Escape Earth by Batsphemy
Escape Earth!
The DART project has failed and now a shower of meteors threaten the earth! Fill rockets with tetris-like human families to let them escape to space.
Drag the families in the grid under the rocket to load them. Matching the right colours gives you bonus points! Be fast, because rockets leave every 10 seconds!
Play at: https://www.seriousgameacademy.com/ld51 If you encounter audio issues, try the windows download version!
| Web Version | https://www.seriousgameacademy.com/ld51 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/escape-earth |
Ratings
| Overall | 660th | 3.45⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 590th | 3.375⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 389th | 3.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 251th | 4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 948th | 2.975⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 470th | 3.333⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 286th | 3.4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 979th | 2.947⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
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Hurray?

Wasn't quite clear what the blue and green pieces were supposed to do/represent.
I think just moving the "People Saved" score to a much more visible position would help a LOT in playability: Make it bigger and more centered and the game is instantly a lot more understandable.
Really original gameplay, although I didn't understand how it works at first. It's not that intuitive.
I guess I should just read the manual more thoroughly.
I wish the number of surviving persons would be more visible. If this is the main success criteria, it should be communicated much more clearly to the user when they're doing the right thing.