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SPACE PARIAH by DS Nahogara

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made by DS Nahogara for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

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The Universe is our home.. And we must face the dangers of the Cosmos!

-A new survival building game in space! Get Asteroid ores and build your galactic fortress!

-Each 10 seconds new Astros will be born, the stars and our enemies will get stronger too!

-Fight curious but evil creatures and do your best to stay alive.

POSTMORTEN

The game was a great blast to do, one of my most solid jam games i've ever done, but still there was stuff left that i've could fixed with more time, here's the features for future to improve the game:

-Save/Load of your game.

-Planet Mob "Bigger Enemy"

-Farming Requirements

-More Tiles

A Space survival/harvesting game where we should build our own galactic post in the middle of a dark galaxy! The universe grows each 10 seconds and thus new stars and planets will be born, also creatures will evolve and become greater..

Build, explore, fight and Harvest the whole universe to become stronger!

ITCH.IO https://infinitegamesds.itch.io/space-pariah
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/space-pariah

Ratings

Overall 997th 3.071⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1049th 2.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 838th 3.024⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1208th 2.15⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 525th 3.714⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 613th 3.05⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 857th 2.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 883th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 6🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

Slush
03. Oct 2022 · 21:34 UTC
Nice job! Game was a little slow until the aliens spawned, I think it would benefit a lot to spawn more sooner and keep the game action packed! Really fun once I mined a bunch and was zapping aliens.
coatline
03. Oct 2022 · 21:38 UTC
I'm impressed at the quality of this game. My problem is that at first, I didn't know what to do once the enemies started flowing in. I didn't think I could hit them with my pickaxe (thankfully I played all the way up until that point again just to try again). Also, if I wanted to tab out of the game, I would go back the menu on accident, starting me over. I am very impressed though. The art and overall mood of the game is outstanding and I like the atmosphere! Great entry!
Cedric86
03. Oct 2022 · 21:59 UTC
The game Feels very well to play. I'm quite amazed what you've been able to do in such a short time. I'm not quite sure what the point of building was or what the goal of the game is but still had me quite hooked there for a good while :-). Great job. Keep up the good work.
Spike Studio
03. Oct 2022 · 23:54 UTC
I really enjoyed hitting the asteroids, it was very satisfying. I did find it a bit hard to orient myself sometimes, perhaps having a planet or something in the distant could make it easier to orient your player? Despite this, the art and audio was great, nice game!
amarokczukay
04. Oct 2022 · 00:23 UTC
the 3d navigation is really good seeing the parallax of asteroids make me joyful
Pennycook
04. Oct 2022 · 02:31 UTC
I really like the art style here, and flying around in space felt really smooth (once I got used to the controls).

But I agree with what others have said about it taking too long for the aliens to show up. The beginning of the game feels a little aimless -- it's not clear that anything else is going to happen, nor when it's going to happen. Adding a countdown that shows how long the player has to wait for the aliens would really help alleviate that feeling, I think, and instead create a feeling of time pressure.
Linus Lindberg
04. Oct 2022 · 13:58 UTC
I found it very difficult to navigate, remembering what direction was up and down was confusing because there isn't really up and down in space... Changing the controls so that up would be you characters current up vector instead of "world up" would probaly help the movement feel more natural. Other than that I found the game fun! I really liked the art. It feels really complete for a jam game! Good job.
🎤 DS Nahogara
04. Oct 2022 · 16:29 UTC
@slush @coatline @cedric86 @pennycook @spike-studio @amarokczukay @linus-lindberg

** Thank you all very much!! I've took notes about the feedback and kept working yesterday in the game, i'll have an updated version "possibly for my own website", with more tiles and proper survival resource focus, i'm adding more astros like stars and planets which "ehm.. no spoilers lul". **

Much love everybody :two_hearts:
ROBOWARRIOR1982
04. Oct 2022 · 22:49 UTC
Excellent game, you're really amazing !
ruruie
06. Oct 2022 · 16:16 UTC
This was an ambitious game for a jam. Congratulations getting it his complete. The movement was a bit disorienting at first but I was able to get used to it.
Brendo
21. Oct 2022 · 17:49 UTC
Wonderful atmosphere, I love the combo of 2D and 3D!

Accidentally ending the game by pressing esc was a huge bummer! I just wanted to look at the controls but accidentally lost my progress, including a sweet laser gun that I got from the aliens I killed. On my 2nd run, I didn't get a gun :(
ditam
21. Oct 2022 · 20:35 UTC
Very interesting 3-axis movement controls together with the mouse free-look, but it doesn't take too long to get used to. Quite some fun once you get your first gun too! I couldn't figure out how to place blocks in build mode (was I lacking resources? Or pressing the wrong keys?), but I still had fun. Very clean visuals too, well done.

Hoping you get to 20 reviews!
hammerfrenzy
21. Oct 2022 · 20:54 UTC
I like the art, and the execution of the 3D movement works well. I was ultimately unable to figure out what to do with the resources that were gathered, though. It would also have been nice to add a bit of a 'vacuum' when picking up resources, just as a convenience.
Good work!