Etherlands by Ethernal Tech

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made by Ethernal Tech for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

You are the commander of the new mission to find a support planet for Earth. Build, fight and create your world in a new survival videogame.

Play now -> https://ethernal-tech.itch.io/etherlands

You can follow us on Twitter or in our Itch.io account (https://ethernal-tech.itch.io)

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Ratings

Overall 1335th 3⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1399th 2.692⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1480th 2.327⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1371th 2.673⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 484th 3.885⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1076th 3.096⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 106🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

Lenan
04. Oct 2021 · 21:56 UTC
It's a nice base for a game, though the lack of objectives and things to do currently make it a little monotonous.
It has cute graphics and a nice HUD, though the menu could use some work.
It lacks a lot of sounds, like music, intro and some SFX.
It has potential to be a cute game with a little more work on it.
LDJam user 0
05. Oct 2021 · 01:12 UTC
This game didnt load for me :(
osh.studio
05. Oct 2021 · 01:17 UTC
This game black screens on browser :( let me know if you get a fix and I'll give it another go!
MrArc
05. Oct 2021 · 01:18 UTC
web version did not load after the text-haeavy intro. Suggest you get to the game sooner, though.
ZaneDD
05. Oct 2021 · 01:19 UTC
Good start to a game! A little unclear what to do sometimes, since you can't go back and look at the instructions once the game starts, but that's to be expected in a game jam game. One more nitpick is that the item sprites are a little *too* low-res, and it's hard to tell what things are. All in all, though, very well polished and attractive! An impressive submission.
Marius.png
05. Oct 2021 · 01:22 UTC
it's a nice game, love the graphics and the gameplay is fun although some sort of core objectives would have been even better
Ayced
05. Oct 2021 · 01:26 UTC
@osh-studio and @mrarc Hey, I had the same issue but found that if I restarted the game and hit ESC to skip the intro instead of going through the dialog with space the game loaded - perhaps this works for you guys
zeta0134
05. Oct 2021 · 01:26 UTC
I managed to place the workbench inside the ship, which made it difficult to access. Oops! The graphics are charming and what's here is well polished and reasonably well thought out. Nicely done! I'd love to see this expanded into a proper experience down the line.
LeYamez
05. Oct 2021 · 01:29 UTC
Cute graphics!
Marossi
05. Oct 2021 · 01:35 UTC
Very good looking game! Loved the visuals and well made design that goes into it! Interesting concept
LelulaGames
05. Oct 2021 · 01:37 UTC
Cute graphics, and nice interaction with the environment, though it took me a minute to figure out I had to click on things to harvest them rather then use space since every menu action ignored the mouse. I tried using the workbench and the whole game crashed. I was never actually able to use anything, and the lack of a tool tip for the items was a bit frustrating. Overall it's a good base to a game but it needs some building blocks on top of it to fill it out.
JPGFG
05. Oct 2021 · 01:44 UTC
your pixel art is awesome in my opinion you did a great job with art style and animations. I got stuck inside the workbench when I placed it and had to forceQuit the game. I tried again and it looked great walking around the world you built
osh.studio
05. Oct 2021 · 01:53 UTC
@ayced thanks for the tip, got it working.

Pixel art is nice and sound interactions on point. Couldn't find the actualy reactor for awhile tho.
Fiote
05. Oct 2021 · 01:57 UTC
It looks cute but it's kinda hard to play. I think it would need a better 'tutorial' but I understand that's jam duration doesnt really leave much time for that. Nice entry!
Uraffululz
05. Oct 2021 · 20:44 UTC
Definitely a good base for a future game. The visuals are charming, and the sound effects work well.

Unfortunately, I wasn't totally clear on my objective(s), and the game crashed on me a couple of times (something to do with the workbench?). Still, I can't fault that for a jam game.
Tom Robson
06. Oct 2021 · 13:19 UTC
Cute little game! The visuals were really nice, and getting some world generation made during a jam is a pretty big accomplishment!

The game itself is a little clunky though - I read through the intro, which explained what needed to happen with the reactor stuff, but I hardly got to interact with any of that since I spent so long figuring out how to interact with the crafting bench. With a bit more clarity, and more/better sound effects, this could be a really nice game!
🎤 Ethernal Tech
06. Oct 2021 · 23:46 UTC
@osh-studio @mrarc We have already fixed the bugs that were in the web version, if any more appear let me know and thank you very much for notifying us of this bug <3
(We have uploaded the same version in a zip file to avoid installing it, in case you want to try it: 3)
Nafe
06. Oct 2021 · 23:48 UTC
Oh this game looks great but I am getting the same black screen bug. :(
🎤 Ethernal Tech
06. Oct 2021 · 23:50 UTC
@ayced Thank you very much for helping to find a way to play with the black screen bug, I really appreciate your help <3
🎤 Ethernal Tech
06. Oct 2021 · 23:58 UTC
We are very sorry @nafe we have been trying to fix it and it seems that we have not succeeded. The game is not ready to be played from the web, but we added the option to make it more accessible.
Thank you very much for your comment, this game reflects my dream of being able to create a game and I have seen it closer with this one and when I see your comments my eyes fill with tears, thank you very much to all of you seriously and sorry for the failure of the option Web. If you want to try it there is a desktop option, the zip file is the game in portable format. We hope that if you play it, you will enjoy this prototype <3
🎤 Ethernal Tech
07. Oct 2021 · 00:07 UTC
@jpgfg @zeta0134 Sorry for that mistake, we managed the spaceship as another type of entity and we missed making the restriction to build on it. It is already arranged and the table can only be placed behind the ship, but in a place accessible to its use and with the option to recover it. And sorry if this error has spoiled your gaming experience :(
JPGFG
07. Oct 2021 · 00:15 UTC
@ethernal-tech not at all, was just informing you on the bug that occured, I'll check it out again!!
🎤 Ethernal Tech
07. Oct 2021 · 00:19 UTC
@jpgfg We hope you enjoy it and we are sorry for the failures: ((
Tardif Adrian
07. Oct 2021 · 19:41 UTC
the visuals and the pixel art are really cute. Unfortunaly, your game is a bit hard. I got stuck with some level elements when i try to interact with it .

Nevermind, your game is really fun and polished. Congrats for your submission.
Quoc
08. Oct 2021 · 14:12 UTC
Great game. Love the graphics and it is fun to play. Just a little bit too hard for me
Joah Reason
08. Oct 2021 · 22:17 UTC
weird how you have a gif from jan31st that looks exactly like this
🎤 Ethernal Tech
08. Oct 2021 · 23:34 UTC
@joah-reason That gift was a sample of tests that I was doing when I first tried GMS2 with the free license, I have only uploaded 2 images of gm2, because I was only testing 2 weeks. So at the beginning of the jam, by giving us the option of using GMS2, I took advantage of resources that I had created in that test, but the 3 days of the jam I was creating systems such as world generation, the whole idea of the reactor, many recipes ... what I showed at that time were only proof of seeing what I could do. I perfectly understand that he missed or bothered him, but I have dedicated all the time of the jam to making a playable game and I have really put a lot of love and effort into it. I'm sorry if it bothered you that I reused resources from other tests, with the short time of the jam and wanting to show something decent, I had to make use of sprites already created and adapt certain mechanics.
xpoho
09. Oct 2021 · 05:28 UTC
Замечательная игра про космический корабль и реактор! Спасибо ^_^
felixwentzel
10. Oct 2021 · 14:42 UTC
nice graphics and animation, missing some backgroundmusic.I wandered around enjoying the beautiful world. Until the game just crashed. I still had the Workbench UI open I think.
Here is the error log:

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############################################################################################
ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object ui_workbench:

Unable to find any instance for object index '33' name 'stats'
at gml_Object_ui_workbench_Step_0
############################################################################################
gml_Object_ui_workbench_Step_0 (line -1)
felixwentzel
10. Oct 2021 · 14:59 UTC
started another round and it felt way better than the second time. But I got overwhelmed with all the stuff i could do/craft. Some more guidance would be great apart from the text based tutorial. Maybe some Milestone like hints e.g. "get some wood to fuel the rocket and craft basic tools", "get working on your home before nightfall so you dont get run over by slimes". With so much "endgame" material (manual quarry) you need a way to tell the player WHY they need it. I felt no incentive to keep playing.

For the future I would focus more on the early game to hook the player. But it was still a nice game to look at, so I would take a look at it again if it gets more refined! :)
🎤 Ethernal Tech
10. Oct 2021 · 15:07 UTC
@felixwentzel We are really sorry for the bug, we hope you were able to enjoy the game despite that.
Thank you very much for reporting the bug, we will fix it as soon as possible :(
In the future we plan to add missions so that the game has a learning progress, but with the time of the jam we focus on a better game experience. I hope you were able to play it well: 3
JPatchZ
11. Oct 2021 · 09:46 UTC
This is incredbly well made game! The art is really nice and the sound when you brake tree is satisfying. Hope you continue the development of it. This is the type of game that can make me play for hours straight without notecing. By the way, I followed you on twitter cause I really wanna follow the progress of this games.
coolestdoggie
20. Oct 2021 · 13:52 UTC
Pretty good work! I had an error(( like @felixwentzel.