Astronaut Gary Inc.

by gagapete

co-authored: @funnysoundfreak, @sedna, @tekk, @menta

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.50

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Story

Hey there my friend. My name is Gary and I was sent by my Inc. to a new Planet. Unfortunately besides my little helping Robot I am pretty alone out here. So to make my Life a lot easier Robo will take over some Tasks which might be too dangerous for me to do.
We did find a dangerous crater out here, which has a high instability. You could say he is *unstable*.
To prevent the crater from bursting lava you have to throw in some specific Items the crater asks for. We do have some machines build in here where you can combine, burn, electrocute, compress and wash Items which will change their State.
If we are not able to throw the needed Items into the crater in time, it will most likely explode and destroy everything around it, including myself.

Controls

Robo is controlled with *wasd*. To interact with the crater or the Items you use *space*. To drop down the last item you use *R*. To use your Boost press *shift*. To Pause the Game you press *Escape*.

We highly recommend you to play our Tutorial, in which all the necessary steps will be explained.

Additional Information

This Game can be played in English or in German.
You can also activate/deactivate the Sound. Since we didn't make it ourselves we deactivated the Rating for this one.

The Sources for the Audio's are from Mega Game Music Collection,
Daydreamsound and
Fantasy Ambience Pack.

We decided to take this Game further than the Ludum Dare and created a Discord you can join, if you are interested. You can find our Discord here.

We hope you have fun!

Gagapete, Sedna, Menta, Tekk and FunnySoundFreak.

_2021-10-05:_ Added additional postjam version for download with added level selector, but otherwise with identical features.
_2021-10-09:_ Added Linux ports of the original jam and the postjam version.

Tools: MagicaVoxel, Unity

Comments28

Matt Rice4 Oct 2021, 23:05

Love the effects on the items. The tutorial is also a really nice and helpful addition!

kurrik4 Oct 2021, 23:07

Wow, there are a lot of cool systems here. I really appreciated the tutorial which made it easy to understand how to play. The graphics and animations are great too! It's really impressive how much you got done. Only real downside for me is that it's really very difficult!

LDJam user 2509054 Oct 2021, 23:08

I really enjoyed the voxel art style in this!

Terabyte4 Oct 2021, 23:08

All the tutorials are present. It's good!
The graphics are interesting. Good job!

Aidan and seb4 Oct 2021, 23:12

The graphics for this game fit so perfectly. There's so many aspects to it with the chests, item washing, combining, crafting, tutorial level and the rest - you can tell a lot of effort has gone into this! I find it a little difficult to understand at first, even with the tutorial, but once you get past that it's good fun!
Kudos for including WebGL too :)

Jel22174 Oct 2021, 23:14

Awesome game, loved the graphics and concept!

April Lehman4 Oct 2021, 23:16

Nice original idea. We liked the graphics a lot and found the idea of the game very compelling. It was a bit on the hard side when we tried to play (after watching the tutorial). Maybe consider having an easy mode or easier level. But great job!

LDJam user 2708754 Oct 2021, 23:17

Found it tricky to tell the required items apart at first. Much easier once I made fullscreen.

shade28105 Oct 2021, 06:15

I find this to be a very pleasing game. It reminds me of something of games like overcooked where there's recipes you have to follow. There's just so many aspects to the game that Imma commend for the hard work and effort in 3 days!

It's definitely hard at first though

KutaryouShinkoku5 Oct 2021, 07:52

Nice game! I love not only the gameplay and also the effects when material is processed.

Astropower5 Oct 2021, 07:56

Perfect graphic, I really like the voxel style. And the full tutorial helps me understand the game concepts well.

Whysguy525 Oct 2021, 08:01

Awesome work! there's a little bit too much delay with picking things up and controlling the inventory is a bit tricky

DanGribanovsky5 Oct 2021, 08:14

you managed to create so much in just 3 days that's incredible! love voxels, tutorial is surprisingly good

Flaterectomy5 Oct 2021, 08:17

I like this, a very clear concept with a solid style to it. I wish there were some more audio effects for actions, though. Item pickups, item drops, dropping items on the machines, movement. That would've really made things feel a lot more tactile.

After I lost on the second planet it ended the whole game and made me restart on the first planet, which I felt was a little harsh. I wish progress was kept, then I would have played more of it.

A very solid entry!

500yearsokawari5 Oct 2021, 08:18

I like the voxel art and the effects and the fact that you can forge, wash and craft stuff out of the materials. It's hard to tell the different 工 shaped thingy from each other tho.

chesschaser5 Oct 2021, 09:42

Adorable little game!

nshbae5 Oct 2021, 11:27

Nice boxel graphic and smooth motions! Love that idea of lowering unstable lava level with specific recipe. How about adding stage selector or difficulty selector for light users?

Tekk5 Oct 2021, 11:36

@nshbae yea, i think that would be great. thanks for playing!

Becky Rayner5 Oct 2021, 13:38

Cute little game, love the concept and the robot is adorable. Controls are really smooth and clear as well! Well done :D

MisaRavensoul5 Oct 2021, 15:55

Wow, those controls are so smooth and the art is cute. This actually reminded me of No Man's Sky right off the bat in terms of mood, so I liked that a lot!

JUSTCAMH5 Oct 2021, 16:14

Hey guys, thanks for submitting the game to the stream, it was a good time! Here's the vod if you'd like to rewatch; https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1167974254

menta5 Oct 2021, 16:41

@justcamh great feedback, thank you so much!