This feels pretty realistic with great voice lines. Good job. This could win in the audio category.
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Space Dragoons: Sanitation Technician Division's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Innovation | #96 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
Game Design | #203 | 3.433 | 3.433 |
Audio | #203 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
Graphics | #210 | 3.633 | 3.633 |
Overall | #230 | 3.311 | 3.311 |
Fun | #321 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
Theme | #543 | 2.800 | 2.800 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does you game fit the theme?
You are part of a crew sent to clean up an abandoned spaceship, where you learn about the last crew through audio logs.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, everything was created by our team from scratch for this jam unless otherwise credited on the game page.
Comments
Uhh...
It took me too long to finish this game and I am left with mixed emotions.
The game started great. Nice introduction to the mechanics, as well as to the goal. when I caught up with controls, it was really easy and even funny to just clean up the mess. The game was satisfying with its gravity-changing mechanics, and I was impressed by how well were they: you felt that you were in control, even if it was a complete mess on your screen.
Then I found the first tape. I didn't understand what happened when I pick it up, because the sound was really low, but after changing it, I started getting up with it.
Tapes were slowly telling me the story. At first, I liked it, but on the third tape, I felt frustrated, because there was a lot of trash in these tapes. And I got 100% clean ship around this time, so I left with around 10 more tapes to listen to while doing nothing. This is when things went wrong.
I was jumping and spacewalking while listening to tapes, but it became frustrating soon. I was hoping, that they were guiding me to the big conclusion, and that waiting time will pay off, but, unfortunately, no.
But, even told like this, the story was interesting. I liked voice acting, and I felt the emotions that the crew was feeling. Some voices were a little bit cringy at the beginning, but then they became normal. And, also, I didn't find how this game fits the theme.
So, in conclusion:
Good | Bad |
Nice gameplay and satisfying controls | You reach the goal too soon |
Nice story and voice acting | Too much unrelated and just boring things, and just the story is too long and doesn't pay off |
Nice audio | A little bit weird graphics |
Overall, even after the long story, I liked the game!
Tremendous feedback! Thank you, FasePlay!
Our team will consider how to close the overall game loop, so there's new, exciting stuff to do while listening to the audio tapes. Additionally, I think you've detailed a fair enough reason why there should be more closure to the story.
Additionally, we're super glad you enjoyed the flight mechanics. This game depends mainly on your ability to enjoy floating through space. We're happy you were impressed.
Thanks again; have a great day!
Thanks for the feedback. We did think about some kind of time gating thing but we didn't really have time for that, however it wasn't really considered how much mess you would need to have stuff to constantly do while listening to the tapes. Truth be told the story stuff and the general gameplay were being worked on in parallel and we didn't have a ton of integration there so we will definitely be more cognizant of that in the future thank you.
I've never had so much fun picking trash. I really liked being able to float around in space and spacewalk.The voice acting was also really good.Good job!
I liked the design and the voice in the game was funny I really liked it.
Struggled a bit with controls but once i got the hang of it is a very neat game. Actually felt like i was floating around cleaning space :) Also impressed you got multiplayer into it. Nice job
hey i loved the game it reminded me of how that house cleaners game works.. other than that keep up the good work!
The simple game mechanic of cleaning works very well in combination with the lovely voice acting, and empty atmosphere of of the space ship. I eventually attempted my own space walk and was genuinely scared of starnding in deep space. Really nice game, I would suggest to make the audio tapes less hidden, maybe use a bigger model for them, because they're the core of the game imo. Really fun to listen to.
This was a very well thought out game. These kinds of games are typically not my favorite, ive always found spacey/floating controls to be very difficult, and I was a bit overwhelmed by the amount of controls, but it was actually pretty easy to get used to quickly and I love how they worked. I appreciate you giving us a lot more control in the air, it was actually fun getting all turned around and upside down, and being able to rotate myself back upright. This game almost felt like a personified podcast (in a good way, if thats the analogy i wanna make xD). It was super chill and something I feel like I can enjoy mindlessly to wind down from stress. The recordings were also very fun. Im always happy to listen to "my boy tasty". Maybe if you wanna keep working on this in the future, you could add some up-gradable tools to help aide you in your cleanup job!
You're too kind, Remmiemmyjr! The air controls were meticulously crafted by the team's programmers, and I'm super stoked you enjoyed it. Also, as the person who wrote and performed the audio portions, I'm super flattered that you liked that aspect of our game too.
We're Tethered Together was one of my favorites from this game jam, so this feedback means a ton!
Hope you have a great rest of your day!
Although the actual objective (as far as I understood it, picking trash) of the game wasn't that fun to me since it was quite repetitive, I bet it would have been way more fun with friends (which I didn't bring :c).
And I had a fun time exploring the ship and playing with the movement mechanics. I think you really made it feel like weightlessness - the way the camera spins and the way you move.
Your honest feedback is greatly appreciated. We super enjoyed your game entry and love that you let us know that the trash game loop should be considered more -- we will think about how to make it better!
More so, thank you for complimenting the weightless mechanics -- our team worked super hard to make that both functional and fun!
Thank you again for playing and letting us know what you thought!
Just played the game and i will be honest i didnt finish it. its great that it has multiplayer i honestly didnt think any game in the jam would have multiplayer and im sure it wouldve been fun with friends. but i played it alone so im gonna talk from my prespective, the game IS fun buuut the fact that the cleaning task is the only one and its long (im just guessing that its the only one since its that long) it kinda gets repetitive. Although the mechanics are amazing and i wished you built on it more. like the fact that you can switch between flight mode(sacrificing control to get movement) and vice versa is really a good mechanic. the audio logs are amazing as well as some are funny. i absolutely love the graphics although some items such as the buttons dont really have textures so it kinda looks weird. but all and all great job from you and your team! the game was fun (at first although like i said the task got a bit repetitive) and good luck on your future projects! <3
Great feedback! As someone who also featured a cleaning mechanic in their game -- it means a lot. It's a tricky balance and one we can tweak for this project and future projects.
The flying mechanics were significantly considered by our team, too. So I appreciate you mentioning that you wanted more -- we will consider this deeply.
Also, thank you for appreciating the audio logs -- it was a gamble that players would stay with them, so it feels so validating to have something do just that with your comment. You're awesome.
Thanks again for playing, and have a great day!
Cleaning the ship is fun and the gravity physics are fun to mess around with. I really like how much momentum there is. The graphics look awesome and the trash highlighting is really helpful. The audio logs are really cool to try and figure out what happened hearing from all the different personalities. It's also really cool how cleaning gives you something to do in the background. My biggest complaint though is that the audio logs are a way too long and the characters tend to ramble a lot (I did listen to the whole thing though). But the voice acting is pretty decent.
Amazing game! Multiplayer games in a game jam are always enjoyable ;) However, I think there are too much keys and controls to learn and master. Having to learn the controls by checking the keys in the settings isn't that fun. But overall, it's a really great game. Good job for each of you in the team!
This is sick! How did you manage to make multiplayer in a week?! Nice graphics and visuals. The controls are good when you get used to them, but the camera rotation makes me feel dizzy, which is good, I love it! XD It gives me a feeling like I am really in space. The FOV is kinda low, but still works with the controls. The movement and the camera rotation feel like controlling a drone with a camera.
Great game overall, will play it with my friends. Be proud of yourself. You deserve it.
We will take the FoV issue to heart, my brother had even mentioned in response to your comment that he isn't sure why it hadn't occurred to him so thanks for the great feedback. We usually do an update post jam to fix any remaining issues and kind of spruce it up so maybe look out for a fov slider! Thanks again.
Also as mentioned yup I am obsessed with multi-player sometimes to the detriment of the game but I really want to be able to play the games I make with my friends. You should see our previous game jam game (Reapers Never Die) haha, it was a 48 hour jam.
Requires a friend! Once you have obtained one it’s quite a fun experience, great work including Multiplayer for the jam, amazing!
Nice game, I love the fact that it's multiplayer so u can play it with ur friends!
if this is online multiplayer, mad props to you! :)
Although, this game was a bit boring to be honest. It might be more fun with more players, though. I also dont really see how this fits the theme :/ But the graphics are pretty good. Good job! :)
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