The Signal

Wow, it is amazing it was done in two days, impressive, great game, nice voice acting, interesting levels, overall positive impressions.

sometimes I got stuck too much in some levels (magnets and last level), it took many loops for which the voice recordings became irritating a bit

The GNU/Linux build segfaults :-/

Too bad, the screenshots looked really great and I was eager to play!

@ace17 Sorry about that. Thanks for the heads up.

Impressed by how much game here is in this short amount of time. Loved the overall simple glow/neon vibe! (we did something similar this jam)

The voice acting was great! Although it could sometimes be a bit annoying especially when dying/resetting multiple times. The controls worked great for most of the levels, however in the maze section it was a real pain and really janky.

Fantastic little game with a lot of soul and thought put into it!

Great job.

hate puzzles)
sound design is cool and menacing

Wow, this game is *drenched* in charisma and fun. The vibe is just right. Unfortunately the vibe gets duller the more often you have to repeat a level, so decreasing the difficulty would probably add to the experience.

The weirdest control with very slow rotation, and annoying repeating voice memo, but the coolest graphics with this noise effects and neon lights!

Love the vibe! I do wish that the controls allowed for strafing left and right. It's such a muscle memory for me and I think it would be very helpful for seeing some of the things you're trying to avoid.

Amazing graphics and mood!

I'm impressed by the amount of polish for a compo entry. Good job!

Wow that was such a cool experience, amazingly done for 48 hours. I liked the voice-overs and the graphics a lot, but the different controls for first person was very off putting for me at first. Overall, extremely cool game.

Linux build worked fine for me on Manjaro.

Very striking game. Was the fifth button in the laser room added last minute because you realised it wasn't solvable with the four in front, by any chance :stuck_out_tongue: ? I agree with others that the voice lines get a bit repetitive if you have to restart a level multiple times. Still an impressive entry, I'll certainly be checking out your shader code.

@stronf @bredera @anper @nathmate

I realised the narration would get annoying, it did during testing, so there's an option to mute it until the next level. Guess I didn't make that clear enough. I did consider making the radio get quieter and quieter each death on a level, temperal degradation or something, but decided against it. Maybe I should have gone that route.

Phenomenal graphics, cool puzzles, and a great job voice-acting. Felt incredibly polished. It was well worth getting stuck on the last level for so long just to experience that end screen / area.

Really cool graphics and audio cues create quite a mood. These controls are often used in FPS games on Scratch. where mouse input is limited and for me they embrace the retro feel. I got confused multiple times why I couldn't interact with objects, when I was too far. I think that they should have a longer range. The laser puzzle was really fun, but it seems that you run out of ideas for the last level. Puzzles where you need to 'guess a secret code' remove the entire satisfaction from finishing them. However the game was clearly focused on the plot and it has done the job very well.

I had to give up in the rotating light room unfortunately, as I couldn't figure it out :)
Also, did I cheat? In the button puzzle room I set the laser to a single one on the bottom and then just ran over it to the door.

This oozes mood, and it's gripping. The maze was borderline annoying (although I did make it on my 2nd attempt).

Great job overall!

Really great entry, especially for compo.
The mood is spot on, and the puzzles are catchy.
Graphics are amazing as well.
Only issue is with the movements. It's a bit too rigid, and hard to move sometimes, especially given the time limit.

Overall, nice one. GG.

great presentation, especially the graphics!
i liked the laser puzzle, the last one was a bit much

Love that it is voiced and looks so stylish! Really great stuff.

This was a fun little adventure. Really well done.

The graphics are great! I had some trouble getting used to the control scheme of this game. Especially with the spinning blades I found it quite challenging to get past it. Eventually I did, but I did not get past the laser field before I had to stop. There probably was some more, so I'm sorry if I missed some things.

I really like the direction you went with the graphics and the sound interface, though for me the voice acting was incredibly loud. I had to turn my volume way down. The mute button is not a luxury in this game...

Anyway, great job overall!

I found the game to be very engaging. The idea is excellent, and if you continue at this pace, you'll surely establish yourself as a professional

Finally got around to this one, doesn't work on my new computer so had to get on the old one 😅 I'm glad I did! Really good entry. Only I got stuck for ages on the laser puzzle until I came back here and read @endurion's comment and cleared that room the same way. No matter how many times I tried to think it through—or just experiment by pressing buttons—it didn't seem possible to me to remove all beams, so either I'm thick or you're actually supposed to leave the one beam at floor level? 🥲

Loved the incorporation of the story through the radio and had a good laugh at the end when the engineer said they couldn't even make me look up or down, which, yeah, I think I would've preferred modern first-person controls, but it was a neat way to give a reason for the tank controls.

Besides my confusion at the laser one, the challenges were fun, if a bit easy, besides the last one, which was tough to do within the time limit even after you figured the order out!

Of course the audio is great and the graphics are gorgeous. Love what you did with light and dark at the end. Really cool stuff!