Nothing to grab onto

co-authored: @optus23
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.38
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Nothing to grab onto is a puzzle game where at the start, there's nothing to grab onto.

You are an alien astronaut and you've lost all your crew. You'll need to lauch yourself to little planets until you find something something to grab onto, the stars will be your friends.


Full Gameplay

Controls:
- Go to a planets: Press left mouse button pointing to the cube.
- Rotate camera: Hold the right mouse button and drag.
- Restart level: Press R (Waring: In this Version doesn't work very well, we are trying to fix it, yhanks :D ^^.

Credits:
- Marc Galvez @optus23
- Jaume Montagut @JaumeMontagut

Changelog:

V.3
- After building, we found a bug in the build that didn't happen while we were developing on the editor, the player didn't stick to moving cubes.

V.4
- We deactivated things like crazy to try to fix the bug (such as, UI tutorial and player rotation).
- Time was running low so we made that if you won level 5, you went straight to the "beat the level" screen, avoiding the last 2 levels which involved the 'moving cubes' mechanic. This was the way we could upload a 'finisheable' game on time.

V.5 (Post Jam)
- After the deadline, we fixed the 'player not sticking to moving cubes' bug (we creted a Unity development build and found there was an "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error) and activated the last 2 scenes.
- We also reactivated the UI tutorial and player rotation.
- And we fixed that you could go back to the begging of the level if you pressed R as suggested by @afestivedolphin in the comments.

Tell us what you think about the game in the comments!

Thanks for playing ^^

screenshot
Genres: puzzle

Comments23

paulhocker
paulhocker8 Oct 2019, 03:32
that was a very clever game that was pretty fun -- took a couple levels to figure out the mechanics -- would like to see more -- thanks for making it
AFestiveDolphin8 Oct 2019, 06:43
Wow really unique game! Only thing was I tried pressing R and it wouldn't restart. Ended up beating the game and had a lot of fun! Makes you think and if you made a few more levels to that, you could have a unique game on your hands! Great job!
Mikeorma9 Oct 2019, 08:06
I like it a lot! Quite challenging and the controls felt responsive. Good job :)
cdunham
cdunham9 Oct 2019, 08:10
Cool use of the theme! My only problem was I had a little trouble figuring out what the rules were for what I could launch to. I played the most up to date version and everything worked fine :thumbsup:
Xakkar
Xakkar9 Oct 2019, 08:11
Cool puzzle) 3D gives a lot of new opportunities)
Wxzuir
Wxzuir9 Oct 2019, 08:31
Really love the idea!
There is a small BUG. if I stick in a cube and click this cube again, the player will shake badly.
Vodlion9 Oct 2019, 08:56
Funny game. I liked the transition from 2D to 3D, it was really surprising.
WhatNameGames
WhatNameGames9 Oct 2019, 18:05
This is something that I think will gain quite a lot of popularity, it's cute and well put together, awesome job.
Rrawrr
Rrawrr9 Oct 2019, 19:04
Cool idea to make it in 3D, well done) everything is nice here (in v5 at least) graphics and sound approaches well, really enjoy to play it.
ScarletMayhem9 Oct 2019, 19:35
Just awesome! Love the minimal yet very cute graphics and the relaxing sounds! Brings back feelings from when I used to glide on the ice in Pokemon games ahah
Very good job also on the level design!
Asturk
Asturk9 Oct 2019, 19:37
I really likme these ideas of puzzle games, and this one was short, but really fun. It can become a good game with some more implementations and some graphic touches! Congrats!
JaumeMontagutauthor10 Oct 2019, 06:59
@asturk Thanks a lot! We're actually thinking about making a mobile version with some more levels and improving the art ^·^.
JaumeMontagutauthor10 Oct 2019, 07:08
@scarletmayhem We're so honored that it brought you memories from ice gliding in Pokemon, we also have some very good memories of those games.
Odeyalko14 Oct 2019, 18:01
Good 3d puzzle
mharring14 Oct 2019, 18:27
I really enjoy this game and the concept is really solid. You could easily take this further and make it more challenging with gravity physics. I only wish there were more levels ;) Well done!
JaumeMontagutauthor14 Oct 2019, 18:57
@mharring Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed it. What do you have in mind with gravity physics? Do you mean making a puzzle that uses gravity in a similar way as Mario Galaxy or you're thinking about something else?
We'd love to know more about your idea, feel free to tell us as much as you want.
hyperscope14 Oct 2019, 22:24
Right of the bat I found the style of them game interesting. It took me a couple mins to realize that I could rotate the camera but once I did, it kind of unlocked another level of coolness! Play with 3D space like that adds so many potential layers of interactivity. My only issue with this was that if you can't rotate the camera to the ideal spot it might become subconsciously frustrating. I think if you were to limit the rotation to set presets it solve my comments in that regard and you could still have free rotate as included feature. Most of the puzzles I simply solved by guessing rather then thinking about the puzzle.

Overall very interesting and unique entry!
mharring15 Oct 2019, 00:46
@jaumemontagut Exactly, you could use gravity to pull the player in orbit around the planets to add to the puzzle mechanics, like in Mario Galaxy.

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