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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Interpretation of the Secondary Theme | #119 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
| Soundtrack/SFX | #135 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
| Overall | #213 | 3.127 | 3.127 |
| Gameplay | #235 | 2.727 | 2.727 |
| Graphics | #240 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Gameboy Soul | #292 | 2.682 | 2.682 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Space Cowboy is a game involving an alien named Norp searching the Galaxy for Milk and cows!
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Hey sir, I see you also like cows 🐄.
The core concept of your game is good but I think there are just some balancing issues, upgrades require a lot of milk and it takes too long to get it. Combine that with a sluggish movement system and it doesn't keep the player engaged. Honestly, a zippier movement system and scaled-down upgrade requirements would make this much more fun! For only ~10 days though it's good!
I didn't really enjoyed the movement that felt very hazardous (you could reach high speeds (good) but the "brakes" are really slow), and yet, even if the begining was pretty slow, I enjoyed my time playing the game!
Very addicting game with lots of potential. I think the growth curve needs to be faster for it to be more rewarding. It would be nice to see the milk count grow every second instead of every 30s.
cool music, cool idea i feel it just needs something else to motivate you to play the long game, nice vibe though
Competent! A bit dragged out, but the art is cute and the vibe is chill.
The resolution appears to be a bit large.
Good work. Congratulations on the submission!
Great idea! Love the milky way milks
I find the movement a bit sluggish and kept quickly opening/closing the menu to break haha.
By the way, thank you for answering the question of "why aliens love cows?" :D
Very cute game!
Overall the gameplay is pretty simple but you've turned in a completed concept solo to boot!
Great job!
Have you seen Cowboy bebop? Kida expecting something about the series :). Relaxing gameplay, implementation of theme from another POV, good experience playing it.
I haven't actually haha, I'll check it out! Thanks for playing and glad you enjoyed :)
I love milk and cows!
Nice idle-feeling game, chill music, calm gameplay.
Big number go brrr.....
I will echo the thoughts of the others below that the controls could use a bit more fine tuning / more stuff to do which would help your milk production.
As is, its a nice little relaxing cookie clicker with a pleasant soundtrack and cute spritework.
Thanks for playing and commenting!
Milk me
Best reason to explore space... got milk? Fun & relaxing game!
Thanks for taking the time to play!!
I like what it’s going for with a mobile cookie clicker. The art is cute and the music is relaxing. The spaceship turns a little too slowly for my taste, felt like i would drift too far away if I saw something I wanted to collect, and I think 30 seconds is too long for cows to generate more milk. Really good brain tickler, if developed further it might be nice to have more stuff to interact with in the environment that involve trading milk. Hope to see more of this!
That's what I was going for :). Thanks for playing and the detailed feedback, I think I'll make a second version now that I have more time and add all of these suggested changes!
It was pretty relaxing, to just drift into space and collect the occasional cow. Perfect to wind down after a hard day of work. And the increasing numbers are always pleasant to look. Cool vibes!
Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed :)
Very fun to see the numbers grow as you collect milk and upgrade. Moment to moment gameplay could be better - I think a big thing that would help is having less acceleration/deceleration on the ship, as it's very hard to maneuver right now and change course if you see any clusters of milk that aren't directly in the path you're moving. A more wide view of the field with smaller assets may also make it easier to see the optimal paths.
Thank you for the detailed feedback! Yes, completely agree. I think a wider field of view could help a lot.
The alien spaceship controls could have been better, but the game was fun and relaxing. Really good music for a solo game! Nice job!
Thanks for playing! This was my first attempt at making digital music so that's nice to hear, thank you :)
Art is good. Music is really good and it feels like a gameboy game but the game is too slow paced
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I think if I was to do it all over I would add more upgrades that could be purchased faster.