Down the Machine World by Sempiternal

made by Sempiternal for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

In this game, you will take control of a little droid and descend deep into Machine World. On your journey, you will encounter uncomplicated puzzles but challenging arenas. Uncover the secrets to enhance your abilities, use your arsenal to deal with the enemies, dash through obstacles to make your way down the Machine World.

Some SFX taken from freesound.org. All of the music, art, code is original.

Tools:

Engine & code - Unity, Rider
Art - Blender, Gimp
Audio - Bias FX, Audacity

Team:

Sempiternal - code, art, fighting Git
Sleepqt - music, game design, level design

Screenshots:

Link	https://ovoronin.itch.io/down-the-machine-world
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/down-the-machine-world

Ratings

Overall	401^th	3.828⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Fun	564^th	3.578⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	853^th	3.266⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Theme	1288^th	3.344⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	345^th	4.172⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Audio	696^th	3.453⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Mood	674^th	3.667⭐	32🧑‍⚖️
Given		39🗳️	46🗨️

Feedback

Annie Owl

27. Apr 2021 · 13:57 UTC

I loved the atmosphere of your game. All the neon lights and the models looked really nice, and the BGM audio sets the mood of a futuristic western shootout.

Controls felt a little bit floaty, making puzzle segments more irritating, rather than challenging or fun. And the number of enemies on the last level seemed like a little bit too much :sweat_smile:

But besides that, I don't have any complaints. Good job!

Staber

27. Apr 2021 · 14:18 UTC

loved it. it looked amazing and satisfying for the eyes. But I didnt like the controls they need a little more fixing up, other than that amazing

LocustJin

27. Apr 2021 · 14:47 UTC

This game looked very polished, but im lacking in game menu after hiting ESC. Overall it is looking like very good finish game.

aiursrage2k

27. Apr 2021 · 16:21 UTC

I didnt understand what you had to do

Lisek Gagatek

27. Apr 2021 · 16:37 UTC

Very good game. The atmosphere and graphics are awesome, sfx is also pretty good (only the enemies death sound could maybe be a little less in-your-face? idk xd). The only thing holding the game back is the movement mechanics. It would help a lot, if the dash direction would be determined by your keyboard movement and not mouse cursor position. Right now using the dash defensively doesn't really work. You probably hold the cursor on the enemies to shoot them and need to move the mouse into very different direction to dodge, which doesn't really work that well.

T C

27. Apr 2021 · 16:47 UTC

Nice game! Liked the variety of shooting and platforming with the dash. Looks good too!

DWink

28. Apr 2021 · 02:41 UTC

Gorgeous game. Pushing blocks with the ship was a bit clunky, but the 'unblock holes to go down' mechanic was neat - the way the ship fell through was satisfying.

tengusheath

28. Apr 2021 · 05:29 UTC

Very nice graphics. Good job

cephalo

28. Apr 2021 · 06:44 UTC

I meant to try this and then ended up playing for a half hour straight. This is an amazing entry for a jam.

QGP Development Studio

28. Apr 2021 · 09:50 UTC

Really fun little game, didn't find any bugs. Could only use a main menu, other than that, seems very polished.

DorianSnowball

28. Apr 2021 · 09:58 UTC

I enjoyed playing the game. Graphics looked really good and the music set the mood quite nicely.
One thing I didn't like was that you dash in the direction of your mouse. I would have prefered it, if you dashed in the direction your moving or if standing still in the direction of your mouse

Dane Tesla

28. Apr 2021 · 13:09 UTC

Amazing game!I liked the graphics and the gameplay the most, if was fun and challenging to "figure out" each level. As some people mentioned, a menu would be useful but honestly I didn't think about itbefore I read other comments lol. Great entry!

Eugenik

28. Apr 2021 · 15:18 UTC

Nice work.

Carraka

28. Apr 2021 · 17:34 UTC

I tried really hard to figure out where the cubes go (after the first level with shooting enemies), and I still can't figure it out. It's a shame ... it looks very polished. Agreed with the other comments about dashing in a different direction than where your mouse is.

nyanpierre

28. Apr 2021 · 21:28 UTC

Very nice game ! The angle of the camera give a good mood to the game, nice work

MicroChasm

30. Apr 2021 · 16:36 UTC

Graphics are great! Good use of particles and light/dark contrast. I really enjoyed the environment design as well. Laser sound effect is snappy and satisfying. The theme of going deeper is a bit of table setting without mechanical effect, but that's not a big deal. Moving the boxes was slightly awkward, but I did like that they blocked the lasers, so you had to move, then shield yourself. Maybe if you could grab and release the blocks it would be easier to control. Other than some small critiques, I don't have much else useful to say-- well done!

Kmoor

01. May 2021 · 00:25 UTC

Good looking fun game. Well done :)

Yorsh

01. May 2021 · 13:44 UTC

It looks great (effects are really good)! Combats are fun and dynamic. I'm not a fan of the pushing cubes around mechanics tho. But nice work overall!

LRVStudios

02. May 2021 · 01:57 UTC

I really loved the atmosphere. All the sounds and art style match, and I didn't have any major problems with the mechanics - but sometimes the cube gets stuck when too close to a wall, and the view of the camera that is sometimes blocked by some wall, makes very difficult know what's going on.

Nevertheless, it is a great game! What I liked most were the sounds and the artistic style. It gives a specific atmosphere to the game, which I really liked. Great job!

JRevel

10. May 2021 · 23:01 UTC

Cool art ! The level design is well made, with a lot of variety. The gameplay works quite well too, but I think it could be made a bit more dynamic with a few simple changes : I would have put the dash on the right click, to make it more central to the gameplay, and I would have made the dash go in the direction you are moving, not the one you are pointing. I think it could make evasive maneuvers a bit easier.
Well done, that's a pretty cool game you've made here !

piscythe

14. May 2021 · 03:03 UTC

None of the individual elements of this game particularly blew me away, but the variety of content offered balances the lack of polish on individual mechanics. I really appreciated the use of optional secret upgrades to encourage exploration. Shooting enemies normally did not feel worth it, but maybe that's just because I missed the shot upgrade. Having dash go toward mouse instead of in the current movement direction felt unituitive to me.

Shoc

16. May 2021 · 07:21 UTC

Overall game is cool

But there are some aspects of the game feel that I feel weird, controls are not so exact, camera looks weird in some anglers and there are a few sounds that doesn't feel the proper sound, like enemies death.

Beside all of this, the other things are so good, like VFX, the art mood, the mechanics... Everything else :P

Good game, and good job!