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A jam submission

Emil the Star FeederView game page

libgdx game about a daily job in the space
Submitted by JairoCA — 12 hours, 11 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#44.0004.000
Theme#144.0004.000
Overall#163.8403.840
Overall#163.6133.613
Fun#173.6003.600
Graphics#353.2803.280
Audio#352.9602.960

Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Dev log
http://itch.io/jam/libgdxjam/topic/14155/emil-the-star-feeder-devlog-post-mortem

Twitter
https://twitter.com/Jairo_Canales

Sources
http://jairoca.itch.io/emil-the-star-feeder

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Comments

Cute idea! I included it in my LibGDX Jam compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :)

Submitted

Very good concept to play around, enjoyed it playing on my phone. Touch controls work fine, the tutorial really helps a lot. The game requires some patience, but it's really good :D

Submitted

Great tutorial!

Developer

Thanks for playing guys!

I'll be soon uploading an APK in case you want to test and some physics fixes.

I'd like to publish the game on Google Play soon, and I'm taking your feedback very seriously. I will surely attach these problems that you all have noticed:

  • The controls are not easy to understand and are not very well programmed. I guess after programming the multitouch controls for an Android device everything will be easier to handle
  • Some actions miss interesting feedback, like when digging
  • The game currently doesn't have an ending. It would be interesting to show something, at least a popup saying thanks for playing
  • This one is a must: it is very frustrating to be playing for 20 minutes a level and die at the very end. I will try to make a system for autosaving every some seconds so that there's always a fast-respawn available for playing
  • Maybe it is a nice idea to have some simplistic music
Submitted

nice game! sometimes i get stuck in the ground :D

Submitted

I liked how the robot can shoot and create new platforms. You can literally change the landscape, good job!

Submitted

Cool, you had the same idea as me to create a round world with pixel graphics by deforming it in the shader. :)

Neat idea for the game. This would be really nice if fully polished.

Submitted

I love the tutorial and the idea of this small robot ! The sounds are funny :) Altough the controls are not easy to master and i had some bugs.

Submitted

Awsome! i played it for almost an hour until my wheel touched a puddle of green and I had to restart the maze level... I raged...

Rated! good game and funny. Kind of a Terraria space robot game :)

Developer

Thanks! It's true that controls are a bit tricky. I recommend you using the keyboard for moving (use A - W - D or the LEFT - UP - RIGHT) and the mouse for the actions.

Also I'm ending the Android port and it allows multitouch, so maybe the steam controller issues get fixed with that :S (honestly, I have no idea ;D)

Submitted

Fun game. We tried it with a steam controller, was a bit tricky on controls there. Might try it again with a mouse and keyboard!

Great game !!

Nice idea and awesome job! :)