KosmoPod by Hakro
Synopsis
Sending stuff to Space is not cheap. It's tight over there. Every bit of free space counts. KosmoPod is a little puzzle game, where you need to help a little Space Robot get out of his tiny Pod.
Known issue
If you try the web version, and for some reason, you don't see the tiles as they show up in the screenshot above, it's a bug: the infamous invisible walls bug !
In that case, please try another browser, or download the Linux/Windows version. Thx.
Controls
Wto move forwardAandDto rotateSpaceBarto attract objects with your Gravity Gun.
There are 7 levels. The game should take about 5 minutes.
Made from scratch with
- Godot 4.2 Dev5
- Blender 3.6
- LMMS 1.3 Alpha
Hope you Enjoy it.
N.B: There is web version available on Itch.io (link below). But there seems to be a few issues with the sound and rendering. Although it's playable, it's better to try the native Linux or Windows export below.
Ratings
| Overall | 322th | 2.952⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 317th | 2.846⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 303th | 2.904⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 234th | 3.423⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 194th | 3.442⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 241th | 2.885⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 214th | 2.385⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 283th | 2.85⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 71🗳️ | 86🗨️ |
Unfortunately yeah, there seems to be random issues with the web export. That's what you get for using an dev version of the engine :)
You can still play on the native Linux and Windows builds, hopefully those work better.
Cheers
Happy to know that it worked well for you on Windows, haven't had time to get it tested there before submitting it.
Cheers !
Could just be an issue with the web build though, but you may want to look into that.
The game looks nice though, the concept, as I understand it, fits the theme well and if you look into the mentioned issues I'd be happy to give it another try.
Thank you all for the feedback. I think the web version might not convey it correctly. But basically, If you look at the Screenshot on the top of this page, that's how the game should look like. It should be Ok in the other non-web exports.
If by "invisible wall", you mean you cannot go in the red(ish) tiles, then that is not a bug, it's intended. Basically you can only walk green elevated tiles.
One thing I didn't like is that holding the W key would move the robot forward multiple steps. It doesn't really matter here since there wasn't point scoring for how efficient you are with moves but if you do end up taking this further, it's something to keep in mind.
I spend a bit of time figuring out the attract as I had read it as attack... But as soon as I sucked object towards me, I got it.
Nice graphics, nice sound effects, wonderful puzzles, movement wasn't optimal, I don't have a better suggestion but it was the only thing I had problems with. All round great job :thumbsup:
PS - Couldn't play the web version as got the invisible walls?
Thanks to all for playing :)
Glad its not just broken for everyone..
@pe7e, yeah LMMS is pretty easy to use, yet quite powerful. I use it pretty much for every jam to hack together some audio & sound effects from scratch.
PS - Had the same issue as others with the web build where the "good" tiles didn't show up so ended up using the Windows version
I liked the models and sounds. I would have expected "sci-fi" type button panels and crates, but I think having everything just be basic furniture is better: it's like the pod is the little robot's studio apartment. I think the controls are a bit weird, though, and found myself getting turned around a lot of the time. Maybe something better would be traditional arrow-key movement and then shift+arrow for the attract action?
Thank you for dropping by. Can you tell me what browser & OS you're using ? I have not been able to reproduce the issue on my setup.
@cheesepencil, that would be a good idea, but I didn't make a MacOS export, so web version is the only available choice for Mac users unfortunately.
@candlesan @henk thank you very much for playing.
@henk , yes, the initial idea resembles a lot what you're describing, but then time caught up, and I wasn't able to make it look like a setting in space :)
Fun concept and I liked the simple yet nice graphics :-)
I then tested the zip version, so cool !
Bravo for the job accomplished ! Nice puzzle game :)
Everything was solved by switching to the windows version
The gameplay is really simple, easy too understand yet challenging. I liked it !
I was a little bit confused by the controls at first, separating rotation and movement was weird for me. Maybe I wouldn't be as much confused by keeping WQSD for movement an QE for rotation ? It's a minor issue since even with the current scheme the control are really easy to understand.
Maybe adding a little bit more feedback when a object is pulled would have been awesome.
A good entry, especially for a compo. Great job !
You have some nice and smart puzzles there! It was a bit similar as my game but mechanics was different and enjoyable! And you also had time for several levels with increasing difficulty, very cool!
The models go really well together and the sound effects fit with the game, although the moving sound was a bit too loud for my personal preference.
Music throughout the game would have been great, the music at begin was very good. How did you make / generated it?
Overall a very good entry!
@gilborn, all music and sound effect was made using LMMS, the Alpha/nightly version. Even the whistling ^^
There are quite a few presets available in it, so I just took some, and turned a few knobs until I liked it.
I liked the graphics and the gameplay in general, although I think (at least in the web version) I got double moves with one button press etc. So perhaps some small things still needing a bit ironing out, but I don't know if that's also a web build problem. Anyway, a nice and clever take on the theme!