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A jam submission

Inspection in Sector 723View game page

Inspection in Sector 723
Submitted by Stiggstogg (@Stiggstogg) — 18 hours, 16 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Web Monetization#4n/an/a
Innovation#73.8823.882
Overall#133.5763.576
Audio#143.4713.471
Theme#164.0594.059
Gameplay#263.2943.294
Graphics#343.1763.176

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Web Monetization

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Submitted

The font is somehow hard to read :/ Beside of that, when I actually learned how to play, it was very fun! ;) 

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot for playing and the feedback. Yes, agree to the font. When I realized it, it was too late to change everything... I try to fix it after the jam.

Submitted

The music composer idea for Coil subscribers is a really good idea. It’s a good way to give subscribers some extra fun benefits!

Developer

Thank you for playing and the nice comment! I hope you had some fun "composing" your own music :).

Submitted

Too much exposition during the tutorial to my taste, but this co-op game is hilarious! The Mirror-O-meter is such a good idea, and I love the shiptune.

Developer (2 edits)

Thanks for playing and the constructive feedback. Yes, I see that having a game which needs so much explanation is not ideal for a game jam where people have to play and rate many games. Maybe I just explained a bit too much and could do it shorter.

Anyway, happy to hear that you had some funny moments with my game :).

Submitted

I had to play this by myself but I'm glad I did. :) It's a cool concept and it was well executed! Well done!

Developer

Thanks a lot for playing and the nice comment. I am glad you liked it and had some fun.

Submitted

(You already know this, but I'm leaving this comment on every game I play so...) Played this on stream. Check out the vod here for my thoughts. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1003938134?t=01h47m09s

Developer

Thanks again for playing my game in your stream. It was very nice to directly see how someone reacted to the game and hear what you liked and what not. I agree to basically* all your points you made. Especially the movement and what happens when you touch the blocks. On the last day I added smoother movements (you should have seen the movement before :D) with acceleration and friction, but it looks like the parameters I have to tweek the parameters quite a bit. I will for sure tweak that and maybe rethink the "if you thouch each other and the X blocks you need to start from beginning" mechanic. Maybe even leave it away completely and focus on the mirror mechanic and doing it as fast as possible.

Anyway, thanks a lot for playing and the honest review, really appreciated! I hope you were not too frustrated after not completing the game :).

* I still think it could be a cool local multiplayer experience, but I have not done any playtesting for that. Maybe you are right :).

Submitted

I liked this game, although I didn't really get how to play :) I touched the first goal picture, but the characters were not switched so idk what to do next :)
Anyway, the whole idea is quite unusual and innovative, also liked the music change on desync

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot for playing and the nice comment! The characters will not change automatically, you change them by pressing [SPACE] (Player 1, left side) and [ENTER] (Player 2, right side).

It looks like I need to work a bit on the description on how to play the game. Unfortunately it is not so easy to explain :).

Submitted

Ah, ok, got it. I think I will try to play again then :)

Submitted

Good takes for the theme! Have some difficulty to understand the game mechanics even after reading the how to play (probably because of the color contrast between the font) but overall it’s good mechanics.

Player usually like bashing their controller whatever it’s keyboard or mouse. So maybe just display the key (in your case [space] and [enter]) near the character or the HUD.

Btw, I can cheat by pressing both WASD and arrow key at the same time to make the inspector awareness almost zero 😃

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot for playing and the feedback. Yes, unfortunately the font I have chosen was a bad decision, but it was too late to change it when I realized it. It is quite hard to read when the game is in fullscreen.

Can you quickly explain in more detail how you cheated? Did you just played both sides on your own. Then you pressed always the keys of the two players together, e.g. A and right arrow, W and up arrow,... If this is what you mean with cheating, it is ok :). This is how you play the game in single player mode, which I think is still quite challenging. I did all the playtesting (and also the par times) like that and it took me a while to do it :).

Submitted

Yups. Oh I though it’s unintentional. Well, it’s still quite challenging, especially when I switch to pirate character. It really exercise my motoric sync nerve.

Host

Can you share (in the description of the game) what the Web Monetized users are getting?

Developer(+1)

Thanks. Added it in the games description.

Submitted

I enjoyed the whimsical feeling of this game. Quite a unique take on mirrored movements!

Developer

Thanks a lot for playing and the nice comment.

Seems good, I played, but for the first level is very difficult. Would be good has a tutorial too.

Developer

Thank you for playing! First level (Day 1) should not be that difficult :). Maybe I need to tweek the other levels a bit. The "How to Play" explains how the game is played, not sure if you missed it or if it is not good enough explained there.