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Arrows to move and use machinery.
Hold down while moving to run!
Some computers need a bit of a beating to show the correct data. ;)
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You're the sole operator of a space ship assigned for Project Connected Worlds.
It's YOUR duty to search for dead planets and revitalize them for the use of New Earth Federation!
Revitalize the nearby planet and win the game.
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Tools used:
- Unity with Playmaker add-on
- Photoshop for graphics
- Propellerheads Reason for sounds
The button sounds were recorded with the help of my trusty old Super Nintendo! :) How can one machine have all the buttons and switches you need!?
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Other thoughts:
I know the theme connection might be a bit far fetched, but what can you do with a theme like this? I'm happy with it though. :)
The whole process was surprisingly painless, everything came together quite naturally. I don't feel nearly as exhausted now as with the previous Ludum Dares.
Ok, go shoot that missile now! And make sure you hit the planet!
PS: Ten points to anyone who can name all the movies that inspired this game!
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #9 | Audio | 4.15 |
| #12 | Overall | 4.22 |
| #23 | Mood | 4.12 |
| #24 | Humor | 3.98 |
| #26 | Graphics | 4.37 |
| #59 | Fun | 3.84 |
| #224 | Innovation | 3.60 |
| #643 | Theme | 3.14 |
Comments
Wow, really well polished. An amazing accomplishment in 48 hours :D
I'm astonished, i freaking love you and your game.
And i thought we had a good presentation in our game. XD your game is like amazing. For just having 48 hours.
Great game! really liked it!
Still don't understand how you can calculate the distance with terminal C?
It took me forever to work out how to get the info I needed from console C, but when I did, I enjoyed the mechanic. Brilliantly done. The toilet was also an excellent touch.
This is just fantastic, great mood, nice pixel art, nice animations, great attention to detail and funny! Wish there was more.
Great entry so polished and music works perfectly.
Absoulutely loved your game in the last Ludum Dare so was looking forward to seeing your entry for this one, didn't disappoint.
Damn CPU, it wins all the time against me...
Really pleasant to transform dead planets like this.
Actions are cohesive and intuitive, as usual I like a lot your audio and your direction.
I recognized 0 films, I should buy some cultural knowledge.
Amazing. I'm more than a little in awe of this, as I am all of your games. Great atmosphere, visuals, music, the lot. I managed to rejuvenate the planet and the puzzles were pitched just right - I had to stop and think but didn't get too frustrated. Special mention for the cheating CPU and the floating stool! Top marks!
Awesome. The game view reminds me of the cutaway scenes in Wes Anderson movies.
Love this so much. That moment when you open the hatch to go outside and you lose gravity while the camera zooms out was awesome. Keep up the great work!
Star Trek, Star wars, Bladerunner, Darkstar, (I guess: Gravity, 2001: A Space Odyssey, flash Gorden, )... I don't know anymore ^^
I like the artwork very much. This game is so awesome looking.. it feels very polished. Good job man!
This was pretty fun, took me moment to realize what to do but it was simple, well executed and atmospheric.
This game was very good. Better than half the drivel that currently infests the flash/tiny game portals.
Unfortunately I'm having real trouble figuring out what to do which is why my rating on fun is a little lower. It's got a great presentation, good music and cute sound effects, and a cool concept, I just don't really know what to do.
"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite game on the Citadel."
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Very impressive!
This is my favourite so far. Really cool game you made here.
The music created the perfect atmosphere for your game. I love all of the attention to detail and little touches you put into the game. Also, I have a feeling that the CPU cheats at rock paper scissors... or I'm extremely unlucky. I was impressed when I opened the airlock that the objects floated up!
Pooooo in Spaaace!
Really enjoyed playing this. A brilliant little game.
Plus I may have created more life on other planets through bacteria contamination via multiple toilet use.
My absolute favorite, everything is so polished and fun. The toilet, the music switches and the computer shaking and of course the star trek reference. But I don't wont to spoil everything, go play it for yourself. Amazing job!
Very oldschool art style and I like it. Plenty things to do on the spaceship... and the zero gravity scene, just perfect :D
Really, really awesome! Polish up the wazoo!
The end mood is just ruined by that twatter thingie.
Cute game, love the graphics, well done. I included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series :) http://youtu.be/KmqpyEAAVGM
I really loved all of the little interactions hiding on the ship, it really sold the sense of the world and the isolation and drudgery that went with space ship life (but without actually being boring). This is one of my favorites!
very impressive, I am in awe :o The audio is great, the sounds are satisfying, the little puzzles were a delight - especially the (spoiler)
the shaking one, and i love how everything could be played one handed :) Fives across the board!
This game has a really cool feel to it, I love the graphics and animations, reminds me of the film Silent Running.
Phenomenal. I'm amazed you did so much in such a short time, and yet now that I think about it, the game isn't really very long.
It seems inspired by "Dark Star", "2001", and "Wrath of Khan" but I'm sure that's not all of them.
Great game! Do want more levels/chapters! Keep going! 5/5
that game was so simple, but still so much fun. Extremely polished, loved all the interactions and the animations, and any game with floating turds is obviously 10/10 lol great job! Bookmarked and will play again when bored :)
Awesome work. Particularly liked console C, and the zero-g sanitary evacuation system. Ooh and the thing with the gravity and the breathing!
This was fantastic, I loved everything about it 5/5. Great job :)
This game is great. So many details, so many useless little things to improve the experience. I felt really lonely, and pretty happy to be. I didn't get how to use the C Terminal (nor A I think), but got the planet of my first try anyway. Maybe were I just lucky?
Too bad it doesn't really fit the theme.
I'd like to see the movie that inspired this game. Reminded me a bit of 2001 Space Odyssey
Very nice concept and brilliant execution. I loved the detail of the rock paper scissor game xD
My favorite so far.
i pooped 3 times
nice touch to have it floating around outside when you put in the battery
i'd love to see a whole game like this
I really love art style, the sound and music you have there, but I found the puzzle a bit too easy.
And I'm going to bet that one of the movies that inspired you have to be Moon, being the only worker in the station :P
Great entry, this was almost perfect. I loved every minute of wander in this beautiful spaceship. Bravo!
Such a cute game and well polished. I really love the little things you added, especially the floating poop hahahah!!! It took me ages to find out how to get the distance from Terminal C, and then I didn't know where to point the turret - I just shot randomly, and then finally noticed the planet in the background. Nicely done :)
cool graphics, cool design, cool music, cool character (simple worker with only a simple mission).
puzzle part is a little easy, but anyway...
(the arcade games will be really hard in the futur...)
Overall, really great! I think that figuring out how to show the distance on terminal c was a little too obtuse but after that it made perfect sense. I think this could be expanded on with more planets and perhaps a narrative too. Really like the art-style, sound and the concept seems really interesting.
I enjoyed pooping 30 times in a row. Great graphics, nicely executed!
very good game. well polished, great audio. difficult to understand initially but great overall
While somewhat short, it's very, very detailed and polished entry. Loved the surroundings, loved the gravity, loved the way music changes depending on distance and gets completely mute when the character ventures into space. Too bad the use of theme is somewhat forced... ^^"
Also, the rock-paper-scissors machine was absolutely hilarious. I mean, I lost with the CPU 6 or 7 times in a row, what can be funnier than that?!
(probably putting in a fake screenshot of player winning in CPU, while it's impossible in game)
Very attractive and cohesive graphics. The droll humor is great as well.
The pitch terminal is confusing because of its red-herring display; I expected it to act like the other terminal... it took me a couple attempts before I realized how simple it was.
Also... the targeting laser shifts off of the planet if the player leaves the control room.
I loved it! Great atmosphere, clever puzzles, excellent music and nice pixelated world (and poop), well done!
So good - this really needs to be built into something even bigger. Had the classic LucasArts feel, but fresh.
+ humor 5/5
+ animation
- theme
Remember me of the LucasArts Games. Well done!!
I cannot name a single movie that inspired that :(
Good job. I mean REALLY good job. First game where I give 5 stars in multiple categories this LD.
Congrats!
Cool little game. I would have liked it to be a bit more obvious what to do by providing more clear feedback to the player when doing something wrong like having the wrong distance or pitch put in. Visuals were great.
...I think I might give you 5 stars for everything... Yes. The amount of details you put in that game in 48 hours is incredible.
Amazing for a 48h entry ! I was a bit lost at first but I finally figured what to do...and it was already the end.
Hi there. Like the humour, the paper scissors stone computer, the mundanity, very Dark Star x Hitch-Hiker's Guide. That you can rest in chairs and put your feet up. Shaking the screen, airlock. So much you did that is fun for player... good job!
Nice game! I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would from the beginning. Nice Star Trek sequence :)
Brilliant! Reminded me of the movie Silent Running (for some reason)... I love everything about this game. Just... brilliant work!
Pssst! You are in todays episode of Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXaZCdM5i9o
I guess Moon and Silent Running as influences and naturally space odyssey. Perfect animation and humour and mood.
I pooped into space. Twice. 5/5. Game reminded me of the movie Silent Running (early 70s). The slow walk speed bothered me a bit as I had to wander from console to console a lot. I wish the terminals were marked ABCD and I wish I could bring the instructions up anywhere. Simple polish stuff. Overall, fantastic effort. The art, animation and sounds are terrific. I love being a loner on a space station. One of my fav entries.
Great job, took me a while to figure pressing down arrow allows you to run.
I adore ! Everything is so well designed, build, polished... ! It doesn't really fit the theme. But anyway this is brilliant ! Huge congrats :)
Very clever game, I loved it :D ! Maybe the instructions was a bit too much, I'd like to find by myself. The no-gravity scene was awesome !
Great balance between sound and graphics. Love the little storyline and the ambient storytelling. The poor man must be bored out of his mind!
Very solid, with attention to lots of little details. A very pleasant experience.
I actually registered for this site, just so I could comment. ;) Love the game, I especially love the “Silent Running” feel of the game. If you have not seen the 2009 Movie “Moon” you really should. I would love to see what you came up with as a sequel if you added that influence to this idea.
What I specifically love about this game is the exploration of it. Not labeling the terminals is a brilliant, if a frustrating at first, move!
I will be looking for your next submission!
Awesome entry, very high quality! I had many difficulties with the console A... more than 5 minutes to target well the planet. X'D
Incredible entry. My favorite so far. Loved every single detail of it, from the actual use of doors, terminals and chairs to the real gameplay. The animation is really nice and the music fits like no other would.
Congratulations on it!
P.S- Extra points for the usable bathroom!
Played this through without reading instructions. Most of the time I had no idea what's going on, so I assumed I was trying to get some kind of communication link going. Then I, apparently, uh, blew up the moon, and got a "the end". That was a bit wtf-y. =)
It took a bit long to understand. And once you understand, you complete the game in 30 seconds. Too bad. But a nice game overall.
And I think I found a bug: after opening the door that leads to open space, you can open the door left and wander in the ship whith low gravity. Nothing too serious, though.
lovely feel to this game, i love the smooth animations too - that guy walks so nicely!
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Really well done. Solid all around. Love the running animation!