This is a pretty cool game. It took me a little bit to understand it but once I did I enjoyed it quite a bit!
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Machinaria's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #4 | 3.970 | 3.970 |
| Graphics | #13 | 4.212 | 4.212 |
| Innovation | #19 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #24 | 3.545 | 3.545 |
| Gameplay | #88 | 2.848 | 2.848 |
| Theme interpretation | #118 | 2.848 | 2.848 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository
https://github.com/blackmambastudio/machinaria
Theme interpretation
You operate a physical machine in a digital game.
We also build a physical machine based on the digital representation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDhcMvdIoBc
Comments
6 years ago(+1)
Thanks. We're glad you liked it. You're the first one who compares the game with Orwell, and that's pretty good.
6 years ago(+1)
"Made by professional developers"... thanks for that. We're glad you liked it. And regarding the GDC 2019 submission, we were accepted: https://gdconf.com/news/play-these-20-unique-games-gdc-2019s-altctrlgdc-showcase
6 years ago(+1)
Thanks! feedback from other players was very useful to know what things had to be improved.
6 years ago(+1)
Thanks for your comment, Jake the dog. We're glad you liked it.
Someone in the team (could be me, who knows) will play your game later, I promise.
6 years ago(+2)
Thanks for your words. We're glad you liked the visuals.
We're working on improving the puzzle design, a lot of players complaint about it. It was hard to get to the current puzzle mechanic, and that explains why it has loose ends (we didn't have the time to test it before release).
Updates will keep coming until we're ready to launch on stores with much more content and gameplay mechanics.
6 years ago(+1)
Thanks for the long comment. We're glad you liked both the aesthetics and mechanics of the game. We want to keep the game as mechanical as possible, and that's why we decided to leave the cartridge switching in that way.
Other players are commenting about the words, so we're are improving its design. It is good to know that the game has a Papers, Please atmosphere because that game inspired a couple of things while we were throwing ideas.
We wanted to give players freedom about which path to take, so it is good to know you think it was a brilliant decision.
This is a really great jam game! The atmosphere and art are well done (props to whoever did the background audio) and the game mechanic is unique, love the slightly dystopian world mashed with the UI.
Only problem I ran into is I can't get past the second day, as I don't see any words in this set of video tapes?
Thanks! 🙌
All audio is made by @quietGecko 😀
All emotions are composed by 4 or 3 letters, so only one letter for each cartridge will be used.
In this case you can try to match the cartridges to write one of the previous discovered emotions.
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