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A jam submission

The Search For Planet XView game page

Find the elusive Planet X!
Submitted by SimplifiedPotato — 52 minutes, 53 seconds before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation (visuals)#3032.6873.800
Adheres to jam theme#3132.6873.800
Overall#3252.5463.600
Concept (gameplay)#3382.2633.200

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

This submission looks clean and fun to play. I know the gameplay is very simple but I feel there's potential for much more, plus the text popups were fun and engaging. Good work!

Submitted

Wow, we had the same idea for the game mechanic! We even used the same flying sound :D I liked how you animated the background. More information on the planets would be nice, so that the player can calculate risks and not just navigate by random.

Developer(+1)

Hahahaha dude thats so cool! I'll be sure to check out your entry as well as soon as I get the chance, looks waaaaaay more complex and well crafted than mine! 

Also, the door sound was too cool not to be used for the engines :D

Submitted(+1)

Haha yes, would be happy if you check it out.

Yeah :D Additional I used the small laser beam sounds for the second ship! Worked also nice^^

Submitted

The visuals are really awesome and pollished! The gameplay is simple but enjoyable, of course the game mechanic seems to be always the same action (clicking on the same looking circles), but it is still funny if you get damaged all the time xD. SFX, UI and animations are also clean. That game could be very good for developing it further, keep it up!

Developer

Yeah I'd definitely like to add more to it! Thanks for the feedback.

Submitted

Really cool concept - very much an exploration game. Would have loved to have seen more depth to the mechanics.

Developer

Thanks, yeah, there is so much left to be done! Thanks for trying!

(1 edit)

This is a cool little game. Here are my thoughts:

Pros: the visual feedback is actually pretty satisfying; when you move to the next circle, the ship does a little squash and stretch thingy which was a nice touch. I thought it fit the jam them well, because you're literally exploring trying to find planet X. It's also the perfect length for this kind of thing; you can play this thing in a minute if you want.

Cons: Because the mechanics are simple, there's not much for strategy here; you're clicking on a spot and waiting to see what happens, with no say as to the outcome, which makes it get boring pretty quickly. It's the equivalent of rolling a dice, looking for certain number, and if you roll that number, you win. That's not gonna be very fun for more than 30 seconds. Also, the text popups have a lot of text. The attempt here is immersion into the world, but because it has no tactical impact on game play, I really didn't care about it. If I lose fuel, or gain fuel, I'm just going to choose the next random circle to go to and hope it's Planet X. 

Great job though! Good presentation overall. Keep up the great work, and keep on coding.

Developer(+1)

Completely agree with your points, there was much more I wanted to do, this is more of a really raw prototype of what my original idea was supposed to encompass.

Thanks for the constructive feedback though! Really appreciate it!