First time doing LD :) The idea is that a spaceship gets a strange signal from a strange place in the Universe, and it goes to see what is going on there. The ship arrives in a place where 3 worlds(planes of existence) are connected, and can't escape. Each time the ship tries to jump home, instead it jumps to another world. Player needs to solve some puzzles, jumping between worlds.
Didn't have enough time to do in-game story cut scenes, because I wasted all my time on art... I can't do art, it's a miracle that I managed to make it look this acceptable :)
Tools used: -Unity -Blender -Gimp -Audacity -Bfxr
Controls: WASD or arrow keys for movement SPACE to jump between worlds TAB or M for minimap
That is actually ok :P You need to "collect" both big ufo-looking things to activate a portal :) I wanted to put in-game text so it would be more clear but haven't got the time.. I wanted to put enemies too, and you would have evaded their missiles by jumping to another world.. oh well maybe in The Signal 2 :P
It does have a fair bit of backtracking. But I enjoyed it a lot. The galaxy portals and backdrop looked amazing. The music was great. Did you write it yourself? Excellent Game
Good work, the music really gave it some atmosphere. My only real complaint is the wall of text at the start was really hard on the eyes. Would have probably been much better if you displayed one paragraph at a time to make it more readable.
I was impressed by this game. I think it would help to have a tutorial puzzle first to help players understand the gameplay concepts, but other than that, I think you did a great job.
It was a bit confusing in the beginning but it became clearer as it went on. As graebor said, paragraphs would have been better because most people won't want to read an entire text just to learn how to play.
It was hard not to loose orientation and to know what each collectible did. Maybe mark removable or removed walls seperately. nevertheless I completed it. Maybe keep the rotation after leaving world 3, that would add another layer of loosing orientation, though.
And to sound: I know Otomata when I hear it, you made good use of it.
It probably would have been a bit more challenging if the third world's rotation wouldn't reset after switching. Nice work :)
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Craftsdwarf25 Aug 2014, 17:42
I wasn’t too impressed with this one. I will first admit that I didn't finish it, and I didn't have access to music at the time I played it (though I listened to it after and it was alright!), and I only read the comments afterward which had some enlightening bits. It's regrettable that you didn't have time to explain things better, since I found stumbling around a samey labyrinth hoping some collectibles would show up to be rather unfulfilling. Backtracking isn't a bad thing, but if the area is uninteresting it becomes tiring rather than giving any sense of exploration. Also the art could have used some work since the ship didn't really have a front or back, and the collectibles (which I didn't understand to be needed to activate the portal) being the same size as the player's ship seemed illogical, let alone the giant ones (though that I at least found amusing, though apparently the little ones were unnecessary to finish the game?). Speaking of illogical, the walls weren't really given a good explanation; something in the opening text might have been nice. And speaking of the opening text, it may have been the chosen font, but all commas looked periods.
In general I think some better design would have been a huge benefit, I think.
I liked the control switching, stuff like that activates my otherwise sleeping brain =) ... maybe a hint to the controls would have been helpful rather than the 'story'? (Just me, I don't read much text nowadays...) Not too much of a fan of the short music loop and as you mentioned the visual 'art' ... I've read it before... consistency and simplicity work fine too - it doesn't have to be 'ART' ;)
@Rialgar: yea Otomata is amazing :) wanted to use abundant-music.com but didn't like the type of music it generated...
@Craftsdwarf: yes I knew it would be bad to not have in-game text explaining things, I wanted to do that.. anyway lesson learned, for next LD I'll learn how to Blender and Gimp(looked at a few tutorials a few days before start, but didn't help :P) + prioritize in-game text + design
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I wanted to put in-game text so it would be more clear but haven't got the time.. I wanted to put enemies too, and you would have evaded their missiles by jumping to another world.. oh well maybe in The Signal 2 :P
The galaxy portals and backdrop looked amazing.
The music was great. Did you write it yourself?
Excellent Game
good job.
And to sound: I know Otomata when I hear it, you made good use of it.
In general I think some better design would have been a huge benefit, I think.
@Craftsdwarf: yes I knew it would be bad to not have in-game text explaining things, I wanted to do that.. anyway lesson learned, for next LD I'll learn how to Blender and Gimp(looked at a few tutorials a few days before start, but didn't help :P) + prioritize in-game text + design