Occurrence by Luka Roli
All you have with you are a few hints, yet you hope to find a certain planet on which something mysterious happens every 10 seconds. Since you're a small organism, your perception of time might differ...
Spoiler: You have 3 hints of planet properies you're looking for. After you locate the 3 planets, look at the map. The final planet is the one in the middle of the three. There, you have to set the timer to 10 seconds and something will happen.
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| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/occurrence |
Ratings
| Overall | 415th | 2.975⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 468th | 2.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 314th | 3.125⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 465th | 2.571⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 282th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 113th | 3.595⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 22th | 4.114⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
I did have trouble travelling around with merely 1, 2, and 3. They do not make perfectly sense. I think I get the idea of the graph-based routing, but it could be more intuitive otherwise players will need to take a pencil and paper to write down the value of every edge.
I know it's a lot to ask, but is it possible to record a walkthrough or post the exact key sequence you need to press in order to win? I'm still interested in how it ends.
That said, the audio and the atmosphere were really great. This by itself was enough to keep me playing.
I may have missed the point of the gameplay but I enjoyed feeling left out and trying to figure out how to operate the ship solely on experimentation :)
I tried to play without spoilers and managed to work out how to get about and found some stuff. Then after reading the spoiler I realised I would probably have got there with a bit more patience. All in all, really enjoyed this and love to see games like this that do something different. Thanks a lot!
Spoilery comments now:
I might be wrong, but it seemed like the properties were just assigned to random planets, so once you worked out the navigation you just had to trawl through them until you found one. It would great if they each had a meaning so I could use some logic to find them (apologies if I just missed something here).
Great entry, was not expecting to see anything like this.