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A jam submission

100 Lightyears: First ContactView game page

A short idle game where you fly 100 lightyears to establish first contact with an alien civilization
Submitted by inn3r_c4l4m1ty — 6 hours, 53 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#24583.2943.294
Enjoyment#31302.8242.824
Overall#34922.8822.882
Style#45712.5292.529

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

How does your game fit the theme?
In the game, you travel 100 light years. Distances are to scale and travel takes place in real time, factoring in time dilation.

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

Submitted

Enjoyed the emptiness of space as the visual direction, but I think player still needs to see something significant to show what happened in the game screen so that the changes feel apparent on the grand scale of theme. Good job submitting this game to the jam though. :)

Submitted

using time dilatation in an idle game works quite well. I think 10 minutes in the progress was still 0% but after the last few upgrade it went at light speed.

My only wish would be to have small things to do in between upgrade, even if they are not of consequence.

But overall I really enjoyed it and finished it (which is not the case for many idle games in this jam). Awesome job.

Sadly cant rate, its the only one I want to rate, cause its the only fun one...

Submitted

VERY creative concept for an idle clicker, and the flavortext gave me a good chuckle. I feel as though it could have benefited from having the shop elements be in separate windows around the screen instead of tabs on the same interface, which would give a nice vibe of "running around". I also couldn't tell if changes were supposed to be happening in the viewport? It feels like there should have been a lot more artwork onscreen.

All in all, loved the idea of a clicker about seeking out aliens in deep space, though the silliness of the flavortext felt somewhat obligatory. Maybe if the story direction were a bit more somber, it would have become a really memorable piece about finding civilization out in the loneliness of space. Just a thought I wanted to float!

Submitted (1 edit)

Nice novel take on the cookie clicker - got dragged in real quick!

UPDATE: 13 mins. Perfect little game <3

Submitted

This game was surprisingly fun! I beat it in 14 minutes and 100 earth years,