narrative, well done. I would have added a drawing so I could trace it instead of drawing it from memory; I'm clumsy.
Jiamu Zhao
Apr 22nd · 11:40 UTC
The character design is super charming. I found myself just wanting to see more of them.
FLOWERFIELD Games
Apr 22nd · 11:42 UTC
Very fun! Good interpretation of the theme! Good art to. The onboarding is a bit clunky at first but only few try to understand is ok for a jam game. Great job :)
aniretti
Apr 22nd · 12:23 UTC
Gameplay was a bit confusing, so I had to play a few runs to figure it out. Once I figured out the gameplay, it was quite fun and challenging! I had a slight input lag while drawing: as soon as I started drawing a line, the image reset.

Overall, great gameplay, character design, art, music! Good work.

I just have one question for you: why does mixing red and green produce orange? :D
🎤 N.O.X
Apr 22nd · 13:59 UTC
@aniretti I've just had a look at the additive colour chart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color) and, you're right, it should have been yellow ^_^'
Let's just put that down to a lack of sleep, haha

Well done for spotting that
Andrian
Apr 22nd · 15:01 UTC
I absolutely loved the theme of this game. In my opinion, it’s one of the most original entries I've seen so far, and it fits the jam's theme perfectly! Even though the game turned out to be quite difficult for me due to my terrible drawing skills, I’ll definitely come back to it once I’ve practiced a bit more. Great job!
Psevdonim
Apr 22nd · 15:38 UTC
Quite engaging. You can see solid work was done. A cool, unique design, decent gameplay variety—well done.
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stepa
Apr 22nd · 17:01 UTC
i love it
Fenix131113
Apr 22nd · 17:03 UTC
Very interesting game, i got score 1937
Overlix
Apr 22nd · 17:04 UTC
for some reason i can't draw the logo when i start drawing it stop me instantly
🎤 N.O.X
Apr 22nd · 17:09 UTC
@overlix You're not quick enough :)
I admit the game is a bit too difficult ^^
aruseus
Apr 22nd · 17:12 UTC
The mechanics were easy enough to intuit and I liked the theme.

I would've liked some kind of goal or ending (at least I don't think there is one. I only played until getting each hero once).
Itero Proto
Apr 22nd · 17:12 UTC
Funny art)
VenomousMouse
Apr 22nd · 17:22 UTC
Great game! I love the art style!
RapidRaid
Apr 22nd · 20:39 UTC
Woah this is really cool and very highly polished. I love the artworks and the voiceovers. Very good job!
anku
Apr 22nd · 20:40 UTC
Good art and sound. The gameplay isn’t the easiest to grasp at first, but once you spend a little time with it, it starts to click.
Umaiit
Apr 23rd · 12:33 UTC
Love the gameplay and story. Great entry.
matt2728
Apr 23rd · 12:48 UTC
Very impressive project.
Took me a minute to understand the drawing, once it clicked, that was cool.
I do wonder how you programmed it to match the drawing :D
Nice art style. Good humor.
Most of all, I like the concept. Gamifying the super hero signal... what a unique idea.
Great job, one of my favorites this Jam :)
oeueGHa
Apr 23rd · 13:14 UTC
It's not intuitive what the game is asking you to do.
TechnicalityCreations
Apr 23rd · 16:35 UTC
Great game, and I love the humour, but it could do with a better tutorial
IRKAR
Apr 23rd · 18:23 UTC
The artwork is cool, and the atmosphere is great, but without a proper tutorial it’s almost impossible to figure it out. I really need a detailed tutorial like for kids:3
jka
Apr 23rd · 20:28 UTC
Great entry! The drawings are really great and the idea of super heroes with lackluster super-powers is very funny. :) Good difficulty balance. I did find the drawing of the logos a bit finicky, but it's very possible I just wasn't doing it correctly. :sweat_smile:
RenD
Apr 24th · 11:06 UTC
That is a truly unique game and quite a clever interpretation of the theme. The art is amazing and you pour a lot of work in the sound design (nice accent on the VA, super fitting theme music and I love the SFX for cutting metal). As others have mentioned the onboarding is a bit abrupt but after a few round it all clicks. The most original entry I've rated so far, good job!
CoolPurpleRat
Apr 24th · 19:32 UTC
Very impresive
Aster24
Apr 25th · 03:00 UTC
Excellent art and music, and a cool take on the theme! It took me failing a few times before figuring out the controls (it wasn't immediately clear my designs were insufficient) but once I got it down it was fun!
LDJam user 240296
Apr 25th · 10:24 UTC
Amazing thing! Idea and realization are great. Sometimes it was hard to locate signal on the cloud and draw the sign correctly (for me it was difficult to draw a sock haha)
clymm
Apr 25th · 20:55 UTC
Really great art and enjoyed seeing the different scenes. Despite multiple attempts I sadly could not figure out how to get it to win even 1, but i enjoyed the experience :clap:
PanDuplan
Apr 26th · 09:18 UTC
Really nice concept and presentation, I like how each screen is set up. The cut out drawing mechanic is very cool yet not really precise sometimes :) Thats a nice bottle sign of mine ![12.jpg](///raw/bc8/76/z/72bda.jpg) Art and characters are super charming!
Alineo
Apr 26th · 15:29 UTC
@clymm A lot of people had the same feeling as you, so we added an "How to play" section in the description, I hope it can help :)
We're aware the onboarding is the least polished aspect of the game, we ran out of time unfortunately haha
uvwar
Apr 26th · 19:00 UTC
I missed that there was a left-hand screen to cut shapes at first so I had no idea what I was missing, but a fun, creative idea! Maybe if the 'switch screen' arrows glowed or something I would have noticed them faster.
hulien22
Apr 26th · 21:16 UTC
Great take on the theme! Really loved all the art and the music!

My only suggestion is that it feels like this game should have an ending, I kept going for a while since I thought there would be an ending but never ended up hitting one.. Alternatively, you could make the game get harder as it goes on (after you get the hang of it and learn all the character signals/colours, the only challenge is getting the signal on the cloud)

Awesome work on this, I had a fun time overall!!
martinfernandezGD
Apr 26th · 21:47 UTC
The game is really fun. At first I didn't know what to do, until I started switching between screens. After that it became clear, although I feel like it wasn't very forgiving of my drawings haha
LDJam user 424326
Apr 27th · 13:56 UTC
A pretty interesting concept for a game jam.
The art is really great—I especially like how you designed your itch.io page.
Marcus Otterstrom
May 03rd · 18:01 UTC
Great job, happy to see someone else with the same idea, your execution was so much better :smile: Very impressive how much you were able to do in such little time.
deadjolly
May 04th · 00:38 UTC
For some reason the game aesthetic reminds me of the classic Carmen Sandiego games. Music definitely set the tone. The four panel screen was interesting. Took me one full game to even figure out I need to draw the logo, set the color on the projector, and then do the main gameplay of lining up the logo on the middle screen. All of the art was great, props to the illustrator! Ambitious to mix all of the little gameplay elements, but it turned out well!
AO-85
May 06th · 19:12 UTC
Good interpretation of the theme! Good art to. The onboarding is a bit clunky at first but only few try to understand is ok for a jam game.