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GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/JacksonSprague/GameRepository
Game description
After crash landing on a foreign alien planet, you must retrace the steps of ancient outlaws to ready their abandoned starship and escape!
Controls:
WSAD - Movement
Spacebar - Jump (hold for Jetpack)
F - Interact
P- Pause
Credits
Game by Ian Malick and Jackson Sprague
With help from Toby Sprague
Music by Elisha Voran
Theme interpretation
The entire game revolves around uncovering secrets. You learn the story of those who lived here before you as you progress through the game, finding clues to help you solve the puzzle of how to escape. We also added a secret movement ability you learn about later on.
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Limit your colors to 4
Let players break the rules with things like infinite lives or invincibility
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A really nice and polished game, the four color palate is also nice and the cheat mode enabled is also nice
Thank you!
Really interesting game. I feel like the 4 color palette was kind of a miss. It was a cool shader but it kind of made my eyes hurt maybe if it had a diagetic reason or a little more variation. I like the aesthetic otherwise I think it just maybe needed some tuning. The music was pretty nice very chill. The movement is fantastic. I love the ground zoom thing. The door thing is cool too, the whole thing has a vibe of kind of a metroidvania. I think the clues are a little too spread out. I spent about an hour in it and found the launch codes and the satellite codes but needed to go across a long gap to find the reactor codes and it just felt like my eyes were tired at that point. I feel like the game could use more advancement or guidance it felt like I was doing stuff but most of that stuff was hints that said 'not here' look somewhere else. That's not super compelling I think. I did like the finding pieces to get a ship launch but I didn't really get a story of why I was here or why the ship was here or what was going on. The assets on the map that isn't dead space are really nice. The fungal forest, the launch platform etc are all really cool. I just felt like the whole thing needed slightly more tuning. I feel like you could tighten up the movement, improve the shader and add a little more action/advancement and have a killer game. It's got all the right parts they just didn't quite click for me.
Thank you so much for the feedback! This is our first time ever doing anything like this so someone taking the time to provide such helpful and detailed feedback is so appreciated! We had to rush some things at the end, I think we tackled a project a bit too big for us to fully flesh out in a one-month time frame. We are probably going to continue working on this game after the jam ends, so we will implement your feedback then! I'm glad you saw some potential in the game, thank you again for leaving a comment!
I tried playing the game (Windows version), but unfortunately it just crashes for me whenever I press the Start button (blank error window with "Fatal error", no additional info).
Is it just me or not? May be related to an outdated video driver (Adrenalin 21.30.24.05 vs Adrenalin 24.3.1+ that UE recommends), but that's not something I can change at the moment.
I'm sorry to hear that! We haven't been able to re-create the issue, and we have some friends who could download the Windows version without issue. It could be on your end, but this is our first time doing something like this so there's definitely a likelihood we did something wrong in the exporting process. Thank you for trying to play it and I'm sorry it didn't work!