Game overall is nice to play and unfortunately gets hits by some pretty bad bugs that prevent playing it to completion
If you want to revisit my playthrough at any point its here
Enjoyability 3/5
Game has some nice enjoyability with the core things the player has to watch out for being fuel utilization, and just traveling to and from planets. That eventually ends up feeling samey due to all resources and planets behaving pretty much exactly the same making me not want to do more than a couple runs though. "Who put hardness in my water". Theres some issues that prevent me from fully enjoying it in its current version including the ways to go fast being severely punished by blind collisions making gameplay tedious
Possible improvements for post jam:
- Make it more apparent that fuel can be restocked
- Prevent blind collisions with asteroids (makes it unfun to boost since you can get evaporated and lose all your progress)
- Add unique mechanics for things. e.g. going into a water planet and things you need to grab being within the water
Accessibility 3/5
Theres some accessibility features that I can see but not really (theres pretty much what people usually get in for jams though)
Possible improvements for post jam:
- Rebindable controls
- If you click with your mouse currently it deselects the UI making it unnavigatable with the keyboard (or if you enter a submenu like settings)
- Making UI navigatable with game controls (e.g. space to select)
- Adding an interactive tutorial or teaching within the gameplay instead of the wall of text
Originality 4/5
This is a kind of idea thats not really done often and the inventory management side adds more originality onto that as well. When you break it down though it pretty much is just fetch quests which is not the most original concept and not one that feels original to play with even if theres original aspects on top of it
Audio 4/5
Audio works with the game and compliments it well. Background music is nice and all the core actions have sound effects. Theres more that could have sound effects (objects hitting things, getting sucked up, e.g. cow moos) but thats more for extra polish
Visuals 3/5
The visuals work and overall look nice (the background is great) but theres some aspects of them that just end up detracting from the game due to how unpolished they look compared to everything else.
Some examples:
Theres some mismatching pixel sizes in the UI visible at the base resolution
The health bar is just a coloured rectangle
- The cow text is very out of place and doesnt fit the game style
- Theres no indication of the world border on the minimap