149th element by Soulo

While scientists all over the world are trying to synthesize the 119th element of periodic table, you can try to get Ludumdarium - 149th one. But be careful - it's too unstable!
I'm a physics student, so this game is inspired by the laboratory works that we did in the last year. Actually it is one of those works (almost).
Controls:
AWSD/arrows - Walk
E - Interact
Space - OK in dialog
C - open the periodic table
Important:
I should have explained this mechanics inside the game
Sodium works like this: first you start the reaction (green timer appears). After the reaction the timer becomes red. Then you have about 3 seconds to take sodium and put it to the port B, otherwise it explodes.
Changelog:
-some minor changes in values for better balance
-changed some words in dialogs
-fixed large amount of bugs due to which the game was actually broken (I'm so grateful to the person whose idea was to allow bugfixes after the deadline!)
| Source code | https://github.com/egor-lobashev/149th_element |
| Windows | https://soulo.itch.io/149th-element |
| Linux | https://soulo.itch.io/149th-element |
| First broken version | https://soulo.itch.io/149th-element |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/149th-element |
Ratings
| Overall | 407th | 3.174⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 446th | 2.848⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 368th | 3.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 312th | 3.457⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 352th | 3.239⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 203th | 2.978⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 22🗨️ |
Anyway, it was fun and the concept is really interesting!
Glad I wasn't the only one to make a game that has a pixel art guy in a hazmat suit. haha, great work. :)
Nice game. It works well but some music and sfx (cc0 or open source) coulde enrich your game.
Another suggestion, try yo make the dialog box a little different from the background and/or a little transparent. It's good to differentiate what is the dialog, what is the game and help to navigate through the room.
Other than that, a very nice game and a lovelly lab. Congratz
I agree about all the things you mentioned, but I realized that when it was too late. It's my first Compo, next time I'll know how to distribute time having 2 days instead of 3.
It was just now that I realized that you joined in the compo, not in the jam That makes the game more impressive, congratulations!